A standards group hopes to develop a memory card format called UFS. It'll face some obstacles getting to market, but may succeed embedded in mobile phones. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

<b>commentary</b> The flash memory technology is inexpensive and ubiquitous, but it's also physically feeble. As it spreads up-market, pros and enthusiasts are stuck with its shortcomings. Stephen ...

Remembering the quirky and at times short-lived formats for securing our digital photographs and video, exploring what they ...

It's hard to imagine it now, but there was a time in the early 1990s when having a tiny palm-sized data storage card with no moving parts felt miraculous. Hard drives on PCs were noisy, bulky, and ...

My Canon G3 all of a sudden is puking when it tries to read my 256 meg CF card. It reads my wussy 32 megger no problem, so it's definitely the card. I do have a USB Media Reader drive thing for my PC ...

If you've ever used an SD card before, you may have been prompted to "format" it before using it. But what does that mean? Put simply, formatting an SD card erases every single file on it, including ...