The Fujifilm FinePix J10 is an 8 megapixel digital camera iwth a 3x optical zoom lens and a 2.5 inch LCD. It will have a retail price of $149.99 when it hits stores in March. Fujifilm FinePix J10 News Release Fujifilm Debuts New J-Series Digital Camera Line At PMA 2008 New FinePix J10 and J50 Combine Style and Compact Form Factor With Powerful Feature Sets Priced Under $200...
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Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Lens news Release: Canon U.S.A. Introduces Two Highly Anticipated Telephoto Lenses At PMA 2008 EF200mm f/2L IS USM and EF800mm f/5.6L IS USM Lenses Add New Levels of Super Telephoto Performance to Canon's Market-Leading EOS System Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the launch of two new telephoto lenses for use with its EOS SLR cameras: the EF200mm f/2L IS USM*/** and the EF800mm f/5.6L IS USM*/**, the world's...
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Amazon announced their MP3 service will go international this year:Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that in 2008 the company will begin an international rollout of Amazon MP3, Amazon's DRM-free MP3 digital music store where every song is playable on virtually any digital music-capable device, including the PC, Mac(R), iPod(R), Zune(R), Zen(R), iPhone(TM), RAZR(TM), and BlackBerry(R). Read more…
Sony Ericsson announced they've reached an agreement with ten music labels to add content to its PlayNow service:
Sony Ericsson, owned by Ericsson and Sony, said the deals added 5 million new tracks to its catalog. Read more…
Martin Veitch the Inquirer, Friday 25 January 2008. 16:51:00
INQ cracks conundrum of spectral image
CRUMBS, what a load of old codswallop, rolled in tripe and then wrapped in rubbish and tosh. The London Evening Standard must be desperate for news today as it is running a piece suggesting that 'an extraordinary, ghostly presence' has been detected in an image grabbed by a camera-phone.... Read more…
Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer, Friday 25 January 2008. 16:27:00
First INQpressions FSB pumped up to
the max
BESIDE THE uber-geek QX9650 and QX9770 parts, Intel has also gradually released the first XeonUP processors in the 45nm process. Similar to their desktop counterparts, but with supposedly tougher binning and selection criteria, these server-grade 775-pin CPUs still fit into any desktop mobo supporting the Penryn generation.... Read more…
The Public Relations Society of America's Los Angeles chapter holds an event in January of each year where they have a panel of the top PR experts look at what the state of PR is and where it is headed for the next year. All five panelists mentioned social media and how it has changed the practice of PR this year.
Search, however, is not part of the PR lexicon yet. In answer to a question from the floor Joe Kessler of SS & K said that search is an area every PR person should understand and use, but it is a gaping hole in the PR toolset.
When Greg Jarboe saw the importance of search for PR and started to optiimize press releases four or five years ago he called his agency SEO-PR. But it was not the PR industry that adopted the practice, it was SEO agencies. So we had the odd situation of non-PR folk writing press releases.
And here we are in 2008 and one of the top agency CEOs says search is something of value and should be an integral part of all PR campaigns.
What makes search so important to PR?
* Studies have shown conclusively that page one positioning in the search engines affects your brand value. In many cases the SERP is the first contact someone has with your company. How you appear on that page influences their perception of your business.
* If a searcher persistently sees your business on page one for the key phrases they're searching it leads them to believe you are a major player in this field
* User-generated content has given the power of voice to consumers. Peer reviews and comments are the number one influencer prior to action or purchase today. Blogs and comments are showing up in search results pages.
* If there is negative content on the page it can damage your reputation.
* Journalists are using search engines to find information when they research a story. Being highly visible in the search engines could increase your media coverage.
These are all very traditional PR areas of expertise. And search is influencing every one of them. It is tool PR professionals have to master.
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While many startups aspire to become "The Property of Google," UK-based DotHomes wants to be "the Google of property."
Just when you thought the days of aspiring Googles had ended, vertical search took on a life of its own. In real estate, Zillow, Trulia, Craigslist, Redfin and other sites have become classic disruptors in the marketplace.
In the UK, the disruptor was DotHomes.co.uk. After conquering South Africa, DotHomes (free for consumers and realtors) has crossed the pond to the U.S.
Greg Sterling of Screenwerk is all gloomy about survival prospects for 10-12 real estate search engines. He likes the Bob Tedeschi POV in his NY Times E-Commerce Report today, Despite Housing Slide, Real Estate Sites Sell . Tedeschi quotes Nielsen Online that the number of ads displayed on real estate sites are down, though the number of visitors is up.
The DotHomes press release notes in big caps that it "DOES NOT" host realtor listings on its site, only result summaries. Users are directed to the agents Read more…
On December 11, 2007, Microsoft released the following security updates: Read more…
DS-X9032-SSM modules require three partitions on the flash memory instead of two. Having two partitions on the flash memory does not directly affect runtime functionality. However, some debugging capability is lost and there can be a problem while upgrading to a software release later than SAN-0S 3.2.1, if the DS-X9032-SSM is running in L3 mode. Read more…
Microsoft Corp. forecast a rosy 2008 -- despite broader economic worries -- after it blew by Wall Street's expectations for a second consecutive quarter. Read more…
Microsoft Research, the software company??™s laboratory, just awarded $1 million in grants to university researchers to develop the cellphone into a heathcare device. Ten institutions will split the money. Read more…
24.01.2008
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ORLANDO, FL (MARKET WIRE) LOTUSPHERE -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today to more than 7,000 customers and Business Partners at its annual Lotusphere conference that five mobile software companies will be included in a new CD-based Mobile Bonus Pack that will ship with the next release of Lotus Domino software 8.0.1 due next month. Read more…
23.01.2008
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-Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a significantly expanded strategic alliance to create and deliver end-to-end financial services solutions powered by IBM??™s open technology to help clients better integrate information across the enterprise. As part of the alliance, Fair Isaac will optimize a new generation of its decision management software on the following IBM middleware: DB2, WebSphere, Rational tools, Lotus software, including Portal, and the IBM System z and System p platforms. Read more…
The frequency at which Apple is seeding new pre-release builds of its second update to the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system is increasing rapidly, suggesting an official release may be imminent.
Fresh on the heels of build 9C20, which was r... Read more…
With the first review units of the base configuration MacBook Air making their way to a handful of privy publications Thursday, several previously reported details -- such as the ease in which the notebook's battery can be swapped out -- are seeing f... Read more…
