Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 1 views
Samsung’s latest compact camera - leaked ahead of an official announcement at CES in January - brings WiFi support. Details have leaked of a new Samsung compact digital camera due for official launch at CES 2010, and it’s packed with cool features. The CL80 appears, at first glance, to be nothing more than a traditional - if pretty high specification - compact digital camera, with 7x optical zoom, 14 megapixel CCD sensor, and hardware image stabilisation to keep the images crisp and smart. The screen adorning the rear is pretty crisp, too: the specifications promise a 3.7″ AMOLED touchscreen with haptic feedback, although this rear-filling display comes at the cost of a viewfinder. With support for ISO sensitivity of up to 4,800 - or 6,400 if you don’t mind dropping the sensor down to 3 megapixels - the camera is said to be capable of recording H.264 video at up to 720p, and come with an HDMI port for wowing the family with your holiday snaps on your big screen without needing a computer. Indeed, it’s this ethos - the ability to enjoy all the functions offered by a digital camera without ever needing to hook it up to a computer - that has driven the CL80’s most impressive feature: integrated 802.11g wireless connectivity. According to Electronista , which quotes a thread on the DPReview website quoting a hastily removed page on the Samsung website, the CL80 is due to introduce the ability to upload to sites including Flickr, Photobox, Picasa, and Facebook directly from the camera - providing you’re within range of a wireless access point, of course. While wireless cards have existed as add-ons for cameras for a while - the most famous of which is the Eye-Fi SD card - this marks one of the first digital cameras to include the technology on-board.
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Panasonic’s new power cell design promises up to 30 percent more capacity - but isn’t due for mass production until 2013. New battery technology from Panasonic holds the promise of future Lithium-Ion cells that can provide significantly more power than is currently possible. As reported over on Gizmodo , the company has announced a new 18650-type lithium ion power cell - so called owing to its 18mm diameter and 65mm height - which offers an industry leading capacity of 3.5Ah. As if this wasn’t good enough news, the company has also promised that a move to a silicon-based alloy for the negative electrode - in place of the currently used carbon - will allow the technology to stretch to 4.0Ah. Designed for use primarily in laptop battery packs, the high-capacity power cells will also likely find a home in electric and hybrid-power vehicles where their impressively high energy density will help to increase the range while decreasing the cost associated with such vehicles. With Panasonic’s current range of power cells offering 2.9Ah, the 4.0Ah promises a thirty percent boost in capacity - meaning increased longevity of about a third for lithium-ion powered devices including laptops and netbooks. As both improved power cell designs involve little more than an improved negative electrode composition, Panasonic’s latest cells promise full compatibility with existing lithium-ion systems - meaning that drop-in replacements for worn-out batteries are more than likely
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 0 views
Google Voice is great for voicemail and text transcription, call forwarding, and a bunch of other useful phone-related services, but it’s not a full VoIP solution like Skype . That could change in 2010, though, especially since Google acquired Gizmo5 , a company that develops technology for web-to-web and web-to-phone calls. Owning Gizmo5 doesn’t necessarily mean Google’s going to compete with Skype, but some recent quotes from a VP at Google suggest things may be headed in that direction. According to eWeek , a Google VP of Product Development, Bradley Horowitz, told the media that “voicemail transcription, inbox integration and threaded SMS are fantastic features, but we’re really just scratching the surface. Gizmo5 gives us talent and talent technology. … We want to make sure your communication is available to you irrespective of where you are at, what device you have in your pocket, etc.” With Gizmo5’s technology, Google’s brand name and huge userbase, will we be saying “Google Voice me” instead of “Skype me” by this time next year
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Is Google Voice going to be the next Skype?
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 0 views
As you can probably tell, I’m not as savvy when it comes to software — sure, I know my way around a computer, but it’s nothing like the prowess that Lee and Jay display here on Download Squad. You see… I’m a geek. Not a Mac nerd like Jay, or a security-Linux-OMG-netbook dweeb like Lee — I’m a geek . I get excited about the things people do with computers.
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Seb’s 10 greatest, geekiest and most awesome things of 2009
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