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Apple Event Preview Round-up

Last week we speculated what Apple would reveal at its event today but things have evolved, as they will do in the swirling primordial rumor-soup of the tech world, so we've summarized the latest thinking for you: iPods With ...READ»

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Eight Days to Go: Apple Event Rumor Round-Up

Next week Wednesday is when Apple will host its traditional iPod media event. At least, that's what everyone's assuming from the "It's Only Rock'N'Roll, But We Like It" tagline Apple chose. As usual there's a bunch of swirling rumors, ...READ»

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Leica's New Camera Unveiling on Collision Course With iPods

Leica's just announced via a YouTube video that it will introduce new Leica cameras on September 9. As if that PR maneuver wasn't confusing enough, get this: Leica's event is scheduled for the same day as Apple's iPod launch gig. ...READ»

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Apple Keynote in Early September: What the Heck Is It For?

The Internets are a-swirling this morning with speculation and rumor, all thanks to news that Apple called a keynote presentation for the week of September 7. "What's it for?" everyone's wondering. Here's what we think. New iPods ...READ»

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Nikon's S1000pj Digicam With Picoprojector: Convergence Gone Mad?

Nikon's just pulled the official wrapper off its S1000pj Coolpix digital camera, and it's a real mutant hybrid: A standard point-and-shooter, but with a picoprojector riding shotgun. Is this device convergence gone mad? The ...READ»

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Nikon's D300s Video DSLR Makes Us Wonder, What's Next for Cameras?

Nikon just refreshed its D300 digital SLR camera into the D300s, with 720p video-shooting powers, a quieter shutter and in-video auto-focus. It's neat and all, but it has us wondering where else can next-gen DLSRs go? The D300s is ...READ»

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Well, That's the End of Flip: iPods to Get Cameras

There's no hard news on the actual devices themselves yet, but a bunch of Chinese protective cases for the next-gen iPod Touch and Nano reveal they're both getting digital camera units. And that, basically, is the end of the line for ...READ»

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LEGO's Block-Inspired Electronics Are Ready to Be Snapped Up This Fall

LEGO has teamed with electronics designer Digital Blue to create a line of LEGO-inspired consumer electronics for creative kids and nostalgic adults alike. Announced earlier this year, the final product will be available this fall, ...READ»

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Casio's 5-Megapixel Exilim Cameraphone Is Army-Tough

Casio just released a cameraphone that's likely to dodge the criticisms we've leveled at other camera/phone convergence devices. That's because rather than pointlessly add high megapixels to it, Casio put some really good stuff ...READ»

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Sony's Alpha DSLRs: New Outside, Old Inside

Sony's entry into the DLSR market with the Alpha camera range has been pretty well accepted. So the tech maker went back to the lab to tweak its lineup with new units--though, perhaps, this should be called an along-grade ...READ»

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Samsung Predicts a Smartphone, OLED and Touchscreen-Rich Future

Samsung, with its suite of successful smartphones, is in a better position than most mobile phone makers to know about the future of the devices--and it's betting that in just three years 29% of all cellphones sold will be smart ...READ»

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Cisco Buys Flip Video Cam Maker for $590 Million

Cisco Systems, most commonly associated with business technology infrastructure and networking hardware, is using a chunk of its massive cash reserves to buy Pure Digital Technologies--creators of the highly popular Flip range of ...READ»

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Samsung Gets Compact Cameras Right: With a DSLR's Sensor

I've railed against the pointless war for more megapixels in digital cameras before: photography is about how best to capture light and including more densely-packed, tinier pixels just doesn't make sense. It seems that someone in ...READ»

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Samsung's TL320 Digital Camera Sports Analog Dials For Retro Chic

It's the run-up to photography tradeshow PMA 2009, so we can expect a pile of new digital camera news: Standing out among the new releases today is Samsung's TL320. It's a point-and-shoot compact device, much like many others, but ...READ»

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Samsung Brings 720p Shooting to Cellphones

Samsung's Omnia HD, rolled out at Mobile World Congress, brings one fantastic new feature to the world of cellphone video-making: It shoots in 720p high-definition. And that's a first, and a welcome one at that--if only because it ...READ»

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Sony Joins the 12-Megapixel Cameraphone Bandwagon

Samsung's 12-megapixel camera-equipped smartphone was supposedly the only bloated-sensor cellphone rumored before Mobile World Congress, but it looks like Sony Ericsson wants to join the party too. It just unveiled the Idou, which ...READ»

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Casio Squeezes Ultra-High-Speed Shooting into Compact Cameras

Casio's Exilim EX-F1 caused a huge stir when it launched last year--the prosumer camera was the first to bring ultra-high-speed photography, the kind you see used in beautiful slo-mos in nature documentaries and the like, to the ...READ»

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Modu Modular Phone To Show its Tricks At MWC Tradeshow

The Modu, with its extremely lateral-thinking approach to cellphone design, created something of an Internet sensation when its maker revealed plans for a modular cellphone last year. And now, 12 months later, it looks like the device ...READ»

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FinePix F200 Camera Goes For Quality Not Quantity of Megapixels

Though the megapixel war in consumer digital cameras has calmed down since its hectic early days, it still rolls on with each new device sporting yet more sensing pixels. But Fujifilm has finally done the right thing: Its new Finepix ...READ»

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Panasonic's New Lumix Cameras Herald Orwellian Photo Future

Panasonic's adding four new compact cameras to its already extensive Lumix digital camera range. But these are no ordinary point-and-shoots, because they sneer at mere face recognition technology, and instead offer face ...READ»

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Sony's Webbie Pocket Camcorders Ace Flip's MinoHD

Camcorders are moving in two directions at the moment: Bigger more traditional ones are recording to large solid-state drives, while the cheap pocket "youTube" camcorder is getting better video quality. Sony's latest offerings slide ...READ»

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Snapture Gizmo Adds Proper Xenon Flash To iPhone

One of the iPhone's few weak spots is its camera: fixed-focus, just 2-megapixels and no flash. But that's where the Snapture gizmo comes in.It's a case-like sleeve for the iPhone 3G that incorporates a real--if slightly ...READ»

FujiFilm Announces Oddly Intimate Camera

With a name like the Finepix "Glam Cam," FujiFilm's [NASDAQ:FUJI] new digicam smelled like mischief from a mile away. The Z200fd, as it's known by day, looks from the outside like any other ultra-slim, pocket-friendly ...READ»

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