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Mark Peters
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Tuesday 6th, January 2009
Posted by: Mark Peters

SanDisk introduces an innovative new family of SanDisk USB flash drives, including the world’s first backup USB flash drive with simple backup software activation at the touch of a button. The SanDisk Ultra Backup USB portable flash drive is the first offering of the company’s new SanDisk Ultra USB product line. With capacities up to 64 gigabytes (GB), the SanDisk Ultra Backup USB flash drive is designed to protect computer users’ photos, music, videos, personal and business documents, and other types of digital files, with the simple touch of a button. No software installation is needed. The drive protects onboard digital content with a dual layer of security, including password-protected access control and ultra-secure AES hardware-based encryption.

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SanDisk Memory for Nintendo Wii

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Friday 9th, January 2009

SanDisk announced a 2 Gigabyte 2 Rock Band 2 SD gaming card, significantly increasing the storage capacity available to gamers using the Nintendo Wii console. This memory boost enables users to conveniently store additional content without worrying about running out of space. The SanDisk 2GB Rock Band 2 SD gaming card is expected to be available for U.S. retailers this Spring, and carries a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $12.99.

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Sony MS PRO-HG Duo HX

Posted by: Mark Peters Thursday 8th, January 2009

Sony has doubled the capacity of its new high speed Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX, giving customers a massive 16GB of storage. Fast read/write speeds and a free USB adapter make the latest Memory Stick ideal for transferring pictures to a PC from HD camcorders or continuous-shooting DSLRs. The inclusion of a free USB adaptor makes it very simple to transfer data onto a PC or notebook, and ensures optimum performance. With 20MB/s read and 15MB/s write1, data transfer times are more than three times faster than the current PRO-Duo can achieve. Another extremely useful bonus comes in the form of the free, downloadable Sony Memory Stick Data Rescue Service which can quickly recover deleted photographs and files.

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SanDisk mobile phone memory cards

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Wednesday 7th, January 2009

SanDisk, a global leader in flash memory products, announced at the CES 2009 in Las Vegas that it will be shipping its 16 gigabyte (GB) SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) mobile memory cards - the world’s largest removable flash storage capacity for mobile phones - in January 2009. This increased memory capacity, coupled with the high performance of the SanDisk Mobile Ultra flash memory line, allows consumers to further take advantage of the many storage-intensive features offered by today’s multimedia phones such as music playback, digital photo and video camera functions, gaming and GPS navigation applications.

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SDXC flash memory cards

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Wednesday 7th, January 2009

The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification, announced today at the 2009 International CES, dramatically improves consumers' digital lifestyles by providing the portable storage and speed needed to store weeks of high-definition video, years of photo collections and months of music to mobile phones, cameras and camcorders, and other consumer electronic devices. The new SDXC specification provides up to 2 terabytes storage capacity and accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second. The new SDXC memory cards will enable camcorders to provide longer, professional level HD video recording with a small form factor.

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Full-HD video memory card from Lexar

Posted by: Mark Peters Monday 5th, January 2009

Lexar Media announces a new line of memory cards specifically designed for extended, standard- and high-definition (HD) video capture. The Lexar Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Full-HD and the Lexar Memory Stick PRO Duo Full-HD Video memory cards give consumers a wide selection of easy-to-use memory solutions for capturing and storing more of the videos that matter, in stunning 1080 resolution full-HD video. In addition to providing consumers with a reliable alternative to traditional tape-based storage devices, the Lexar Full-HD video memory cards also offer high-speed video transfer from the card to a computer for backup and sharing on popular user-generated content websites.

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It seems only yesterday that memory cards with a storage capacity of 64MB could be called exotic species. Many consumers could not believe that 1GB would ever belong to the possibilities. And mainly the question ‘why would anyone need this huge amount of capacity’ remained lingering. Today, MP3 players, mobile phones and cameras are standard delivered with many times this amount and the requirement for high storage capacity has increased strongly due to high resolution photography and, for example, High Definition video. Forecast for 2009 is a breakthrough of a new SD format memory card, propable we will already be able to see the first flash memory card with a storage capacity of 64GB, or even 128GB at CES 2009. Flash memory has only gained in popularity, and where it used to be the digital camera that was the drive until recently, nowadays it are the large amounts of products such as mobile phones that enhance the innovation of flash.