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The weekly round-up

It's been a busy week for Google, what with swinging the axe over Picnik and coming under fire for its new updated privacy policy, not to mention Daphne Keller - one its execs - letting slip that she uses Flickr rather that Picasa (or Google+) at the Leveson Inquiry. Then there have been a couple of important copyright judgements in the UK; one ruled that occasionally the public interest is more [...]

3 days ago

When freedom of expression trumps copyright

Imagine the situation: you're the editor of a newspaper or news website covering the conviction of a mother for the murder of her child through neglect. The story is grim and gruesome, but you think that including some compare-and-contrast photos, showing the child in years gone by, happy and healthy, as well as in the hideous conditions in which he was left to die miserably, is in the public [...]

3 days ago

The Pentax Optio VS20, all geared up for vertical shooting

There might be a constant background wittering that compact cameras are dying, being overtaken by camera phones, but camera manufacturers haven't given up on them yet - far from it, when you look at the new releases announced at CES - and that includes Pentax, who announced the Optio VS 20 today. And I have to say, based on the spec, the VS20 is an alright little point-and-shoot. It has a [...]

3 days ago

Lytro + Apple = next thing in camera phones?

Late last summer I was sipping a beer with a friend when we began to muse over the question 'Where next for Apple?' Apple isn't exactly a company that's easy to second-guess, if it were, it wouldn't be where it is now. But hey, a touch of speculation is a fun way to spend a sunny afternoon. My friend laid his friendly pound on deeper app development, whilst I wagered, really quite unoriginally, [...]

4 days ago

Sony's sniffing around a stake in Olympus

It's all rumour and speculation right now, but the word on the Intergoogles is that Sony is negotiating a captial-and-business alliance with Olympus, which should help Olympus out of its current cash-flow crisis brought on by a financial scandal of epic proportions. The deal has been reported by Japanese business journal Diamond Weekly and suggests that Sony, which already has a 0.03% stake in [...]

1 week ago

Picnik's been rained-off by Google

When people asked me to recommend a free and easy editing suite to them, I'd answer 'Picnik' just about every time. It's helped me out of the occasional pinch before now, too. But from 19 April this year, no more. The sandwiches are gone, the hamper needs to be rescued, and the blanket folded away: Picnik, which was bought out by Google in 2010, is being washed away in an April shower. (If you use [...]

1 week ago

The weekly round-up

The absolutely inescapable news this week: the SOPA black-out and Kodak filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. But there's been plenty of other stuff happening, too. Here's the run-down. Camera talk Here is what it's like to use the Lytro camera: link (2012-01-20 by @Photocritic) The Canon S100. Easily the best compact camera in the world - now in stock over at Amazon. Whee! link (2012-01-17 [...]

1 week ago

Writing good press releases - a quick and dirty guide

Every week a stream of emails tumbles into my inbox attempting to convince me to cover numerous products, services, or projects that are somehow going to revolutionise the photographic industry, alter my life beyond my wildest expectations, or maybe even bring world peace. As a general rule, most of the literature that I get to wade through is well written and well pitched, so it executes its [...]

1 week ago

Bankruptcy protection for Kodak.

You can't escape it; it's on the BBC, the New York Times, on Reuters, on CNN; the tech websites are awash with it; and its headline news on just about every photography site imaginable, now including this one: Eastman Kodak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. (Its subsidiaries in other countries aren't affected.) The idea is that the company - which has reportedly [...]

1 week ago

CanvasDropr: probably not just another photo-sharing website

When I get an email asking me to take a look at yet another photo-sharing website, it usually elicits a small groan, a roll of the eyes, and I wonder just how SuperPixShare is going to do a better job than ShareSuperPix, which I looked at last week. If I end up writing about ShareSuperPix, then it has to be either fantastically unusual or breathtakingly terrible; which means that CanvasDropr, a [...]

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