Toshiba Announces the New Waterproof Camileo BW10, the Latest Addition to its Camileo Full HD Series (23/08/2010)

Toshiba today announced a new addition to its line of HD camcorder, the Camileo BW10. The Full HD waterproof Camileo BW10 is designed for active sports fans, adventure travelers and families who want to capture their memories in high definition. Available in two funky colours, Sporty Yellow and Cool Silver, the Camileo BW10 is easy to use, making it suitable anyone who wants minimum fuss, maximum fun.

It’s a breeze to record underwater, as the Camileo BW10 is waterproof up to two meters, and its rubber casing also protects the camcorder from dust and sand, making the Camileo BW10 an ideal companion for shooting on the beach. This compact, bar type camcorder is very lightweight at 114g and fits easily into a small pocket, making it handy for spontaneous recording.
The Camileo BW10 offers Full HD resolution (1080p/30fps1), video stabilization and doubles up as a 5 megapixel digital still camera with 10x digital zoom. Two dedicated buttons let users easily switch between video and photo modes. The Camileo BW10’s integrated face detector allows users to take portraits by automatically enhancing colors and exposure of up to twelve faces in the picture.
Furthermore, the maximum sensitivity of ISO 1600 enables the camcorder to record great shots, even in unfavourable ambient light conditions. The trendy and compact Camileo BW10 displays video clips and photos on a 2.0” LCD screen and saves content on SD/SDHC cards (up to 64GB).

New Dual-Core Intel Atom Netbooks Hit Shelves Today (23/08/2010)

Intel Corporation announced today a dozen of new netbooks based on its new, mobile dual-core Intel Atom processors are available in stores today. The netbooks - available now from manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba - enable new levels of support for applications like game, as well as Adobe Flash technology for access to a number of web pages including online hotel booking systems and multimedia sites such as YouTube and Hulu.

Currently, about eight million netbooks are being shipped per quarter. Intel expects this number to grow as major computer makers add new models.
With the dual-core Intel Atom processor N550, consumers can enjoy Internet access on the go with more responsive experience in the same compact form factor, with DDR3 memory support and similar great battery life as the single-core Intel Atom processor N450. New netbooks based on dual-core Atom chips arrive in stores today and are available at a variety of consumer-friendly price points. For more information, visit http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/index.htm

Intel Buys McAffee for US$7.7b (20/08/2010)

Intel's purchase of McAffee for over $7.7billion may seem a little puzzling, as it's quite outside of Intel's core business of processors. But if you look at the security side of things, it does mean that Intel may be able to deeply integrate security solutions for even better protection. On the other hand, it is quite possibleew that all new Intel computers may come with bundled McAffee software that you may have to uninstall manually.

Full story here.

Facebook Going Places with Location Updates

Facebook has announced a new feature. Similar to Foursquare and Gowalla, the new Places service lets you check in at locations using the iPhone Facebook app and announce to your friends where you are. It's only available in the United States at the moment but there are plans to make it available to more countries and on additional mobile platforms soon.

Read more about it on the New York Times, and the official Facebook blog.

Canon Unveils New Touch System Printers (19/08/2010)

Canon unveiled seven new addition to their PIXMA inkjet printer series, including two printers with a new touch system interface.

 

Canon Unveils New Touch System Printers

The PIXMA MG6170 and MG8170 AIO (All-In-One) inkjet printers feature capacitive touch-sensitive panels which light up in response to touch and switch off when dormant, leaving the surface of the printers flat and mostly free of physical buttons.
Besides what Canon calls the Intelligent Touch System, the new printers also offer HD Movie Printing which lets you print single frames from video shot with Canon digital compacts and DSLRs using the bundled software. A Flickr Integration Photo Print feature lets you search for images from Flickr within the app and print directly through your printer (during the demo it was shown that you can search for specific licenses to avoid copyright conflicts).
Release of the new models is expected in end September, while prices are to be announced.

The Canon PIXMA MG6170 AIO inkjet printer.

The PIXMA MG8170 is Canon's newest flagship inkjet AIO for the home and office.