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Bandwidth shaping is how ISP’s (your Internet service provider) throttle down on the bandwidth of your Internet connection whenever there’s a need for it. But they keep it as low profile as possible, of course. This policy is hidden in the innermost sanctum of their corporate closets. They justify it thus: bandwidth hogs (you know …
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The Nettuno Mega PX video surveillance camera, made by Cieffe, has been awarded “Overall Best CCTV Product of 2007” and “Best of the Best” among more than 1,000 contenders at the IFSEC 2007 Security Industry Innovation Awards. The Nettuno Mega PX is driven by Texas Iinstrument’s TMS320DM642 digital media processor, a scalable, programmable digital signal …
Light Crafts has released LightZone 3.0.5, updating its intuitive image editing software based on the Zone System. The new version adds support for the RAW files from Kodak P712, Nikon D40x, Olympus SP-550UZ and Samsung GX10 cameras. The update also fixes the problem with some Sony Raw photos opened with the wrong dimensions, and, if …
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Other World Computing (OWC) has released to the market their 7200RPM Mercury On-The-Go 200GB portable hard drive, touting 50% faster performance and 25% higher capacity. The new 2.5†portable HDD connects via FireWire 800/400, USB2, and eSATA interfaces and is built on the latest Hitachi 7K200 mechanism with OWC’s custom Oxford924 bridge interface. The new …
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Germany’s venerable camera maker Voigtlaender has announced the 10-megapixel Virtus D10.0 digital camera, offering an optical viewfinder with diopter correction, a remarkable feature for a compact digicam. The Virtus D10.0 has a 2.5-inch LTPS TFT-LCD display and offers a pretty standard 3x optical zoom. It has 32MB of internal memory and supports SD/SDHC storage cards …
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SanDisk says its 4GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card is now available for $100. The 4GB M2 is compatible with Sony Ericsson’s latest generation of slim line, multimedia mobile handsets such as the Cyber-shot and Walkman series. It’s quite tiny; the M2 measures 0.59 x 0.49 x 0.05 in. high, or 15 x 12.5 x …
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SanDisk is now sampling 6GB and 8GB microSD High Capacity flash memory cards to major phone manufacturers and mobile network operators for testing and evaluation. SanDisk said the new cards are ideal for the growing number of feature-rich multimedia handsets such as phones, music players, hand-held computers and digital cameras. An 8GB microSDHC card can …
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Pentax has tweaked its successful entry-level K100D DSLR, added features found in more advanced models and called it the “K100D Super.†The K100D Super, announced today, builds on the popular Pentax K100D digital SLR camera that first shipped in July 2006. The newest member of the Pentax K Series of digital SLRs now features the …
The AgfaPhoto AF 5070M digital photo frame incorporates a 128MB embedded memory so you don’t have to leave your flash drive in its USB port. Plus, it features a built-in 3-in-1 memory card reader that accepts cards in the SD, MMC and Memory Stick formats. The AF 5070M comes in an attractive brushed aluminum frame …
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DxO Optics Pro 4.5 is now available featuring an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom plug-in, the ability to export images directly to Flickr, automatic cropping and a significant speed gain when using the computer’s video card. While remaining as a stand-alone application, DxO Optics Pro 4.5 now integrates with Lightroom as a plug-in, so that users can …