<b>Imation and Panasonic Announce Superdisk Drive For USB

Well that didn't take long. Following up on today's Margin Notes comments, here's a quote from a press release spotted on Business Wire: "Imation Corp. and Panasonic Industrial Company will develop the first SuperDisk drive for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, officials of both companies announced today. The announcement follows Wednesday's unveiling by Apple Computer of its new consumer Macintosh, iMac, which will feature two USB ports for peripherals. iMac will begin to ship in August, the same time frame in which USB SuperDisk drives also are expected to be available to iMac purchasers.

'We designed iMac to deliver all the things consumers want -- the excitement of the Internet with the simplicity of a Macintosh,' said Phil Schiller, vice president of worldwide product marketing at Apple Computer Inc. 'Today's announcement from Imation and Panasonic shows that -- at launch -- iMac customers will have great add-on options to complement the Internet-age computer for the rest of us.'"