Dell releases the super-slim Vostro V13

The Dell Singapore site today listed a new notebook aimed at business users called the Vostro V13. This 13.3-inch portable is incredibly slim and has a hinge design not unlike the original Adamo notebook from the same company.

The V13 is equipped to accommodate Intel ULV processors ranging from a Celeron 743 to a Core 2 Duo SU7300, depending on the configuration. It's 16.5mm at its thinnest and has a starting weight of 1.59kg with a non-removable 6-cell battery.
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BlackBerry App World now offers themes

BlackBerry devotees now have an easier time snazzing up their smartphones.

"Themes" is a new download category in the BlackBerry App World, both on the online catalog and on the App World app you can download to the BlackBerry. There were just shy of 150 free and premium visual themes at launch, including animated themes.

App World took a few extra seconds to update when we launched it to check out the offerings. Otherwise, the minor application update was a smooth transition.

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A video frame for your picture

Traditionally, the pictures on magazine covers are usually shot as still images. But recently, some publications are using a single frame from high-resolution video footage for the picture. For example, a recent shoot for a TIME magazine cover was a video reel shot taken with a Red One camera, and a single frame was selected to be printed as the cover image. Men's magazine Esquire did something similar with Megan Fox, and they used the same high-resolution videocam.

One advantage of employing this method of shooting is that you can choose a precise frame (among many) which looks the best. Also, you don't have to be constantly making sure that the lens is in focus or be fiddling with other controls. Instead, you can concentrate on the subject and then select the best frame thereafter to be used as a normal picture.
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Google's real-time search debuts

Google announced recently the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results.

Amit Singhal, Google fellow, introduced the real-time section during an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. "We are here today to announce Google real-time search," Singhal said, calling it "Google relevance technology meets the real-time Web."

Twitter search will show the latest matches for a particular search term, but Google wants to do more than sort results by time. "Relevance is the foundation of this product," Singhal said. "It's relevance, relevance, relevance."
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Google Goggles lets you search by sight

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google's first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone. On Monday, Google announced the ability to perform an Internet search by submitting a photograph.

The experimental search-by-sight feature, called Google Goggles, has a database of billions of images that informs its analysis of what's been uploaded, said Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering. It can recognize books, album covers, artwork, landmarks, places, logos, and more.

"It is our goal to be able to identify any image," he said. "It represents our earliest efforts in the field of computer vision. You can take a picture of an item, use that picture of whatever you take as the query."
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