News tagged with digital memory

Al Qaeda suspect's porn film found to contain treasure trove of secret documents

A suspected member of the Al Qaeda terrorist group, arrested in May last year in Germany, was found with a memory stick hidden in his underwear. Police discovered the stick contained a password-protected folder ...

Technology / Other

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 44 | with audio podcast report

Toshiba to launch the world-fastest class SDHC memory cards

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch a new line of high performance SDXC and SDHC memory cards under a new brand name, EXCERIA, that will bring to market SD memory cards offering the highest ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wi-Drive gives Apple-Amazon gadgets more capacity

Kingston Technology Co. is helping pack more entertainment into Apple gadgets and Kindle Fire tablets.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

EU approves Samsung-Seagate hard disc business sale

European anti-trust regulators approved Wednesday the sale of Samsung Electronics' hard-disc-drive business to US firm Seagate Technology for $1.375 billion (995 million euros) in cash and stock.

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thailand flooding could affect PC supplies, prices

(AP) -- The personal computer industry, already reeling from depressed demand, has been dealt another setback: Massive flooding in Thailand has curtailed production of a critical component - computer storage ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Toshiba launchs FlashAir, first SDHC memory card with embedded WLAN

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch the world's first SDHC memory card with embedded wireless LAN functionality to meet the SD Memory Card Standard. The new card, "FlashAir", has an 8GB ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Study at Samsung says cancers unrelated to work

(AP) -- A study commissioned by Samsung into cancers among six of its semiconductor workers found they were unrelated to exposure to chemicals on the job but the electronics giant is not yet releasing the full results.

Technology / Business

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A molecule that switches on and off

A single molecule whose charge state and shape can be changed at will: the latest breakthrough at the CEMES should prove a key advantage in the race for miniaturization. In addition to controlling its charge ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

New AMBA 4 specification optimizes coherency for heterogeneous multicore SoCs

ARM today announced the latest AMBA 4 interface and protocol specification featuring the AMBA 4 AXI Coherency Extensions (ACE). Cache coherency is essential in multicore computing applications to efficiently maintain the ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: Eye-Fi card makes cameras talk to phones

If you're old enough, you probably used to marvel that digital cameras could show a picture right after it was shot, eliminating the need for a trip to the photo store. Now, they look nearly as dated as fax ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

'Spintronics' breakthrough holds promise for next-generation computers

Using powerful lasers, Hui Zhao, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, and graduate student Lalani Werake have discovered a new way to recognize currents of spinning electrons ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computer chip that computes probabilities and not logic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lyric Semiconductor has unveiled a new type of chip that uses probability inputs and outputs instead of the conventional 1's and 0's used in logic chips today. Crunching probabilities is much ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (27) | comments 19 | with audio podcast weblog

Gadgets: Pandigital printer; Zagg's Invisible Shields; Kodak Easyshare camera

Pandigital, the company known for making the best digital photo frames, has added a Portable Photo Printer with Zink technology that may be the most portable printer ever.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seeing the forest for the trees: Object recognition system breaks images into ever smaller parts

Object recognition is one of the core topics in computer vision research: After all, a computer that can see isn't much use if it has no idea what it's looking at. Researchers at MIT, working with colleagues ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gadgets: Epson combines printer and digital picture frame in one

The Epson PictureMate Show is one of those devices that make people say "why would I need that" at first but "Wow, I'm glad I bought that" after they have one.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0