By Lee Rickwood
Tech camps and media centres provide free access to state-of-the-art technology to introduce disadvantaged youth to potential careers in new media, while providing computer literacy skills and opportunities for creative self-expression.
By Lee Rickwood
Microsoft will do the heavy lifting, providing back-end functions like ranking search listings for Web, video and image results generated from search queries. Yahoo remains responsible for how the content looks on the page.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
In two years, Android will possibly have a 19.4 percent market share worldwide among smartphone operating systems, up from 2.7 percent in 2009. That’s tremendous growth in a highly profitable yet competitive market.
Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis
Microsoft faces a real uphill battle in trying to compete with entrenched mobile powerhouses like Apple, Google and RIM, and Windows Phone 7 is likely the last chance for Redmond to have any hope of staying relevant in the smartphone wars. At a gaming event in Toronto yesterday, I got a firsthand demo of the new operating system, and here’s a little of what you can expect.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The Sharp Quattron LE810 LED is a premium and high-quality HDTV set that speaks the language of colour so eloquently. The addition of yellow to the RGB we’re so used to does add a lot of depth, vibrance and realism depending on the scene.
By Lee Rickwood
Research In Motion, the Canadian developer of the BlackBerry smartphone, is admittedly taking “a giant leap” – but with the company now entering the hard-pressed TV and movie-making business, is that leap going off a cliff?
Featuring Ted Kritsonis
Adobe Photoshop CS5 offers a bunch of new features, but the two we focus on here — Content Aware Fill and Puppet Warp — are both incredible in their scope, and very easy to use, even for Photoshop users that aren’t overly savvy. In this video, we demonstrate how they both work, and what kind of results you can expect.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
RIM’s own failed attempts to compete with the iPhone, the now discontinued BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Storm II reflect products that looked good on paper, managed to generate a lot of interest and hype but which were hindered by poor multi-touch implementation and kludgy hardware.