The tiny Secure Digital memory card is beginning to loom large on the consumer electronics landscape.
The Secure Digital (SD) memory card will hold up to two hours of video on 64 megabytes.
Games will be made available on Secure Digital memory cards, and the Zodiac will have two SD slots.
How does your organization produce, share and secure digital information: peer-to-peer or server-based?
Stick a Secure Digital memory card in a slot, and you can have it record video thumbnails at regular intervals as you shoot.
The highest speed class available today, the UltimateXX meets standards set by the Secure Digital Association for next-level performance in SD card technology.
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It will have two slots for Secure Digital memory cards, which will let you really max out storage capacity, or use cards with content.
And whenever the recording industry gets around to implementing its Secure Digital Music Initiative, the SD card, which stands for "secure digital, " will support it.
The company is a founding member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), the recording industry's effort to develop an open, secure access system for digital music.
But still it's got room for a Secure Digital storage card, the postage stamp-sized flash memory cards that are showing up in all kinds of electronic devices.
Japan's Matsushita (nyse: MC - news - people) sells players under the Panasonic brand name, which use the Secure Digital (SD) card technology it developed with SanDisk.
Standards announced Tuesday by the Secure Digital Music Initiative -- a group of computer and music companies -- will finally clear the way for the major record labels to make their top tunes instantly available.
For those who don't understand that any SD card will work in your Wii, the 2GB Rock Band 2 Secure Digital card will reportedly hold up to 75 downloadable songs -- or 2GB of anything, actually.
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Previously, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had set a deadline of October 2005 for compliance, but US and European Commission officials have met to discuss accepting a secure digital photograph in lieu of the biometric passport requirements.
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We noted in May the availability of Panasonic 's SV-AV10--a small and sleek MP3 player and camcorder in one which stores data on tiny Secure Digital memory cards that certainly don't hold as much as a 20-gigabyte hard drive.
But the format has a lot of momentum behind it: There are already 50 products on the market that support the SD card format--from digital cameras to music players to PC drives--and there are 275 member companies in the Secure Digital Association who are actively promoting it as the next standard for removable storage.
Secure, prerecorded digital music for portable MP3 music players is only one obvious application.
Box is a fast-growing Silicon Valley company providing companies and their employees with low-cost, secure storage for digital information.
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"We are committed to advancing the secure distribution of digital content, " he said.
This initiative, along with other mobeam programs to develop an innovative and secure process for clearing digital coupons, brings the industry one step closer to phasing out paper coupons entirely.
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Comcast is working with Intel to develop this technology based on upcoming enhancements to the DLNA Premium Content Guidelines, which is a set of interoperability guidelines that enable the delivery of enhanced content services and secure transport of protected digital content to devices around the home.
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About 250, 000 million digital certificates will secure conversations between these machines.
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Atari Inc, together with Atari Interactive Inc, Humongous Inc. and California US Holdings Inc. want to secure independent funding to develop digital and mobile games.
AssetLock (formerly YouDeparted.com) offers a "secure safe deposit box" for digital copies of documents, wishes, letters and e-mails.
Could Amazon be capitulating to retailers demands for parity, at the very least making digital content available to secure shelf space in the physical world?
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MasterPass provides a simple and secure way for Australians to use their digital devices, including computers, tablets and mobiles, to enable payments and NAB is pleased to take part in this industry innovation.
But digital calls are actually much more secure in this regard.
It is hoped the entire court system will go digital by next spring, with secure electronic transfer of files between relevant parties becoming standard practice.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today the launch of the Chicago Broadband Challenge, a unique initiative that will engage the public to secure Chicago's position as one of the digital capitals of the country and the city with the greatest availability of ultra-high-speed broadband in the United States.
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Instead of using menus on a screen to establish wireless connections, users will be able to simply hold a smartphone against another device (a wireless-equipped digital television, for example) and within moments a secure Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection is established between the two.
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