<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d1959355-c5e4-47ca-ac79-9517ccb9fb3b/3CEC5D06-3CAE-48FA-A0D9-54032777FB10/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/" href="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/" style="font-size: 11px;">gigaom.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/"><H1>Everything You Need to Know About USB 3.0</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/"><P class="meta"> <SPAN class="author-pic author-shigginbotham"> By <A title="Posts by Stacey Higginbotham" href="http://gigaom.com/author/shigginbotham/" linkindex="23">Stacey Higginbotham</A> </SPAN> <SPAN class="less">|</SPAN> Friday, August 14, 2009 <SPAN class="less">|</SPAN> 5:05 PM PT <SPAN class="less">|</SPAN> <A href="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/#comments" class="comments" rel="nofollow" linkindex="24"><STRONG>11</STRONG> comments</A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/">Proprietary on one end and universal on the other, USB has the highest consumer success rate — getting shipped on over 3 billion devices in 2008 — according to <A href="http://www.in-stat.com/press.asp?ID=2575&sku=IN0904459MI" linkindex="27">research firm In-Stat</A>. And now there’s an upgrade to USB on the way. Here’s what you need to know about the coming USB 3.0.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s fast: Dubbed Super-Speed USB, it will <A href="http://www.gizmag.com/usb-30-next-generation-speed/11920/" linkindex="28">offer transfer speeds of 4.8 Gbps</A> compared with High-Speed USB 480Mbps transfer speeds.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s backwards compatible: Your existing USB 2.0 stuff will also work on the 3.0 ports and vice versa, although you won’t get the “super speeds.”</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s coming soon: Vendors will ship some boards at the end of this year, so mainstream consumers should see them on their computers and certain devices starting in 2010.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-usb-3-0/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s powerful: Like USB 2.0, it will transmit electricity, which means you can still use it to charge your gadgets.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3CEC5D06-3CAE-48FA-A0D9-54032777FB10/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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