| Casio Exilim EX-Z700 Zoom Digital Camera
Casio Electronics , adds another digital camera to the popular series of Exilim zoom line-up. Casio, today unveiled its new behemoth of a model in Casio Exilim EX-Z700. This new model from Casio combines high resolution performance with stunning looks and its sleek design. The camera boasts of a whopping 7.2 MegaPixel point resolution and also comes with with a 3x Optical Zoom and large 2.7inch LCD screen. The highlight of the camera is the LCD, which is huge and makes for easy viewing even in day light with its 1200cd/m2 brightnes. The high resolution photography also ensures for a crystal clear image output, be it for screen or printing. The camera also backs a punch with its battery-life where in once can take 460 still images on a single charge. The EX-Z700 also comes with the incorporation of several other cuttig edge features, like the BEST SHOT modes and the Anti-shake DSP.
Xerox iGen3 Digital Presses Print Nearly 220,000 Color Documents ...
In its sixth year, the student design competition recognizes the world's most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers and computer artists. Adobe Systems worked with Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) commercial printing customer Toppan America to print customized "call for entries" materials - 11,000 posters and 207,000 postcards - in seven languages on Xerox Digital Color Elite Gloss coated paper, which is designed to provide the best image quality and performance on Xerox digital equipment. Seven versions of posters and postcards were distributed earlier this year to 2,800 design schools in 24 countries, including 1,100 schools in North America. Unlike traditional offset printing, digital printing can produce short runs and vary the content of the jobs.
Digital images at risk
A new survey from Symantec underlines the importance of back-up and security protection for computer users in the digital media age.
The survey examines the digital photography habits of 2,227 UK consumers. It reveals that 90 per cent of adults own a digital camera or camera phone. The survey also reveals that just 15 per cent of the UK population are heavy snappers, taking over 432 digital photos per person, per year - 3,916 million photos from just that 15 per cent of people.
The problem is back-up and security. 30 per cent of people would lose their digital photos/digital memories if their computer or camera were lost or damaged, as people are moving towards neither printing nor backing-up their photos. The survey results indicate that 77 per cent of users don't back-up their photographs, 30 per cent do not print any of them, whilst 42 per cent only print a quarter of their photos.
Microsoft patchs sparks Homeland Security alert
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Wednesday that a recently patched Microsoft Windows vulnerability could put the nation's critical infrastructure at risk. The patch, described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-040, relates to Windows Server services. It was one of 12 updates issued Tuesday, by the software giant, but security experts are particularly concerned with the bug because hackers have already exploited the vulnerability. The vulnerability is described here. Microsoft is advising customers to give this update priority, said Christopher Budd, a security program manager with Microsoft's security response center. "The top thing that we're trying to help people understand is we want them to take 06-040 and put it at the top of the stack," he said late Tuesday.
TSMC to spend $190 million on 8-in. fabs
During a board meeting, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) approved a capital spending plan of $190.1 million for the expansion of its 8-inch fab capacity. In a terse statement, silicon foundry giant TSMC said that the 8-inch fab capacity would be used to expand its 0.11-micron, three-dimensional (3D) one-time program process. The company would also expand its 0.18- and 0.15-micron processes, as well as 6- and 8-inch epitaxy process capacity. The company did not elaborate, but the expansion could be for SanDisk Corp.'s Matrix unit. On Wednesday, SanDisk, a supplier of storage card products based on NAND flash memory, is planning to develop a one-time programmable three-dimensional memory technology it acquired along with Matrix Semiconductor into a read-write memory.
Radisys offers $105 million for Convedia
Radisys Corp. said it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Convedia Corp. for $105 million in cash. The move helps Radisys (Hillsboro, Ore.) advance into IP multimedia subsystems with board-level competitors such as Continuous Computing and Emerson Network Power. Convedia, (Vancouver, B.C.) had expanded from media servers and voice-over-IP gateways to broader IMS platforms. Radisys, originally spun off from Intel Corp.'s Multibus-II operations, maintained a strong position in single-board computers for a variety of backplane formats, including Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture boards and the Advanced Mezzanine Cards used in MicroTCA. It had also moved into system-level telecom servers and support software, including the OS-9 operating environment acquired from Microware.
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