Toshiba 4 GB SDHC card

Toshiba has today announced its new 4 GB SDHC card. This card, based newly defined SDHC format has a minimum write speed of 4 MB/sec (known as 'Class 4') and will be available in September. This card also supports the 'CPRM3' copy protection function which we assume to only be used for DRM controlled media such as music and video.
Press Release:
TOSHIBA EXPANDS SD CARD FAMILY WITH SECURE DIGITALHIGH CAPACITY (SDHC) MEMORY CARDS

SDHC Cards to be marketed worldwide to meet growing demand for higher capacity storage IRVINE, Calif., and TOKYO, June 28, 2006 — Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC)* and its parent, Toshiba Corporation, today announced the company’s first Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory card. The new 4-gigabyte (GB)1 SDHC memory card is scheduled for availability in September.
The new memory card conforms to the SD memory card ver.2.00 standard introduced by the SD Card Association (SDA) which enables capacities greater than 2-gigabytes to be achieved and features minimum SD Speed Class Ratings to achieve optimal performance for FAT32-enabled hosts. The SD Speed Class Ratings specify a minimum sustained write speed for SDHC cards (Class 2: 2 MB/s2; Class 4: 4 MB/s; Class 6: 6 MB/s).
Toshiba is initially announcing a 4GB SDHC card that exceeds the Class 4 minimum write speed of 4MB/s. In the future, cards up to 32-gigabytes can be developed that conform to this standard. These higher capacity memory cards are intended for use in applications such as digital video cameras and digital cameras capable of recording video segments and high-resolution pictures, or to provide storage for a larger number of digital photos.
“Our new SDHC cards are an important development in the SD card family to provide higher capacity storage to support video storage applications in camcorders and digital cameras,” said Brian Kumagai, business development manager, NAND Flash, for TAEC.
Features
The 4GB capacity enables video and high resolution digital pictures to be stored on memory cards
Supports SDHC Class 4, with a minimum write speed of 4MB/s
Adopts CPRM3 advanced copyright protection function
Note: Because the file format differs, the SDHC memory card is not compatible with standard SD card slots/readers

Microsoft acquires iView

It appears to be acquisition season. Today iView Multimedia, who brought us MediaPro, has announced that it has 'joined' Microsoft. MediaPro is a fairly well known digital imaging workflow and management application which was originally created for Mac and later evolved to Windows. In the announcement on the iView website today Yan Calotychos, founder of iView, stated quite clearly that Mac support would continue and that the iView product range will continue to be available (and supported).

Clarion - What is it?

Clarion is the foundation of the SoftVelocity product line and anchors the company's reputation for fast, efficient database application development. In addition to the Clarion 4GL language, the Clarion product also includes both a C++ and Modula-2 compiler. All of the languages share a common optimizer, and they can be mixed within a single application. Independent software developers and corporate developers have similar needs: to increase productivity to meet demands for new database applications. Clarion is a data-centric Rapid Application Development Environment with an emphasis on code generation and reusable metadata to quickly create "corporate quality" applications to manage business data.

Through the use of code generation based on metadata Clarion helps developers ensure standards, reduce coding time, eliminate errors, and bring projects to completion in record time. It allows the entire development team to share and enforce a consistent set of coding standards. It also allows new developers to quickly and easily adopt the organization's specific styles and continue work on inherited code without a lengthy learning curve.

So in nutshell...

Clarion is a data-centric Advanced Rapid Application Development (ARAD) tool featuring roundtrip code generation that preserves all of your own hand-written code while allowing you to re-generate your application as often as needed. It provides reusable metadata to quickly create "corporate quality" applications to manage business data. The code generator (AppGen) relies on "templates" to define the application; both UI and business logic. Clarion provides a comprehensive template set crafted by master programmers, hardened by years of use in the the real world. Any programmer can also create their own templates, in effect flawlessly cloning their expertise to all subsequent projects.The release of Clarion version 6 broadens the support for data access, and smoothly integrates additional support for XML, ADO and SQL. Clarion 6 adds new support for client-side Triggers, Business Rules collections, Report Generators that can output reports to PDF, HTML, XML and TEXT , native support for RichText, and the mapping of relational data to XML elements.

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What is Technology

Technology can be most broadly defined as the material entities created by the application of mental and physical effort to nature in order to achieve some value. In this use, technology is the current state of our knowledge of how to combine resources to produce desired products, to solve problems, fulfill needs, or satisfy wants. Technology in this sense includes technical methods, skills, processes, techniques, tools and raw materials (for example, in such uses as computer technology, construction technology, or medical technology).