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SanDisk is laying claim to offering the world's highest-capacity SD card, 512 gigabytes of flash storage -- but at $800, it's not cheap. The new SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I aims at photography and video professionals that absolutely must have the most advanced equipment available to shoot 4K Ultra High Definition (3840x2160p) video, Full HD video (1920x1080) and high-speed burst mode photography. Dinesh Bahal, vice president of Product Marketing at SanDisk, said his company continued to push the boundaries of technology:

On pins and needles for your new iPhone? Prepare to wait a little longer: Apple exhausted its pre-order supply of the iPhone 6 Plus on Friday. By 9:00 a.m. EDT, the iPhone 6 Plus was listed on Apple's U.S. online store as scheduled to ship three to four weeks after ordering. The iPhone 6 remained in stock, at least on the Apple store, with deliveries promised by Sept. 19. That’s the date the new smartphones are set to go on sale

Verizon plans to launch an "over-the-top" digital video broadcasting service by the middle of 2015, CEO Lowell McAdam said Thursday. Speaking at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia conference, McAdam said the service would deliver video content to wireless devices on an a la carte basis. "No one wants to have 300 channels on your wireless device," McAdam said, according to a transcript of the talk published on the investment information site Seeking Alpha. "We are very focused on probably late first half of

Google has kicked off yet another program aimed at helping to develop the next big thing in tech: Google Cloud Platform for Startups. The program offers early-stage tech companies $100,000 in credit for Google's Cloud Platform services, along with 24/7 support and technical architecture review help from Google's engineers. The new offering was announced Friday by Urs Hölzle, Google Fellow and senior vice president of technical infrastructure, during the Google for Entrepreneurs Global Partner Summit. According to a Google blog post,

Apple is generating plenty of buzz for its iPhone 6 and Apple Watch models, but behind the scenes it’s the iOS 8 that’s gluing all the innovations together. The tech giant will start rolling out the new version of its mobile operating system on September 17 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users as a free update. Apple is billing iOS 8 as a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience. The update includes new messages and photos features, predictive

Global retail revenue from smart wearable devices will triple in volume by 2016 before eventually reaching $53.2 billion in sales by 2019, according to Juniper Research. The findings were published in a new report, “Smart Wearable Devices: Fitness, Glasses, Watches, Multimedia, Clothing, Jewelry, Healthcare & Enterprise 2014-2019.” The report maintains that the recent entry of key industry players within the wearables sector -- such as Apple, which introduced its Apple Watch on Tuesday -- is part of a process that will

A new computer Trojan may be targeting clients of Salesforce.com, the company announced in a security warning posted on its Web site. The malware, known as Dyre or Dyreza, appears to be a variation of the previously known Zeus Trojan, which had been known to target banking Web sites in search of financial accounts. According to Salesforce, the vulnerability was discovered by one of its security partners on Sept. 3. The malware is designed to steal user log-in credentials and resides

The new iPhone 6 isn’t simply bigger, Apple claims, it's better in every way. The two new models, called the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are larger, yet thinner than the iPhone 5, and supposedly more powerful and more power efficient.Apple describes the iPhone 6, which CEO Tim Cook debuted in Cupertino today, as having a smooth metal surface that seamlessly meets the new Retina high-definition display.Wondering what else is new and different with the iPhone 6? Here's a

Two new bigger iPhones, the long-rumored Apple Watch, iOS 8, and a new Apple Pay service introduced at the company's launch event Tuesday gave fans lots to fawn over. Most of the new products announced by CEO Tim Cook at the event, broadcast live from the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, will be available later this month. But on the Apple Watch, Cook remained coy, saying only that the device would be available in "early 2015." The two new iPhone 6

It’s not called the iWatch, but it’s an Apple watch all the same. In fact, it’s called the Apple Watch and the tech giant is billing it as its most personal device ever -- chock full of “revolutionary” technologies with a “pioneering” user interface featuring a “Digital Crown” that lets you scroll, zoom and navigate. But what does this device look like beyond all the buzzwords? Well, the Digital Crown is certainly a smart watch innovation. Apple considers the Digital Crown