China Design Now, a major exhibition of contemporary Chinese design, opens today at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Carefully timed in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, the exhibition is the largest British exploration of contemporary Chinese culture to date.
Adobe has released updates to its Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, both available immediately as free upgrades for existing users.
Hewlett-Packard Monday offered a peek into future printing technologies, introducing a new inkjet printer that prints thousands of pages per minute and ink that retains its shine even when exposed to extreme elements.
Roxio is set to introduce Toast 9 Titanium, a new version of its disc burning software for Mac OS X. The new release will retail for $99.99, and will be available initially as a download, with boxed discs to follow later this month. Toast 8 Titanium users will be able to get a $30 discount on the new release.
Corel has launched DecoStudio, its first software produced in partnership with Wilcom International, a specialist in embroidery and decorations technology. Aimed at the apparel and promotional items industries, Corel claims that DecoStudio offers the industry's most comprehensive solution for multi-decoration design, combining the intuitive interfaces of CorelDRAW with the flexibility and digitizing quality of Wilcom ES.
Samsung Electronics hopes it can extend its leading position in the computer monitor market into the printer and laptop PC sectors this year, a senior executive said Monday at the Cebit trade show in Germany.
The Apple Time Capsule, which was announced during Macworld Conference & Expo in January, has begun shipping. Notifications of the shipments began reaching customers that pre-ordered the device early this morning.
Eizo will launch the latest addition to its ColorEdge LCD range, the CG301W, at this year's Focus on Imaging Exhibition. The 30-inch LCD includes several high-end features such as a wide colour gamut, 12-bit hardware calibration, and picture-by-picture that the company says is suitable for a wide range of professional graphics applications such as digital photography and soft proofing.
Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.2, an update that addresses several common complaints regarding some new Leopard features, while also adding new features and fixing numerous bugs.
HP has blazed a new trail in green IT by recycling plastics to produce its inkjet printer cartridges.
What will the biggest technology changes be for the next three years? By 2012, consultancy and research firm Gartner predicts a groundswell for open source, Apple products, new mobile technologies and green IT. It's a vision of the future that Microsoft won't love.
The latest issue of Digital Arts will be on sale February 7, 2008. This month's packed issue feature top tutorials to follow along with in Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
As the centerpiece of Corel's Graphics Suite X4, CorelDraw X4 ships with significant new features that, while not flashy, are practical and worthwhile.
Canon has launched the EOS 450D digital SLR, which features a 12.2 Megapixel CMOS sensor, a 3.0-inch LCD with Live View mode and a new 9-point AF system.
In addition to its update of After Effects on Tuesday, Adobe has released updates to InDesign and InCopy CS3.
Some Apple customers who bought the company's AirPort Extreme router are angry that the new Time Capsule backup appliance introduced last week leaves them on the short end of the backup stick, according to messages posted on Apple's support forums.
Apple Tuesday unveiled Time Capsule, a new product designed as companion hardware to the Time Machine automatic backup feature that highlights OS X 10.5.
GridIron Software has announced GridIron Flow, new digital content management software for creative professionals working on graphic design, Web, and video projects.
NewTek has released version 1.5 of its SpeedEdit video editing software. The company says that this version builds upon the industry's fastest workflow, providing innovative new tools, improving file format support, speeding up workflow and dramatically improving integration with other video applications by allowing SpeedEDIT projects to be imported directly into almost any other application without time consuming rendering.
FXhome has released PhotoKey, a new greenscreen and bluescreen compositing application for Mac and PC that the company says is designed specifically for photographers.