CES: Miniature Card Group Shows Wares
News The Miniature Card Implementer's Forum (MCIF) said that connectivity products that link the tiny - about half the size of PC Cards - devices to desktop and notebook systems are imminent. For instance a card with images captured by an MC-capable...
[January 10, 1997, 15:06]
Five Years Ago: Flash Miniature Cards Out By August
News The world's biggest Flash memory specialists will formally back the Miniature Card (MC) standard for small format cards in an announcement next Monday. The PC Card format has found a number of applications but it has not been the success it was...
[July 22, 2001, 7:30]
Flash Miniature Cards Out By August
News The world's biggest Flash memory specialists will formally back the Miniature Card (MC) standard for small format cards in an announcement next Monday. The PC Card format has found a number of applications but it has not been the success it was...
[July 22, 1996, 17:15]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: Iomega Takes On Flash With Tiny 20Mb Disk
News At about $10 per disk, the technology has the capacity to shift the market away from the still pricey Flash, and small format implementations of Flash such as Miniature Card and CompactFlash. Also at Comdex, Mitsubishi showed an even smaller 1.44Mb...
[November 20, 1996, 9:30]
Nuggets: Furby Friendly Desktop Meets Voicemail Gadget
News The D1000 is a pocket-sized device and records all words of wisdom as individual digital files, storing them on a miniature card with either 2MB or 4MB flash memory. Using a PC card adapter card these voice files can then be transferred to your PC...
[January 20, 1999, 16:15]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: USB Devices Wait In The Wings
News The keyboard has a socket for a Miniature Card flash memory device so that digital images and audio can be played back almost instantly on the host PC screen. The product - to be priced at around $400 - will remove the need for a separate sound card.
[November 19, 1996, 13:55]
Toshiba Grows IPod Lookalike
News Gigabeat is built around a miniature hard drive wrapped in a PC Card, so that it can be ejected and plugged into a laptop or any desktop machine with the interface. Like the first iPod, it features a miniature 5-gigabyte (GB) hard drive, which...
[June 20, 2002, 16:56]
The Long And Short Of Wireless Networking
News Within the case of the tiny card, there are two discrete sets of miniature circuitry packed back to back-one controls 802.11b access, while the other provides data and voice services over cellular networks.
[May 9, 2002, 15:38]
Psion Series 5 Due In Hand Next Week
News Based on a 200MHz ARM chip, the London-based firm's Series 5 will offer the new 32bit EPOC32 operating system and application suite, 640 x 480 backlit screen, pen-input capabilities, tighter integration with Windows 95 and NT 4.0, network support...
[June 13, 1997, 12:12]
Intel Pictures USB Digital Cameras
News Key to the spec is support for MMX processors, the FlashPix file format, Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection to PCs and the Miniature Card for storing images in flash memory. Intel today issued its blueprint for digital camera design.
[July 29, 1997, 14:01]
Stick-shaped Memory Touted For Small Devices
News The memory stick format is only the latest in a number of small-format designs but uptake of competing technologies such as CompactFlash and Miniature Card has been patchy. Backed by Casio, Fujitsu, Olympus, Sanyo and Sharp the 32Mb capacity...
[July 17, 1997, 14:06]
Toshiba Turbocharges Tiny Drive
News The smaller size and weight make the 1.8-inch drives useful for handheld devices like Apple Computer's iPod, as well as personal digital assistants, handheld GPS (Global Positioning System) devices and miniature notebook computers.
[November 5, 2003, 15:55]
Toshiba Unveils Hard Drive For Mobile Phones
News Our new miniature drive is a significant technological breakthrough. The company wasn't in time to team up with Apple on the iPod's successor, the iPod Mini (read preview here), which is about the size of a business card and uses a 4GB one-inch...
[January 8, 2004, 12:50]
Next-gen Palm Set For Debut
News One will be a miniature keyboard that fits to the bottom of the device while the other is larger and is reminiscent of a desktop PC keyboard. The i705 will cost $449 (about £314) and will also come with a Secure Digital expansion card slot, 8MB of...
[January 28, 2002, 8:56]
Fujitsu Announces 80GB Notebook Storage
News Hard drives hold data on one or more platters, and the data is written by a special head mounted on an arm that hovers above the spinning platter that resembles a miniature record player. For the latest news, reviews and price checks on everything...
[March 10, 2003, 15:39]
Yahoo! Puts Pop-unders To The Test
News Ads hawking credit reports and a miniature video camera from X10 have begun launching in hidden browser windows on Yahoo! However, the company has signed deals with Discover Card, NextCard, NutriSystems, Synapse and Network Solutions.
[July 31, 2001, 9:29]
Week In Review: Copy-protection Drama, Scary Robots And Faster Wireless
News This sounds like a winner, until you discover that the robot looks like a miniature Dalek. One of the key bits of gear was a new wireless networking base station and add-in card built on the 802.11g specification, one of the first products on the...
[January 10, 2003, 16:37]
Digital ID: You Shop, They Snoop?
News The tags also have a miniature chip and enough memory to keep track of a digital identity. The detector reads what's in the basket, charges a person's credit card and "tells the factory to restock the shelves", McNealy said.
[February 11, 2002, 9:36]
T-Flash Memory Aims At Mobile Phones
News Memory card maker SanDisk and mobile phone manufacturer Motorola have teamed up on a new small flash card aimed at handsets as the two companies look to capitalise on the trend toward the miniaturisation of memory cards.
[March 1, 2004, 10:20]
