Wi-Fi

Panasonic has launched its latest compact system camera - or DSLM (Digital Single Lens Mirrorless) - the Lumix G6. Revealed roughly a year after its predecessor, the Panasonic G5 , it uses the same 16.05 million-pixel sensor but features a new Venus engine which boosts sensitivity settings up to...

Panasonic has unveiled its Lumix G6 compact system camera which will sit alongside 2012's G5 model. The latest model - dubbed a "DSLM" by the Japanese giant - comes complete with a 16-megapixel Micro Four Thirds sensor and all the bells and whistles you'd...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic has today launched two new cameras aimed at enthusiast use. If you've been shopping for an enthusiast compact, but you've been put off by the lack of a viewfinder, the Panasonic LF1 might be the camera for you. Let's face it, we don't all like shooting...

Panasonic has announced the Lumix DMC-LF1, the first in a new line of Raw-shooting enthusiast compacts. The LF1 marries the sensor from the LX7 to a longer, slower lens and adds an electronic viewfinder. The camera combines a 12MP 1/1.7" CMOS sensor with a 28-200mm equivalent F2.0-5.9 lens and...

Koubachi’s sensor looks something like an inverted golf club. From end to end, it’s about seven inches long. Most of that length comes from the metal pole that actually sticks into the soil, with a moisture sensor at the very bottom. The rest is an egg shaped plastic housing, which holds the...

Google will have to cough up €145,000 (£125,000/$190,000/AUS$185,000) to German data regulators for illegally gathering personal data , including emails and passwords, with its Street View cars. Google's cars captured data for the service between 2008 and 2010. During this time, it said that it...

Back in 2008, Google's Street View cars were happily driving around Germany, taking 360-degree photos and... collecting data from the Wi-Fi hotspots scattered around the country...

The Street View Wi-Fi snooping scandal has dragged for years, and Google said it will not appeal the German ruling. Christian Mayrhofer After years of deliberation, a German provincial privacy regulator has fined Google €145,000 ($189,000)—nearly the legal maximum of €150,000—over its Wi-Fi...

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When taking digital photos on our digital compact cameras , we usually have to wait until we get to a computer before we can view them in their full glory. Sure, digital cameras have LCD screens so we can review the photos we've taken, but due to their small sizes and low resolutions, it's not...