Alongside improved signal processing, the main boon here is HDR video recording.

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And Zoho is already pushing into more sophisticated applications, offering customer-management and project-planning software alongside basics such as word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.

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And they will become increasingly prevalent (and also smaller) as information technology switches from pure electronics to so-called optoelectronics, in which light is employed alongside electrons for the carriage and processing of data.

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It can be patterned alongside a microprocessor, combining in one unit all the memory and processing power a PC, cell phone or personal organizer needs.

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