Original article: Canon launches PowerShot G12 and PowerShot SX30 IS cameras
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Camera yesterday launched two cameras in its PowerShot range. The G12 is the latest model to get Canons HS system giving it 720 HD capability and the SX-30 boasts a 24mm to 840mm (35x) zoom lens.

Powershot G12

PowerShot G12 – the latest model in the PowerShot G-series

• Canon’s HS System, 720p HD movie recording and Hybrid IS are new additions
• A new Front Dial provides improved handling and swift manual control
• Also compatible with a new optional Lens Filter Adapter, which extends with the lens when using the zoom to offer full coverage throughout the zoom range.
• 10.0 Megapixel CCD sensor and high-performance DIGIC 4 processor designed to provide outstanding image quality in all lighting conditions, including low light.
• Features a premium 28mm wide-angle 5x optical zoom lens, allowing users to capture sweeping landscapes and get closer to distant subjects during shooting.

The Powershot G12 also features HDR mode (high dynamic range) automatically combining bracketed exposures to shoot high contrast scenes. The Powershot G12 will be on sale in the UK in October.

You can read the press-release here.

Powershot SX30 IS

PowerShot SX30 IS – a high performance camera with a 24mm ultra-wide, 35x optical zoom lens. Succeeding the PowerShot SX20 IS

• Provides full manual control, HD movie recording and a number of creative and automatic shooting modes
• 6.8cm (2.7”) vari-angle LCD screen and hot shoe
• 4.1 Megapixel sensor allows photographers to generate A2+ size prints
• Focal range of the 35x optical zoom lens extending from 24mm to 840mm (35mm equiv.), capturing everything from ultra wide-angle images to extreme telephoto shots.
• Developed with the same materials and processes used to manufacture Canon’s range of EF lenses

You can read the press-release here.

In the next few weeks I will be testing the SX30 IS so you can all look forward to an in-depth review of this powerful ‘compact’ camera.

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A couple of months ago, we asked whether MySpace could make a comeback. Since that time, they’ve become #1 on Android and jumped into bulk user data sales.

Today, MySpace has unveiled a new events plaform.

Called MySpace Events, it presumes to be “a global events and calendar platform providing users with new tools to create, discover, share, and manage events across MySpace and multiple social networks.”

Key features include the following.

• A new social and pop culture calendar that “combines your friends’ events, your events, events from your favorite artists, with pop culture events and sponsored events.”
• Ability to buy concert tickets directly from an artist’s profile.
• “Social advertising,” wherein advertisers can purchase ad space inside users’ social calendars.
• Cross-plaform event viewing in which a user’s MySpace calendar includes Facebook events. “We’re providing features to share events on MySpace via the Stream and across the web including on Facebook, Twitter, and tiny url.”

The announcement focuses on the benefits to both the Myspace users and the individual, up-and-coming “artists” who have used the service to promote themselves. It will be interesting to see how bigger companies use the platform.

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Social Networking site Facebook is now offering its users the opportunity to share cash with each other, real cash that is.

You can send and receive small payments via a Facebook application called Buxter and the company behind Buxter that will process the transactions is online payments company ClickandBuy.

Setting it up is easy. If you already have a ClickandBuy account, and millions of people across the globe do, then all you have to do to take advantage of the service is set up your Buxter account on Facebook.

If you dont have a Click and Buy account then you need to set one up before you can load cash in or out of your Buxter account.

Transactions on the Buxter system are limited to a maximum of 50 euros or less and are free to process between friends although there are small fees (minimum of 2 euros) for transferring money out of Buxter and into your bank.

You cant make purchases from anywhere though; you will only be able to trade with your friends on Facebook.

To send cash to a friend you simply select your friends name from a drop down menu and enter the amount you want to send. Easy!

People share their statuses, their information and their pictures on Facebook so the question is why not share money there too? said Christian von Hammel-Bonten, senior vice president at ClickandBuy.

He hopes people will use the service to share expenses for things like cinema tickets and restaurant bills or small gifts; its not designed for anything more than that.

Were not trying to compete with national banking systems. This is not somewhere to pay your gas or rent he said.

To receive any cash you send to a friend they just have to accept the Buxter application and enter an email address.

That friend will then be free to transfer the money to any of their friends or into their bank account if they wish.

Buxter is the application that will see Facebook members use the platform not just as a way to stay in touch, but also as a fast, easy and secure way to exchange money or buy and sell products or services said Charles Fraenkl, chief executive of ClickandBuy.

The only currencies offered by the service at the moment are US dollars and Euros but support for the UK pound will be added in the coming weeks.

It will be interesting to see how many Facebook users end up using it.

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