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SD revamp to triple flash card speeds in 2012

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

The SD Card Association is working on a revision to its widely used flash memory card technology that should nearly triple the data-transfer speeds of mainstream SDHC and larger-capacity SDXC cards.

Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy Tab at IFA 2010 in Berlin hasn’t come as much of a surprise, but now we have official specifications and pictures.

Chrome usage creeps up on Microsoft

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Internet Explorer’s growth slowed once again, and Chrome shook off its slump in August, new statistics show.

SanDisk tests super-small SSDs

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Solid-state drives (SSDs), the flash memory devices that can replace traditional hard drives, are taking a step away from their roots.

Inside Chrome 6

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Want the ability to print preview in Chrome? You’ll have to wait, because it’s one of the features that didn’t make the Chrome 6 cut.

iPhone 4 antenna: Jobs knew

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

As sources predict there will be no iPhone 4 recall, it has been revealed that knowledge of problems with the iPhone 4 antenna went to the highest level at Apple: chief executive Steve Jobs, according to a Bloomberg report yesterday.

Inside the Large Hadron Collider

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The Large Hadron Collider is a marvel of both brute-force and sophisticated engineering.

Apple’s Jobs slams Adobe in letter

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

In a rare open letter published on Thursday, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has detailed the technological reasons behind his company’s refusal to let Adobe Systems’ Flash Player onto the iPhone: he thinks it’s a relic, not the future.

Google Maps gets 3D view of the world

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Google has augmented Google Maps with a feature called Earth view that brings the Google Earth software’s 3D perspective to the web browser.

iPhone hacked to run Android

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

David Wang, the “planetbeing” member of a group called the iPhone Dev Team devoted to hacking iPhones, on Wednesday posted a video demonstrating Android on an iPhone.

Adobe releases Lightroom 2.7: what’s next?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Adobe Systems released Lightroom 2.7 for Windows and Mac, adding support for RAW images from an expected range of newer cameras: Canon’s EOS 550D, Sony’s Alpha A450, Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-G2 and G10, Olympus’ E-PL1, and some medium-format models from Leaf and Mamiya.

Photoshop CS5 tries advancing photo frontier

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Photoshop CS5 brings a number of high-profile features for photographers, artists and the broader designer market that uses the software.

Pulse: Adobe tests new Canon, Olympus raw support

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Release candidates for Lightroom 2.7 and Photoshop Camera Raw 5.7 test support for Canon’s 550D, Olympus’ E-PL1, and Panasonic’s G2 and G10, among others.

Judging phone camera quality: help is on the way

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The International Imaging Industry Association is working on a test that will use a five-star rating and a basic accompanying chart to judge image quality of mobile phone cameras.

Adobe’s Lightroom beta arrives

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Adobe has released a new beta for Lightroom, with support for video, camera tethering and a number of other features.

Pulse: Photoshop, a software industry fixture, turns 20

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Adobe Systems’ image-editing software is ubiquitous enough to become a verb. But as Photoshop exits its teens, it faces some new challenges.

Google working on Chrome OS tablet

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Not content to let Apple hold the limelight with its tablet computer, Google has shown concepts of its own touchscreen web device.

Hyundai Blue-Will plug-in hybrid concept

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

While everyone’s been losing market share, Hyundai’s been busy making great strides up the US sales charts and now has its sights firmly set on Toyota, as this plug-in hybrid concept car testifies.

Google Goggles lets you search by sight

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Google’s latest search innovation lets you perform an internet search by submitting a photograph.

Next Firefox can detect computer orientation

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you’re listing to starboard - and pass that information along to applications running in the browser.