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Adobe creates 3D view of subjects

December 3, 2007, 3:00pm PST

At the 6sight conference in Monterey, Calif., John Loiacono, senior vice president for Adobe Creative Solutions, demonstrates developing technology that constructs a 3D view of a subject from images collected on the Internet.
The Season to be Green

December 3, 2007, 3:00pm PST

Want to go green? We've got electric motorcycles, hydrogen toys and backpacks with solar chargers.
Change and expand a photo's depth of field

December 3, 2007, 3:00pm PST

At the 6sight conference in Monterey, Calif., Kevin Connor, Adobe Systems' senior director of digital imaging product management, shows computational photography techniques that lets a photo's depth of field be expanded or changed, or the photographer's vantage point be shifted.
Refocusing photos after they're shot

December 3, 2007, 2:00pm PST

At the 6sight conference in Monterey Calif., Ren Ng, founder of Stanford University spinoff Refocus Imaging, shows how his company's lens and software technology can change the focus settings of a picture after the camera has taken the photograph.
Would you Flip for Looj?

November 30, 2007, 5:03pm PST

Kara Swisher, a technology writer for The Wall Street Journal, shows us some gadget gift ideas for the holidays, including Looj, iRobot's robotic gutter cleaner, and Flip Video, a low-cost and family-friendly video recorder from Pure Digital Technologies.

Walt Mossberg: Gadgets for the holidays

November 30, 2007, 4:37pm PST

Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal's personal-technology columnist, gives his take on some gadgets for holiday shoppers, including e-book readers from Amazon.com and Sony, and the LG Voyager, set to compete with Apple's iPhone.
Zoho takes on Microsoft, Google

November 28, 2007, 12:15pm PST

On Working Webware, ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware.com's editor Rafe Needleman sit down with AdventNet's CEO Sridhar Vembu to find out about Zoho's office productivity suite and how the CEO plans to compete against Microsoft and Google. Farber and Needleman then analyze the company's business model and determine Zoho's chance for success in the emerging Web 2.0 office software market.
Greening the data center

November 27, 2007, 9:12am PST

John O'Brien, CTO of Dataupia, explains how carbon footprints are calculated in the data center and discusses ways to tame these power-hungry machines.
Kodak’s Web site charging 'outrageous' per-photo shipping fees

November 26, 2007, 11:59am PST

In this Technology Shakedown, ZDNet's David Berlind takes Kodak’s online photo gallery to task about shipping fees associated with print purchases that he calls ridiculous. Proving that the devil is in the details when it comes to shopping online, David offers some advice on how to approach online shopping with a grain of caution.
Green Tech 101

November 21, 2007, 10:50am PST

Adam Grosser, general partner of Foundation Capital, describes the different categories of green technology and the challenges they face.
NVIDIA Gamer Conference

November 20, 2007, 3:00pm PST

In a vacant hangar at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., hundreds of PC gamers spent the weekend competing in Nvidia's GeForce LAN 4 party. The big draw this year was Crysis, a title some fans call Electronic Arts' most realistic yet. News.com's Kara Tsuboi bids adieu to the sunshine and meets some gamers who prefer to bask in the glow of their computer screens.
The Green Enterprise: The City of Mill Valley, California

November 20, 2007, 1:42pm PST

On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber takes a look at green practices in the City of Mill Valley, such as a solar-powered pizzeria, an eco-friendly water treatment plant and a lumber program that re-uses wood from the city's fallen trees for bridge projects around town. He also talks with Mill Valley's green evangelist, Linn Walsh about the city's eco strategy.
Making biodiesel from cooking oil

November 20, 2007, 1:00pm PST | 1

At a seafood restaurant in Sausalito, Calif., they have no shortage of what could be tomorrow's fuel.
Say goodbye to your hard drive?

November 19, 2007, 9:19am PST

Box.net's co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie announces OpenBox, a new offering where existing online services are integrated directly into Box.net’s online storage service in turnkey fashion, without the need for software developers to mash them up for you.
Spotlight on 'seam carving'

November 15, 2007, 4:00pm PST

At the 6sight conference in Monterey Calif., Ariel Shamir, a visiting scientist with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, discusses "seam carving" technology, which lets an image be expanded or shrunk without distorting the important parts.