US financial services giant Wells Fargo & Co has become the fourth bank to reveal that it is to take part in Visa’s series of NFC trials. And Visa could be ready to launch commercial NFC-based services from early 2011, according to a Reuters report.
According to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the average adult texter sends and receives 10 messages per day, but a minority (4%) now sends more than 200 messages every day.
Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I memory cards are the fastest in the world.
For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed around the idea around of a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz “AWS-3″ band. The company that proposed the plan, M2Z Networks, would commit to building out the project in a decade, and pay five percent of its annual revenue to the United States Treasury. But on Wednesday M2Z informed the press that the FCC has told the company and its backers that the Commission is dropping the concept.
The Wireless Power Consortium launched the Qi 1.0 standard which enables consumer electronic brands and device manufacturers to bring interoperable wireless inductive charging devices to market. Qi ensures interoperability between Qi devices from different companies to power and charge on any Qi charging station.
