Vendredi 27 mai 2011

Kingmax Claims First 64-GB MicroSD Card

Kingmax Technology announced it will soon unveil the first 64-GB microSD chip, although details on when it will be released and how much it will cost have not been disclosed.

The Taiwan semiconductor company's claim is a big one, since a removable flash memory card of this magnitude would sit well in new smartphones and tablets that are holding increasing amounts of music, pictures, and videos. MicroSD chips are supplemental memory chips for smartphones and tablets.


"Although it comes in a compact size, it definitely satisfies consumer needs for massive multimedia data storage," the company said in a release. "Moreover, with the help of an adapter, Kingmax's microSD card can also be used as a SD card or USB flash drives."

Currently the highest capacity microSD chip on the market is 32 GB offered by SanDisk and Samsung. SanDisk declined to comment if it's developing its own 64-GB card.

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The smallest and densest NAND flash die shipping is the Intel/Micron 20-nanometer 64-GB NAND, which was announced in April. The smaller flash memory will make it possible to boost storage in smartphones and tablets while taking up less space on circuit boards.

IM expects to begin mass production in the second half of this year, when the company plans to start providing samples of 16-GB devices. The 20-nm products will make it possible to build a 128-GB solid-state drive that is smaller than a postage stamp, the company said.

Kingmax's proposed microSD chips are supplementary flash storage for smartphones and tablets, except for Apple products,Save on hydraulic hose and fittings,The name "magic cube" is not unique. which don't allow for external storage capabilities.Complete Your sculpture Magazine Collection for Less! Its dimensions are 15 millimeters by 11 millimeters by 1 millimeter, and it has a wear-leveling algorithm to maximize product lifetime and an error correction code that auto corrects data. It's also energy efficient, the company said.

However, Kingmax's chips would barely fit into a microSD card since a microSD measures 15 by 10 millimeters at its narrowest point, Jim Handy, an analyst for Objective Analysis, said in an InformationWeek interview.

"If Kingmax puts a 150-millimeter part into a 150-millimeter package, they wouldn't be able to put the plastic casing around the edges," Handy said. "There's not a lot of extra room, so it's an enormously challenging technical feat to make something like this. It will be an important success if Kingmax can ship it in volume."

However, it is not a matter of if, but when a new microSD chip will be shipped,What to consider before you buy oil painting supplies. Handy said. While Kingmax's claim is tall, if it doesn't produce this chip in the near future, another chip manufacturer certainly will, he said.Choose from one of the major categories of Bedding,

The NAND flash memory market saw revenue of $5.36 billion in the first quarter of 2011, up 9.9% from $4.88 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to DRAMeXchange. Samsung Electronics led the market with a 36.2% share, followed by Toshiba with 35.1%. Intel was fifth on the list with a 6.6% market share.

Edgy glass and neon sculpture at Tacoma's Fulcrum Gallery

It might have a pretentious name, but don't let that put you off. Fulcrum Gallery's latest show "Pr3v1ews & Pr0toTyp3s" is an inventive combination of two of Tacoma's most edgy glass artists ¨C Galen McCarty Turner in flashing weird-science neon, and Oliver Doriss with elegant in-your-face cast glass ¨C and together the effect goes way beyond the sum of the parts.

With Turner around the walls and Doriss in the center, "Pr3v1ews" is an extremely balanced show, which only highlights the way each artist pushes boundaries. Turner creates neon sculptures ¨C twisty, spirally, bulbous tubes of clear glass (blown by Doriss,A glass bottle is a bottle created from glass. a former Museum of Glass crew member) filled with neon and plugged in to electrify in tangerines, lavenders and aquas. Mounted on Norman arch frames they're rather like tiny church windows for a house of science, rather than God, and each has its own character. Unfortunately, the neon's rather unpredictable, and only a couple ("Piss Light 2," for example) have enough colored gas in them to make sense of the concept. Seeing them in the bright light of day also takes away half of the effect ¨C possibly some window shading might help here.Complete Your sculpture Magazine Collection for Less!

In the center of this whimsy are half-a-dozen works by Doriss, who for years now has been refining his chunky, iceberg style of cast glass. Long and smooth, coated on the inside with hypnotic color and encasing fractured gold leaf,The newest Ipod nano 5th is incontrovertibly a step up from last year's model,the Injection mold fast! Doriss' vessels are the disdainful chalices to Turner's glass windows. Adding to the post-modern Victorian effect are three beautiful "Cloched City" sculptures: miniature ice chunks, this time shot through with sparkly gold, and entombed in clear glass bell jars blown ever so asymmetrically. Each is slightly different ¨C a gold rim, three clawed feet ¨C but each is capped with a handle stamped ODD (Oliver Doriss Designs).

Combined, Turner and Doriss' work turn the front gallery at Fulcrum into a kind of English church inhabited by a mad scientist, complete with the weird buzzing of neon that'll set your teeth on edge.

In the back, beautifully lit in the dark, is what Turner's maybe most famous for ¨C his Bike Jump. Set in a wooden eight-foot-high frame are pairs of horizontal glass tubes sculpted into heart-monitor lines: jagged, regular or flatline. Each is filled with neon stimulated by 90,000 volts to shine pink, orange or blue, and each will be thoroughly smashed at 8 p.m. August 13 as Turner (a.k.a. Gaytron the Imploder) does his third Bike Jump right through them, scattering neon and glass around the alleyway at 6th Avenue and South I Street. The jump is a fundraiser for Hilltop second-hand bike-shop 2nd Cycle, but it's also a performance art event that hits new heights for sheer crazy courage (and also invites the words "panty-melting" into Turner's work description.)

On the wall behind the Bike Jump is a thought-juggling collage of local work on paper: Kristin Giordano's sci-fi photographs of Qatar landscapes,Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialist Maria Jost's lush botanical drawings and Sean Anderson's sad, intricate pen and ink works.



Contactless 'Tap and Go'...wait...please HOLD

After fifteen years of stabilising (EMV) Chip & PIN, we the industry like to think we are on a winner. Indeed this should be viewed as the case and the reality, despite the global media and the occasional journal from Cambridge.

That said, the number of ongoing bulletin releases on the EMVCo website and the pro-longed migration to Chip & PIN does highlight that this is not always a straightforward exercise for those involved.

Now let's consider the payment Schemes themselves - international and domestic (where they still exist). Establishing an interoperable,Save on hydraulic hose and fittings, consistent Chip & PIN environment has triggered much marketing on payment security for counterfeit, lost and stolen fraud activity.

Costs have decreased, but for many this is attributable to strategic sourcing of chip masks, operating systems and point of sale upgrades. Divergent activity to the main market solutions has and will continue to challenge stakeholders.

So now I don't need a PIN?...We processes for both low-risk and high risk merchant account.

Contrast to this is the parallel push for contactless payments and payments without the need for a cardholder verification - PIN or signature (CVM). Well, that is the media play anyway! See recent media backlash to FastPay in Australia for transactions less than A$35.

Depending on the market, the no CVM limit for contactless transactions can be as high as three figures as it is in Australia - set at A$100 for both PayPass and PayWave. It can be low, as in the UK at the new level of ¡ê15. Yet, this is not the actual limit for contactless transactions - transactions can still occur in excess of these levels, as long as a PIN is applied as well. Consider the current focus on mobile and the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) for tap & go with the phone.

It is not expected that up to A$100 you can use your phone, only to have to pull out the old fashioned plastic for transactions in excess of A$100.

Consistent payment experiences

So what of the experience of contactless. As a carrier of multiple PayPass cards, the experience in 3 key markets has been quite telling. The UK, US and Australia.

As a regular in the UK throughout 2010, I frequented a local coffee shop on Kingsway in London who has a contactless reader. Needless to say, coffee is not overly expensive, yet not once in 12 months was I directed to that device. Contactless in the UK was contained solely to Oyster transactions.

The US was markedly different, both in buying lunch at the MasterCard HQ cafe and making transactions in retailers in Ohio. Nothing overly stood out other than proving that my Australia PayPass cards did work effectively in the US markets Mag Stripe Defined (MSD) implementation model and were fast.

Now for Australia. With Chip & PIN consistency has always been the goal.What to consider before you buy oil painting supplies. Yet for contactless this is far from the experience.Choose from one of the major categories of Bedding,

Please hold sir...

Sydney has a mono-rail system which now has contactless payment acceptance. Depending on the station you from which you purchase your ticket the contactless experience could lead to missing the mono rail as it passes by. A CBD based station allowed me to wave my card - and after 2 goes we had success. A station at Darling Harbour required me to hand the card over as the reader was behind the secure glass and the attendant took 3 attempts to get the transaction to process - only by HOLDING the card in place. After waiting for the ticket and receipts etc; perhaps cash may have been a better bet had I not been conducting a mystery shop exercise. (The bank was advised to no avail.)

A chip card being used to its full potential...incredible

The trigger for today's blog was a McDonalds transaction yesterday. Perhaps hard to believe, but the receipt (yes not an option, we waited for all 30cm of it to be printed) actually had an Authorisation Response code of 'Y1' on it. This is fascinating - to actually experience an offline authorisation approval. Not even an electronic fallback transaction! As I still had to wait for the food, I watched the device subsequently commence connection procedures and submit an advice to its acquirer. (They know who they are - well done for using chip to its full potential).

Most clients question the transaction speed benefit! It is indeed hard to defend the speed benefit when devices are authorising online in most cases and receipts are being printed etc.Complete Your sculpture Magazine Collection for Less! It is extremely hard to defend when you know that the card more often than not needs to be held in range longer than expected. While merchant training can be resolved - a number did not know how the reader activated or worked. Delays in activation are also a problem.

Ubiquity in contactless...not so fast - but eventually

So with fifteen years to achieve the current state for Chip & PIN (and the US reaching an inevitable tipping point), the contactless and NFC advancement of main stream payments may yet continue to struggle. Perhaps the point should be not to compare to traditional main stream card payment methods of swipe/dock and PIN/sign.

Perhaps this is why contactless transit operations and innovative start ups like sQuid, Snapper and the like are accepted. Their attention is on cash and are separated from access to consumer banking accounts - credit or transactional debit.

How Apple Changed Square for the Better

Square is picking up steam. This week, Twitter co-founder and CEO of Square Inc. Jack Dorsey announced it had 500,000 Square card readers shipped and roughly one million transactions processed in May.Complete Your sculpture Magazine Collection for Less!Use bluray burner to burn video to BD DVD on blu ray burner disc. Not only that, Square is processing $3 million in mobile payments each day from Android and iOS devices. Add an undisclosed investment from Visa last month, and Square's COO Keith Rabois might just be right: There could very well be a 95% chance that Square will do better than PayPal.

Good thing it didn't go with its original name.

Speaking at a conference in San Francisco where he also received the 21st Century Visionary Award, Dorsey dropped a few tidbits on how Square came to be. Among them, its original name was Squirrel and the shape of the dongle was not a simple cube, but an acorn. It wasn't until a lunch at Apple where the name and design was changed.

According to the story,Choose from one of the major categories of Bedding, Dorsey was lunching with Apple's SVP of iPhone Software Scott Forstall in 2009. And right there, in the Apple cafeteria, they saw a point-of-sale system made by Squirrel Systems. Obviously, there would have been a potential overlap and thus Square was born.

Still, despite the new name,Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services.What to consider before you buy oil painting supplies. it would have been interesting to see how many users would have trusted to swipe their credit card through a plastic acorn.

Mercredi 25 mai 2011

Gazprombank Group cardholders can enjoy discounts in more than 120 trade and service outlets

Areximbank-Gazprombank Group said today its cardholders now have the opportunity to get discounts at more than 120 shopping centers, hotels, insurance companies, medical centers, as well as various leisure and entertainment facilities throughout Armenia.


The bank said in a statement discounts can be obtained both in non-cash transactions and by producing Areximbank - Gazprombank Group credit cards. It said also the number of items at discounted services will continue to grow, with corresponding data to be updated every three months.

The press office of the bank said it has already introduced several new card projects this year, including issuance of ArCa cards, introduction of day-night money transfers between Russia and Armenia via plastic cards, and allowed also its clients to manage their accounts from anywhere via computer and cell phone.

According to the forecasts, in 2011 the bank is expected to increase the total number of issued cards by at least 8-10 thousand to 82,000. To date, the bank has 47 ATMs and 142 POS-terminals in Yerevan and the regions of Armenia.

Areximbank-Gazprombank Group (formerly Areximbank) was established in 1998 to handle financial flows between Armenia and Russia.Choose from one of the major categories of Bedding, It is a principled member of VISA International and MasterCard International payment systems.Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialist In 2007 it joined Armenian ArCa payment system.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. The bank is owned fully by Russian Gazprombank and has 6 branches in Yerevan and 9 in regions.Complete Your sculpture Magazine Collection for Less!

Though it's a new mash-up

Sony Ericsson's announcement of the Xperia Play was met with both bewilderment and intrigue; could Sony's solid, established strategy in gaming really be applied to mobile, and if so, is slapping some familiar hardware controls on the back of the Xperia Arc the best way to do that? Sure, Sony has had plenty of experience making portable gaming devices like the PSP Go, but Sony Ericsson is still very much a separate entity from the PlayStation family. The only other player in a remotely similar situation is Microsoft, who is trying to push a whole mobile OS to take advantage of the Xbox Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialist360.Save on hydraulic hose and fittings, Nintendo is having none of it, leaving it a two-horse race between the established video game pros.Complete Your sculpture Magazine Collection for Less! The only real x-factor is Apple, who has done a great job at popularizing mobile apps, games being the most used among them. iOS 4 even introduced an Xbox Live-style achievement and social network called Game Center. However, despite making a gold mine for old and new game developers alike, portable gaming had still been existing in its own bubble for some time.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services.

Now that we're starting to see some crossover between the two industries, interesting new takes on smartphone like the Xperia Play doesn't seem so crazy. Though it's a new mash-up,Choose from one of the major categories of Bedding, it's still heavily steeped in the established Android world. There are a lot of questions to be answered, namely will hardcore gamers default to the Play, or still opt for a dedicated portable gaming console? Will more casual gamers not be interested in the added bulk provided by a dedicated slide-out controller? Hit the jump and find out!

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