Canon today announced the four megapixel PowerShot A520 compact digital camera, which the company says is 13 percent smaller and 10 percent lighter than previous models, and is also equipped with a longer 4.0x 35-140mm (35mm format equivalent) optical zoom lens. “In order to make the camera smaller, Canon engineered the new PowerShot A520 model to accept SD and MMC media,” notes the announcement.
Read MoreApple says that the H.264 codec, which will make its debut in QuickTime 7, is the future of video and will replace current technologies thanks to its adoption by standards organizations. “H.264 is the future of broadcast–it will replace the older MPEG technologies,” said Frank Casanova, Apple’s director of QuickTime product marketing. “Because it’s a standard there are no other encroaching technologies–nothing else out there really matters.
Read MoreMACadam, an Apple reseller that has sold Macs for 16 years in San Francisco, is closing its doors. In a letter to customers, MACadam owner Tom Santos, who is involved in a lawsuit against Apple, explained why he decided to shut down. “This decision did not come easy. In fact, it came as possibly the most difficult thing I have ever done,” Santos wrote. “MACadam was not simply a company, it was a family of different people from all different walks of life.
Read MoreWal-Mart has begun selling Apple’s iPod mini in a “limited number of stores,” a representative for the discount chain said Monday. “The mini is one of the few Apple products that the discount chain sells, but that may soon change,” reports CNET News.com. “The companies are rumored to be working out an agreement for Wal-Mart to begin selling the iPod shuffle, a new music device that Apple unveiled last month…
Read MoreMCE Technologies today announced the Lucid M8X portable FireWire DVD+/-R/RW Double-Layer Drive. The Lucid M8X is a compact, slot-loading, bus-powered FireWire drive capable of writing to seven different types of recordable media. DVD+R Double Layer technology allows up to 8.5GB of data to be written to a single side of a DVD+R Double Layer disc. The US$279 drive writes to standard 4.7GB DVD-R and DVD+R media at up to 8x speed, to 4.7GB DVD-RW and DVD+RW media at up to 8x speed, and to Double-Layer DVD+R DL media at up to 2.4x speed.
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