Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Review: Iiyama T2451MTS

Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 6:03 | Technology | 0 Comment

Is touch the final input frontier for the desktop PC? Time to fire up the new Iiyama T2451MTS, a 24-inch, Full-HD touch-enabled widescreen monitor and find out.It's certainly easy to understand why you might want to add touch functionality to a conventional PC. Whether it's smartphones, tablets or tablet-laptop transformers, touch is where all the exciting stuff is happening when it comes to interfaces and user input.Even Microsoft is finally taking touch seriously. Windows 8, due out later...

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Phase One launch $60,000 aerial camera

Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 6:03 | Technology | 0 Comment

Phase One has created the iXA, a new medium format aerial camera system manufactured to streamline image capture and process workflow.Users have a choice of 80 or 60 megapixel models in either RGB or NIR versions, allowing it to be used with existing or new systems.The 80MP version has a resolution of 10320 x 7752 pixels and the 60MP has a resolution of 8984 x 6732. The body has secured I/O communication connectors and a mini USB connector.Phase One claims that its new range of...

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Updated: 50 best free iPhone games on the planet

Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 6:03 | Technology | 0 Comment

It's safe to say that Apple's given the gaming industry a square kick in the tender regions. Despite their bluster, dismissing Apple in every way possible, Sony and Nintendo are both clearly concerned by the meteoric rise of iPod touch and iPhone as handheld gaming devices. Although great games are the driving force behind the success of Apple gaming, low prices have also helped. Most 'premium' titles cost six quid or less, and many developers end up in a race to 59p, thereby providing games...

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Exclusive: Fuji: CSCs haven’t impacted upon bridge camera sales

Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 6:02 | Technology | 0 Comment

Fuji has said that compact system cameras haven't had an impact on bridge camera sales, with sales in fact increasing across the sector. Speaking to TechRadar, Adrian Clarke, senior vice president for Fujifilm Imaging said, "We did expect the popularity of compact system cameras to dent bridge sales, but last year it was one of the better categories and increased across the world."Fuji is a very strong player in the bridge camera market, currently holding around 40-50% global market share....

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News In Brief: One More Thing: Tom Cruise should have been Steve Jobs

Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 6:02 | Technology | 0 Comment

There's no Monday worst for a journalist than one after April Fools Day, where the internet is a veritable minefield of misinformation and utterly dreadful joke news. Lucky, we at TechRadar managed to tread carefully to find enough dreadful news that's actually not a joke but real. Like the fact Ashton Kutcher is to become Steve Jobs…Would you Adam and Steve it? – Ashton Kutcher, he of er (sorry for this quick break while we check Wikipedia to see what he has done other than date Demi...

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How to Overclock a CPU: Getting Started

Monday, 2 April 2012, 23:25 | Technology | 0 Comment

Overclocking a CPU (central processing unit) sounds seductive, right? Adjust a few settings on your phone or tablet, and the device goes faster. Games play without laborious, stuttering, forced slow-motion effects, and everything loads quicker. Well, like everything in life, these adjustments involve a tradeoff. Just as there are risks in taking your car out for a rural run and heavy-footing it, there are implications for a CPU speedup. In the case of the car, risks can include a blown gasket...

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Review: Nikon D4

Saturday, 31 March 2012, 8:08 | Technology | 0 Comment

The Nikon D4 is the camera that Nikon is hoping will be the camera of choice for professional sports photographers and photo journalists shooting the Olympic games this summer. Consequently, it is designed as an all-purpose, go anywhere, shoot anything camera with improved low-light shooting capability and enhanced video technology. While the Nikon D4 replaces the D3S in Nikon's DSLR lineup, the 24MP Nikon D3X continues as the company's flagship camera - even if its pixel count is now dwarfed...

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7 Days in Mobile: Samsung Galaxy S2 gets Ice Cream Sandwich update sucked into time vortex

Saturday, 31 March 2012, 8:08 | Technology | 0 Comment

Have you ever tried to save money and decided to start making your own lunches rather than buying the same old processed rubbish? 7DiM has, and they are, for want of a better word, lush.Mobile phones and tablets don't eat though (imagine if they did OMGTHATWOULDBESTUPID!) – yet there are thousands of Galaxy S2 owners desperate to cram an Ice Cream Sandwich down the virtual gullet of their prized Android device.Samsung's been hard at work to bring the latest version of Android to its flagship...

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7 Days in Gaming: Swing like Tiger Woods with Kinect, urges EA

Saturday, 31 March 2012, 8:08 | Technology | 0 Comment

This week on 7DiG we discuss the Latin for ring, look at gaming tech that's older than at least one of our team and eye up John Adam's wife. Our favourite moment is finding out that EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13's back cover asks you to 'Swing like a pro with Kinect' and even 'relive Tiger Woods' most memorable accomplishments. These are mini-games we can't wait to see. PS4 Or…bis? Apparently someone from Sony's PlayStation division has decided that games consoles shouldn't be given...

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News in brief: One more thing: HTC wants to be like common people

Saturday, 31 March 2012, 8:08 | Technology | 0 Comment

With April glaring into the headlights of our inexorable drive through the tech year, one more thing has again swerved past the roadkill of rubbish stories to pick up the day's hitchhikers and listen to their exciting tales. As well as celebrating the fact that April Fool's Day is happening on a weekend day when the team doesn't have to cover the "hilarious" efforts of every single PR company on the planet to convince us that something zany/unlikely is happening (Spoiler warning: it isn't),...

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