SANYO introduces a new Dual Camera, model VPC-GH4, featuring with dual range zoom up to 10X for videos. With its ergonomic compact body size, the VPC-GH4 puts advanced features and ease of use in the palm of the user’s hand. The camera includes two-position recording buttons so the user can easily capture ground-level scenes as well as eye-level. The camera will be available for purchase in late September, in time ...

American Suzuki Motor today announced its national Suzuki AllPoints initiative, a reward points and sweepstakes program, has expanded to include a video contest and online racing game. AllPoints offers participants the opportunity to win prizes through activities on www.SuzukiAuto.com as well as Suzuki’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels. The program’s newest activations are yet another way for people to win and interact with the Suzuki brand.

Suzuki believes that there is something extraordinary in the way consumers live and looks to highlight those lifestyles through its user-generated “Live Large!” video contest. Living …

The much-anticipated Nokia N8 will be on-sale at the Nokia Online Shop for £429 SIM free or on contract from £35 per month. Pre-order now at www.nokia.co.uk/N8 to make sure you’re one of the first to get a Nokia N8 when it goes on sale exclusively at the Nokia Online Shop during the last week of September. The Nokia N8 will also be available from Carphone Warehouse, O2, Orange, Phones4u, T-Mobile, Tesco Phone Shops, Three Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone from Friday 1st October. The Nokia N8 offers amazing functionality and usability: It will ...

Apple new Ping had its 2 minutes of glory yesterday when We knew that Facebook Connect was scrapped from the Music Social Network in the last minute, AllThingsD found out that in fact the access to Facebook from Ping was blocked by Facebook in an attempt to have Apple to sign formal permission to the API. But, getting permission is only one of the the problems, Facebook has its own Music site that nobody knows and used and hasn’t gained any traction against MySpace, so there’s not need for ...

Dell Aero, one of the lightest multi-touch 3.5-inch Google Android-based smartphones in the U.S., is designed to deliver a powerful, flexible, and entertaining experience in a stylish and compact design. Packed with today’s popular features, the Dell Aero will ship with Quick Office, Facebook with integrated calendar and contacts, Twitter and additional applications by Google, including YouTube and Android Market. With AT&T’s Wi-Fi network, and the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network, today’s social media mavens can simultaneously make voice calls and Tweet friends, post Facebook updates, share pictures or browse the Web. ...

Two JVC pocket cameras announced today bring a new level of fun and ease-of-use to making and sharing videos and photos. The new PICSIO pocket cameras, the GC-WP10 and GC-FM2, both feature Full HD video, excellent low-light performance, a three-inch touch screen for easy operation and playback viewing, and compatibility with Eye-Fi cards for Wi-Fi connectivity. And for the ultimate in versatility, the PICSIO GC-WP10 is waterproof. To produce stunning photos, PICSIO’s CMOS image sensor captures stills at up to five-megapixel native resolution without interpolation. It also records up to 1920 x ...

Kodak has introduced a larger size for its Kodak Pulse Digital Frame. The new 10-inch Pulse Digital Frame will be available this fall for US $199.95 MSRP. With all the features of Kodak’s current 7-inch Pulse Digital Frame, including Wi-Fi connectivity and a customizable email address. The Kodak Pulse Digital Frame makes it easy for consumers to keep their frames fresh with new pictures and share with family and friends. Pictures can be emailed directly to the Pulse Frame from mobile phones, computers and any device with email capability. It also ...

Kodak introduced the new 14-megapixel Kodak EasyShare M590 Digital Camera, the ultimate social networking accessory for people who love to share their pictures. With Kodak’s exclusive Share Button, consumers can tag pictures and videos directly on the camera for effortless uploading to popular social networking sites including Facebook, Kodak Gallery, Flickr, Orkut, and Youtube. Pictures can also be tagged to email and to send to any Kodak Pulse Digital Frame. The new Kodak EasyShare M590 Digital Camera is the world’s thinnest 5X optical zoom digital camera. On top of its sleek, ...

Kodak today introduced the new Kodak PlayTouch Video Camera, a pocket-size camcorder featuring a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen so consumers can easily glide through their HD videos with the swipe of a fingertip. With new on-camera editing and Kodak’s exclusive Share Button, the PlayTouch Video Camera makes it easy for consumers to share their favorite moments with friends and family in full 1080p HD. Complementing its unique design, the Kodak PlayTouch Pocket Camcorder boasts an array of features to help consumers capture their memories with clarity and precision, including built-in image stabilization, ...

SANYO introduces a new Full HD (1920 x 1080 30p) Pocket-Size Dual Camera, model VPC-PD2BK, with embedded software for easy use and sharing on social networks. The camera is the only one of its kind that offers Full HD video recording, 10 MP photo shooting, and 3x optical zoom in a stylish form factor that is about the size of a deck of cards. The camera will be available for purchase in September with an MSRP of $169.99. The new pocket-size dual camera makes it a snap to shoot, connect, view and ...

Delta Air Lines today launched the industry’s first social media ‘Ticket Window’ enabling bookings directly from its Facebook page and other social media sites. The Delta Ticket Window, along with a newly designed home page at delta.com introduced earlier this week, offers the first visual cues of the airline’s planned transformation in customer-facing technology. Delta’s Ticket Window allows any of Facebook’s 500 million users to complete a full travel booking using a dedicated “tab” at facebook.com/delta without navigating to delta.com. Delta plans to expand its Ticket Window to other sites, including online ...

The Museum of Modern Art today announces that the MoMA App is now available on the App Store. The new application for the iPhone and iPod touch provides users with instant access to 32,000 works of art in the Museum’s vast collection of modern and contemporary art; a dictionary of art terms and a database of artist bios; calendar information for exhibitions, film screenings, and events; and a variety of audio tours, including special tours for children, teens, and the visually impaired. As a useful companion for visits to the Museum, ...

Google has been playing around with social stuff, jaiku, orkut, wave and buzz, the latest were projects dead on arrival, but with Buzz Google tried to extend its live by forcing people to use it as a part of the Gmail, but couldn’t find a real justification for Wave, a total mess and almost good for nothing experiment and a new way to burn a few millions. Wave real problems were that it doesn’t replace or fill any hole in our already crowded communication world, it does nothing better than Twitter or Facebook or any given IM application (Yahoo, Microsoft Messenger ...

NASA’s Robonaut 2 has no voice but is ready to tell you its story — in 140 characters or less. The prototype robot will travel to space this fall to give NASA a deeper understanding of human-robotic interaction. Called R2, the robot has started sending updates about its upcoming mission from its new Twitter account, @AstroRobonaut. With the help of its supporting team, R2 will document its preparations for launch and, eventually, its work aboard the International ...

Lancope, Inc., a leading provider of network performance and security monitoring solutions, is warning IT administrators at Global 1000 companies to be aware of the hidden risks to corporate networks because of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Facebook’s recent 500 million account milestone illustrates the explosive growth of social media technology within the Internet community. The current trend points toward 1 billion accounts within 12 months. For more, log onto NetFlow Ninja’s at: ...

Sprint has released the world’s first Android-powered smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect for $149.99 (with two-year service agreement and after a $50 mail-in rebate) through Sprint’s online, telesales, and direct sales channels. All remaining Sprint sales channels will offer the Motorola i1 on Sunday, Aug. 8th. Boost Mobile also offers the Motorola i1 for $399 without a contract. With solid body construction that meets military specifications for protection against dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain1, Motorola i1 is designed for those who work and play hard. It offers the Android 1.5 ...

The Pixelmator Team today announces the release and immediate availability of Pixelmator 1.6, an update of the revolutionary GPU-powered image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images. Available as a free software update, Pixelmator 1.6, codenamed Nucleus, adds major performance improvements, 64-bit support, layer groups, an Import feature, Flickr, Facebook and Picasa support, redesigned transform tools, and more. In addition to 64-bit support, which makes use of large amounts of RAM and increases performance, Pixelmator Team engineers have polished almost every part of the Pixelmator foundation ...

InnoGames, with 50 million users one of the worldwide leading developers and publishers of browsergames, is going to release its first Facebook game in the next week. WestWars is the name of the game and it is set in the Wild West. On its fanpage (http://www.facebook.com/westwars), there are already screenshots and a blog about the new game. The scenario is linked to the browsergame The West ( http://www.the-west.net), which has ten million users and has been voted as the ‘Browsergame of the year’ in 2009 – ...

Hitachi today launched four distinct LifeStudio external hard drives that combine highly reliable storage and data protection with content organization, management, socialization and navigation for both local and online content. The LifeStudio family, offered in both portable and desktop models, creates an unprecedented solution that seamlessly pulls in, organizes and protects consumers’ priceless stored digital content — photos, videos, music and documents — and unifies them with online digital content from social networks such as Facebook and photo sites such as ...

HP announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash. The combination gives HP significant headway into one of technology’s fastest-growth segments with Palm’s innovative webOS platform and family of smartphones, plus a rich portfolio of intellectual property from the smartphone pioneer. HP’s global scale and financial strength plus Palm’s award-winning webOS experience, as well as its acclaimed Pre and Pixi smartphone product lines, enhance HP’s ability to participate more aggressively in the ...