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Camcorder-to-YouTube in seconds
Toshiba now allows you to “Broadcast Yourself” with
Camileo HD cameras as, according to Reon Coetzee,
marketing manager for South Africa and Africa at Toshiba,
today’s age of advanced Internet 2.0-based applications,
social networking and online content sharing, consumers are
demanding quick and easy ways to share their memories with
others over the Internet. The new Camileo HD and handy cam-
style Camileo H10 camcorders delivers high-quality videos in
high-definition resolution and also support standard VGA and
QVGA formats. The Camileo HD incorporates 8x digital zoom,
while a rotating 2.5-inch LCD screen gives users the flexibility to
film from virtually any angle. Featuring HDMI, Mini USB 2.0 and TV
outputs – these Toshiba Camcorders allow users to connect to
a wide variety of display devices such as a PC, high definition
LCD TV or regular CRT television. www.toshiba.co.za
Nightlife Mapping Tool
Deciding when and where to go out on a Friday night just got easier for San Francisco consumers with a
new, mobile map application that automatically shows where the hotspots are. Sense Networks’ CitySense
gives users a real-time view of how busy the city is as well as where the busiest places currently are. There’s no
need to sign up – users simply download the free
application onto their Blackberry (iPhone support
is coming soon) and view a “heat” map of activity
throughout the area, linking to Yelp or Google to
zero in for more information about the hotspots. A
billion points of GPS and wifi positioning data from
the last few years complement the real-time feeds
underpinning the technology, which operates on
Sense Networks’ Macrosense platform. Focusing on
nightlife, the next version of CitySense will be able
to tell users not just where the activity is, but where
people like them are concentrated. By tracking
and comparing users’ history and preferences, it
will be able to show them where they are most
likely to find people with similar tastes at any given
moment. How long before this comes to other
cities? Visit www.citysense.com.
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