News tagged with digital
HP's new touch Tablet: Windows 7 ultimate remote?
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Hewlett-Packard recently announced a new wireless, touchscreen tablet that's a cross between a wireless photo frame and a super duper remote control.
Identifying ID theft and fraud
Oct 14, 2009 |
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If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue ...
Kindle lightens textbook load, but flaws remain
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their ...
Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...
Silicon Image Introduces New 18 MegaPixel Camera Processor IP Core
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Silicon Image today introduced the camerIC-18, the newest member of its family of camerIC camera processor IP cores.
Sony Intros New Touch-Screen HD PC/TV
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony today unveiled its new touch-enabled, multi-media machine— the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV.
Gadgets: Kodak Zi8 takes great video for under $200
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Kodak's Zi8 video camera is outstanding, but to me what makes it great compared to similar models from other manufacturers is the unlimited amount of storage.
The naked truth about our landscape
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Australia has been stripped bare of vegetation to expose the surface that lies beneath.
Polaroid PoGo brings instant printing to the digital age
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Polaroid, founded in 1937 by American physicist Edwin H. Land, invented instant photographic printing. Its first instant film camera went on sale in November 1948, but in February 2008 the ...
Leading Companies Form Mobile HD Interface Working Group to Drive Industry Standard
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba today announced the formation of a Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group that intends to create an industry standard for an audio/video interface to connect ...
Researchers believe hormone therapy should not be stopped prior to mammograms
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are recommending that menopausal women on hormone therapy (HT) continue their treatment prior to having their annual mammogram screenings. These ...
Hard-drive makers see big run-ups on PC recovery hopes
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Investors willing to make early bets on the recovery of the PC sector have scored big with Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp. -- two makers of hard-disk drives that have seen their market values more than triple ...
Study: Unlicensed spectrum space worth $100 billion for wireless use
Sep 25, 2009 |
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A study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. estimates that the unlicensed "white spaces" spectrum coveted by the software giant and other technology companies could be worth more than $100 billion over the next 15 years.
Eminem publisher takes Apple to court over rights
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An attorney for Apple Inc. defended the company's use of Eminem's songs on iTunes in court on Thursday, as a trial got under way to determine who had the right to offer digital downloads of the rapper's ...
Taming the vast -- and growing -- digital data-sphere
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind ...
