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The Memorial Day weekend sales are just around the corner, and already B&H Photo has taken an early start by offering the 64GB Sony SDXC Class 10 UHS-I for $36.50 with free shipping. You can buy up to ten cards at this per unit price. (I do not know when this expires). Expiring most likely at 1am eastern on Thursday May 23 in 2013 is another Woot-OFF. Camera gear are typically offered, but prices and product names are not known before hand, so YMMV... Expiring on May 24 in 2013 at 9am central time is a Woot Plus Camera Sale that includes new-condition Samsung NX1000 with 20-50mm for $300 and new-condition Pentax K-01 two lens kit (18-55, 50-200) for $400. Shipping is a flat $5 for everything you buy from Woot during a central time zone calendar day. Expiring May 28 in 2013 is a 20% off coupon discount for REI members that includes the $400 GoPro Hero3 Black edition. If you are not an REI member, a lifetime membership has a $20 one-time fee, so you can still save by getting the GoPro Hero3. This is an intermediate level deal, more details. Thanks to one of our readers for the email alert! Expiring on May 31 in 2013 is a Calumet 25% off sale on most of their house brand products including their lighting products, tripods, monopods, bags and cases, ProSpecs and more. Look for the red sale sign at the Calumet Front Page. This is an availability alert, not a deal. If you are interested in the Olympus E-M5 but do not want to get any of the zoom lenses included in the standard kits, a new option has arrived at B&H Photo, a Limited Edition Olympus E-M5 with the 17mm f1.8 non-pancake prime lens going for $1400 with free shipping. For the latest camera specials and in-stock alerts, check the Cameras Deals blog. Republication of this RSS feed on any website or blog or app is prohibited and violates the terms of use of this RSS feed. This text comes from the RSS feed of 1001noisycameras.com. This full-text RSS feed is provided as a service to our loyal readers for their personal use. Republication fees start at $1000 per month and will be billed to violating websites.

Wal-Mart plans to use big data about a customer's usual shopping to automatically create shopping lists for them on its mobile app.That's one of the tools the world's largest retailer plans to use to improve the in-store shopping experience as it looks to mobile-influenced purchases outpacing e-commerce sales, said Gibu Thomas, Wal-Mart's global head of mobile, in a CTIA Wireless keynote speech Wednesday."The future of retailing is the history of retailing, of a personalized interactive experience for every customer delivered through a smartphone," Thomas said. Citing independent studies of the U.S. market, Thomas said in-store buying influenced by mobile use was on track to be about twice as big as e-commerce sales by 2016.Mobile already drives about one-third of the traffic to Walmart.com, spiking to more than 40 percent during the holiday season late last year, Thomas said. The store's smartphone app also boosts buying: Customers who have the app make more trips to Wal-Mart and spend as much as 40 percent more there, he said. A majority of Wal-Mart's customers have smartphones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Verizon Wireless is partnering with singer and actress Jennifer Lopez in creating a U.S. retail distribution company that will offer Verizon's devices in stores and online destinations designed to appeal to Latino consumers.The new company, Viva Movil, is majority owned by Lopez and represents a partnership between her, device distribution company BrightStar and Moorehead Communications, Verizon's largest mobile retailer. Its first store will open at an undisclosed location in New York on June 15. By year's end, Viva Movil will have 15 stores around the country.At a press conference Wednesday at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas, the partners said they are aiming at what they described as a huge and growing U.S. Latino market of 52 million.Latinos in the U.S. have a population growth rate of 43 percent, far above that of the overall population, and have unique characteristics as consumers, said Lopez, who is also Viva Movil's chief marketing and creative officer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Saving a destination in Google Maps makes it easier to navigate to and also lessens the chance for error when entering or trying to remember an address. Nick BarberSaving a destination on Google Maps makes it easier to navigate to it later. The starred waypoint will sync with all of your Google accounts. Destinations can be starred from a mobile device running Google Maps or from the Web. After searching for an address or location, click on the pin for the destination and switch on the star icon. Starred destinations will be synched across all Google accounts and devices. Starred destinations are easier to find and will type ahead on both mobile and desktop versions of Google Maps. Starring locations is a good idea for local errands and for vacations and business trips to other states and countries. When traveling to a place with unreliable mobile data reception or expensive data rates, it’s also a good idea to save an offline version of Google Maps. Once in the application on a mobile device, press the options button and select “make available offline.” Pan and zoom the map until the area to be downloaded is highlighted. Click “done” and the map will be downloaded to the mobile device and be able to be used when mobile data isn’t available. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google is launching a new fund through which it will make later-stage investments in technology companies, a Google executive said Wednesday.The fund, to be called Google Capital, will be announced this summer but has already made three investments to date, said Mike Pearson, a general partner at Google Capital, at the Red Herring 2013 conference in Monterey, California.Google already operates a fund, called Google Ventures, through which it invests in startups working in areas like mobile computing, gaming, big data and life sciences. Google Ventures has funded more than 150 companies to date, including Nest and DocuSign.While Google Ventures tends to make early-stage investments in companies, the new investment arm, Google Capital, will be aimed at the "growth equity side of the market," Pearson said during a panel at the conference.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the country, a new report recommended.About US$300 billion worth of intellectual property is stolen from the U.S. every year, with 50 to 80 percent of the theft coming from China, according to the report, released Wednesday by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, a bipartisan group of former government officials and business representatives.The U.S. government needs to take a series of strong measures to protect U.S. IP because current measures are ineffective, commission members said. The U.S. needs to make it much more costly for nations to encourage IP theft and for companies to engage in it, said Jon Huntsman, co-chairman of the commission and former U.S. ambassador to China and Republican presidential candidate.Chinese industrial polices focused on acquiring science and technology "encourage IP theft," Huntsman said during a press conference.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Less than a day after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stirred up a firestorm of criticism for comments some felt were disparaging of professional photographers, she took to Twitter to offer several rounds of apologies to her followers. Indeed, nearly every tweeted reply in the last 24 hours from Mayer's Twitter account had the word "apology," "apologize," or "apologies" in it. "I worded my answer terribly. I really apologize for what it sounded like outside of the context and notion of Flickr Pro," one of Mayer's tweets read. Here's... (read more)

There have been some pretty sick shots captured with Freefly Systems' MōVI camera stabilizer since it launched last month but here are a couple that nearly got away. In the below video from cinematographer Vincent Laforet, which was captured with a Red Epic "Infra Red" camera attached to a MōVI, you'll see two impressively stable shots meant for the original test reel that never made it in. The first one, which starts at the 2:45-minute mark in the video, is a long tracking shot captured at 48 frames per second at 5K with a Red... (read more)

As anyone who works long hours and has a pet probably knows, your critters can get lonely and frantic if there's no one around to play with them. Some folks hire dog walkers, others get more pets so they can keep each other company. But a Ukrainian startup is aiming to change that, with a small box that'll let you see, talk to and play with your pets, no matter where you are in the world. The Petcube is planned to be a 10cm (3.9-inch) cube, that houses a Wi-Fi connection, wide-angle camera, speaker and microphone and, of course,... (read more)

By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy.But while that sentiment remains true, technology trends, generational shifts in the workforce and changing demands from end users are forcing CIOs to go further and fundamentally rethink their roles, according to members of a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan CIO Symposium on Wednesday.Rather than make broad decisions about a company's technology strategies and purchases, CIOs should act as "brokers," thinking of themselves as middlemen between users and the services they want or even create, said Michael Golz, senior vice president and CIO for SAP's Americas division.Golz described SAP's internal "app gallery" which contains mobile applications developed by employees. SAP checks the applications' security, tracks and measures their adoption and makes some of the most popular ones part of the official company roster. An employee-built application for single sign-on was among those that made the cut, Golz said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here