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• 02 April 2013

• News: Watch offbeat movies, TV shows via Warner Bros.' new online-streaming service

  Warner Bros. is experimenting with an online video-streaming service, but don't expect to use it to view recent WB titles like The Dark Knight Rises or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

• News: Hand on with the Slingbox 500's new SlingSync feature

  Owners of Sling Media's top-of-the-line Slingbox 500 can now use their place-shifting set-top box to enjoy media from their smartphone on their HDTV.

• 01 April 2013

• News: Aereo's streaming TV service avoids ban, as trial looms

  Aereo, a service that streams live broadcast television online, just scored a big win against the major TV networks.

• News: Appeals court says Aereo streaming TV service doesn't infringe

  Streaming television service Aereo does not appear to infringe the copyrights of over-the-air TV stations, and a request from several stations to shut down the New York-based service isn't warranted, an appeals court has ruled.

• 30 March 2013

• News: Panasonic's Micro Color Splitter could double the brightness of color photos

  If there's anything photographers ask for, it's for more light. The folks at Panasonic have heard these cries and say that the company could be on its way to developing a new sensor technology that doubles the brightness of color photography.

• 29 March 2013

• News: Vine moves beyond Twitter with new embed feature

  Vine's branching out. Videos made with the trendy Twitter-owned mobile app can now be posted anywhere on the Web.

• News: With S-Translator, Samsung aims to reach an old industry goal in real time

  The Samsung Galaxy S4 will be shipping in 155 countries by the end of next month, and its real-time voice translation to help people communicate across borders may be one of its most ambitious features.

• 27 March 2013

• News: AMD provides a sneak peek at its Radeon HD 7990

  AMD took the wraps off a new high-end reference-design videocard at the end of the company's GDC press briefing Tuesday night: The dual-GPU Radeon 7990.

• 26 March 2013

• News: Spotify plans to become an on-demand TV network

  Spotify: free music streamer, procrastination enabler, and soundtrack to household chores around the world may soon become much much more. The service is reportedly toying with the idea of offering original video content.

• 22 March 2013

• News: Fuji announces two new hobbyist cameras

  Fujifilm North America has released a pair of fixed lens Wi-Fi-enabled cameras--one is a DSLR-like long-zoom and the other is a rugged model for outdoor shooting. The new FinePix S8400W compact point and shoot features a 44x optical long zoom and updated CMOS sensor. The FinePix XP200, the latest addition to the company's rugged XP Series, features a reinforced 5x lens, and is waterproof, shockproof, freezeproof, and dustproof.

• News: AMD's newly-announced Radeon HD 7790 guns for the budget 1080p gaming crown

  Last month's release of Nvidia's Titan graphics card--the most powerful consumer GPU ever announced--may have inspired uncontrollable drooling among the enthusiast crowd, but at a cool $1000, the card simply isn't priced to move. AMD's latest release takes a different tack. Today, the company announced the Radeon HD 7790 series graphics card, a $150 mid-range GPU designed to bring better 1080p gaming to the masses.

• News: Snapshot: Canon EOS 100D digital SLR

  The trend these days in digital cameras is smaller, smaller, smaller -- abandoning the tried-and-true formula of a digital SLR’s optical viewfinder and mirror box for a ‘mirrorless’ system that relies on an electronic read-out of what the camera’s seeing. This is what you get in cameras like the Canon EOS M, the Nikon COOLPIX A, and the Panasonic LUMIX GF5. The new Canon EOS 100D bucks that trend.

• 21 March 2013

• News: Canon launches 'world's smallest' digital SLR, the EOS 100D

  Also launches the EOS 700D, an upgrade to the EOS 650D.

• News: Canon launches compact, super-light DSLR

  Canon's Rebel line of DSLRs will soon host a sleeker, smaller, thinner model: the Canon EOS Rebel SL1--SL for Super Lightweight. This new camera, designed for entry level shooters as a step up from a point and shoot or camera phone, has the same traditional DSLR technology as the company's other Rebel cameras, but in a dimunitive body. It is Canon's answer to the compact interchangeable lens revolution that has rocked the camera world over the last couple of years.

• News: Canon to launch world's smallest digital SLR camera

  Canon will soon launch what it is calling the world's smallest digital single-lens camera, with a body that weighs just over 370 grams and featuring an 18-megapixel image sensor.

• 20 March 2013

• News: Five tips to help you choose a new camera lens

  Your camera lens has much to do with how you capture the world. So when it's time to add a new optic to your kit, how do you decide which one?

• News: Sky Sports arrives on Now TV streaming service

  Sky has brought its Sky Sports package to its Now TV internet streaming service.

• 19 March 2013

• News: ABC may offer live streaming apps, but not for cord cutters

  ABC is reportedly planning a mobile app for live, streaming television in an attempt to keep cable and satellite TV subscribers from jumping ship.

• News: Apple TV 5.2.1 brings redesigned Hulu Plus app, security fixes

  Hulu Plus lovers, rejoice: Apple's Apple TV 5.2.1 software update, released on Tuesday, brings a redesigned interface for the premium TV and movie streaming service. The update also patches a number of bugs involving the execution of unsigned code and security holes in the Apple TV's kernel.

• News: Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch resigns to work at Apple

  Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple, a one-time close partner of Adobe that became the most vociferous critic of its Flash technology.

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