Content in its shift to become digital
MySpace is to launch MySpace Celebrity, a ‘channel’ (read Web page) on MySpace that bring to attention MySpace pages of ‘celebrities.’
The illusion they are trying to create is that MySpace users will be able to interact with their favourite stars. The likelihood is that they will in fact be communicating with one of the team responsible for running the site for the ‘celebrities.’
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Yesterday we brought you the first set of digital camera announcements from CES 2008, in this concluding part we give you three more.
Kodak V1273 and V1073 ultra compacts
These two new ultra compacts from Kodak come with optically stabilised lenses, stills output in 720p and 1080i HD formats and the ability to record video as MPEG-4 compressed 720i High Definition videos (1280 x 720 @ 30fps).
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There’s been a veritable motordrive of new cameras announced at this year’s CES show (Consumer Electronics Association) in Las Vegas.
Here’s some of the announcements that have caught our eye.
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We take a look at the snappers that have tickled our fancy in 2007 and award out ‘Best of’ prizes:
Fujifilm FinePix F50fd (around £180/$220)
It may look a little bit less than super-stylish, but don’t let appearances put you off: the Fujifilm can takes great pictures and comes with a raft of smart-arse features like image stabilisation, face-detection technology, fast start up and a high ISO performance that is second to none in its price range.
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Here’s a natty little application for folks frustrated with the limited resolution of the cameras built into their Palm OS devices.
Photos HQ is a program that lets you snap photographs at a higher quality than the default camera settings, and offers a few tweaks in the bargain too.
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We get lots of stuff sent to us for review, and sometimes we can get a little blase about it.
When the Altec Lansing Orbit iM207 arrived, we were aware of they long background in providing speakers for computers, but were only moderately excited when it arrived.
Over the month plus that we’ve had it, this has changed quite a bit as it’s proved itself to be a compact, highly capable bundle of fun.
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Multi-platform Web browser company Opera have filed a complaint with the European Commission citing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The approach is two pronged – abuse of Microsoft’s dominant position in tying its browser to the Windows operating system and, second, hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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Grandmaster Flash, godfather of scratching has been brought in to tell the world how great he thinks Traktor Scratch is.
For those of you who aren’t aware, it’s a system that lets you control you digital music files using vinyl, giving you all of the function of decks, with the flexibility of a huge digitised music collection.
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We all used to love the early days when the new Wired magazine came out, right? The anticipation of the magazine which actually ‘Got it,’ alone in a world where all other magazines were clueless.
Well, after selling off Wired magazine and wired.com off for not nearly as much as he wanted to get for it, Wired founder, Louis Rossetto floated off to enjoy his life. Well now he’s back with a totally different business – Tcho, selling fine hand-made chocolate.
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Media-focused social network, imeem, has just signed a deal with Universal Music Group, enabling their 19 million users to attach music and videos to their profiles, helping them “express themselves.”
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