Sunday
Dec192010

Review: Sony SLT Alpha A55 DLSR

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Selected as Popular Photography's camera of the year for 2010, the A55 brings together the best features of traditional DSLRs, the electronic viewfinder found on interchangeable lens compacts and the revolutionary phase-detection autofocus that enables the tracking of subjects throughout the frame resulting in way better video.

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Saturday
Dec182010

Word Lens for iOS offers on-the-fly language translation via camera

Here's an app that seems to be really magical. Word Lens uses your iPhone or iPod Touch camera to grab words and phrases and generates a translation in similar visual context. The app is free but each language pack (i.e. English to Spanish) costs $4.99. Hit jump for more info and a demo video.

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Friday
Dec172010

Review: Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

5 years in the making and expected to take car racing simulation on consoles to the next level, Gran Turismo 5 is a behemoth title replete with hyper-realistic visuals, a jaw-dropping selection of 1,031 cars, 71 different racetracks all painstakingly detailed to the micro-polygon level. Selling 423,000 copies per day for a whopping 5.5 million units sold in its first 13 days, GT5 is the best-selling video game for the PS3 and a solid contender for game of the year. We take it around the track.

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Friday
Dec172010

Mobilicity exceeds 50,000 new subscribers in Q4 with peak holiday sales still to come

Mobilicity  is sure ramping up this holiday season. The upstart telco revealed it has already added over 50,000 new subscribers in just the fourth quarter. This milestone comes with the key holiday sales period still ahead and just one month after launching in three new markets.

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