Panasonic used the lead-in to the CP+ show to introduce even more Lumix point-and-shoot cameras past what it showed earlier in the month. The 20X, 24-480mm ZS20 as the flagship hopes to cure some of the problems of compact superzooms with a new internal structure and nano surface-coated lens that hope to cut back on […]
Intel today announced that its board of directors has promoted Mooly Eden and Richard Taylor to the position of senior vice president. The promotions recognize outstanding performance. Eden, 60, is senior vice president and was recently named president and general manager of Intel Israel. In this role, Eden is responsible for Intel Israel’s operations and […]
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Columbia Pictures, Happy Madison and Hasbro are in final talks to develop Candy Land, a live action movie based on the bestselling Hasbro board game with Adam Sandler attached to star, it was jointly announced today by Doug Belgrad, President of Columbia Pictures, Hannah Minghella, President of Production for Columbia Pictures, and Brian Goldner, Hasbro […]
Total Film magazine is featuring this new photo of Karl Urban as Dredd in its February issue. Opening in 3D and 2D theaters on September 21, the Peter Travis-directed adaptation also stars Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey. The Lionsgate release takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization […]
Stephen Amell has been cast as the Green Arrow. Amell, whose credits also include episodes of Private Practice and the CW’s The Vampire Diaries. He will play the playboy, Oliver Queen – a 27 year old reformed bad boy, who after having spent five years shipwrecked on a tiny, brutally dangerous island in the South […]
AMD today unveiled the Radeon HD 7950. It trims back slightly from the range-leading 7970 with 1,792 visual processing cores instead of 2,048, 112 texture units instead of 128, and both 800MHz core and 1.25GHz memory clock speeds versus the 925MHz and 1.38GHz of its counterpart. The chipset is still powerful enough to handle 4K […]
Higher-than-expected sales of the iPhone 4S along with rumors of an all-metal body for the next iPhone has sent shares of Foxconn Technology Company to their highest level in more than five months on the Taipei stock exchange. While the company makes nearly 50 percent of all the world’s high-tech electronics, its fortunes are closely […]
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ARM benefited from the surge in mobile Tuesday after it saw fall revenue surge 34 percent to the equivalent of $217 million. It credited the gain both to getting more royalties from existing deals as well as to having customers licensing ARM for the first time. Its profits were also up 47 percent. The successes […]
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The European Union continues its battle against high operators and their high roaming rates. The new measures, headed up by German politician Angelika Niebler, are calling for even steeper reductions, Reuters found. Compared to the reductions outlined last year by European Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who called for a one-minute call costing 24 cents when abroad […]
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Mozilla has released finished versions of Firefox 10 for both Windows and Macs this week. Changes, according to the release notes, include a Forward navigation button that doesn’t show up until users hit the Back button first, included APIs for viewing web apps in full-screen mode, and anti-aliasing for WebGL graphics. Likewise new is an […]