When you want to watch streaming videos in a taxi, you need a mobile network that can deliver the data as fast as possible. But a startup called Ingenu is betting that a lot of customers will pay for a slower network that’s cheaper to use. Ingenu, until Wednesday known as On-Ramp Wireless, announced at …
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Enlarge ImageCanon plans to release this SLR with a 120-megapixel sensor. Canon Canon wants a whole new level of detail for photos and videos. In a Tuesday announcement, the Japanese camera maker said it’s building an SLR camera that can capture 120-megapixel images — more than double what’s possible with its new 50-megapixel EOS 5DS . And for video fans, …
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Canon’s new image sensor has a 250-megapixel resolution. Canon Canon has squeezed 250 megapixels into a camera image sensor — an impressive number, but not necessarily the one that Canon customers should exult over. On Monday, the Japanese camera maker announced the image sensor has a resolution of 19,580×12,600 pixels on a chip measuring 29.2 by 20.2mm. That sensor size, …
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Some of the tech industry’s largest companies — Cisco, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Mozilla, Amazon and Netflix — have banded together to boost the quality of online video. The new Alliance for Open Media seeks to create new video compression technology by 2016 or 2017 designed to make better use of the networks that deliver video to smartphones, computers, streaming-media devices, …
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — We’ve all been there: After clicking or tapping a YouTube link, we’re greeted with a long wait, then video marred by blurry details and distracting blocky patterns. Google has been trying to improve the situation with technology called VP9 that compresses the video data so they can move across networks faster. And with a successor called …
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Adobe’s offices in San Francisco. Stephen Shankland/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — Photoshop is so well known that the product name is synonymous with photo editing. But the software itself is a success only on personal computers, not smartphones or tablets. Photoshop’s maker, Adobe Systems, hopes that will change in October at its Max conference for developers and creative professionals when it …
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The Dell Chromebook 13 is a premium Chrome OS laptop geared for business users. Prices range from about $400 to $900. Stephen Shankland/CNET MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google’s high-end, high-priced Chromebook Pixel laptop became a market success in its creators’ eyes on Thursday — by influencing the design of a more affordable competitor from Dell. The $1,299 Chromebook Pixel from …
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Amazon and Netflix want you to watch their streaming-video services using next-gen video technology that enables superhigh resolution. But a new patent-licensing organization has announced a new fee that could put a damper on such efforts. To enable the next-gen high-resolution video, the computing industry had largely settled on the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard to compress video down …
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Dell’s Precision M3800 workstation laptop is designed to attract customers using Apple’s MacBook Pro. Dell Adam Wrigley, a product designer at Frog Design, is the kind of creative professional you might expect to see using a Mac. But when choosing between Apple and Dell for his most recent laptop, he settled on the Dell. “I wanted to get as much …
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Acadine Technologies CEO Li Gong speaks in March, when he was still Mozilla’s president. Stephen Shankland/CNET A new startup emerged Wednesday with a new mobile operating system to challenge the dominance of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android — and it’s backed with a whopping $100 million investment. Acadine Technologies and plans for the new H5OS operating system were shrouded in …
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