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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.

Xbox One Backwards Compatibility is Backwards, Says MS Exec is a post by Shawn Ingram from Gotta Be Mobile.Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft’s Xbox division recently said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that he doesn’t see a problem with consoles not having backwards compatibility as gamers don’t often take advantage of it. Mattrick claims that only five percent of gamers play older games on new consoles, which doesn’t justify the cost of building in backwards compatibility. In his eyes it makes more sense to put that effort into making the new console better. “If you’re backwards compatible, you’re really backwards,” Mattrick said. To back up Mattrick’s statements social media research group Fizziology said it found that only 12 percent of potential Xbox One customers would be unhappy if it lacked backwards compatibility. Read: Microsoft Xbox One vs. Sony PlayStation 4 Microsoft’s current console, the Xbox 360 broke backwards compatibility with the first Xbox when it came to store shelves back in 2005. Select Xbox games did work on the Xbox 360 through software emulation, but it seems that Microsoft found very few gamers that actually used the feature. So far Microsoft hasn’t announced any plans to use software to make Xbox 360 games to work on the Xbox One. Gamers who want to play those games will want to keep their older console around. That includes both disc-based games and Xbox Live Arcade games. The Xbox One doesn’t render the Xbox 360 useless, however, as Microsoft said during the Xbox Reveal event that it would talk about the future of the Xbox 360 at E3 next month. Microsoft isn’t the only one breaking backwards compatibility. The Sony PlayStation 4 won’t play PlayStation 3 games, though Sony said it will try to find a way to make it possible to play PS3 games using its Gaikai cloud gaming technology. The only recent console that supports backwards compatibility is the Nintendo Wii U which will play Wii games. The Wii U is closer in technology to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, however.Xbox One Backwards Compatibility is Backwards, Says MS Exec is a post by Shawn Ingram from Gotta Be Mobile.

If you are a Chrome user on your desktop computer, be sure to update to the newest version that was released this morning as it includes Google’s new conversational search. We first saw conversational search at Google I/O last week in one of the more impressive demos from the keynote, and have been waiting for [...] Video: Testing Out Google’s Conversational Search in Chrome is a... Click the post title to continue through and join the conversation!

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

Lenovo Horizon 27-Inch Tablet: Gaming Demo Video is a post by Josh Smith from Gotta Be Mobile.The Lenovo Horizon is a 27-inch tablet and all-in-one computer that offers a collection of great gaming experience and accessories that deliver a better gaming experience on the huge tablet. After sharing our first impressions on the Lenovo Horizon, we decided to dive into gaming on the tablet. Lenovo also calls this a Table PC, which works out nicely for gaming. There is a built-in battery that allows users to take the Horizon out of an office or bedroom and into a group setting without lugging a power cable along for the ride. There are a collection of included games and app[s designed to take advantage of the Horizon’s large screen and the great gaming accessories, which are included with each unit. These accessories are shown above, and covered in more detail in our Lenovo Horizon gaming video. Horizon 27-inch Tablet Gaming Demo Step into a world where tablet gaming takes over a full table and users get a real dice to throw, stickable joysticks and air hockey controls. From arcade style games to tablet top games like Monopoly and Texas Hold ‘Em, here’s a look at gaming on the IdeaCentre Horizon 27-inch tablet and all-in-one Table PC. It’s great to see that Lenovo is including the three accessories in the package, though we wish there were two e-die so that we could roll both die at the same time in Monopoly. In the video we take a look at the E-dice and Monopoly. This is one of the most addictive parts of the tablet. I’m a notorious Monopoly addict, but playing through a full game with a stubborn player like myself is tough. With this digital Monopoly we get the fun of rolling a dice, and we can easily save a game to play later. After one session my wife is already looking forward to playing Monopoly again on the Horizon, a rare occurrence on the many gadgets I review. The E-dice charges with a small dongle and connects wirelessly. We will be reviewing the battery life of the E-dice as we play more. It would be awesome to get Risk with E-dice support on the Horizon. Air Hockey is another fun game that comes with the Horizon, made more fun thanks to the included controllers that slide across the screen and don’t get stuck on the glass like a finger does. The stickable joysticks make controlling an arcade style game, like that shown in the video easier, and it’s more natural than all touch controls. While it may not replace the physical cards that some card players enjoy, the Texas Hold ‘Em app is a fun way to get up and running in seconds. The chips are set up and it’s possible to check your cards without showing off the hand to everyone. In short, it’s a fast, fun way to play Texas Hold ‘Em with friends. There is also an Android emulator called BlueStacks that brings popular games like Draw Something to the large 27-inch display. We’ll have more on this in the near future. We haven’t had a chance to check out the gaming performance of the system in Windows 8, but for users that want to play console games, there is a HDMI in that lets users connect a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 to the Horizon to use the large screen. In the future the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will also work with this since it is just an HDMI connection. Stay tuned for our full Lenovo Horizon Review.Lenovo Horizon 27-Inch Tablet: Gaming Demo Video is a post by Josh Smith from Gotta Be Mobile.

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

Pandora today announced a new form of Facebook integration for Pandora mobile apps on iOS and Android and the official Pandora web music player.Pandora sharing to Facebook has existed for some time, but the new social integration is "effortless," wrote Pandora's chief technology officer and executive vice president of product, Tom Conrad.Conrad wrote that Pandora activity can now be automatically published to Facebook, and that that activity can be integrated with Facebook's new music section."This means it's easier than ever to discover new music from friends' listening activity in your Facebook News Feed or by checking out the music section on their profile," he explained.Facebook music? What!?No, not a Facebook Music service - just a new tab of users' news feeds that catalogues musical tastes and activities.The music section was introduced in March when the social network revealed its latest Facebook redesign.Pandora is the latest music listening service to integrate with this new feature.Opt in (or out)Automatic Facebook sharing can be toggled on and off at will in the Pandora apps or on the website.Users can also customize exactly what they want to share."This new feature puts you totally in control of what's shared and the experience is entirely opt in," Conrad wrote."Music is a natural facilitator of connections between people and we're excited to help strengthen those bonds around all of the music you're discovering on Pandora," Conrad finished.