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RSS 3DWindows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to question marks over open source cost-cutting and the countdown to the launch of Windows 7, which began shipping... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens
Photo Last week saw Sony unveil its new range of Vaio PCs - launched to coincide with the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system on 22 October. The X Series mini-laptop, shown here, is one of the lightest in the world, according to... [14 Oct 2009]
Avatars made to wear a suit to work as the style police arrive
News While workers might create outlandish avatars to escape the restraints and monotony of their everyday lives, this may soon become a thing of the past as they are forced to dress their avatars appropriately for work and adhere to a code... [09 Oct 2009]
Windows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads toward its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its likely successor. You may groan but work on Windows 8, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has referred to it, is already... [08 Oct 2009]
RSA Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce: Building a Secure Framework for eCommerce
White Paper RSA Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce provides the framework for financial institutions building cardholder protection and fraud management tools in the online shopping environment. Based on the 3D secure protocol... [05 Oct 2009]
VSTEP Implements Sentinel Hardware Keys to Protect Software
White Paper VSTEP is the leading European developer of simulators and virtual training software. Using interactive 3D technology from the computer gaming industry, the company creates training applications and games that allow... [01 Oct 2009]
James Cameron
AS Profile While Titanic and Terminator director James Cameron might not have some of the obvious technology credentials of others who feature on the Agenda Setters list, his latest cinematic effort has earned him a place on the list. [29 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News Intel may not have attained the same dominance in TVs as it has in personal computers, but the company remains convinced that interactive, networked, computing-intensive tasks will win the company a foothold in the world of video. [28 Sep 2009]
HP video conferencing and collaboration tools reach for the sky
News Looking to take advantage of tightened corporate travel budgets, HP has showed off the latest tech to come out of its labs, called Skyroom. Unveiled together with Intel at the start of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Skyroom... [23 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo BT has opened a new high street shop to promote fibre broadband in London's Muswell Hill - the location for one of its two fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) pilots, along with Whitchurch in South Wales. Residents of London's N10 district are... [17 Sep 2009]
Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Cinematic Effects From Stills
White Paper This paper presents an approach to convert a small portion of a light field with extracted depth information into a cinematic effect with simulated, smooth camera motion that exhibits a sense of 3D parallax. [16 Sep 2009]
Improving Depth Perception With Motion Parallax and Its Application in Teleconferencing
White Paper Depth perception, or 3D perception, can add a lot to the feeling of immersiveness in many applications such as 3D TV, 3D teleconferencing, etc. Stereopsis and motion parallax are two of... [16 Sep 2009]
Piecewise Planar Stereo for Image-Based Rendering
White Paper This paper presents a novel multi-view stereo method designed for image-based rendering that generates piecewise planar depth maps from an unordered collection of photographs. First a discrete set of 3D plane candidates... [16 Sep 2009]
iPod Touch, Nano get costume change and price drop
News Apple on Wednesday unveiled a refreshed line-up of iPods, as well as new iTunes, and iPhone/iPod Touch system software at an invite-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. While there were no tablet computers,... [10 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News The era in which virtualisation directly affects ordinary people, not just those responsible for corporate datacentres, is on its way. The company in the forefront of the technology, VMware, an EMC subsidiary, drew 12,488 people to its... [04 Sep 2009]
