News tagged with cards


Carl Linnaeus invented the index card

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As a consequence of overseas discoveries, early modern scientists faced serious information overload. The sheer amount of exotic, hitherto unknown species reaching the shores of Europe forced naturalists to reconsider the ...


New memory material may hold data for one billion years

New memory material may hold data for one billion years

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (45) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you ...


Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...


Software firm Intuit is offering iPhone owners free software designed to help them live during tough economic times

Quicken helps budget-minded iPhone owners

Technology / Software

created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intuit is offering iPhone owners free Quicken software designed to help them live within their means during these tough economic times.


Card downloads your memories before you forget

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you tend to forget or neglect to move photo treasures from your digital camera to your computer, an Eye-Fi card should interest you. This clever photo memory card handles that meddlesome task for you -- and now it does ...


New technology for HDTV-recording

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At the NAB exhibition April 20-23 in Las Vegas the Fraunhofer IIS shows the new compact stereo MicroHDTV camera and a small-sized storage solution for HDTV.


Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology of storing electronic information - from old cassette tapes to shiny laptop computers - has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades.


An employee of Japanese computer giant Fujitsu displays the company's mobile information terminal "FLEPia"

Fujitsu launches world's first colour e-book

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Fujitsu has launched the world's first e-book with a colour display in Japan, the company said Thursday.


Toshiba to launch industry's largest 16GB microSDHC

Toshiba to launch industry's largest 16GB microSDHC

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Toshiba Corporation today reinforced its memory card line-up with the launch of a 16GB microSDHC card offering the largest capacity available in the market. At the same time, the company extended its range ...


SanDisk micro-SDHC

SanDisk Developing 128 GB Micro-SD Card For 2011 Release

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- SanDisk one of the global leaders in flash storage cards is in the development stage of manufacturing a 128 gigabyte micro-SD card for cell phones. According to Deccan Herald of India, SanDisk´s ...


Image Moments 6 Digiframe

Digital Foci Ships Image Moments 6 Digiframe

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The Digital Foci IMT-063 Image Moments 6 digiframe features a 5.7 inch 640 x 480 display with LED backlighting, two tone chrome finish, 450Mb of internal storage, support for memory cards, and USB 2.0 connectivity. ...


Graphics processing installation to boost Argonne's Blue Gene/P visualization capabilities

Graphics processing installation to boost Argonne's Blue Gene/P visualization capabilities

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics ...


Software Helps Developers Get Started with PIV Cards

Software Helps Developers Get Started with PIV Cards

Technology / Software

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed two demonstration software packages that show how Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards can be used with Windows and Linux systems to perform ...



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