Late on Monday, the CompactFlash Association announced that their goals for the CompactFlash 5.1 specification are to allow "sanitization" of the small-form-factor flash cards, and make them faster as ...

When designing embedded systems, the designer has many choices to make. If you sell thousands of units, you spend lots of time designing around the most inexpensive parts you can find. You design ...

Someday, you'll be able to fit as much data in a small, square CompactFlash card as AT&T carries on its entire network in a week. CompactFlash cards are the chunky, heavy-duty memory cards that would ...

Delkin sneers at wimps who sit around all day debating whether it's worse to be too hot or too cold. Its new 32GB and 64GB rugged CompactFlash cards relish both extremes, with a claimed operating ...

The CompactFlash Association announced on Wednesday that it has adopted a new specification and format to replace the venerable CompactFlash memory card. Tongue-twistingly dubbed "XQD," the PCI ...

The body responsible for setting the standards for CompactFlash cards, the CompactFlash Association, has announced the specs for the latest 5.0 revision of the mass storage format. CompactFlash 5.0 ...

SanDisk introduced its latest CompactFlash memory card for DSLR cameras and professional video cameras today. I have mentioned before that I like to shoot pictures with a Nikon D80. One of the reasons ...

We've already heard a little bit about the new and improved CFast CompactFlash card standard developed by the CompactFlash Association, but it looks like things are now starting to firm up, including ...

Think of memory cards as the film for digital cameras. Cards are where your images are stored. At The Dallas Morning News, we’ve bought hundreds and hundreds of cards in the past few years and have ...

The best $50 I’ve spent in a month was on a roomier CompactFlash card for video-taking DSLRs, but it looks like I should’ve waited: SanDisk’s new ExtremePro line push 90MB/second read/write speeds and ...

Hipsters who hang out in the DSLR crowd should rejoice after hearing about Lexar’s new series of CF cards. These new 300x UDMA cards are professional-grade CF cards that will come in 2, 4, and 8GB ...

Any professional photographer who has bought a cheap flash memory card and spent hours offloading gigabytes of images, or had their memory card stall when trying to shoot in burst mode, would know ...