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RSS cameras in newsAugmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News This growth will be stoked by smartphones packing a range of high-end features - such as video cameras, GPS, compasses and accelerometers - which can be used in augmented reality apps. Today's increasingly... [26 Oct 2009]
Microsoft: Gesture recognition office 'not that far away'
News In one case, Mundie also used Natal-like depth cameras to put himself in the middle of an architectural demo, essentially putting himself inside a building that was not yet built. While gesture recognition, such as that... [31 Jul 2009]
Mobile WiMax won't win race to become 4G king
News According to Aldridge, mobile WiMax-equipped cameras provided significantly higher data rates - around 1.7Mbps, as opposed to 500-700Kbps - than 3G-connected alternatives. Mobile WiMax could serve a substantial niche... [23 Jul 2009]
Windows to open up to gesture recognition, says Gates
News In an interview with silicon.com sister site CNET News this week, Gates talked about a world in which depth-sensing cameras such as the one Microsoft is adding to the Xbox allow people to control their PCs, game devices... [15 Jul 2009]
2020: When the world and its toothbrush gets online
News We're talking about 50 billion connections, all devices will have connectivity - your cameras, your everything. Fifty billion connected devices are coming to cellular networks in the next decade, according to Ericsson -... [29 Jun 2009]
Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
News The BBC is using wireless video cameras which overlook different parts of the festival site to give web users a taste of the atmosphere at the event. The BBC is using the latest online technology to boost its coverage of... [25 Jun 2009]
Coming soon: Ads that know if you're male or female
News However, unlike the face-detection software found in digital cameras, the gender-recognition system can only detect faces that are facing the camera. However, Sony already has a similar technology for its Cyber-shot... [19 Jun 2009]
$99 iPhone announced at Apple's WWDC
News The video it takes is 30 frames per second at 640x480 VGA resolution, bringing it to spec with most point-and-shoot digital cameras. At Apple's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference on Monday, the company announced... [09 Jun 2009]
Rise of the machine-to-machines
News Specifically, Motorola is putting its homegrown wireless technology into embedded modules so that laptops, netbooks, digital cameras, and other devices can connect to the internet using 3G HSPA networks, as well as 4G... [02 Jun 2009]
Google Street View using pedal power for new UK maps
News This summer, Google will deploy bikes mounted with its 360-degree Street View cameras to map areas of the UK inaccessible by its fleet of Street View cars. To advance its Street View service this summer, Google is poised... [19 May 2009]
'Police drowning in CCTV data': Acpo
News The police cannot deal with the amount of information generated by CCTV cameras, according to the director of information for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo). The worry for me is that a child is kidnapped... [18 May 2009]
Leopard purrs as Apple updates security
News Among the hardware support enhancements is additional RAW image support for third-party digital cameras - a format that allows for retention of more image information than JPEGs. Apple on Tuesday released OS X 10.5.7, an... [13 May 2009]
Skype unveils iPhone and BlackBerry services
News I'm firmly convinced that if Skype could find a way to bridge all those cellphone cameras and laptop cameras it might kick start a video telephony opportunity," he said. Skype, the internet telephone... [30 Mar 2009]
Is your must-have iPhone feature included?
News Missing, however, is any kind of video support, which is an MMS feature found on many other phones with built-in cameras. Apple on Tuesday unveiled the next version of the operating system that powers the iPhone, dubbed... [18 Mar 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News The UK is now watched by more about four million CCTV cameras and details of seven per cent of the population is held in the National DNA Database (NDNAD) - more than any other country, according to chairman of the House... [06 Feb 2009]
