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CES 2013 starts early next month and there’ll be no shortage of new devices on display at the show. Toshiba will be on hand at CES and one of the new products that it will be showing off is a slick SDHC memory card that features wireless transfer technology. Toshiba says that the memory card on display at the show will be a reference unit.

Toshiba says the product on display is under development and integrates wireless transfer technology called TransferJet. The memory card has an internal TransferJet transceiver IC, a coupler, RF filter, peripheral passive parts, a SD bridge connection circuit, and Toshiba NAND flash memory.

The memory card will have the ability to transfer data from the memory card directly to supported devices such as digital cameras and computers. TransferJet technology is a close proximity wireless transfer technology standard. Toshiba is part of the TransferJet Consortium, which includes 44 other companies.

The transfer technology provides simple connections between devices allowing high-speed data transfer with low power consumption. The technology allows users to select a file on the screen of a device to be transferred. Then the transferring device touches the supported receiving device and the data transfer takes place.

Toshiba will show off SDHC memory card with TransferJet tech at CES is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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China is famous for censoring the Internet with one of the largest nationwide firewalls in the world. China’s firewall is called the Great Firewall of China and many Chinese citizens have used loopholes in the system to get access to unfiltered news from outside the country and blocked websites such as Gmail and others. This loophole was exploited by Chinese citizens by accessing foreign VPNs to be able to access block sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and others.

Chinese authorities have known of this loophole and have only now chosen to crack down on it. The crackdown is believed to be part of a wider campaign by China to exert more control over Internet access in the country. VPN businesses in China are illegal unless they are registered with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Commercial VPN services are having trouble operating as they normally operate in China recently. Users are saying that access is often denied or crashes after using the VPN for a short time. Some experts believe that China has found a way to identify encrypted Web use and block proxy servers for those users.

While China is attacking VPN use it is also tightening control over users in China after recently making it legal to delete posts or pages that are deemed to contain illegal information. China also has new regulations that would acquire Internet users to register with their real names when signing up with network providers. China maintains that tight control over the Internet is required to keep people from making malicious and anonymous accusations online, sharing pornography, and starting unfounded rumors.

[via Reuters and [via LA Times]

China closes Internet loophole and forces Internet users to give their real names is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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While Samsung will not be unveiling the Galaxy S4 at CES 2013, it is safe to assume that sometime during next year the South Korean company will be taking the wraps off the successor to the Galaxy S3. In the meantime it has not stopped fans and designers from coming up with concepts as to what they think the Galaxy S4 should look like.

This particular concept video by rozetked shows a fictional hands-on video of the Galaxy S4 which according to them, will feature a 2GHz quad-core processor, a Full HD 1080p AMOLED display, a 13MP rear-facing camera, and Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie running the show. This concept Galaxy S4 also comes with rather interesting accessories such as a keyboard dock that will project a laser keyboard which we can imagine will be highly convenient. It looks pretty darn amazing and we would love to get our hands on it if it were real – what do you guys think?

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This year, for the second time in a row, I spoke with about a dozen ebook and book-publishing experts to get their predictions on what would happen in book publishing in 2013. I compiled the information and published this: Ten Bold Predictions for Ebooks and Digital Publishing in 2013.

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