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The National Press Photographers Association explains how Chuck Kennedy made the picture of President Barack Obama taking the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States using a remote control camera.

He used a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a 16-35mm, f 2.8 lens and Canon’s wireless transmitter. The camera was mounted inside a Pelican case to baffle the sound and anchored with a Bogen arm.

The camera was wired via Ethernet for transmission through a DSL line at Kennedy’s position behind the platform. The camera was triggered via a hardwire to eliminate radio interference. The photographs were sent to McClatchy-Tribune via the Canon WFT-E4A transmitter immediately via DSL line and moved on the pooled wire within minutes.

BridgeWave, a 60 and 80 GHz backhaul vendor, was used to provide a network backbone for mission critical agencies such as the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police, FBI, CIA, Secret Service and National Guard.

T-Mobile has just made available the new T-Mobile Shadow all-in-one mobile device. The T-Mobile Shadow boasts of compact form factor and great features including support for T-Mobile Unlimited HotSpot Calling, fast processing power, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, and more. Available now under T-Mobile for $199.99 with 2-year service agreement, the T-Mobile Shadow will be available in White Mint and Black Burgundy.

The T-Mobile Shadows is the first Windows-based phone that supports T-Mobile’s Unlimited HotSpot Calling service. This gives you mobile coverage at home as well as unlimited calling through Wi-Fi networks. It also lets you switch between Wi-Fi calling and T-Mobile’s wireless network.

The phone was manufactured and designed by HTC and was equipped with a powerful processor to provide you with fast access and Internet connectivity. It also features a Wi-Fi web browser that lets you feed your discussions in real time. The phone also has an enhanced multimedia capabilities that provides top-screen way of sharing your music.

Other features of the T-Mobile Shadow include a slide-out 20-key QWERTY keypad, a 2-megapixel camera, mobile web surfing, picture-sharing, QVGA display, instant messaging and picture messaging, Bluetooth, and microSD card support. It supports copy/paste functionality as well. The phone also supports video capture and playback, and features downloadable content including Megatones, Wallpaper, HiFi ringers, and games. The phone also functions as a music player and easily syncs with Microsoft Outlook.

The T-Mobile Shadow provides up to 7 hours talk time and 7 days standby time.

AT&T and LG has just added a new sleek-looking multimedia device to the already saturated mobile phone market. The new LG CF360 is available now at AT&T for $29.00 after mail-in-rebate, and comes with the usual 2-year service agreement. If you are tired of the too complicated mobile phone devices that have recently come out of the market, the LG CF360 offer a simpler and yet powerful alternative.

The LG CF360 boasts of turn-by-turn GPS navigation feature through AT&T Navigator. This feature provides you with maps and real-time traffic alerts delivered right on your LG CF360 phone. For its multimedia entertainment features, the LG CF360 boasts of a 1.3 megapixel camera and camcorder, AT&T’s Mobile Music, Video Share and CV.

Aside from being a reliable mobile phone and a GPS device, the LG CF360 can also be used as a solid music player that supports music formats such as, MP3, AMR-NB, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA10. It also gives you subscription access to Napster mobile, as well as a facility for identifying songs that you are listening to.

For its messaging function, the LG CF360 provides support for the usual text messaging and instant messaging through AOL, Yahoo, and Windows Live Messenger. It also supports mobile email.

Other specs of the LG CF360 include, a 2-inch QVGA screen, 16 GB expandable storage, 3G/EDGE/GSM/GPRS/Bluetooth, downloadable games, media ringtons, and handsfree speakerphone. The LG CF360 is a quad band phone that gives up to 3 hours of talk time and 10 days of standby time. Via

The first time I’ve seen this. And it wasn’t there yesterday. An add in an iPhone app. It appears on iPage Rank, a free app I’m still trying out because it still has some bugs and has been getting updates.

In case you haven’t done this yet, you can take screen shots of your iPhone by holding down the home button and then pushing the top button.

Spotted on my iPhone screen via AppShopping, my latest “new apps” finding source, ReachMyFile, a remote file access service for your iPhone.

In their own words:

Look for files on your remote home or office computer and download those files to your iPhone or iPod touch or email them to a friend or colleague.

ReachMyFile is designed with privacy and security in mind. Your data stays on your computer or iPhone and is only transferred across the encrypted network link when you want.

The newly released Payback app at $ 6.99 is described an “a Grand Theft Auto-style game”, available in 6 languages.

Fingergaming gives it a good review:

Payback includes nearly all of the features and details seen in Grand Theft Auto’s early days, and comes complete with a similar overhead viewpoint. Players will carjack dozens of different vehicles and travel through 11 different cities to complete missions and cause a good deal of general mayhem.

Early App Store customers have given good reviews.

My take? The birds eye view ruins the game, the people are so tiny, you can barely see them. So basically the game is made up of cars and trucks that drive around and blow up (I couldn’t even figure out how to “answer the phone” (where is it?) – which gives you your mission). I’m familiar with the highly successful GTA video game, but I’m not a real gamer. So you may want to see for yourself. Check out YouTube demo.

Intel today released new software that let its Centrino 2 notebooks create personal area networks. The software lets notebooks create short range Wi-Fi networks of up to eight devices such as photo frames, cameras and printers in addition to its link to an access point.

EE Times explains the product is an effort to add value to Intel’s Wi-Fi chips. While some OEMs adopt the entire Intel chipset platform, others substitute Wi-Fi chips from Atheros or other suppliers.

Notebooks can already create personal area network connections with Bluetooth or other technologies. Startup Ozmo released a streamlined Wi-Fi chip geared for PANs in June.

The Intel software creates a virtual second Wi-Fi link on existing Intel 5100 and 5300 Wi-Fi chips used in Centrino notebooks. It taps the Internet Connection Sharing facility in Windows Vista to give the virtual personal area network a connection to the Internet.

Intel also released its so-called Intel My Wi-Fi graphical user interface to manage the net on Vista. The software supports a handful of Wi-Fi security protocols including WEP, WPA and WPA2, reports EE Times.

Sony joins the CES product launches with the announcement of its new Cybershot mobile phone – the C510 which was previously nicknamed “Kate”. What makes this new mobile phone in Sony Ericsson’s Cybershot series is the fact that it is the company’s first mobile phone to have the Smile Shutter technology, an intelligent technology which detects a person’s smile first before taking a shot.

The Sony Ericsson C510 Cybershot is a beautifully designed mobile phone in a compact classic form factor and comes in a very affordable price. The C510 features a 3.2 megapixel camera which features some great functionality that you normally find in mid-range digital cameras aside from the smile shutter technology. These features include face detection that can focus 3 faces at a time, auto-rotation for switching between landscape and portrait modes, pre-installed application that allows users to send photos to SnapFish for quality photo printing, quick access to YouTube, SMS conversation style for viewing SMS conversation history, slide in lens and auto focus.

Other features of the Sony Ericsson C510 include picture and video blogging functionality, video recording, media player, Access NetFron web browser with web and photo feeds, speakerphone, polyphonic ringtons, vibrating alert, video calling, email/MMS/SMS messaging, navigation key, auto rotate, 3D games, FM Radio, video streaming/viewing, Bluetooth connectivity, PC Synchronization, USB mass storage location based services such as geo tagging and Google Maps.

Specs wise, the Sony Ericsson C510 Cybershot definitely has a lot to boot as well including, a 2.2-inch TFT scratch-resistant main screen, 100 MB internal memory, memory stick micro support, 10 hours talk time, and 400 hours standby time and more.

The C510 Cyber-shot supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100. It is slated to be released anytime this first quarter and will be available in Black and Sivler Classic design.