Every year the "inflation basket" - the theoretical shopping basket of standard products that can be used to measure inflation - gains and loses a few items. It's a good indicator of where we're at, ...

A new year, a new portable memory card format. A consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers next week will unveil a format for memory cards that will be smaller than Secure Digital (SD) cards, ...

ATEK Access Technologies released the Mini-Bar series, the latest addition to its Datakey family of rugged, portable memory tokens and mating receptacles. It provides embedded-systems designers with a ...

Founded in August 2000 by Kevin Magenis, former vice president of engineering at Maxtor, and Curt Bruner, former designer at Quantum, the company operated in stealth mode until last year. Self-funded, ...

Handset models are changing every year as designers strive to strike a balance between what end users want and what can actually be designed in. Many trade-offs must be considered, including ...