Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 Review
As we said before, it’s been a while since we got excited by a webcam, but a demo of the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 has caught our attention. Equipped with a Carl Zeiss optic (which also sells optics to Sony and Nokia, among others), this webcam has a very good image quality - much better in fact than the Quickcam Pro 4000, the Logitech webcam that I owned before I switched to the Apple iSight.
Is the Quickcam Pro 9000 as good as it sounds? And most importantly, how does it stack up against Logitech’s marketing pitch? Read the full review to see if the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 is for you.
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It might sound like a big deal, but it’s really not: the new PS3 firmware brings small improvements like customizations, user music and photo lists and most importantly gives your partial control of the PS3 via a Sony PSP handheld console. The PSP can also serve as an “extender” to access media files over the web. 
The final version of Opera mini, a (free) popular web browser for mobile devices is available for download at operamini.com. Opera has a huge following and is considered by many as the best mobile browser out there, although the competition has intensified recently. The company, Opera software, also licenses its products to consumer electronics giants like Sony or Nintendo. If you try it, let us know how ubergizmo.mobi looks on it! Send us photos to contact -at– ubergizmo.com. Thank you!
NEC has released its SP-NA640 device that not only faxes documents, it is also capable of sending handwritten text to a cellphone as well. Guess this adds a more personal touch to your messages instead of boring old SMSes, just make sure you have the artistic capability to justify its purchase. The diminutive SP-NA640 is also capable of sending an image document via email as well as sending over a colored document.
Vodafone has teamed up with Nokia to launch an integrated suite of Vodafone services, where it is combined with Nokia’s Ovi services across a wide range of Nokia handsets. This means consumers will benefit from a greater choice of communications, Internet services, content and browsing via a range of premium handsets over high speed 3G and 3G broadband networks. This agreement also ensures that a number of such cellphones will remain exclusive to Vodafone. Music lovers will be pleased to note that the Vodafone music service and Nokia Music Store will be made available to all of Nokias 2008 handsets.
Hitachi has just introduced its newest CinemaStar 3.5″ hard drives that come in varying capacities, maxing out at 500GB to offer the perfect balance between power utilization and performance. Not only that, 2.5″ variants are also available, making them suitable for use in sleek set-top boxes and portable digital video devices. The CinemaStar C5K250 and P7K500 have been specially optimized for use in home entertainment applications. The 2.5″ CinemaStar C5K250 boasts a reduced size, low power and quiet acoustics, making it suitable for use in portable media players. Is that a sign of a 250GB iPod in the near future? As for the 3.5″ CinemaStar P7K500, it will target full-featured set-top boxes or DVRs with multi-streaming functionality, with a maximum capacity of 500GB.
Oki Electric has just launched the first shielded high-bending resistance Cat.5e LAN cable in the industry, a development that achieves high flexibility and high-speed transmission for gigabit Ethernet use. This new cable aims to usurp conventional LAN cables that have low flexibility, making the latter difficult to transmit images over industrial internal wiring as well as high-sliding environments found in robots. Oki’s offering, on the other hand, uses a special cable structure with a high-flex design that boasts steady performance regardless of bending burden, making it possible to achieve high-bend, high-sliding and high-twisting performance that is ideal for use in moving parts.
Elpida Memory has successfully developed a 1-Gigabit DDR2 SDRAM based on new 65nm process technology, making it one of the smallest chip products in the world. This comes after Elpida mass produced the industry’s first DRAMs using the 70nm process technology in December last year, experiencing rather large amounts of cost reductions. Guess this move will see even further savings as 65nm production commences this December, with mass production to begin in Q1 next year.
