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One in 10 Brits recycle old mobile phones

News Terho, director of environmental affairs, markets at Nokia, said in a statement: "If all of the three billion people that own mobile phones globally brought back just one unused device we could save 240,000 tonnes of raw materials and reduce...

Tags: nokia, mobiles, cent, mobile phones

10 July 2008, 9:21

Photos: Up close with Saturn's icy geysers

News We brightened the photo with Photoshop; a sample of the raw image is below. NASA's Cassini probe has successfully flown through the plume of a geyser and took its closest approach to the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, according to first...

Tags: space, mission, science, surface

14 March 2008, 9:46

Photos: Cardboard furniture keeps it green

News As prices rise for oil and raw materials (even sawdust), fans of furniture made from cardboard call it more earth-friendly and affordable than its wooden counterparts, which usually requires felling trees, or furniture made of pressboard, which...

Tags: interest, designs, material, shapes

10 March 2008, 9:37

News.blog: A new focus for photographers

News One way to think of it is just a raw image, except to the nth degree," Ng said, referring to the raw images that higher-end cameras can record directly from the image sensor, leaving processing choices to the photographer.

Tags: fix, field, research, raw

29 February 2008, 9:22

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News According to a forum post on nfggames.com, the Sony CXM4015R chip converts the raw video signal from the CPU/GPU into RGB video. 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

Adobe to open Lightroom to programmers

News As with the latest version of Photoshop's raw image conversion tool, Lightroom now supports raw images from several new cameras, including the Canon 1D Mark III, Nikon D40x, Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro, Olympus E-410 and SP-550 UZ, Sigma SD14 and...

27 June 2007, 9:45

Microsoft tries to make Vista iPod-friendly

News Microsoft posted several other updates, including one aimed at fixing a problem that could have resulted in Canon EOS-1D users losing images if metadata was added to RAW files. Microsoft released several patches for Windows Vista on Tuesday...

28 March 2007, 9:42

Photoshop introduces HD Photo support

News The Photoshop plug-in lets photographers save a 'raw' image taken directly from a camera's image sensor as an HD Photo image, Weisberg said. Microsoft announced a plug-in on Wednesday that gives Adobe's widely used Photoshop the ability to read and...

8 March 2007, 9:04

Canon announces new high-end SLR

News It can shoot a burst of as many as 30 raw images -- those pulled directly off the sensor without camera processing -- or 110 JPEGs. Canon said sraw has a quarter of the resolution, half the file size and a quarter of the resolution of conventional...

23 February 2007, 8:50

YouTube event gets camcorders rolling

News I think people will find a lot of raw unknown talent on YouTube. At an event called 'As One', budding entertainers, information junkies and people just wanting to be part of a new communication medium, conversed while training lenses on one another.

19 February 2007, 9:52

Adobe Lightroom ready for launch

News Lightroom supports more than 150 raw file formats, including those for the new Nikon D40 and D80 and Pentax K10D, as well as JPEG and TIFF files, according to Adobe. Photoshop Lightroom, the photo file manager from Adobe, is now available for...

30 January 2007, 10:03

Vista pushes HD Photo centre stage

News Adobe is trying to standardise the chaotic profusion of raw formats through its Digital Negative (DNG) format. A further complication is that the enthusiasts dissatisfied with JPEG and most likely to appreciate HD Photo already are embracing an...

29 January 2007, 10:44

UK game sales break records in 2006

News RAW 2007 at number ten. The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, a British game-industry trade body, has revealed that 2006 was a booming year for the UK game industry, with all-format sales of game software totalling an...

15 January 2007, 9:12

Adobe attempts to unify image formats

News A raw dealMost consumers are happy with JPEG, but raw formats offer considerable advantages. But raw poses a problem for companies like Adobe, whose bread-and-butter business includes image-editing software such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and...

21 November 2006, 9:48

Open-source rival takes on Google Maps

News Once the raw GPS data is uploaded it can also be edited wiki-style by others, who can add information such as street names. Volunteer 'citizen cartographers' are aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Britain's Ordnance Survey by creating a...

14 November 2006, 11:31