In June, Apple shipped the iPhone 4 with front- and rear-facing cameras, and it added the FaceTime app for video calling. That same month, Sprint began shipping the HTC Evo 4G, its first 4G Android-based smartphone, which also featured front- and rear-facing cameras and the ability to make video calls with an app called Qik.
Xerox on Monday said it is equipping school buses with cameras that capture traffic law violations, which can help cut down on injuries and fatalities resulting from collisions.
There were a lot of rumors and expectations ahead of Apple's much-hyped music event yesterday. As expected, Apple unveiled a new touch-based iPod Nano, and an iPod Touch sporting the company's A4 processor, its super-high-resolution Retina display, and front and rear cameras offering HD video recording and video chat via FaceTime. There was also a new iPod Shuffle, which thankfully returns to the previous iteration's design with on-device buttons and a clip to make it wearable.
China's largest search engine Baidu continues to post strong earnings, with the company's net profits more than doubling for the fourth quarter in 2010.
McAfee, which will soon be an Intel subsidiary, and Wind River, which already is one, Wednesday announced they are hardening the security of industrial commercial operating systems supplied by Wind River to makers of products such as automated teller machines, medical devices, TV set-top boxes and cameras.
A Taiwanese producer of plastic lenses said on Wednesday its March revenues shot up because of a surge in orders from tablet PC makers, indicating that cameras will be installed on devices due for release later in the year.
Sony Electronics, the division of Sony Corporation that designs and develops the company's cameras, computers, TVs and other devices, is making a broad move to SharePoint 2010 to improve search, social networking and document sharing.
Future models of consumer goods, from digital cameras to MP3 players, could take a leap forward with a new type of analog circuit demonstrated at a trade show Thursday by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Earlier this month, on January 5, both AT&T and T-Mobile announced new upgrades to their 3G HSPA cellular networks in the United States, designed to boost maximum data transfer speeds over said networks to 7.2Mbps. That's more than double the current average 3G speeds--even triple in some cases.
Microsoft's new hands-free Kinect game controller is packed with four microphones, two cameras and a motion detector chip that together make for one heck of a complex toy, according to iFixit’s initial teardown of the device.
Video management software (VMS) allows you to record and view live video from multiple surveillance cameras--either IP-based or analog cameras with an encoder--monitor alarms, control cameras and retrieve recordings from an archive. Because they are IP-based, VMS systems are more expandable and flexible than DVR-based systems, and employees can control the software from anywhere on the network. Surveillance and security teams can use the software for live monitoring, as well as investigative and forensic p
Video surveillance was once the exclusive province of physical security; operators looked at multiple video screens, each displaying the field of view of a single video camera, to monitor for security incidents. But increasingly, the charge of fully securing an organization's assets requires a larger number of cameras with multiple viewers of the video information.
The little cameras in your home are multiplying. There are the ones you bought, perhaps your SLR or digital camera, but also those that just kind of show up in your current phone, your old phone, your laptop, your game console, and soon your TV and set-top box.
PhantomAlert, a smartphone app coming this fall, could help drivers use GPS to detect speed traps, cameras at red lights and more than 200,000 related alerts based on a database of locations compiled with updates from drivers.
Thanks to the App Store and the iPhone's versatility, Apple's smartphone combines many different devices into one compact product. In the face of such a juggernaut, is it possible for standalone GPS devices, MP3 players, handheld games, low-end digital cameras and e-readers to survive?
No one will deny the global celebrity of Angelina Jolie. She's on the cover of magazines, stars in blockbuster movies and is a ratings bonanza each time she appears on TV. Now that she's had twins, she's got triple the appeal for some fans.
Auto focus, auto flash, scene selection and even smile detection. Today's cameras have automated just about everything involved in snapping a picture but still require someone to point them. Not any longer. Sony has developed a base unit for cameras that swivels them around through 360 degrees and tilts them up and down to follow people in a room and, when the time is right, snap a picture.
Want to keep track of things at home when you're not there? Rather than spending thousands of dollars to have a professional video security system installed, you can build one yourself for about US$250 per camera. Logitech International SA's WiLife Video Security System cameras can be strategically placed throughout your home or office to keep an eye on things and alert you when something's amiss.
Microsoft and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have jointly developed a counterterrorism and crime prevention system that will for example notify about suspicious packages and vehicles, and allow NYPD personnel to search for suspects using technologies like smart cameras and license plate readers.
EMC is rolling out a services offering that helps customers set up physical security systems and automate the analysis and management of data collected by video cameras, alarms and other devices.
AT&T has turned to an outside service provider to get consumer electronics products such as navigation devices, cameras and MIDs (mobile Internet devices) onto its network more quickly and easily.