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News.blog: Photosynth goes public

News Over a decent broadband connection you'll immediately see large thumbnails that quickly begin to sharpen as data fills in the missing pixels. Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its "ooh, that's pretty" status...

Tags: managed, photographs, labs, collections

21 August 2008, 9:16

New Eee PCs get UK release date

News The Eee 901 has an 8.9-inch display and the Eee 1000 has a 10-inch display, but both feature a resolution of 1,024x600 pixels. The latest versions of the Eee PC will become available in the UK on 1 July, Asus announced on Thursday.

Tags: storage, cell, linux, models

16 June 2008, 9:08

News.blog: A new focus for photographers

News That sensor also uses tiny lenses, but his are built directly into the sensor, with one lens dedicated to a particular subarray of sensor pixels. Refocus Imaging, a Silicon Valley start-up, thinks its technology can be used to make cameras that can...

Tags: fix, field, research, raw

29 February 2008, 9:22

Photos: A touch of power for new MacBooks

News The new MacBook Pro enables viewing of 1,440x900 pixels on the 15.4-inch model or 1,680x1,050 pixels on the 17-inch version. Apple on Tuesday announced that it is boosting the processing power of its MacBook Pro and MacBook lineup of laptops.

Tags: ram, core, model, inch

27 February 2008, 9:35

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News That problem gets worse as pixels get smaller, so more megapixels isn't necessarily progress. If you pick up a camera phone from 2003 or and compare to one from 2008, that old one will produce nicer pictures.For product purposes, Kodak is pairing...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News D/3D graphics acceleration, uses 4MB of video RAM, and can produce a maximum resolution (external) of 1,280x1,024 pixels. CNET News.com is publishing this excerpt. Released in 2000, the PlayStation 2 (PS2) was Sony's second game console.

Tags: ports, post, chip, cable

1 February 2008, 9:53

Photos: LED contacts see bionic future

News Still, Parviz is optimistic that creating a version with a basic display just a few pixels wide should happen fairly quickly". Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a prototype contact lens that incorporates an...

Tags: research, eye, lens, creating

23 January 2008, 9:36

News.blog: YouTube tests high-quality video

News However, he said, a large portion of YouTube videos are pretty poor quality to begin with -- 320x240 pixels. YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference on Wednesday, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams...

Tags: videos, youtube, high quality, resolution

16 November 2007, 8:44

Photos: Cracking open the iPhone

News The iPhone has a 89mm (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display that offers a resolution of 320x480 pixels at 160dpi. The iPhone blends a revolutionary touchscreen interface, media player and smart phone into a slick package.

9 July 2007, 10:47

Kodak increases digital camera sensitivity

News So a 12-megapixel sensor would have 6 million panchromatic pixels, 3 million green pixels, 1.5 million red pixels and 1.5 million blue pixels. Every second pixel registers green light, while the remaining pixels capture either red or blue.

14 June 2007, 9:28

Intel's new Centrino -- for work and play

News Until then, picking away at pixels will have to do. The latest generation of Intel's Centrino product is set to make its debut in San Francisco on Wednesday. Code-named Santa Rosa, the newest iteration of the trinity of Centrino -- a Core 2 Duo...

9 May 2007, 9:57

Samsung touts improved Q1 Ultra

News All four versions of the Q1 Ultra also are now powered by faster Intel processors that were specifically designed for UMPCs and have brighter, improved LCD screens that offer a 1,024x600-pixel resolution, up from 800x400 pixels.

8 May 2007, 11:56

Photoshop could bust image cheats

News The other tool, informally known in the lab as Truth Dots, determines whether pixels are missing from a photo, a sign that the image has been cropped. In the near future, it could be a lot easier to see if those pictures of the person you've been...

9 March 2007, 10:03

Canon announces new high-end SLR

News The sensor has new microlenses and packs pixels more efficiently, Canon said, a key part of the effort to minimise image noise, such as off-colour speckles, by maximising the sensor area devoted to actually gathering light.

23 February 2007, 8:50

Do more megapixels mean better photos?

News The basic concern is that smaller pixels on camera sensors means less sensitivity to light, leading to image noise such as off-colour speckles or rough edges, worse performance in dim conditions, and the loss of finer tonal gradations, such as the...

Tags: pixel, digital cameras, resource, digital camera

8 February 2007, 8:00