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BenQ announced the release of a new digital camera lineup in its S-series today with the 14 Mega-pixels S1430. The stylish S1430 in “Caramel Gold” is designed for the young adults who want to own a camera that has creative shooting modes that does wonders to their images for them so they can share their precious life moments with their friends and family. With 5x optical zoom and 3″ 460k-pixel LCD screen with auto brightness trhe camera offers exceptional colour and contrast…

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TOKYO, May 20, 2011 – Casio Computer Co., Ltd., today announced the release of the exciting new EXILIM EX-Z3000, a compact Body with 8x Optical Zoom and HDR-ART for Producing Original Artistic Images Right on the Camera . The new camera has an effective resolution of 16.1-megapixels and boasts Casio’s large, super-clear LCD touch screen that enables users to take photos and then view them just by touching the screen…

Retouching photos has come a long way from cumbersome work in the darkroom to automated photo manipulation in Adobe’s Photoshop or even within the camera itself. Red-eye correction, smile and blink detection are among the common functions found in today’s digital cameras. Several of these functions have roots in the research work at GRAIL, the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory of the University of Washington. Who knows what the latest rearch work of the Photobios project will bring to future digital cameras…

Greg Wyman, Asia Pacific vice president of StorageCraft, shares with us his best trip experience in Nepal, a near-fatal travel disaster and what tech he can’t leave home without.

The smallest Range Rover ever has a 380W Meridian sound system, voice recognition and DVD playback. Four-wheel drive is standard, for the moment.

Axis introduces a fixed network camera based on the Lightfinder technology. The new Axis Q1602 cameras are the perfect solutions for indoor and outdoor surveillance in low-light conditions, especially when you want color information in the video to enhance recognition and identification of objects. Lightfinder makes the cameras highly sensitive to low light, effectively allowing the camera to ‘see’ even in dark conditions and allows the cameras to maintain focus during daylight and infrared light The cameras will be available in the third quarter…

Tourism operators must refine the way they use social media and stop using it to dump masses of content on potential customers, an expert said.

Navigating the many unknown perils of the End of Days can be tricky, but lucky there’s an app for that (or 10). We check out the best Android apps to keep you alive as long as is humanly possible.

Optus has opened pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S II, making it Australia’s first, but not last, telco to announce the handset as part of its range.