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Swiss Bank pleads guilty in US court

2013-01-07T02:46:00.000-05:00

Swiss bank Wegelin is Switzerland's oldest bank. It pleaded guilty in a New York court to helping over 100 Americans evade their taxes in the amount of $1.2bn for almost 10 years.

Wegelin, based in the small Swiss town of St Gallen, started in business 35 years before the US declaration of independence.

It becomes the first foreign bank to plead guilty to tax evasion charges in the US.

The Wegelin case comes four years after Swiss bank UBS agreed to pay a $780m in fines under deferred prosecution agreement. A deferred prosecution agreement is when a fine is paid in exchange for the charges being dropped.

It remains to be seen whether US authorities will continue with, or drop, parallel charges against three Wegelin bankers, Michael Berlinka, Urs Frei and Roger Keller.

AMD to design a 64-bit ARM Opteron for 2014

2013-01-03T16:18:00.002-05:00

AMD combines ARM technology in new CPUs

AMD steps up its game and announces it is producing a 64-bit ARM technology-based server processor for 2014. It claims a highly integrated 64-bit multicore SOC for energy-efficient, high density servers.
By merging ARM and x86 architecture together, AMD is hoping their "ambidextrous"strategy will provide a level of flexibility the market is looking for.
AMD initially led the industry with the introduction of 64bit computing to the consumer market. They are looking to repeat their success by collaborating with ARM to bring 64bit multicore processors to the consuming masses. 2013 will show us know if AMD stays on track with their 65-bit ARM plans. New silicon implementations from Samsung and Apple will give us a quick sample of the 64 bit potential of ARM technology.

Making online impersonation unlawful

2013-01-03T13:44:00.002-05:00

Arizona is set to introduce legislation that makes it unlawful to use another's name online. The worry here is that parody accounts of celebrities and public figures may be curbed by this legislation. However, under US law, a defence to defamation is the first amendment which guarantees that free speech is protected under US constitution. What is not protected under the first amendment is criminal action that seeks to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten others through spooling emails, text or other devious motive in the online space. Many other state have similar legislation, namely California, New York and Texas, and this trend should expand as online frauds and identify theft become more serious driving up insurance rates and curbing confidence in the economy which increasingly depends on the internet and the cloud.

ARM Servers, we're so ready

2013-01-03T01:20:00.000-05:00

We have been waiting for ARM holdings to release a servers class processor for a few years now because of their promise of lower power and high performance an order of magnitude above mainstream Intel and AMD server chips. Mainstream x86 chips are simply too power hungry for the kinds of workloads small to medium business do on a daily basis. From file sharing and simple apache based websites, a multi-core Xenon server draw too much power. Since ARM, present in most smartphones today, has proven they can design powerful and energy efficient multicore processors at a reasonable power level, it begs the questions. When are we going to get to use ARM in our servers?

Intel AtomS1200

The keywords to look out for is "microserver" or "Server-class SOC" in the power range under 10 watts. Calxeda has a series of products called EnergyCore aimed at datacenter and server market. Their product has been on the market now for one year and looking like they will take on Intel in a serious way.

The Calxeda blog details their love affair with their main competitor the Intel Atom. The ECX1000 vs S1200 shows that the ARM based chip provides 5-6 times the performance per watt of Intel's atom chips.

Thin hard drives make a splash in the new iMac

2012-10-23T16:03:00.002-04:00

Thin hard drives are making a splash in the market place. Coupled with increased sales in Ultrabooks, and the new thin iMacs, Western Digital and Seagate are gearing up for a battle. But thin isn't all there is to the new era of tiered level storage. Coupled with Apple's iCloud offering and fast Solid States Drives (SSD), users are in for a new era of active storage.

Western Digital (WD®) has created one of the world's thinnest 2.5-inch Hybrid Hard Drive. At only
5 mm, the new Western Digital drives slashes the storage footprint by Almost 50% of traditional 2.5-inch Hard Drives.

Seagate has also been working hard on creating thin hard drives for their Momentus line of laptop and portable hard drives. Momentus® Thin hard drives offer slim and lightweight drives that are feature rich for thin computing.

Tiered Storage is an enterprise storage concept. Software monitors which files are used most often and dynamically moves frequently used data to a faster, more suitable, class of storage. Tiering catagorizes blocks of information into fast, medium and slow while each tier increases in the size of the data that can stored.

Tier 1- Flash SSD [ Fastest, most expensive ]
Tier 2 - SATA HDD [ Lower cost, higher capacity ]
Tier 3 - Cloud Storage [ Lowest cost, highest capacity ]

3D Processor With Optical IO - Silicon Nanophotonics

2012-10-22T23:25:00.001-04:00

The holy grail of of 21st Century computing is the optical CPU. At IBM research, they are one step closer to a concept that will make this a reality.

They are looking at creating a nanophotonic circuit, one that will allow light to be manipulated in the same way electrical signals are. The creation of optical circuits inside the CPU.

Optical communication is not new to computing. In fact fiber optical cables have been transporting vast amounts of data across continents for decades. Now scientists are looking to take the next step on an even smaller scale.

As we design multicore CPU with increasing frequency, we increasingly in need of a method of transporting the vast amounts of data they generate between each other more efficiently. To do this, chips need to increase their parallelism and cooperation.

3D chips with integrated optical layers can supply that demand. IBM is looking to layer the next generation CPU with a photonics layer that will provide a broadband optical link between chips. The blending of optical and electrical circuitry is the beginning of the age of silicon nanophotonics and will extend Moore's law beyond the next decade.

The "Blue Waters" massively parallel Power7-based supercomputer has its own proprietary optical network, coupling one million optical links. This is what allows it to reach its 10 petaflops of peak performance.

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Companies May Be Liable for Accessing Recycled Cellphones - Steele v. RadioShack

2012-02-25T12:22:00.000-05:00

It always impresses me that when personal data is accessed the guilty party always tries to prove it was in the public interest. If you read your sisyter's diary, doesn't matter what you found, it was wrong in itself - malum in se. The issue at law here is can defendant claim common law intrusion into seclusion? Can the parties prove the elements necessary for judgement in their favor? The basic facts are that Steele bought a new phone at RadioShack, after which a RadioShack employee transferred the data from Steele’s old phone to his new one. Steele also left his old phone at RadioShack for recycling. After Steele left, RadioShack accessed his old phone and viewed personal information, including photographs which Steele took at his worksite. RadioShack forwarded these photos to Steele’s employer. As a result, Steele was fired. [Read more]

2012-02-25T12:10:00.001-05:00

The Higgs boson is the only particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics that has not yet been observed experimentally. Its observation would be a major step forward in our understanding of how particles acquire mass. [READ...]

Airplanes filled with billions of US dollars disappear in Iraq

2011-06-15T01:54:00.000-04:00

Some $6.6bn (£4bn) flown into Iraq eight years ago may have been stolen, according to a US official investigating fraud in the country.

The missing money may represent "the largest theft of funds in national history", investigator Stuart Bowen told the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

Source: BBC World News

Cyber War Declaration

2011-06-02T11:43:00.000-04:00

The Pentagon declares war if a cyber-attack threatens civilian casualties.

"A response to a cyber-incident or attack on the US would not necessarily be a cyber-response. All appropriate options would be on the table," Pentagon spokesman Col Dave Lapan told reporters on Tuesday.

The US would "respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country", stated the White House in plain terms.

"We reserve the right to use all necessary means - diplomatic, informational, military, and economic - as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests."

With notes from BBC World News

First European Country to Give up Nuclear Energy

2011-05-30T10:56:00.000-04:00

Germany becomes the biggest industrial power planning to give up nuclear energy, saying all its nuclear plants will be shut by 2022 in the wake of Fukushima crisis in Japan.

Western Credit ratings downgraded by China

2011-05-25T11:58:00.000-04:00

Dagong, the Chinese rating agency, has cut the UK's credit rating blaming sluggish growth.

For more than two years the UK's economy was been stuck at the 1.3%-1.5% range hurting government finances.

"The downgrade from AA- to A+ puts Britain on a par with Chile and heavily-indebted Belgium, and the US, which Dagong downgraded in November."

In contrast, the big three Western rating agencies all still award the UK - and the US - the top AAA rating.

Kepping a negative outlook on the UK's rating, the Dagong suggesting that more downgrades may be yet to come.

Western economist embarrassed by the news rebuff the Chinese "Obviously this is not one of the main rating agencies that markets pay close attention to," said Standard Chartered, the lead European Economic Research firm. Adding that Dagong "sees relatively low growth and high inflation."

Dagong points out that the issue remains that the budget deficit will overshoot the governments 7.9-9% target. Along with high inflation, governments in the Eurozone will need to raise rates to deal with inflation, thus slowing the economy further.

In contrast, Western countries rate the People's Republic three notches lower than their own economies. The Dagong is leading the rate cutting trend with Western agencies threatened to review the ratings of both the US and the UK. Still none have taken action.

With notes from BBC World News

Internet IPv4 addresses Exhausted

2011-02-04T00:41:00.001-05:00

At a ceremony held on 3 February, 2011 the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the remaining last five /8s of IPv4 address space to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).

The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. On Monday, January 31, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two blocks of IPv4 address space to APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, which triggered a global policy to allocate the remaining IANA pool equally between the five RIRs. Today IANA allocated those blocks. This means that there are no longer any IPv4 addresses available for allocation from the IANA to the five RIRs.

Radiohead leads by example

2011-01-11T00:55:00.000-05:00

A group of fans have spent the last year creating a DVD of the gig by piecing together footage shot by 14 audience members.

The band allowed it to be released on the condition that proceeds went Oxfam's Haiti emergency fund.

The film was made available online over Christmas, and has already raised more than $11,500 (£7,300).

Source:

By Mark SavageBBC 6 Music News

BBC World News

AMD Boss, Dirk Meyer who took up job in 2008, resigns!

2011-01-11T00:36:00.000-05:00

The chief executive of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has resigned. AMD said Dirk Meyer had left with immediate effect, the company said was a "mutual" decision.

Thomas Seifert, Chief financial officer, will take on the top job on a temporary, helping AMD to "establish market leadership and generate superior financial returns".

AMD trails behind market leader Intel.

AMD is the world's second-largest maker of microprocessors, trying to compete against Intel chip which is used by more than 80% of the world's personal computers.

Apple Releases OSX 10.6.6 Update includes the Mac Apps Store!

2011-01-06T18:10:00.003-05:00

The Mac OS X 10.6.6 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.

It also includes the Mac App Store, the best way to discover and buy new apps for your Mac. The Mac App Store, a new application you'll find in the Dock, includes the following features:

Apple posts the following information about this update:

Discover Mac apps: Browse featured apps, top charts, and categories, or search for something specific. Read detailed app descriptions and user reviews, and flip through screen shots.
Buy and install: Easily purchase apps with your iTunes account. Apps install in one step and are quickly available from the Dock.
App updates: The Mac App Store keeps track of all your purchased apps and notifies you when free updates are available.

Here is a quick look at the new dock icon and Mac OS X application

The next release of Windows will run on mobile phone chips

2011-01-06T12:29:00.003-05:00

A desktop version of Windows 7 was shown working with three processors built around designs from UK firm Arm.

The demonstration is significant because before now Windows was closely connected with Intel-designed chips.

During its demonstration, Microsoft showed Windows running on Arm-designed chips made by Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Nvidia.

The announcement formed part of a keynote speech by Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer that opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Mr Ballmer said that the next generation of Windows would also run on new versions of these SOCs - Atom from Intel and Fusion from AMD.

Many expect the two to come together as Windows 8, which will handle multi-touch interfaces, a feature poorly supported in the current version of Windows but which is key for slates and tablets where the chips are likely to find a use.

Source

BBC World News

Last Kodachrome film roll given to National Geographic's Steve McCurry

2010-12-30T16:43:00.000-05:00

The final roll of Kodachrome film, a widely-lauded quality colour film, is to be developed in Kansas on Thursday.

Kodak announced it was discontinuing the iconic film in 2009, after competition from digital cameras caused a large sales decline.

Kodachrome is difficult to process, requiring expert handlers, and Dwayne's Photo in Kansas is the sole remaining developer.

The last film to be developed was shot by the owner, Dwayne Steinle.

Kodachrome film is renowned for its exceptional rendering of colour, vivid images and archival longevity. For many years, it was the preferred brand for print media.

Created in 1935, it was the first commercial film to successfully shoot in colour.

Kodachrome was also used for motion pictures.

Dwayne's Photo has been inundated with requests for developing, many from photographers who had been hoarding the coveted film for years.

One customer picked up 1,580 rolls of film used solely to shoot railroad engines. The nearly 50,000 slides cost $15,798 (£10,200) to develop.

BBC photo editor Phil Coomes has been documenting his own final days with Kodachrome, as well as collecting reader photographs on his BBC blog.

One of Kodachrome's most famous admirers is National Geographic's Steve McCurry, the photojournalist who captured the world's attentionwith a haunting 1984 cover photograph of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee girl with stunning green eyes.

Ms Gula, whose identity remained unknown for many years, did not see the image until a documentary film crew located her in 2003.

Although Mr Steinle developed his own Kodachrome roll last, Kodak gave the final roll it produced to Mr McCurry.

With just 36 frames to use, he travelled to India to photograph a tribe on the verge of extinction.

Mr McCurry also shot images of New York, Kansas and actor Robert DeNiro in a journey filmed as a documentary by National Geographic.

He hand-delivered the last roll to Dwayne's Photo earlier this year.

"I wasn't going to take any chances," he told the New York Times.

The National Geographic film is likely to air in spring 2011.

Federal Reserve releases details banks' emergency aid

2010-12-28T13:06:00.001-05:00

The documents' release was ordered by Congress, and will be picked over by critics of the Fed's stimulus packages.

The data reveals the magnitude of support offered to banks.

Loans included $2.2trillion to Citigroup, $2.1tn to Merrill Lynch, $2tn to Morgan Stanley, and $1.1tn to Bank of America.

Most of the loans have been repaid, and none are overdue, the Fed said.

Bank of America's aid included a pledge by the Fed for up to $118bn (£75.7bn; 90bn euros) of assets if loans and mortgage-backed securities turned sour.

But the documents show that America's biggest bank did not, in the end, need the money.

In September 2008 alone, AIG, the insurance giant, had to draw on $62bn from a credit facility in order to pay off immediate debts.

Foreign banks including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank also borrowed from the Fed to overcome their liquidity crises.

Collapse

Bear Stearns, another large US bank, faced "imminent insolvency" on 13 March 2008 and was loaned $12.9bn to trade through the following few days, the documents show. The money has been repaid.

Bear, which eventually collapsed and was bought by JP Morgan, had a total loan facility during the financial crisis of $960bn.

The Fed has provided $3.3 trillion in emergency aid, most of it since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, when the credit markets were close to seizing up.

This stimulus money includes $600bn announced last month, which sparked complaints that the central bank was stoking inflation and asset-price bubbles.

Nov.-Dec. 2010 Quick Links, Part 1 (Trademarks and Advertising Edition)

2010-12-27T22:25:00.000-05:00

This is a reposting of an Eric Goldman blog on the past years quick links to important internet cases. Keep up the good work my friend, I hope to join your ranks one day, providing much needed transparency in this overburdened information age.

Nov.-Dec. 2010 Quick Links, Part 1 (Trademarks and Advertising Edition)

via Technology & Marketing Law Blog by Eric on 12/27/10

By Eric Goldman

I have a big backlog of Quick Links from the last 2 months. I'll post them over the next few days. I also have a backlog of other blog posts I need to write, especially my reassessment of my prediction of Wikipedia's demise. I'll get to those posts after I finish grading final exams.

An administrative note: This blog was named to the ABA Blawg 100 for the second year in a row, although oddly in the Legal Tech category. Many thanks for your continued readership. Feel free to vote in the popularity contest if you'd like. I voted for Techdirt and Not-So-Private Parts in their respective categories.

Trademark

* Tiffany (NJ) Inc. v. eBay Inc, 2010 WL 3416635 (U.S. Nov 29, 2010). The Supreme Court denied cert in this long-running case. My prior blog post.

* FreecycleSunnyvale v. The Freecycle Network (9th Cir. Nov. 24, 2010). A rare ruling saying that a trademark owner (The Freecycle Network) abandoned its TMs due to naked licensing. If you have a logo license program, this is a good reminder to make sure you have both quality control provisions in the license agreement and actually exercise quality control. For more on naked licensing, see this article by my former colleague Irene Calboli.

* NYT on an auction of 170 "retro" trademarks revived just for auction purposes. About 2 dozen trademarks were sold for a total gross of $132k. Marty keeps it real about the auction's validity.

* A fight over the name "Ernie's Liquor" in Palo Alto.

* K.S.R. X-Ray Supplies, Inc. v. Southeastern X-Ray, Inc., 2010 WL 4317026 (S.D. Fla. Oct. 25, 2010). ACPA violation and $10k award when a competitor registers a slight variation of its competitor's trademark as a domain name.

* Rebecca on a bizarre trademark battle over vehicle license plate designs.

* Sellify is appealing its loss against Amazon. My initial blog post.

* NYT: Star athletes are trying to trademark their catchphrases.

* B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc., 2010 WL 4683725 (E.D. Ark. Nov. 10, 2010): "Here, the jury expressly found that B & B copied Hargis' fastener photos and size/weight charts and posted them on its website as its own, thus causing Hargis to prevail on its cross-complaint for false advertising and false designation of origin. The Court finds B & B's conduct focusing on the creation of a new website as well as its contacting Hargis customers, using metatags and purchasing domain sites using the term "sealtite" or phrases containing that term, introducing bogus design drawings into evidence of purported construction fasteners, and other conduct previously discussed, was a willful and deliberate attempt to manufacture evidence to support its trademark infringement claim. The Court finds this is an exceptional case in which the award of fees is justified."

* NYT: A New York state law requires "the education commissioner's consent for the words library, school, academy, institute and kindergarten, among others to be used in a certificate of incorporation or company name." Thus, the incorporation papers for a library-themed chocolatier named "Chocolate Library" got bounced.

* I'm helping Paul Levy and Public Citizen try to unseal the "confidential" joint appendix in Rosetta Stone v. Google.

Advertising

* The EU has opened an antitrust investigation into Google. I know that Google's making too much money to just walk away from Europe, but I think both the EU and Google would live happier lives if they were to go their separate ways.

* Google is changing its ad label from "Sponsored Link" to "Ad." Google has rolled this change out in Gmail, and I've also noticed a new ad unit right by the place where I archive or delete messages--sloppy clicking will earn Google a few extra pennies.

* Congress enacted the "CALM Act" to regulate the volume of TV commercials.

* California's rules on Political Online Advertising. (see items 19 and 20)

* Seattle mandates an opt-out system for Yellow Pages book deliveries, which prompts a lawsuit. Meanwhile, Verizon wants to stop distributing white pages directories.

* The FTC approved the Reverb settlement over fake blog posts. Venkat's prior blog post.

* In re Facebook PPC Advertising Litigation, 2010 WL 5174021 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 15, 2010). Facebook gets another dismissal without prejudice. The judge says:

To the extent that Plaintiffs allege that Facebook is subject to UCL liability merely because its filtering system is insufficient or ineffective, such allegations fail to state a claim….To the extent that Plaintiffs could allege that Facebook failed to employ any "filtering" system to protect against click fraud or knew but did not disclose that its system was subject to regular and frequent failure in excess of flaws inherent in such systems, they might state a claim.

Previous blog posts (1, 2).

* More detail on the Largo Cargo v. Google settlement.

* ClickZ: Still No Answers for Digital Pharma Marketers.

* Google is telemarketing local advertisers.

Ka-Sat, Europe's 2nd net-dedicated spacecraft, lifts off

2010-12-27T13:05:00.001-05:00

The six-tonne Ka-Sat lifted off atop a Proton rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 0351 local time on Monday (2151 GMT on Sunday).

"As many as 30 million households in Europe are not served at all or get high mediocrity of service," said Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen.

Ka-Sat, however, is considerably bigger, and has a notional capacity to serve up to two million households compared with Hylas's 300,000.

Paris-based Eutelsat is one of the world's big three Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) companies, and transmits thousands of TV channels across its fleet of spacecraft.

This endeavours also shows how vulnerable the European market is to any single point of failure of their internet backbone. The loss of a single satellite can disrupt internet access for two million households, either from state or non-state sponsored terror.

New Haitian PM criticises aide, will Haiti be the next victim of western led aide imperialism?

2010-12-27T12:48:00.000-05:00

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says the international community is not allowing his country to play a big enough role in its own reconstruction.

Mr Bellerive said donors and the international community were not working with Haitians to find solutions when channelling aid to those who need it. He said greater control of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) was needed.

"Let's be clear, I have nothing against NGOs - we need them. What I need is to have control over what they do in my country, where they do it and with whom they are doing it, and at what cost," he said.

This is a typical scenario in the NGO and Aide led reconstruction efforts of Western countries around the globe since the turn of the century.

What we need is better coordination and a global oversight of aide and NGO activities world wide by the International community of aide recipients and donors. We need to be able to measure what aide is being given and whether it is in the best interest of those receiving the aide. Otherwise, it will cause more damage than good, leading to aide dependence and imperialism by opportunistic individuals, corporations and NGOs alike.

Novell Agrees to be Acquired by AttachMate; Sells Some IP to a MS-Organized Consortium - Updated

2010-12-26T13:04:00.000-05:00

Novell has sold itself to Attachmate Corporation. There is a side deal selling "certain intellectual property assets" to CPTN Holdings LLC, "a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft". SUSE goes to Attachmate, I gather, and will be a separate unit, so what goes to Microsoft's consortium?
No doubt we'll find out in time. It is being reportedthat what it will get is 882 patents. Blech. How many does Novell own? Is that all of them? If so, will we get to watch Son of SCO, but with patents this time? But keep in mind that the WordPerfect litigation could be in this picture, and I wonder if this could be a kind of deal to tactfully settle it out, with Microsoft paying to end it this way? $450 million isn't a lot, though, so how could it be all of the patents? Nevertheless, selling any patents to Microsoft is like selling your baby to a pedophile in the limited sense that you can reasonably predict what it will do with the acquisition.
Novell's CEO is telling "valued customers" in an email that it's a merger agreement, that Novell believes "the transaction is great news for our customers," that all contracts will be honored, and that the IP sale to Linux's sworn enemy "will not impact customers", whatever that means. Not a word about Linux and what it means for SUSE. Not a word to reassure the community. ComputerWorld's Chris Kanaracus has the interesting detail that Elliott Management, the group Novell rejected earlier, will become a shareholder in Attachmate:

Attachmate's offer of $6.10 per share follows the $5.75 a share offer made in March by investment firm Elliott Management Corporation, one of Novell's largest shareholders. Novell rejected that offer. But as part of the deal announced Monday, Elliott is to become an equity shareholder in Attachmate, according to a statement.

So. The vultures won, I gather. Here is the Attachmate statement, so you can decide for yourself. But here's a word from Elliott in that statement:

"Elliott is pleased to have been a major catalyst in this transaction, enabling Novell's shareholders to realize substantial shareholder value," said Jesse A. Cohn, portfolio manager at Elliott Management. "Novell has a robust product set that we believe will create a significant value opportunity as part of the Attachmate Corporation portfolio of products."

A major catalyst. Significant value opportunity. Get the picture?

Nikon, SanDisk and Sony propose larger, faster memory format

2010-12-25T13:04:00.000-05:00

Nikon, SanDisk and Sony have jointly developed the specifications for a faster type of memory card. The specifications have been submitted to the Compact Flash Association with the aim of them being adopted as a future standard. The proposal uses the PCI Express interface to offer transfer rates of up to 500MB/s, rather than the 167MB/s limit of the most recent Compact Flash 6.0 standard. The proposal hope to provide a card that can cope with future requirements for bursts of RAW images and large quantities of HD footage. The Compact Flash Association has established a working group that will evaluate the proposal by the end of 2010.

Groklaw - Google's Motion to Dismiss Paul Allen's Patent Infringement Complaint Granted

2010-12-24T13:08:00.000-05:00

Google's Motion to Dismiss Paul Allen's Patent Infringement Complaint Granted