October 8, 2010
Cisco Flip Mino HD 8GB video camera
Register Hardware
Sonal Sachdeva shares some information on Cisco’s new Flip Mino HD handheld camcorder.
“Appearing in its second-generation guise in March this year, the Flip Mino HD received a few refinements, the most obvious being the larger 2in screen and an 8GB version allowing for up to two hours of video recording. Yet this popular pocket video camera has always lacked image stabilization, that is, until now. Both the Mino HD and the UltraHD have been upgraded with this feature, long-awaited by Flip fans. As with other Flip cams with the HD moniker, the 720p HD video is captured in MP4 format using the H.264 codec but it’s now at 50fps in PAL territories (60fps NTSC), up from 30fps.”
Spam blacklist snafu prompts global gnashing of teeth
The Register
Dan Goodin writes about the Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) problem that’s preventing many e-mail users around the world from sending messages.
“Many e-mail users around the world have been unable to send messages because of ongoing technical problems with a popular service designed to prevent spam from reaching its intended destination. The problems at SORBS – short for the Spam and Open Relay Blocking System – began on Wednesday and continued into much of Thursday, said Michelle Sullivan, who founded the real-time blacklisting service in 2002 and sold it to GFI Software last year. As a result, messages sent from a huge number of legitimate mail servers were labeled as junk mail and returned to sender.”
Apple to sell 45m iPads in 2011?
Register Hardware
Tony Smith writes that according to one industry watcher, Apple may sell twice as many iPads next year as it did in 2010.
“Despite the arrival of Android 3.0 and a flood of tablets from rival manufacturers, Apple will ship 45M iPads in 2011, calculates Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White. His number for 2010, relayed by Forbes magazine, is 16M units.”
