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Top digital camera vendors partner to develop new wireless transfer technology

By | July 17, 2008, 8:27pm PDT

Imagine being able to display photos on your TV screen just by touching your digital camera to the TV–no more card readers or cables to fuss with. Today, Sony along with the likes of Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Samsung, and eight other big names in consumer electronics announced an agreement to form a consortium to develop a new interoperable wireless transfer technology standard called TransferJet.
Top digital camera vendors partner to develop new wireless transfer technology
Lead by original developer Sony (which featured prototypes in its booth at CES), the TransferJet consortium’s goals for the new standard are “Simple Operation” (transfer files just by touching two devices together), “Safe Connection” a 3cm transmission distance minimizes data security risk), and “Efficient Transfer” (sustained high-speed transmission rate of 375Mbps; 560Mbps theoretical).

A press release issued from Tokyo today announced the consortium members as well as the TransferJet Consortium website that went live today.

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Janice got her hands on a Nikon Coolpix 900 back in 1998 and has been a digital camera enthusiast ever since.

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Janice Chen is an editorial consultant and has been covering technology for over two decades. Serving as editor in chief at CNET and Computer Shopper magazine for many years, she oversaw product coverage for the CNET and ZDNet websites. She has appeared on most of the major morning TV news programs and was featured weekly on CNN Headline News' Hotwired segment recommending personal tech ranging from digital cameras to notebook PCs. Prior to that, she appeared with Anderson Cooper on a monthly technology segment for ABC World News This Morning. Quoted in numerous publications such as the New York Times, USA Today, and People magazine, Janice has also evaluated tech products for BusinessWeek, USA Weekend magazine, and Parenting magazine among others.

Janice got her hands on a Nikon Coolpix 900 back in 1998 and has been a digital camera enthusiast ever since. A graduate of Cornell University, she resides in Maplewood, NJ, with her husband (a professional photographer who shot his last roll of film in 2003) and their two daughters.

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