Just weeks after Olympus and Panasonic launched the potentially revolutionary Micro Four Thirds system, in flies word that Samsung is looking to steal their thunder with a sure-to-be-incompatible alternative. Speaking at IFA in Berlin, Samsung Techwin executive vice president Byung Woo Lee confessed that the ……

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Toshiba is offering up a nice respite from the inane quantity of LCDs and, um, more LCDs at IFA this year. The SD Multi Tool and the SD Photo Editor are two touchable handhelds, offering up some beefy features where similar devices lack, and also skipping over some of the more traditional MID OS features tha……

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Ladera Ranch, CA — August 14, 2008 – Nexcopy Inc., a leading manufacturer in USB Duplicator equipment, announced the release of it’s SD200PC, a 20 target SD duplicator system to aid users in bulk data loading to Secure Digital media formats.
The SD200PC is designed for quick and easy data loading to Secure Digital media such as SD cards, miniSD cards and microSD cards. The SD Duplicator is a 20 target system with powerful copy and duplication functions. Users may copy files from a source location on a PC or use the low-level binary copy function to copy a full image from a Secure Digital media source.
“Secure Digital media formats are the leading flash memory type for deployment of field applications to hand-held devices, mobile phones, GPS units and telecommunication devices,” says Greg Morris, President of Nexcopy. “Developing an SD duplicator with powerful copy utilities along with ease-of-use was a request our sales channel had been asking for months. They asked and we delivered.”
The SD200PC is well suited for data loading to flash memory for Palm devices and SmartPhones as the system will also function as a miniSD duplicator through the use of media adapters. The SD duplicator is equally suited for data loading to Blackberry devices, GPS units and mobile phones as the SD200PC will also function as a microSD duplicator through the use of microSD media adapters.
Morris continues, “We paid specific attention to the low-level binary copy function to insure the SD duplicator will duplicate Linux distribution packages for embedded applications and software deployment via Secure Digital media. The unit is a PC based system, and it was important we had some level of support for Linux users. The bit-for-bit copy function provides that support.”
There are more features and benefits to the SD200PC SD Duplicator. Learn more at: http://shop.cd-writer.com/catalog/sd-duplicator-system-to-copy-20-sd-cards-p-102872.html
Nexcopy’s complete line of SD Duplicators and USB Duplicators are available through a world-wide network of authorized resellers.

Ready for this? Olympus and Panasonic just announced a new mirrorless format and lens mount based on the venerable Four Thirds standard. Dubbed Micro Four Thirds System, the enhanced standard uses the same 18 x 13.5-mm sensor but promises 50% slimmer cameras due to the removal of the mirror box. We're al……

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Not that the Big N hasn't snubbed the vast majority of the world before with these channel releases, but folks holed up everywhere save for Japan have yet another one they can only look longingly at from afar. Thanks to a new partnership between Nintendo and Fujifilm, the Wii Digicam Print Channel is imme……

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Launching 6 and 12GB SDHC cards seems a little boring at this point, especially when your company has already gone way, way larger. Which is why Panasonic's got the 6 and 12GB RP-SDM06G and RP-SDM12G class 4 (10MBps) SDHC cards which are apparently “designed for HD recording.” Love when they do that…….

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The long delay until Sony launched its video download service (actually more like a few hours), is over. HD and SD rentals, and SD purchases from an assortment of movie studios is now available in the Playstation Store by selecting the video button at the top left. Need to know what's available in your r……

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SanDisk has been toying with this for eons, but it seems the pieces finally fell in place for the firm to kick out its very first write-once memory card. The cleverly titled WORM (Write Once Read Many) SD card will predictably be aimed at industries where unalterable content is vital, such as police investig……

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The new Nexcopy software runs with a USB dongle.  This means the duplicator software & system can be loaded [and ran] from ANY production machine.  The previous software could only be installed on one machine. 

The new software also includes:

• bit-for-bit copy from a master device
• full verification function [before just check-sum, which is still there]
• “job wizard” to guide you through the process and the user can select mulitple tasks to be performed with a single click (ie:  delete, format, copy, verify, volume name on single click)
• 10% increase in code optimization for better performance
• complete new look and feel

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We’ll be mighty pleased when MTI Micro gets off its high horse and actually delivers something to the consumer electronics realm, but for now, we’re being forced to inhale even more fluff as we wait for an end product. The latest outfit to dive into a partnership with MTI is NeoSolar, as the two glee……

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