Year: 2010

The Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) Portable, Handheld and In-Vehicle Electronics Committee has announced the publication of ANSI/CEA-2017-A, Common Interconnection for Portable Media Devices.

The standard adds capability to the Portable Media Device Connector (PDMI) for USB 3.0 and VESA’s DisplayPort. Utilizing this new standard will purportedly allow consumers to download HD movies in just over one minute, versus 10 minutes with the previous USB 2.0 technology.

>Hulu, an online site for watching television shows, says HTML 5, the standard for online video Apple is promoting over Flash, isn’t ready for prime time, reports “All Things D” (http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100513/hulu-still-not-coming-to-your-ipads-web-browser/?mod=ATD_rss).

Apple has updated its iWork components — Pages, Numbers, and Keynote — for the iPad to version 1.1. All three apps are now designated version 1.1, and add a couple of minor improvements and support for several languages.

Pages 1.1 (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726?mt=8) changes include:

° Support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish;

° Toolbar and ruler are now available in wide-screen landscape view;

° Documents automatically fit to page width in landscape view;