Monthly Archives: June 2009

  Picturing America exhibit runs from June 23 to July 6 at the expansive Atrium of The Block at SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Metromanila. The exhibit will later move to Baguio City on July 9-22 and to Cagayan de Oro City from July 25 to August 13. US Ambassador to the Philippines …

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The new HP Photosmart Premium all-in-one inkjet printer is billed as the world’s first web-connected home printer, with a TouchSmart Web control panel and a generous 4-33-inch touchscreen display through which users can download and interact with applications from the HP Apps Studio that allow a variety of web content to be printed. Partners offering …

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Kodak is saying goodbye to its venerable Kodachrome color film after 74 years of iconic service. Since 1935, Kodachrome has been creating Kodak moments for families and professional photographers and over the decades it has become the film of choice for a number of great photographers who worked for magazines like Life and National Geographic. …

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Sigma’s new 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM is now available in Sony and Pentax mounts, priced at $800 US. This lens incorporates a Hybrid Optical Stabilization system which allows photographers to use the lens’ OS function even if the camera has a built in anti-shake system. If the photographer chooses to use the lens’ OS …

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Transcend USA has released its latest ultra-speed SSD25D Solid State Drive, a 2.5″ SATA II SSD equipped with 64MB of built-in DRAM cache. Transcend claims the SSD25D far outperforms standard 2.5″ hard drives by delivering sustained transfer speeds of up to 230MB/s read and 180MB/s write. The company said a computer equipped with a Transcend …

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Seagate has introduced its 640GB FreeAgent Go portable drive, along with smaller-capacity drives in 250GB, 320GB, and 500GB. This is one of the first 2.5-inch external drives that go beyond 500GB capacity. The FreeAgent Go series boast a a convenient desktop dock accessory that lets the user pop his drive into the dock – no …

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Tamron has a new lens, the SP AF60mm F/2 Di II LD (IF) MACRO 1:1 (Model G005), a life-size macro lens designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras with APS-C size image sensors. The new lens offers a fast maximum aperture of F/2.0 and is available in mounts for Canon, Nikon (with built-in AF motor) and …

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Flip Video’s on-board FlipShare software now gives users the ability to publish personal video channels online with Flip Channels, in addition to easy uploading to popular sites like MySpace and YouTube, and one-click private video emailing capabilities. The company said the new Flip Channels feature enables users to easily share their favorite Flip content with …

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Western Digital has begun shipping its new SiliconDrive III SSD drives based on technology from its March 2009 acquisition of SiliconSystems. The company said their new SiliconDrive III products feature faster read/write speeds and increased capacities, and offer mechanical scalability, making them a perfect storage solution for embedded system and data streaming applications such as …

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