Top Stories Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 ISO 204,800 shooting hands-on (video) 2 hours ago Kodak to shutter digital camera production this year 2 hours ago Sony Cyber-shot TX300V inductive charging camera and dock hands-on (video) 10 hours ago Olympus black E-M5 Micro Four Thirds camera and internals eyes-on 11 hours ago Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera doesn't feel as cheap as it looks, we go hands-on (video) 12 hours ago All News Reviews Reviews Dell Voice offers VoIP, but only to Canadians By Daniel Cooper posted Feb 9th 2012 at 12:25PM Dell's teamed up with Fongo to offer Dell Voice, a VoIP app that's available exclusively in Canada. It's currently available for Android, iOS and Windows (Desktop), enabling everyone to shoot the breeze about Dustin Penner without charges. You'll get a local phone number that'll let you call all the big cities (and most of the smaller ones), caller ID, voice-mail, 911 service and long-distance calling for no additional charge. Call credit costs 2c per minute, with each call averaging out to 1MB of data. Canadians clutching to their BlackBerries will be relieved to know that the app will roll out on RIM's handsets next month. [Thanks, Steven] READ MORE sourceDell Voice 2 Leave A Comment - web coverage Mobile Syrup Telus flipping switch on LTE, network goes live February 10th By Edgar Alvarez posted Feb 9th 2012 at 11:57AM After the competition got a head start, Telus has finally announced it's ready to flip the switch on its fresh LTE network tomorrow. Though it's certainly taken the longer road, its 4G ... Read the full post on mobile.engadget.com 10 Leave A Comment 2 Lytro Light Field Camera's guts get spilled on the FCC's dancefloor By Daniel Cooper posted Feb 9th 2012 at 11:35AM Lytro Light Field Camera's guts get spilled on the FCC's dancefloor There's a scene in Robocop 2, where our eponymous hero is set-to with an angle grinder and dumped in pieces outside the Detroit Police station. Now replace the cybernetic Alex Murphy with the Lytro Light Field camera and you'll know what was found on the sidewalk opposite from the FCC's concrete bunker this morning. Interesting tidbits revealed in the government-sponsored autopsy included a questionably small Zoran imaging chip and Marvell Avastar W8787 wireless SoC -- but the company's already swiftly denied it'll have WiFi capability. Still, the infinite-focus device is certainly on for that early 2012 launch date if it's passed through the FCC without derision. We like to treat you right, dear readers, so below you'll find a cornucopia of galleries to hunt through before these units arrive in your hands. What do you think? Should we equip all our staffers with Lytro cameras for our future hands-ons? Lytro Light Field Camera Manual Lytro Light Field Camera Manual Lytro Light Field Camera External Shots Lytro Light Field Camera External Shots Lytro Light Field Camera Internal Shots Lytro Light Field Camera Internal Shots The Verge, Tech Crunch sourceFCC 8 Leave A Comment 4 Super Bowl internet debut breaks records, disappoints some viewers By Ben Drawbaugh posted Feb 9th 2012 at 11:11AM Not sure what this says about the state of streaming video online, but while the first live internet stream of the Super Bowl was watched by a record 2.1 million unique viewers, it didn't ... Read the full post on hd.engadget.com 49 Leave A Comment 3 Intel teaches Haswell the core values of teamwork, optimism By Sharif Sakr posted Feb 9th 2012 at 10:43AM Sure you can make wild, individualistic boasts about having a 22nm fabrication process and three different GPUs, but that stuff counts for nothing without the magic of cooperation. The Amish know that and so does Intel, which is why its forthcoming Haswell cores will support Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) -- a new instruction set designed to allow cores to work together more closely without hammering each others' fingers. TSX takes greater responsibility for the division of labor between cores at the hardware level, relieving the software programmer of some of this burdensome duty and hopefully allowing for finer-grained threading as a result. The system also relies on inherent optimism, with each core assuming that the others have handled their part of the work successfully. Inevitably, there'll be occasions when this happy belief gets splintered and a bad job has to be started again from scratch, but on average things should get done quicker and leave more energy for the barn dance. ExtremeTech sourceIntel 21 Leave A Comment 1 Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 ISO 204,800 shooting hands-on (video) By Zach Honig posted Feb 9th 2012 at 10:10AM Hands-On With mirrorless cameras offering high-resolution APS-C sensors and consecutive shooting speeds of up to 10 frames-per-second, what's left to make a $6,000 full-frame DSLR a compelling purchase, especially for amateur photographers? Low-light performance, for one -- the Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 are both capable of capturing images at up to ISO 204,800, letting you snap sharp photos in even the dimmest of lighting conditions. The benefits of a top sensitivity of ISO 204,800 are significant -- jumping from one ISO to the next doubles your shutter speed. So an exposure of f/2.8 at 1/2 second at ISO 400 becomes 1/4th at ISO 800, 1/15th at ISO 3200, 1/60th at ISO 12,800, 1/250th at ISO 51,200 and a whopping 1/1000th at ISO 204,800 -- fast enough to freeze a speeding car. Both Canon and Nikon have yet to allow us to take away samples shot with the 1D X or D4 -- the companies even taped CF card slots shut to prevent show attendees from slipping their own card in -- but we were still able to get a fairly good idea of high-ISO performance from reviewing images on the built-in LCDs. At the cameras' top sensitivity of ISO 204,800, noise was visible even during a full image preview. Zooming into the image revealed significant noise, as expected. However, within each camera's native range of ISO 100 to 25,600, noise was barely an issue at all. Both cameras are still pre-production samples at this point, so we'll need to wait for production models to make their way out before we can capture our own samples, but based on what we saw when reviewing ISO 204,800 images on the built-in LCDs, that incredible top-ISO setting may actually be usable. Scroll on through the gallery below to preview some top sensitivity shots on the Canon EOS-1D X (camera poster) and the Nikon D4 (Japanese model), and join us past the break for an even closer look in our video hands-on. Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 high-ISO shooting READ MORE 53 Leave A Comment 12 Kodak to shutter digital camera production this year

This year has not been a kind one for Kodak. Last month, the photography pioneer announced that it was filing for bankruptcy (and suing Samsung, incidentally), and now the company has let it be known that it will be dropping out of the digital camera business -- and then some -- marking an end to its line of digital point-and-shoots, pocket camcorders and digital photo frames. Production will end the first half of this year. The future for the company will hold printers, brand licensing, enterprise services and photo labs. Kodak will, however, continue to honor warranties on existing products.