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Trends & Innovations - Friday
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Investor's Business Daily - A new service called My Mobile Witness lets users turn their camera phones into personal protection tools. The service is designed to help users when they are in a situation that has them on edge, such as letting strangers into their homes. Users take a photo of that person with their phone and send it to My Mobile Witness. The free service gives the message a time stamp and stores it in its digital vault. If a user ends up getting into trouble, the service gives police access to the message. Owners of a real estate firm developed the service after they got worried about their agents' safety.
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CEA Predicts 'Okay' Holiday Tech Spending
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PC Magazine - With the economy tanking, credit limits shrinking, and 401(k)'s dwindling, will consumers tighten their belts this holiday season when it comes to digital cameras, MP3 players, video games, and other gadgets? Probably not, the Consumer Electronics Association predicts.
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Fujifilm Announces 10-Megapixel Glam Cams
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PC Magazine - It's hard to believe that 10-megapixel resolution is available in point-and-shoot cameras. Fujifilm, however, has unveiled the geek-chic FinePix Z200fd, the newest model in the sleek, ultra-compact Z-series.
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Samsung bid for SanDisk shows memory market woes
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 AP - A $5.85 billion bid by Samsung Electronics Co. to take over SanDisk Corp., a wounded competitor that also serves as a partner, reflects the turbulence in the market for flash memory, a key ingredient in digital cameras, music players and other devices.
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Analysis: Solving Noise in High-Res Images
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PC Magazine - The PhotoPlus show in New York is around the corner, and Michael Miller is looking forward to checking out the new higher-resolution cameras. But more megapixels can also mean images can include a lot more visual noise. How do the professionals solve the problem? Miller explains.
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Google-Led Android May Shake Up Market
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Investor's Business Daily - Android enthusiasts have ferreted out and posted on the Web all manner of details on the phone. Based on information allegedly leaked by Android testers, and posted on Web sites such as AndroidGuys.com and AndroidCommunity.com, the phone is powered by a Qualcomm (NasdaqGS:QCOM - News) processor and has a qwerty keyboard that slides out from under the screen, a 3.1-megapixel camera, a 1-gigabyte memory card, a video player and a touch-screen.
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Reuters - Borrowing one of nature's best designs,
U.S. scientists have built an eye-shaped camera using standard
sensor materials and say it could improve the performance of
digital cameras and enhance imaging of the human body.
AP - Nintendo's hit DS portable machine will come with a digital camera that will allow players to mix images, scribble on photos and create new faces, the Japanese game maker said Thursday.