XQD - The high-End Memory

Many memory card formats have vanished unable to cope up with the taking over of SD cards. CompactFlash has managed to survive because of its high capacity and transfer rate. But to be competitive, it needed improvement.

The newly designed cards with XQD format use PCI express technology to achieve astonishing 2.5 GB per second transfer rate initially and 5 GB per second later. These cards will write data at a minimum speed of 125 MBps. CompactFlash cards found today top out at about 100MBps. CompactFlash card users will have a wide variety of memory options available. The new design will be licensed in early 2012

 

Smartphones Can Reduce Your Phone Bill

By installing a few smart apps on your phone, you can start making free calls to any other phone or computer connected to the internet. Skype for instance is a free computer to computer call service provider which is now being implemented on most of the smart phones. This application only uses the internet connection of your phone to connect and call to other people. So, just subscribe for the unlimited data plan and you are done with your phone bill. There are Google Voice and Skype applications built for desktops and smart phones. So you can now take advantage of internet connectivity of your mobile phone to make phone calls to computers and phone numbers around the world. By doing this you can greatly cut down the cost. The amount charged by services like Skype is much less than the amount charged by your service provider for making international calls.