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Product Review: By John Virata

HP Z400 workstation

The Hewlett-Packard HP Z400 is the company's entry level workstation. While it doesn't have the whiz bang design features of the HP Z800 reviewed in March, it still does not disappoint as the benchmark numbers will surprise you. Read More

MAXON Computer released their newest version of CINEMA 4D, the 3D application that has quickly become the favorite of broadcast designers and animators. The name of the newest version, R 11.5 gives the illusion that the update is a minor upgrade from previous R11.2 version. However, the multitude of new features in R11.5 makes the upgrade feel like a integer release. Read More

Product Review: By Heath McKnight

FIRST LOOK: JVC HM-100u

The JVC HM-100u ProHD camera may be small in size, but it's packing three Full HD (1920 x 1080i/p) CCDs that capture great image quality, and it uses Sony's SxS/EX technology to deliver a tapeless workflow on affordable SDHC media cards. Plus, if you're a Final Cut Pro user, you can shoot directly to QuickTime for even faster importing and editing. Read More

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Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial Create Short Film for IDEO's 'Living Climate Change' Initiative

Sister companies Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial announced that they have collaborated with global innovation and design firm IDEO on the welcome video for the Living Climate Change website: www.livingclimatechange.com, an initiative developed by IDEO. In the short, directed by IDEO design director and associate partner Roshi Givechi, company CEO Tim Brown asks what role design can play in the challenges we face with climate change. Read More

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FlickerLab Animates George W. Bush Address For Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story "

For a fifth time, FlickerLab has teamed with Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, and created a minute-long animated segment, Chicken Little, for his latest feature Capitalism: A Love Story. Opening in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 23 and in theaters nationwide October 2nd, the film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a sardonic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that plunged the world into the current financial crisis. Read More

Product Review: By Kevin McAuliffe

Coremelt Complete V2

You can never have enough plug-ins. Trust me, as an editor/graphic designer you always have clients that want something "cool," but have really no idea what they are looking for, so you end up finding yourself going through the plug-ins on your system to try and put something together to really "wow" them, your plug-in collection needs to have three traits. Read More

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Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web. Google gave the world the first peek... Read More

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Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Inter...

The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards. Other events singled out by th... Read More

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Black Friday Mall shoppers: There's a Map. . ...

MEDL Mobile, Inc. ( www.medlmobile.com)and App creator Shayne Faerber have launched an iPhone Application called Mall Maps, a database of malls that enable you to locate virtually every mall in the United States. Read More

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EarthCam Launches New Live Streaming High Definit...

EarthCam ( www.earthcam.com ), the premier Internet webcam network, today announced the addition of new high definition live streaming locations to its growing list of exclusive cameras in famous places throughout the world. The official premi... Read More

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Eager fans greet "Call of Duty" launch

Activision Blizzard Inc's hugely anticipated "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" video game went on sale on Tuesday, welcomed by eager fans who lined up hours in advance of the release. The first-person shooter game is set to be one of the big... Read More

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