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Market Wire - Electronics and Semiconductors: Micro-electronics and Nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
FAREHAM, UK (MARKET WIRE) Elan Digital Systems is launching its USBPC16 and USBPC32 chipsets to the market. The chipsets, which up till now were used as a proven solution in-house, now offer a simple and inexpensive product for designers using Intel's new Atom Processors and needing to provide a legacy PCMCIA interface. Unlike other products on the market, these devices are not restricted to memory...
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M Audio Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
unknown: I remember when I was looking at PC card sound cards hearing numerous stories about PCMCIA cards not being compatible with my laptop and that it used an ExpressCard instead. However, if I look in my user manual it says under … Read more
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Dial-a-Phone (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Sales of USB Dongles, small USB modems that allow users to connect to the web via a laptop, have seen a huge increase in sales during 2008 according to reports. The devices have outselling the more traditional PCMCIA 3G Card Modems by a huge margin since the start of the year and sales during May saw [...]
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Retro Thing (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
RT reader Chris Zorn recently brought the Nikon Coolpix 100 to our attention. He remarked, "It was built around a PCMCIA card, which (in the days before USB) was the best way of getting pics on and off. Picture quality...
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M Audio Blog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
: I want to grab a good sound card for my laptop but i don’t want these crappy usb and pcmcia cards.I want to be able to somehow get one of these creative xfi monsters to work with my laptop. Is that at all possible? Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers [...]
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Madshrimps Forum Madness (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
WWAN is becoming more and more popular for business travelers and remote locations for internet connectivity. With a simple USB or PCMCIA card stuck in your laptop, you can pretty much connect from anywhere you can get cell service, and the bandwidth available on these wireless plans is about what you'd expect from an entry level DSL connection. Which means sooner or later you might think to yourself,...
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Madshrimps Forum Madness (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
I have an old laptop that has about 128mb ram, a CD-ROM drive, 16-bit PCMCIA slot, and about a 20gb HD irrc (I'm not sure about the other specs, besides that fact that it's an intel cpu). Is there something productive I can still use it for?
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
If you have a "vintage" desktop or laptop that could do with a boost to its wireless capabilities, MacWireless has a couple of solutions for you. Read More...
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iTech News Net (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Ahtec launches the Tiny TN120 tablet PC which is budget-priced. Ahtec Tiny TN120 is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.1GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive and integrated Intel GMA X3100 graphics. There are also a DVD burner, WiFi, Bluetooth and PCMCIA slot. You may want to upgrade the DVD burner [...]
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M Audio Blog (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
unknown: dwlb wrote:. He’s probably not looking into a laptop that comes with firewire. I have of late been distressed to find they’re not standard equipment on PC laptops…which strikes me as silly. … Read more
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mac.ro (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
KisMAC r272 KisMAC is a free stumbler application for MacOS X, that puts your card into the monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X we are completely invisible and send no probe requests. KisMAC supports third party PCMCIA cards with Orinoco and PrismII chipsets, as well as Cisco Aironet cards. Please note: This program is not intended for people who don't have much knowledge about WiFi,...
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Fedora Planet (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Some of you know that I have been having problems getting my laptop on WiFi. The on-board card is proprietary and left me banging my head against the wall trying to make it work. A couple of weeks ago I decided enough was enough. I searched Newegg for a PCMCIA WiFi card that would work with Linux. I found one but it seemed a little... cheap. Of course it was out of stock but they offered to send me...
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Xbitlabs (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
PCMCIA to Speed Up ExpressCard Standard Shortly
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The PCMCIA group that manages PC-card standards said it expects to publish by early next year a version 2.0 standard supporting data rates up to 5 Gbits/s, bringing it in line with the PCI Express 2.0 standard out now and the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 spec coming later this year or early 2009.
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Engadget (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Filed under: Laptops , Peripherals Somewhere in a dark corner at CeBIT, PCMCIA managed to let out a whisper that informed a few flies on a nearby wall that ExpressCard Standard 2.0 was on the way. Today, however, we've received confirmation that said update is on track for a "second-half 2008 / early 2009" delivery. Put simply, v2.0 is "being developed to accommodate the significantly faster speeds...
