SanDisk ships world's first X4-based flash memory cards, humans wait for capacity increases

Posted in Announcements by Nicr on the October 27th, 2009

SanDisk was busy trumpeting the benefits of X4 technology way back in February, and now the company's tooting its own horn once more by shipping the planet's first memory cards based on the new tech. For those who've forgotten, X4 can hold four bits of data in each memory cell, which is twice as m……

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Support for universal micro-USB phone chargers grows with ITU approval

Posted in Announcements by Nicr on the October 27th, 2009

The entire wireless industry has been congealing around micro-USB as a universal charging standard for a while now, and we've taken yet another important step toward completely ridding the world of bizarre proprietary connectors (you know what we're talking about, Samsung) with ITU ratification this w……

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Eye-Fi bringing trio of WiFi-enabled SD cards to UK

Posted in Announcements by Nicr on the October 13th, 2009

If you're an US-based company, you'd be kidding yourself if you said you didn't want to take advantage of the pound-to-dollar exchange rate. We can't say for certain that the current Forex ratings on currency is why Eye-Fi is suddenly barging into the British market place, but whatever the ca……

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Panasonic Lumix GF1 reviewed

Posted in Announcements by Nicr on the October 13th, 2009

The typical Micro Four Thirds review seems to come down to a matter of tradeoffs — size and convenience for a bit of a drop from the image quality and performance of a real DSLR. The GF1 doesn't break that trend, but it has some pretty nice things to offer for the inquisitive interchangeable lens shoppe……

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CTIA jumps on the micro-USB bandwagon

Posted in Announcements by Nicr on the October 13th, 2009

Think the CTIA is only good for swank trade shows? Think again! It's actually a trade group created to fight for your interests — or at least those interests of your duly elected wireless providers — and apparently top among those lists of interests is plug standardization. Yes, we're not the only o……

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