Vodafone Releases The New Blackberry Storm

Written by: Glenn Letham
Oct 8 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

An interesting device from Blackberry incorporating unique functionality enabling carriers to target a different crowd that is associated with the traditional Blackberry devices (ie. the business user). This is what Vodafone says… “BlackBerry Storm retains the full functionality and security features of the BlackBerry platform but is also ideal for avid Facebook, MySpace and YouTube [...]

Canon 5D Mark II - 21.1 Megapixels Super Camera

Written by: Thomas Hawk
Sep 17 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Well what a pleasant surprise this morning. Pre-photokina Canon has released the details on the much anticipated update to it’s popular 5D camera (yes, the very same 5D that I love and shoot with every single day).
The new camera will sell for an estimated price of $2,700. It will have a full frame [...]

Picasa Web Albums Uses Facial Recognition

Written by: Philipp Lenssen
Sep 3 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

The Picasa desktop client has been released in version 3 with some changes, and Picasa Web Albums also saw a revamp with new features. For instance, there’s now an Explore tag which lets you visually discover new pics by others.

An interesting new feature is Picasa’s face recognition. Google acquired image recognition company Neven Vision a [...]

iPhone Gets Streaming Video App

Written by: Robert Scoble
Aug 18 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

I just got a note that Qik just shipped into beta on the iPhone. I’ll be testing this out and will let you know what I think. One thing, the quality isn’t expected to be as good as what I get on my Nokia phones for two reasons:
1. The compression is being done in software [...]

New Adobe Lightroom 2.0

Written by: Thomas Hawk
Aug 6 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Adobe’s Lightroom 2.0, which launched today represents a major breakthrough in the field of digital photo processing. I’ve only just begun to play with the software today, but it is clear that Lightroom 2.0 will be my new imaging software of choice. Prior to using Lightroom 2.0 I did my photo processing using [...]

Search For Text In Videos With iGoogle Gadget

Written by: Philipp Lenssen
Jul 16 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Google released a well-working iGoogle gadget in which they extract text information from video content. The Elections Video Search gadget – its standalone page can be accessed as well – lets you search for keywords across YouTube’s US politician channels, like Barack Obama’s. Clicking on a result item will load the video in question into [...]

Geosage Releases New Image Fusion and Pan-Sharpening Software

Written by: Glenn Letham
Jul 1 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

From Down-under, Geosage has just today announced their latest Image Fusion and Pan-Sharpening Software - DOS-based HighView (Version 3.0).
From the company… “This latest version is specifically designed to rapidly process a large volume of the recent generation of high-resolution satellite imagery (QuickBird and IKONOS) and the future GeoEye-1 and WorldView-2 imagery.”
Anyone with QuickBird and [...]

Coming July 11th the iPhone 3G

Written by: Glenn Letham
Jun 11 ~ Category: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

iPhone 3g aka. the iPhone 2 was unveiled this week by Steve Jobs at the “Apple lovefest”- iPhone 2.0 software update for existing users is coming soon. Some of the features sported by this popular device include:

• built-in GPS (A-GPS)
• support for 3G networks
• additional language support
• enhanced email handling
• [...]



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