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18 August 2006
News: iTunes movie plans confirmed

Apple seems set to launch movie downloads through iTunes US – at least, if a senior movie company excutive can be believed.
17 August 2006
News: No plans to consolidate Yahoo Photos, Flickr

Yahoo may build links between Yahoo Photos and Flickr, though it has no plans to consolidate the photo-sharing services.
News: AMD fails to steal Intel's crown

AMD launched its Opteron line of processors for workstations and servers this week, but tests show the dual-processor model is still significantly less powerful than Intel's latest Xeon chip.
16 August 2006
News: Fraunhofer going after trademark violators

Technology from one of Germany's renowned Fraunhofer Institutes could help companies protect pictures of their products from being stolen by groups trying to promote cheap imitations.
11 August 2006
News: AOL takes on Flickr

AOL has begun publicly testing an upgrade of its AOL Pictures photo site that incorporates tagging, management and sharing features made popular by Yahoo's Flickr.
News: IEEE struggles with video Wi-Fi standard

A second draft of the proposed IEEE standard for 100+Mbps wireless LANs is being pushed back several months, with a vote on it likely for January 2007 instead of late autumn.
09 August 2006
News: Nikon announces latest D-SLR

Nikon has announced the impending arrival of its latest digital SLR camera, the D80.
07 August 2006
News: August's coolest gadgets revealed

After an unusually long rainy season, the skies are now blue in Japan and summer has arrived. Everyone is looking forward to several weeks of unbroken sunshine and hot temperatures but some people are already thinking about the autumn and the back-to-school season. Not the kids of course. I'm talking about the product planners at companies like Sony and Canon, who are busy preparing to put new camcorders on sale in time for the end of the holidays. There's also smartphones, and even smarter TVs on the way.
News: Sony pioneers digital photo GPS gadget

How about this for a cool little idea: Sony has developed a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit that can be used to add location information to digital pictures. The 9cm long GPS-CS1 unit is intended to be attached to a belt and worn throughout the day as pictures are being taken.
02 August 2006
News: Sony adds GPS to digital cameras

Sony will soon start selling a small GPS unit that can be used to add location information to digital pictures, the company said today.
31 July 2006
News: Enhanced video portal trialled by AOL

AOL will unveil a revamped video portal this week, the latest move by a major internet company to strengthen its position in this very competitive market.
26 July 2006
News: Two HD camcorders unveiled by Canon

Hot on the heels of high-definition models from Sony and Sanyo, Canon today unveiled two HD camcorders.
19 July 2006
News: Samsung to boost USB storage devices

iPods, handsets, USB flash drives and other gadgets stand to gain from a 8Gb NAND flash memory chip in mass production at Samsung's chip factories.
News: Sony aims high with AVCHD camcorders

Sony is expanding its line-up of high-definition camcorders to quickly transition its Japanese sales from standard-definition to HD, the company said today.
14 July 2006
News: New Fuji camera offers 'face detection'

Forget the background: the face is the focus of Fuji Photo's new FinePix S6000fd digital camera launched yesterday. The 6.3Mp camera prioritises focus and exposure for human faces, resulting in better group pictures and individual portraits, the company said.
News: Sony beats both Blu-ray and HD-DVD

Who needs Blu-ray or HD-DVD, laughs Sony, as it takes the wraps off its first high-definition camcorder compatible with the new AVCHD format.
07 July 2006
News: Radical battery recycling law approved

The European Parliament has signed off a radical law aimed at curbing pollution from used portable batteries, ending over two years of debate among European lawmakers.
06 July 2006
News: 'iPod-killer Xmas' planned by Microsoft?

Microsoft has made plans to release its iPod killer – which will be capable of playing music and video – by this Christmas, according to Bloomberg News.
28 June 2006
News: A picture is better than 1,000 words

Spam is again on the rise, led by a flood of junk images that spammers have crafted over the past few months to trick email filters, according to security vendors.
27 June 2006
News: Amateur clips the focus of Blinkx search engine

The popularity of user-generated video clips has led Blinkx to tweak its search engine towards finding this type of content.