Pentax unveils 40MP 645D medium format DSLR
Five years after announcing its development, and following a month-long online campaign trailing the launch, Pentax has finally unveiled its much anticipated 645D medium format digital camera. The first digital version of the company’s 645 medium format camera system, it features a 40MP, 44 x 33 CCD sensor, 921k dot 3.0" LCD and is compatible [...]
OLED TVs Are Dead: Sony Stops Selling OLED In Japan [OLED TV]
Whatever happens in Japan is usually replicated across the world a few years later, so while LG, Mitsubishi and co are busy readying OLED TVs, Sony’s pulling out of OLED production in Japan.
They’ll still continue selling OLED TVs internationally, but won’t pursue the Japanese market anymore, due to slow sales. Their XEL-1 was the first [...]
Konami Releasing A "Bootleg" World Cup Game [Sports]
When the football World Cup begins later this year, EA’s FIFA series will be cashing in with an officially-licensed World Cup game. And what will competitors Pro Evolution Soccer be doing? Why, releasing an unlicensed World Cup game, of course.
Announced only for the Japanese market, Winning Eleven Aoki Samurai no Chosen will put the focus [...]
Manhattan Bridge Doesn’t Look Very Safe In This Video [Architecture]
All bridges move, but isn’t the Manhattan Bridge—captured in this time lapse video—bouncing way too much? I’m not an engineer, but I’m glad I take the L line under the East River to get into Manhattan. [Gawker—Thanks OMGPonies]
Shiny Unhappy People – UK’s Shiny Media Blog Network Engulfed In Chaos
[Additional reporting by Paul Carr]. Back in the heady days of 2007, flush with what was officially announced as $4.5m in funding from incubator Brightstation Ventures, UK Blog network Shiny Media held an event for advertising agencies to come and see how the new world of blogs would change their entire business strategy.
But in a [...]
Roundup: Ad models, ad deals and Twittergate
Mobile broadband fails miserably to live up to consumer expectations — UK broadband review site Broadband Genie reports that only one in ten mobile broadband users are satisfied with the speed of their mobile broadband. And that’s when it’s reachable.
Google Voice may get ringback ads — UnwiredView has the patent drawing for Google Voice’s advertising [...]
Multi-Platform Media Sync Software DoubleTwist Gains “Hundreds Of Thousands Downloads”, Is Now Available in Japan
DoubleTwist, a universal media management desktop application for Macs and PCs, not only has a clever marketing team behind it but also seems to be something a lot of people have been waiting for. The free software, which works like a multi-platform version of iTunes with a social networking component, has been downloaded hundreds of [...]
Image Licensing Network GumGum Grabs $2.6 Million And Is Growing Fast
Image licensing network GumGum has raised $2.6 million in and extended Series A funding round led by GRP Venture Partners with First Round Capital participating. This brings GumGum’s total funding to close to $4 million.
GumGum has been seeing fast growth since its launch last year. Measured as an advertising network (but for images), GumGum [...]
