Blockbuster releases a set-top box for movie distribution. Facebook spammer story lives on. Lenovo’s new computer has a remote kill command. Machine can be killed from a distance. Black Friday coming up with sales everywhere. Look for Apple to do something. Obama phone not hacked. Ray Ozzie comes out in public with a speech. He wants MSFT to go back into start-up mode. is the computer mouse dead? Two new memory technologies in the news. Look for a big future for graphene storage.
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$873 million fine against spammer. What a farce. Twitter for sale? $500 million valuation. Micron new 256 GB SSD looks to be fast. Intel getting into it too. Ballmer will testify over the "Vista Capable" suit. Microsoft to use the name KUMO for its cloud stuff? Maybe. Bay Area going electric. HP stories contradictory. IBM allowing Open Solaris. Will IBM buy Sun?
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Obama picks tech team. All seem like government hacks. RIAA gets the state of Tennessee to throw away $10 million on spying on its students. MacArthur Foundation says Intern socializing is a good thing. New Honda Supercar, funny-looking. Google pulls plug on the unknown "Lively." Analyst suggests that Nokia should be Yahoo.
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Now that Yahoo is gone under $10 Microsoft is not interested anymore. Apparently the company is not interested when it’s a bargain. MSFT decides to do anti-virus for some unknown reason. Company also unable to promote Silverlight against Adobe Flash. HP story from yesterday actually explained. I run down all the stocks that are in the tank.
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Here’s some video shot at the Huntington Museum of Art here in town. Most of the video was shot with a Canon HF10 AVCHD camera, but a couple of clips use the Sony HC1 HDV camcorder.Both units are considered high-end consumer cameras, and neither of them do well in the low light of a museum. The shots of the plants in the Museum Conservatory turned out very well.
The video also makes extensive use of my new Glidetrack accessory. The Glidetrack attaches to the top of a tripod for dolly shots. I think it adds greatly to the professionalism of some of the shots and is the best accessory I’ve purchased for a camcorder.
Sun Microsystems to fire 6000. Crazy wording in FT. Jerry Yang quits. AOL kills Homestead. HO Says sales are heading up, not down like Intel thinks. USB 3. released (finalized) today. I highlight two stories about USB 3.0 showing how bad today’s tech coverage has become.
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Mark Cuban in trouble for insider trading. Vista Capable suit causing problems. Obama is going to have to stop using the Blackberry. Look for the AVCHD fake Blu-ray discs. Intel rolls the i7 as AMD rolls the Shanghai. Google has new sketch-up art program
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Microsoft shows Wave 3 of Live.com. Social networking part of the scheme. Apple will do search? Microsoft search bribery is working. OLPC still lives in England. Valleywag’s demise shows Silicon Valley is not Hollywod.AMD shows new chip and technologies. Dell CTO steps down.
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The next inexpensive camera I’ve tested is the Aiptek Action HD. Unlike the V1073, the Aiptek is a camcorder first, but it also takes digital stills. The camcorder is available at Wal Mart.
This camera has several advantages over the Kodak V1073, as well as one big disadvantage. The Aiptek doesn’t focus hunt as much as the V1073, and the White Balance can be adjusted, which is a good thing because the Auto White Balance isn’t that great. The camcorder also has a macro mode for closeups. The fold out screen is difficult to see in bright outdoor light, but certainly more viewable than the Kodak Camera. The menu is controled with a couple of buttons and a joystick, and settings are easier to adjust.
The big disadvantage for me is thast even though the AIptek uses a Quicktime H.264 codec, the files were much harder to work with in Sony Vegas, compared to the Quicktime H.264 files of the Kodak . I ended up rendering each clip as an HDV .m2ts file before editing, which of course doubled my editing time. I’m sure these files would be eaasier to edit on a MAC. Note that the Aiptek and Kodak cameras use low bit-rate H.264 video. Better camcorders from Sanyo and Samsung use migher bit-rate Quicktime H.264, and these cams are receving very good reviews. Unfortunately, I could not test these cameras.
The video below consists of random clips I’ve shot over the last few months. You’ll notice again, that handheld HD looks bad with these cameras, and there are more handheld shots in this sample than with the Kodak sample I poseted earlier this week. If you want to compare video from each cam, the opening shot, the ducks, and Fall tree, were shot at the same time.
LG, Sharp and Chunghwa plead guilty for price fixing. TroopTube takes over military vids. It’s run by the military. Go to budget.com/tech to help the podcast. Cisco is cancelling sales conference. Online gambling under review. Mars rover "spirit" getting dusted. Who cares what a phone costs to make? Sun Microsystems all over the news. The company may benefit from the "green" thing. Spammer host shut down. IBM looking at broadband over powerlines.
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