There were also reports that the authorities were closing Internet cafes, where people had been loading and transmitting images from their telephone cameras.
Refugees who made it to Tunisia said they had to cross military checkpoints, where they endured searches and often the confiscation of telephones, cameras and electronic memory cards before being allowed to leave Libya.
Now, he added, his three-year-old company is also studying ways to expand the application of its core technology to personal electronics, including cellular telephones, cameras, hand-held computers and general video displays for laptops and televisions.
Instead they were armed with what seemed like the latest in electronic gadgetry -- radio antennas, telephones, cameras and television sets -- and as such they were harbingers of the technology revolution.
OmniVision Technologies, which makes chips that run digital and mobile-telephone cameras, said yesterday that it might restate some results and that sales and profit in this quarter would miss analyst estimates.
Many an engineer can attest to the large effort required to design automatic gain controls in telephones, cameras, and radio transmitters.
It swallowed up the personal digital assistant, the gadget that defined the beginning of the last decade, and is eating through the landline telephone, digital camera, MP3 player and even the wristwatch.
In terms of "telephone, text, camera, apps and music" users she's probably right.
Many of those who saw the phenomenon telephoned the authorities after capturing it on mobile phone cameras.
