B&H Photo unwraps its Guide to HDSLR Cameras and Accessories
Looking to build your own HD SLR camera config? Then take a look at B&H Photo’s guide on HDSLR cameras, lenses, rigs, units, monitors and even audio equipment.
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Google New helps you keep track of new Google products and services
As you well know by now, Google does a lot more than just search. They own YouTube, created Gmail, Google Docs, Chrome & Picasa and have dozens more various products and services.
Keeping up with what’s new can be a tough game, but luckily a 20-percenter project was created to do just that – keep folks informed of what’s new. Naturally, it’s called Google New!
Facebook cell phone looking real
Om Malik is reporting on the rumored Facebook phone and saying it’s going to happen. Apparently, newcomer INQ Mobile is making the phone and it may end up on AT&T in the US. *sigh* Have they learned nothing from Apple?
At any rate, it should come in 2 models – one with a QWERTY keyboard and another with a touchscreen, and it should appear in the 1st half of 2011.
iPhone *not* coming to Verizon any time soon
So says their CEO, Ivan Seidenberg at an investors conference today. And we had our hopes up for a January release. On the bright side, it will probably be an iPhone that works on Verizon’s spanking brand new 4G network. So you may just have to put up with terrible call quality and reception for another year or so.
Is Facebook Building Their Own Smartphone?
This sounds a bit crazy, but there’s a well-founded rumor that Facebook is building its own smartphone. Why you may ask. Simple – control. They get to control the whole interface, the entire experience for their users.
They also get to cash in on money paid for apps in their ecosystem. They are also feeling the pressure of Google who is obviously making a play for some of the ever expanding ‘social’ traffic and who already have a mobile platform in the form of Android.
So will this work? Depends on your definition of ‘work’. Even if just a small fraction of their demographics takes it up seriously, then Facebook will stand to gain, and that can’t be all that bad.
Panasonic VIERA CAST HDTVs now do Twitter too
Just in time for a nicely redesigned Twitter homepage, Panasonic’s VIERA CAST HDTVs now have Twitter support built in. Yes, so you can potentially tweet while watching TV… using your TV.
VIERA CAST (yes, it’s all uppercase) is Panasonic’s IPTV-based take on Web-ifying TVs and Blu-ray players. Twitter is just one of a few apps, including Skype, Pandora, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Video on Demand and more.
VIERA-enabled HDTVs can take a USB keyboard so you can text-interact with your apps.
Twitter’s New Website – Its 2 Best Features
Twitter’s website is in the process of rolling out a major redesign to all of its users. The redesign has a slew of changes, improvements and additions. I’m not going to bother covering every single one here, but instead mention the ones I really like.
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Bing Becomes the #2 Search Engine
So Microsoft’s Bing search engine just overtook Yahoo to become the #2 search engine (far) behind Google. But as Betanews’ Joe Wilcox points out, it doesn’t really matter since Yahoo is powered by Bing search, and neither haven’t cut very much into Google’s market share.
Google TV Coming to TVs this Fall
Google TV is coming to (many) TVs this Fall. So what is Google TV? Watch this video first:
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Google’s Logo du Jour – Animated, “Atomized” Letters
Google’s bouncy ball logo on their home page is amusing, but not sure it can beat the Pac Man game version!