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The trailblazing people at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have managed to create an 8Gigabyte (GB) microSD (Secure Digital) memory card. This represents the highest storage capacity available for a microSD in the market. Never has the world seen a microSD card that can boast of such a humongous memory. Of course, the card is only big on memory. It is as small as your fingernail to look at. 8GB is enough to cater to most of your storage needs. Did I hear murmurs of dissent? Ok, so 2,000 mp3′s, 4,000 digital photos, or approximately 5 DVD quality movies aren’t enough. Come on people; get real. Not only is this card great on memory front, it performs better than all the microSD cards, currently available, in terms of its speed. It is capable of a read speed of 16 Mbps (Megabytes per second) and a write speed of 6 Mbps. These stats are far better than ‘SD Speed Class 2 designation carried by most competing microSD cards currently on the market.’ Here is an excerpt from the Samsung press release: This achievement is the latest in a string of record-breaking improvements in flash memory cards for Samsung as it continues to aggressively pursue its goal of being the development leader for the SD card market, as well as the competing MMC (multimedia card) market. Although SD cards dominate market, this Samsung creation will give a fillip to microSD usage. The microSDs are much smaller in size (1/4th of normal SD’s) and can replace them. The reason I say this is the fact that microSDs are backward compatible with most of the devices which use SD cards. All you need is a small extender. Unfortunately, this new card from Samsung won’t hit the market until mid-2008 (probably) and there is no word on price, yet. Nevertheless, bravo Samsung!

Fujitsu recently announced the availability of a new one-chip LSI, which is claimed to be capable of compressing and decompressing full High-Definition (HD) video (1,920 dots x 1,080 lines) in the H.264 format (1) in real-time. Known as the MB86H51, that latest chip is the industry’s first one-chip LSI for complete HD H.264 High Profile (2) video processing with built-in memory. Sample shipments will start from July 1, 2007. This latest chip facilitates high image quality recording, playback, and transmission of complete high-definition video over an assortment of fields from consumer to industrial apps, like digital video cameras (camcorders), hard disk digital video recorders (DVRs), home network devices, security cameras, and broadcasting equipment. H.264 format is speedily getting prevalent as a technology for compression and decompression of great quantities of high-definition video data, as H.264 sports higher compression performance likened to earlier formats like MPEG-2. Samples of the MB86H51 will be shipped out on July 1st and are likely to come with the price tag of almost 30,000 Yen ($247US). For further information, visit Fujitsu’s website. Image Read

BYB Balance is a concept of a luxury cellphone, which has been brought about from titanium and stainless steel. The handset consists of a slider form factor and is included with a couple of touchscreen displays inside that are secluded while closed. Other traits of the handset are a striking 5.1MP camera with auto focus and 3G/HSDPA connectivity, 2x optical zoom, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 and a GPS satnav. Measuring 45mm x 73.5mm x 10.25mm, the phone concept also sports a 512MB of internal memory which can be expanded utilizing a microSD memory card. Image Read

Aopen recently rolled out the miniPC Duo MP965-VDR small form factor desktop PC, sporting Intel “Santa Rosa” mobile platform, GM965 chipset, and the latest mobile Intel Core 2 Duo processors, all usually utilized in the most recent notebook computers. AOpen’s miniPC Duo MP965-VDR makes use of the 965GM chipset and is equipped with one of Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo processors and the Viiv technology. New miniPC Duo MP965-VDR is also integrated with the alternative for integrated analog/digital TV, wireless, Bluetooth and Intel Turbo Memory unit to cater separate needs. AOpen maintains that Intel Turbo Memory is a characteristic, which is capable of making access to often utilized software apps two times as fast and lessens the time taken by it to switch on or boot-up. The manufacture also claims that wireless option in this miniPC is also consisted with 802.11n draft standard. Image Read

Apple recently came up with a new 160GB Apple TV and YouTube interface, which will allow users to have a watch on YouTube videos. The latest Apple TV retails for $399.00, whereas the existing Apple TV models with 40GB capacity are being put for sale at only $299.00. With the release of 160GB Apple TV and YouTube interface, users can without difficulty browse, get and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch that is really, really fun. Set to be shipped in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV. Read

After launching 8GB microSD card for mobile phones, Samsung Electronics Co. has developed a 4GB multi-chip package (MCP) for mobile phones. Samsung’s 4GB MCP eliminates the need for external memory card slots and also eliminates to develop interface software for all types of NAND memory. Samsung’s new moviMCP is embedded with moviNAND memory solution, which provides a simple-to-design memory package that satisfies the high-speed data transmission needs of mobile phones. The new moviMCP includes following things: 1) Two 16Gbit NAND flash chips and a controller 2) A 1Gbit mobile DRAM chip to support the processor 3) A 2Gbit NAND flash chip for general handset operations Samsung uses the eMMC interface, based on the MultiMedia Card Association (MMCA) standard for embedded memory in effort to sidestep the difficulty of designing interfaces for different types of NAND flash memory. The new multichip package allows mobile handset manufactures to design smaller phones with higher storage capacity as well as significantly reduces the time required to develop these products. Image Credit: Phone Mag Via: Tech On

Akihabaranews.com recently reported that EverGreen has come up with the release of EG-SATA66, which enables users to make access to the data that is kept stored in their SATA HDD via the USB2.0. Thus with the introduction of EG-SATA66, the users don’t now have to go through the hassle of opened, deploying, rebooting etc, the latest EG-SATA66 claims to make it very plain and simple. The main source of the product info is greek to me, that is why I cannot provide you with enough info. Even there is no work on its price and availability. Read

Now, seven people at seven desks can use a single desktop. The software giant, Microsoft has developed a desktop PC, which can run up to seven workstations. Each workstation has its own keyboard, monitor and mouse but they will share single microprocessor. nComputing is selling the Xtenda card, which turns a Desktop PC as a mainframe computer that allows seven people to use one PC as their own processors from their desk. The technology needs a circuit card, which plugs into the host PC Control software. The plug-in card has jacks for three cords that go to three black boxes. Each box has plugs for a mouse, keyboard and monitor. Russian hardware engineers have developed the plug-in card, while the Polish programmers have written the software programming to pass the information from the host and its satellites. According to Stephen Dukker, chief executive of privately held nComputing, the company has spent the last dozen years in developing its PC sharing hardware and software in Germany, Russia and Poland. Two Xtenda cards can be plugged into a single desktop PC, which enables one microprocessor to allow seven people to work simultaneously. Scott Smith, director of instructional technology for the Visalia Unified School District in Tulare County has installed about 30 Xtenda systems in his district of 34 schools and 26,000 students. He said: The school uses one Xtenda card per host PC, creating a host and three satellites. In this configuration, performance is good except when the host PC runs a processor-intensive task such as editing digital video. Students who use this equipment don’t even know they’re on a shared workstation. Image Credit: Mobile Whack Via: SfGate

Now, you can easily burn the copy of any downloaded movie into DVD. The DVD Copy Control Association has approved an amendment, which allows customers of commercial video download sites to burn the copy of their downloaded movie or song into DVD. CinemaNow and the iTunes Store will have the option to allow their customers to burn the copies of downloaded movies to DVD, which will play back as standard DVD players. The ubiquitous commercial DVD format is totally protected against by copying an encryption system named CSS. Previously, the DVD Copy Control Association has licensed the implementation of CSS technology to a limited number of commercial manufacturers of discs and players. Since the emerging download market is growing, there is need to access CSS technology for the growth of the market. Hollywood is not interested to allow customers to burn their DVDs without any need of some protection. The amendment has cleared the major legal hurdle in bringing the commercial DVD format and encryption standard for download services and DVD stores. Image Credit: Big Picture Via: Aviran

Motorola Q9′s keyboard is touted to be most likely the best-of-the-breed advocate for good, with reviewers from CNET, Phonescoop and Trusted Reviews all of them digging its tactility. The standalone site to check its battery consumption was CNET, which made out an up to standard and claimed that it goes on whole day but for recharge capability. The chief minus feature of the handset is its chunkiness, which was spotted in hands-on. So, sorry to say, but that is what you may have to cope with, besides the dearth of WiFi, a little tiny screen, and even then another way of proprietary mini-USB port. Other oddities are a default install of the Opera web browser over Pocket IE, an avoiding of Mobile-Office for DocumentsToGo, plus an extraordinary flash that flickers at random in viewfinder mode. It gives the impression as if Moto attempted at the nuts and bolts and got anywhere, however let themselves down in the information. As at all times, it depends up on you if you are able to put yourself on top of them. Image Read