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SyQuest plans March UK release for Zip killer
SyQuest's much-hyped SparQ drive will make its UK debut early in March.
Touted as a competitor to Iomega's huge-selling Zip removable storage drive, the SparQ (pronounced 'spark') packs 1Gb cartridges into a design closely resembling its rival's product.
SyQuest says it shipped close to 50,000 SparQ drives and 90,000 SparQ cartridges in the October-December first quarter of volume shipments in the US.
Separately, the company is awaiting the outcome of a November lawsuit it filed against its founder and former CEO Syed Iftikar who now runs a startup called Castlewood Systems. SyQuest alleges Iftikar made use of SyQuest proprietary technology at Castlewood.