Amid falling prices and an inventory glut, yet another flash memory format is trying to rise above an increasingly crowded market. Panasonic's Secure Digital, which was co-developed with SanDisk and ...

Handheld computing leader Palm and electronics conglomerate Panasonic announced Tuesday that they would offer free Secure Digital media cards with the purchase of select products. The move is meant to ...

The top two flash-memory card makers are letting Sony handle the market for the new high-end XQD format--at least for now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...

For a long time, removable storage was chaos. Life is now so seamless that it's hard to remember that there was a time before SD and microSD cards, when most camera manufacturers wanted to implement a ...

The smaller the flash memory, the smaller the mobile phone. At least I think that’s the rationale behind Sandisk’s new ‘T-Flash’ flash memory format, announced as being “about the size of a fingernail ...

In Defragging: Why, How, and Whether, I warned that defragging can wear out solid state drives. Howard Meyer asked if it was safe to format flash drives and memory cards. Regular defragging can wear ...

SanDisk and Sony's Flash memory format just got flashier, with the Memory Stick PRO-HG format tripling the speeds of Memory Stick Pro and boosting capacity to 32GB. Memory Stick PRO-HG will help ...

If you're a keen photographer, you probably have a lot of memory cards that need to be wiped. Here's how to format SD and microSD cards safely within macOS. One of the problems with having a camera ...