| Expo Notes: Wi-Fi memory card adds iPhoto support
Editor's Note: All this week, Macworld editors will report from the Macworld Expo show floor on meetings with Mac developers, new product announcements, and anything else that catches their eye. Tired of hunting down your camera cable or memory card reader every time you need to download photos from your digital camera? If you have a wireless network set up, the $100 Eye-Fi Card by Eye-Fi lets you download your photos without any strings attached. .
Deleted but not erased: Photos reborn
THANKS to digital cameras, memories are easier than ever to gather. But as Amy Sevigny learned, they can be more fragile as well. Last April, Sevigny, a nurse living in southern Maine, lost both her father and her brother within the same week. Her father, John Turgeon, died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, and three days later, her brother, Craig Turgeon, died of cancer at 24. While planning the memorial services, Sevigny gave her camera to a friend and asked her to print the last photos she had taken of Craig with her 9-month-old son, Jack. The friend returned ashen-faced: a photo technician at Rite Aid had mistakenly erased the disk. "I was completely devastated," Sevigny said. I heard about Sevigny's problem several weeks later from a mutual friend.
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George Ou
George Ou Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Leaked Intel Nehalem performance projections over AMD Shanghai Posted in: Servers News Hardware Processors AMD Intel Sun Workstations It appears that the rumors about Intel's next major microprocessor "Nehalem" being a huge juggernaut may be true according to leaked documents from Sun Microsystems (get it before it's gone). The slides appear to be inadvertently placed on Sun's publicly accessible website and "jokerman" posted the link on Aceshardware (thanks to tip from ZDNet reader JumpingJack). The slides looks like the real thing meant for Intel's partners and they're probably well known in the server industry. Reliable sources have reported in the past that Intel's Nehalem processor will have three channels of DDR3 memory per CPU versus two channels of DDR2 memory per AMD Barcelona or upcoming Shanghai processor.
South China Villagers Slam Pollution From Rare Earth Mine
HONG KONG—Villagers in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are battling an illegal rare earth mine in their neighborhood which they say has poisoned the local water supply and wiped out their fish-farm stock and rice crops. Around 600 residents of Shangmankeng village, near Heyuan city in the northeastern part of the province, have had their lives devastated by severe pollution from the mine, according to one campaigner, identified only by his surname, Li. “Local officials, corporations, and triads [Chinese criminal organizations] are all in cahoots on this, otherwise this project would never have gotten off the ground," Li told RFA's Cantonese service. 'We can't work' “The rice crop that was already sown has totally failed. We can't work.
Mumbai, January 17
While most of his Bollywood associates called him a political turncoat, his newfound colleagues in politics, particularly those from his own party, dismissed him as a political novice. Some even considered him as an intruder straying into their preserved territory to spoil their fun. The badgered star belatedly got the hints from both sides. Finally, he chose his profession over politics, from which he started to distance himself slowly without making his retreat appear too obvious. IANS .
Takahashi: Dress this cell phone according to mood
Dov Moran has a bright idea for the coming age where fashion and electronics will become intertwined. When you want a new look for an MP3 music player, put a new skin on it. If you want your phone to play cool videos, give it a jacket. And when you want to turn that phone into an alarm clock, find it a mate. Moran is chief executive of modu, an Israeli company that has created a tiny cell phone with a built-in flash memory music player that is highly modular. When you want to change the look and feel of the device, you simply slide it into another device. It's like adding a memory chip card, except it changes the identity of the new device. With it, you can change your electronic gear in chameleon fashion to suit your mood. You can, for instance, take your little modu phone and slide it into a digital camera.
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