I do not claim to be a hardcore photographer (Mainly because I do not have the skills nor the cash), but being an enthusiast at heart, I still have some pretty decent equipment kicking around the house. A few years ago, one girl saw me shooting with my Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM telephoto lens. "That looks like a crappy camera," she remarked, as she continued on with her Panasonic point and shoot. For at least a minute, with about $3000 of...
From EETimes: Europe's newly-minted 5GPPP Association plans to launch as many as 20 research projects in 2014, open to all comers, with a total budget of about 250 million euros. The ambitious effort, described in an interview with the new group's chairperson, is one of a handful of collaborations...
From PC World: Apple has been fined NT$20 million (US$663,332) by the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission for interfering with the pricing of the iPhone by three mobile carriers, according to reports.
The antitrust agency found Apple’s unit in charge of Taiwan sales violated article 18 of the Taiwan’s...
From DailyTech: Seemingly out of nowhere Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Chrome OS -- a Linux-kernel based personal computer operating system -- has emerged as a dominant force in the PC market.
According to market share data from the NPD Group Inc. -- a top market research group -- this year has been a rough...
From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp.’s code-named Maxwell graphics architecture has been discussed by the company for several years now and it is expected that it will debut sometime in April or March, 2014, around two years after the company unveiled its Kepler architecture. However, there are signs that...
When it comes to sequels and continuations, they usually go to one extreme or the other when it comes to quality. At times, you will see sequels that get praise and acclaim greater than the original, and other times you will see sequels that are said to not even deserving to be named after the original. For me, this is one of those statements I look at almost on a regular basis when it comes to both my personal life and my professional life. For...
From Maximum PC: Intel doesn't yet offer an 8-core processor for consumer desktop applications, but by the end of the year, that's going to change. The world's largest semiconductor company, despite being motivated to aggressively compete in the mobile market, is said to be readying the launch of 8...
From CNET News.com: Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has fined Apple 20 million New Taiwan dollars -- about $666,000 -- after determining the company has been illegally interfering with iPhone pricing in the country, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The commission found that Apple was...
From ComputerWorld: "A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all," Edward Snowden warned Wednesday in a message broadcast to U.K. television viewers.
"They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought," said Snowden...
From CNET News.com: Mike Lazaridis, a BlackBerry co-founder and former co-CEO, has officially ditched his plans to acquire the company through a joint bid with a fellow co-founder.
In dissolving the plan, Lazaridis' stake in the sagging company is now 4.99 percent.
Lazaridis made his decision...
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