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Top digital camera vendors partner to develop new wireless transfer technology

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.
Written by Janice Chen, Inactive

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.

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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