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Light field technology captures all the light rays in a scene, which allows photographers to focus a photo after it has been taken. In traditional photography, photographers have had to focus the camera first and then snap. Lytro cameras, the company claims, will be able to be perfectly focus photos after the fact, forever into the future.

Light field is defined as all of the light traveling in every direction through a scene, from the foreground to the background and everything in between. Light field cameras are able to capture the entire light field.

“We have something special here. Our mission is to change photography forever, making conventional cameras a thing of the past. Humans have always had a fundamental need to share our stories visually, and from cave paintings to digital cameras we have been on a long search for ways to make a better picture. Light field cameras are the next big step in that picture revolution,” Ng said in a blog.

Lytro was founded in 2006 by Dr. Ng. His research on on light field technology earned him the field’s top honor, the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for best thesis in computer science and engineering. After his educational research, Ng looked to figure out how light field technology could be applied in a commercial sense. This is how the path to Lytro began.

The company has already raised $50 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, NEA, and K9 Ventures. ...

Twitter, however, was far too busy yesterday to blow out candles. The micro-blogging site and communications phenomenon turned five and to mark the occasion, the world got tweeting – about Twitter.

“Twitter is five today. That’s like 80 in social media years,” wrote one of its 200 million users.

In the San Francisco offices of Twitter Inc, the privately-run company which owns the website, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey will have watched all this unfolding with a mixture of pleasure, pride and wonder at the effect his invention has had.

Today, it touches everything from politics and celebrity, to business, commerce, sport and education. There’s even a software programme which can predict the ups and downs of the stock market by analysing the mood of Twitter users from what they tweet.

Pop stars Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga have 22 million followers between them and any actor, sportsman or musician worth their sponsorship deal recognises the importance of having a Twitter presence.

Not that it’s always a good thing. The agents who deal with top footballers work hard to get over the “don’t drink and tweet” message – but judging by the number of times they see their charges’ comments splashed over the tabloids after a few beers, the message isn’t getting through.

Celtic footballer Charlie Mulgrew didn’t even have to pick up a smartphone. When bra tycoon Michelle Mone saw a young bo...

Village trustees voted Monday night to hire Evanston-based Teska Associates to move forward on the development of downtown Lake Zurich.

At the meeting, the consultant firm was asked to tweak its proposal to include more detail on project expectations and deliverables.

Among the newly outlined project objectives, which will not exceed $32,825, will be a financial analysis of the debt owed in the tax increment financing (TIF) district and an assessment of what type of development projects would be workable considering today’s economy.

The contract is good for 12 months, but trustees had questions on how long the project actually would take and why they weren’t spelled out in the agreement.

“Do we have a firm timeline for deliverables?” Trustee Rich Sustich asked.

“Are we looking at this taking until next summer?” asked Trustee Tom Poynton.

“Phase 1 for financial analysis will take two months, while the second phase, which is the Community Gap Analysis, will also take a period of two months,” said Dan Peterson, director of building and zoning.

Partners in the project with Teska Associates are Kane, McKenna and Associates and Business District Inc.

Kane, McKenna and Associates will conduct a review of the bond structure in the TIF district as well as debt repayment schedules.

The village is bracing for TIF debt payments to increase substantially in ...

Apple’s new iCloud service will allow iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users running iOS 5 and up to store their music, contacts, documents, and other data online. The service will also store a history of apps you download from the App Store and media you purchase from iTunes, allowing you to re-download items at any time.

Today Apple opened up iCloud to developers. If you have a developer account you can login atiCloud.com to kick the tires. In addition to online storage, the service provides a free “find my phone” feature which shows your phone’s physical location on a map, and a suite of web apps for email, calendar, and iWork, allowing you to view documents from your iOS device.

9 to 5 Mac has posted a series of images. Overall, the web apps look an awful lot like iPad apps, which is probably a good thing if you’re used to using iWork, Mail, and other apps on an iPad. On the other hand, if you’re not using a touch-enabled computer, the iPad look and feel might be a bit of overkill.

Users will get 5GB of storage for free, and anything purchased from iTunes doesn’t count against that limit. But if you need more space, Apple announced today that you can get an extra 10GB of data for $20 per year, 20GB extra for $40 per year, or 50GB extra for $100 per year.

IDC says Apple, Samsung and Nokia are the top three smartphone makers world-wide

ComScore: Google’s Android represents more than 40% of US market

Both surveys say Research In Motion continues to lose share

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Apple Inc. (AAPL) became the world’s largest smartphone maker in the second quarter, a recent survey said, as global shipments of all smartphones rose more than 65% from the same time a year earlier.

Apple’s iPhone accounted for more than 19% of the .

Celtic coach Neil Lennon seems to have the green light to prepare for European football this season
DOUBTS over Celtic’s participation in the Europa League group stages next week were all but dispelled last night when the president of Swiss side Sion admitted that his club is unlikely to be reinstated ahead of the opening match of the group stages.
The Swiss club’s place in the group stage of the competition was handed by Uefa to play-off opponents Celtic after ineligible players featured in their tie last month, which Sion won 3-1 on aggregate. Sion vowed to have the decision overturned, but they were dealt a double legal blow yesterday when they failed in a bid to initiate two court proceedings in Switzerland.
However, the club’s irrepressible president, Christian Constantin says they will continue the fight to be reinstated in the Europa League, and even raised the prospect of the Europa League being suspended. The group stage starts next Thursday, with Celtic scheduled to play Atletico Madrid in Spain.

The Parkhead club, who have already started selling tickets for their Europa League fixtures, also face Group I clashes with Udinese and Rennes. However Constantin is determined to cause as much trouble as possible for Uefa. Sion had until 11pm last night to appeal the decision to expel the club. But the club could also take their case to the Court of Arbitration in Sport and Constantin would not rule out further legal challenges. ...

ZURICH — Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has picked up a special honor for a body of work that includes this year’s Oscar-nominated “Biutiful,” the haunting tale of a cancer-stricken father.

The director acclaimed for movies such as “Babel” and “Amores Perros” received a Golden Eye award for career achievement Saturday night from the Zurich Film Festival.



It is the first time the festival has given one of its top awards to a Mexican director.

Inarritu’s movies have been nominated for 10 Oscars and feature his well-known style of interweaving several simultaneous plot lines.

The festival in Switzerland’s biggest city ends Sunday after drawing an estimated 45,000 visitors.

Zurich, Switzerland, October 30, 2011 –(PR.com)– Prior to joining Swiss International Commodities and Futures Exchange, Mr. Wilson McWood has a successful commodity and financial career at one of the most successful commodity brokerage firms for more than 12 years. During those times, he mostly spent his years of trading experience as Global Head for Emerging Markets. And lately, he was assigned as the Head of Forex Sales and Liquidity and assisted supervise the introduction of Forex products to the business entities’ global client base.

“I am very happy to be with this very promising commodity brokerage and trading firm at the same time excited to be helping the firm expand globally their foreign exchange business. Swiss International Commodities and Futures Exchange now allows its traders to undertake trade multi-asset under single trading platform. With my specialized expertise and knowledge in foreign exchange, I hope to expand Swiss International Commodities and Futures Exchange existing knowledge and expertise in the equities market to the foreign exchange market,” said Mr. Wilson McWood.

“We are very much delighted to have Mr. Wilson McWood as our firm’s Global Head for our foreign exchange practices and services. With the launching of our newest forex trading functionalities to Swiss International Commodities and Futures Exchange electronic forex trading platform, we intend to comply with the needs of our global clients with hed...

Zurich, Switzerland, by night along the Limmat River. (Rubiano Soto / Zurich Tourism)



If your travels take you to Zurich, Switzerland, you’ll save money with an $823 round-trip fare, which includes taxes and fees, from LAX on United or Swiss International.

You must buy your tickets seven days in advance and stay over at least one Saturday night for a visit that’s no longer than three months. The fare is available for travel Sundays-Thursdays between Oct. 30 and March 26, and you must return Mondays-Thursdays by May 15. The fare, as always, is subject to availability.

Reuters) – Logitech, the world’s largest computer mouse maker, issued its second profit warning in eight weeks, slashing its forecast for full-year profit and sales after a review by its acting chief executive, sending its shares down 12 percent.

Logitech, which also makers speakers, webcams and keyboards, said on Thursday it expected operating income of about $90 million for its 2011/12 year to end-March, compared with a previous target to meet or beat last year’s $143 million.

Citing the current weak economic environment in mature markets and the company’s product offering, Logitech cut its sales forecast to $2.4 billion from $2.5 billion, having cut it from $2.6 billion in July when announcing CEO Gerald Quindlen had resigned after weak first-quarter trading.

Chairman Guerrino De Luca was named acting CEO at the time.

The company said on Thursday gross margin in its fiscal third and fourth quarters should be well above the full-year average.

Logitech shares, which had lost more than half their value this year, were down 12 percent at 0932 GMT.