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Lenovo unveiled a new affordable PC - the IdeaCentra K210 - without a display this system starts at $379 after a mail-in-rebate. Among the new technologies the IdeaCentre K210 utilizes is VeriFace facial ...

Europe : Nokia unveiled a new range of products to let consumers express their personal styles on a number of levels ranging from stylish designs, to personalization through vibrantly hued exchangeable covers.

The problem of keeping track of thousands of near-identical African penguins may have been solved.

UK astronomers, as part of an international team, have reached a milestone in the construction of one of the largest ever cameras to detect the mysterious Dark Energy component of the Universe.

After years of ignoring the existence of Apple's Mac OS X, Logitech has finally given in to the demand.

Here's some great news for Verizon Wireless cell phone service subscribers. The mobile phone carrier and LG has just officially released the LG Dare touchscreen mobile phone.

It looks like the folks at Samsung are keeping the fires burning with a batch of new handsets announced at the Singapore Telecommunications Exhibition.

TELSTRA has expanded its interests in internet advertising in China, acquiring a majority stake in two businesses.

They've tried to unite their fundraisers, they came together for hugs and smiles and mutual admiration in a big public rally in Unity, N.H., but Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are still facing questions about ...

June 2008. Carl Zeiss expands its range of SLR lenses with the addition of the Distagon T* 3.5/18 super wide angle lens.

Filed under USB Webcams & Digital Cameras Logitech hasn't released a USB webcam for the Mac crowd in years ever since Apple was shipping FireWire iSight in 2003.

In its three-year business plan unveiled Thursday, Sony Corp. said it aims to see annual sales in three additional business categories top 1 trillion, joining the four already above that target: LCD television ...

Nokia Supernova handset line-up launches Posted: 27-Jun-2008 [Source: Nokia] [Nokia offers the first devices in its new Nokia Supernova range - the 7610, 7510, 7310, and 7210.] Recognizing that no one style ...

Bill Hogan was returning home to the United States from Germany in February when a customs agent at Dulles International Airport pulled him aside.

Since 2005, portable digital music players , digital cameras, and cell phones experienced double-digit growth in kids' personal ownership, while devices such as portable CD players saw double-digit declines ...

Stevie Wonder is fidgeting with his camera phone, embarrassed because he can't get it to work right.

Fifteen words that took only a few seconds to utter kept Brady Stumpf fighting to stay alive.

The little USB stick on your keychain and the memory in your iPod is fueling a revolution in the enterprise storage world.

U.S. border agents are copying and seizing the contents of laptops, cell phones and digital cameras from U.S. and foreign travelers entering the United States, witnesses told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday.

Mobile customers in the US market can now get their hands on the Nokia N78 model.

The MING A1600 phone has been circulating in rumors previously, and a little over a month ago, it was approved by the FCC .

Ricoh has another compact digital camera out - the GX200. This one will oust the aged GX100, and it will feature the following :- Removable tilting electronic viewfinder 12 megapixel resolution 2.7" LCD display ...

A technology group based in Pune has developed a remote moitoring camera that functions with a normal GPRS-enabled mobile phone.

The ad-screens will be able to 'see' people standing up to 15 feet away, and will invite hotel-goers to come play games, navigate menus, and use maps on the screens.

Eastman Kodak Co said on Tuesday it would buy back up to $1 billion of its stock, driving the photography company's share price up nearly 17 percent from historical lows.

Robotic excavation of soil samples near Mars' north pole was halted Wednesday as engineers on Earth worked to fix a glitch on the Phoenix lander that caused a loss of some science data.

Starting today, convergence craving consumers across the United States can set their sights on the newest Nokia Nseries device to hit American store shelves, the Nokia N78.

Mac-owners, cease your ongoing protests against the cold-shoulder of Logitech . The peripheral company has announced its latest webcam, the Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro webcam for Mac, and while it may resemble ...

The Ipevo PoV cam is inexpensive, but the LifeCam VX-5000 is a better general purpose Webcam with vastly superior low-light performance for only a little more.

The PennyCam from StealthVue is a hidden camera that captures upwardly-angled pictures.

According to the often-reliable rumor mill the Boy Genius Report , Motorola [NYSE: MOT] is staking its future on the success of one single new phone.

Eastman Kodak Company today introduced KODAK Imaging Technology for mobile devices, combining Kodak's unparalleled experience in Imaging Science with the company's signature ease-of-use and vast portfolio of ...

Fresh from the wire this morning is news that Motorola has introduced the MOTOZINE ZN5 , a camera phone intended to lean more toward camera than phone.

Mobile has just added two new offerings, the Nokia 6301 and the Samsung SGH-t339 , both of which fully support T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home service.

They say good things come in small packages. Well, the new Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer is a fun thing in a very small package.

Japan's Nikkei average fell 1.7 percent on Monday, led down by blue-chip exporters such as Canon Inc after sharp losses on Wall Street on rising oil prices.

South East Asia News.Net Friday 20th June, 2008 An Australian researcher has developed a camera that can measure distance and generate 3D images.

NEW HANDSET: Nokia's new E66 mobile phone. Reuters JUST RELEASED: Nokia's new E71 mobile.

For a few years now, Japanese consumers have been using barcode scanning software on their camera phones to automatically surf the Web while mobile.

Their findings will be published in the July edition of Nature Materials, a publication of Nature.

British Waterways has teamed up with 24Seven to launch a fantastic photo competition to create a calendar to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Kennet & Avon Canal.

Sony Ericsson unveiled on Tuesday the first globally available phone with a high-resolution 8 megapixel camera as the handset industry mounted a fresh attack on traditional camera makers.

Deforestation threatens the long-term future of the Congo rainforest Plans to use a state-of-the-art camera onboard a satellite to monitor deforestation levels in Africa's Congo Basin have been unveiled.

South Korean phone makers Samsung and LG enjoyed a stellar start to 2008 but the launch of Apple's much-hyped new iPhone is set to dent their sales and profit margins later this year.

Yesterday Fujifilm announced the launch of their new UDMA 310x CompactFlash cards that have the fastest sustained write speed of any card on the market.

Every year, more and more safety features and gadgets become available for automobiles.

These devices, also known as Web cams and desktop digital video cameras, are small, focus on one object , and usually sit on top of a PC monitor.

A couple of days ago of a flash demo of Nokia's two new handsets, the E66 and E71 have surfaced and we all speculated that an official announcement from Nokia is imminently happening soon.

Sony Ericsson appear to have shifted the "K-Series" range of phones downmarket a little, to come up with the entry-level K330 camera phone.

Polaroid is abandoning instant film, but if you're going to miss the feel of getting a small print in your hand a minute after snapping a picture, the company has a solution: A battery-powered printer that fits ...

A series of security blunders has influenced Texas Public Safety Commission Chairman Allan Polunsky to ask the U.S. Secret Service to assess security risks at the Texas Capitol, Governor's Mansion and other ...

Palm and Verizon Wireless finally introduced the Palm Centro last Friday, a low-cost touchscreen smartphone announced by Palm last year in September.

Almost a year after the release of the iPhone, another cellphone manufacturer is releasing a touchscreen phone capable of competing with Apple .

Another day, another "World's fastest"; this time it's the turn of Fuji, who are frothing with excitement over their new CompactFlash card.

Sporting a design and feature list not unlike Nokia's N95 and N96, Sony Ericsson's C905 Cybershot blows Nokia's devices away in one area: picture resolution.

Flash memory chip maker SanDisk has teamed up with Toshiba to jointly develop and manufacture re-writeable 3D memory, SanDisk revealed in a filing to U.S. stock market regulators on Tuesday.

Many employees - frustrated that their companies are unwilling to pay for the laptops, cell phones and other electronic devices that they want on the road - are spending their own money to get them.

When gay and lesbian couples started getting married in California this week, one set of voices was quiet among the choruses of "Here Come the Brides" - those of the conservative activists who put a same-sex ...

Optoma announced their groundbreaking handheld projector. Smaller than your average smartphone, the Optoma Pico projector utilizes Texas Instruments DLP Pico chipset.

Hello Kitty - Japan's most famous feline - is rediscovering its cultural roots. Upcoming products include digital cameras shaped like a cat's head to stationery featuring the bubble-headed mascot in Kabuki ...

Japanese-Swedish handset maker Sony Ericsson said on Tuesday it projected strong demand for the global handset industry in the second quarter and the second half of this year.

A hidden digital camera helped Milam County authorities captured five residents suspected of illegally dumping trash.

Rumbling off Nokia's great production mills are two additions to its E series range, the QWERTY E71 and E66 slider phones.

The Omnia, which means 'everything' in Latin, comes with a five megapixel built-in camera, eight-centimetre screen as well as video functions, Samsung said.

Nokia has expanded its family of enterprise phones with the introduction of the E71 and E66, which come at a time when Apple, Research in Motion, and Microsoft are trying their best to attract enterprise ...

Camera phones are one too many, each maker tries to gain a fair share of the mobile buying market.

The Consumer Electronics Association put on a summertime "consumer electronics showcase" here in NYC on Thursday, called Digital Downtown .

The latest phone to join Virgin Mobile is the Samsung Slash, which is the first Samsung handset for the MVNO carrier.

After passing a series of tests to earn a new driver's certificate, Opportunity resumed driving while keeping its robotic arm in a new, "stowed" position that is essentially mostly unstowed.

Panasonic DMC-FX520 digital camera: controls can get a little confusing. Nick Galvin June 16, 2008 Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX520 Price $769 Rating 2 out of 5 http://www.panasonic.com.au In only a few years, digital ...

A photograph of the sea, perfectly framed by the ragged window of a gutted building, illustrates the contrasts of Lebanon.

Sony Ericsson is having a bit of trouble keeping its newest lineup on the down low, but we suppose that's the price of fame.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced it has developed "ML87V21072," a video correction LSI for monitoring cameras with a noise reduction function and a FIFO frame memory.

Q: I am looking to buy a digital camera and want to learn more about memory cards.

Adobe has released an update to the Adobe Digital Negative specification , a publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras.

Mr. Eqbal Al Yousuf will acquire a 50 percent interest in the Recharge-It-All Battery line of battery systems for mobile electronics from alternative transportation pioneer ZAP .

Sprint announced today the coming availability of four new Nextel Direct Connect phones, powered by Qualcomm's QChat technology, to customers in 40+ markets across the country.

NXP Semiconductors introduced what is believed to be the world's fastest high-bandwidth cellular soft modem -- Nexperia Cellular System Solution PNX6910 -- which is capable of achieving data transfer rates of ...

Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. has unveiled the AAT2848, a trimode charge pump driver IC for white LED backlight display and flash applications.

Fontainebleau Resorts plans to provide an Apple iMac computer in each of the 5,300 rooms at its soon-to-reopen, remodeled Miami flagship and $3 billion hotel-casino being built on the Las Vegas Strip.

Review : "In November last year I took a look at the 10-megapixel Pentax Optio S10, at the time the newest incarnation of the original ultra-compact digital camera, the Pentax Optio S. I was impressed by its ...

Sony Corporation today announced the development of a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor with significantly enhanced imaging characteristics, including nearly twofold sensitivity*1 and low noise.

Posted in UMPC by Conner Flynn on June 12th, 2008 The Gigabyte M528 finally has a price tag, retailing for $750 in Taiwan and it will be released there in late July.

A reporter uses a digital camera to record Industry Minister Jim Prentice as he announces amendments to the Copyright Act on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, June 12, 2008.

In this photo montage of actual quantum images, two laser beams coming from the bright glare in the distance transmit images of a cat-like face at two slightly different frequencies .

One phrase defines Intel's Justin Rattner: "Think, but rethink". The Intel senior fellow, corporate vice president and director of Intel's Corporate Technology Group, also serves as chief technology officer.

Sony just announced its own backside-illuminated CMOS sensor meant to rival OmniVision's achievment .

Posted by Chris Gohlke in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 07:00 AM If you're like me, a major part of travel packing involves making sure you have all your power requirements met to charge your devices ...

An emergency shutdown of a reactor at the Indian Point nuclear power plant was caused by signals from a worker's digital camera, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Verizon Wireless is expanding its LG line-up with the LG Dare, LG Decoy, and the new LG Chocolate 3. The most interesting of the three new LG phones from Verizon is the LG Dare touch-screen phone.

The Buhl Park Concert Band will open the park's free summer concert series at 6:30 p.m. today at the Performing Arts Center in Buhl Farm, Hermitage.

Canon has announced an evolutionary rather than revolutionary upgrade to its midrange Speedlite 430EX flash with the innovatively named Speedlite 430EX II.

Pocket-lint reviews the Sony Ericsson W890i and writes, "As a phone it functions perfectly well, in fact it is a pleasure to use.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera.

The Kindle is Amazon.com's $399 electronic book device that allows users to download books, blogs, magazines and newspapers.

Three teenagers are in juvenile detention for their roles in a break-in at a private school in east Montgomery.

Cisco Systems, Intel and four other backers of a wireless Internet standard called WiMax said they want to help spread use of the technology by limiting possible patent royalties.

Samsung have officially announced the i900 , now called the i900 Omnia. The phone is Samsung's response to the hugely successful Apple iPhone.

Taipei, Taiwan-Qpixel Technology has added high definition devices- QL303 and QL305-to its low-power, H.264 codec family.