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RIM buys Swedish Video Editing Firm

Research In Motion said on Friday that it has acquired JayCut, a 7-person Stockholm-based company specializing in video editing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the announcement.

RIM said that the deal should boost the video chops of its products, noting that the PlayBook tablet already has dual HD cameras for video capture.

Video Editing Made Easier

Katie tests Adobe’s Premiere Elements 9 video-editing software program.
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IMovie for iPhone 4 Hits the App Store

As a prelude to the official launch of Apple’s (AAPL) new iPhone 4 today, iMovie for iPhone appeared in the App Store late Wednesday night. The $4.99 application, which requires a new iPhone 4 running iOS 4, adds some relatively feature-rich video-editing capabilities to the device and its new 720p-capable HD video camera.

A Windows to Help You Forget

Walter S. Mossberg calls Windows 7 a boost to productivity and a pleasure to use — Microsoft’s best operating system yet.
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Hello and Welcome to iMoviePhone…

As we head into the summer iPhone refresh cycle, the Mac rumor sites are fast pulling together a wire-and-string outline of what the device might look like. Last week brought with it reports that iPhone ’09, or whatever it might be called, will sport a 3.2 megapixel camera. Now comes news that it may support 802.11n wireless connectivity and video editing as well.
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Macworld ’09: iMovie ’09

Next up on the Macworld agenda: iMovie. The software has been given not just a refresh, but a full rewrite. We’ve added so much to iMovie this year, says Schiller, that iMovie will be the consumer video editing software to have. And that may turn out to be so.
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