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Standard phone charger due in early 2011

31 Dec

 

If your household is anything like mine, you probably have at a drawer full of mobile phone and gadget chargers.  And I bet a fair number of them are for a phone you no longer own.  I’m not sure why I have this urge to keep out of date chargers but in the back of my mind I think that I might need them again in the future.

Thank goodness that the 14 major mobile phone companies have agreed to sign up to a new standard connection for mobile phones, these include Samsung, Apple and Nokia.

You can expect to see new mobiles that use the agreed standard micro-USB jack for sale early in 2011.  Once we upgrade our phones we will be able to clear out space in that drawer.

Read the full news story here

 
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Posted in Mobile phones, Standards

 

The PDF is dead, long live the PDF

22 Oct

I don’t know about you, but I thought the PDF file format was one of the things that made printing easier. And indeed it does. But of course, when it was a simple set of commands designed for classic postscript printers there was no way it could be used for anything else.

But Adobe, the owners of the PDF format have followed the trends and made the pdf format able to handle multimedia such as Flash and other file formats. This has the effect making the file format much more active in terms possibly affecting the way a computer runs.

This article summarises some of the issues. Don’t get paranoid though – pdf is still a wonderful way of creating printed copy.

 
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Posted in Social networking, Standards, Uncategorized