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Flash new threads for Android

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Adobe Systems has released version 10.2 of Flash Player for mobile devices, which addresses several shortcomings in the 10.1 incarnation.

Pulse: iPhone auteurs upgrade to iPad 2

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

First came Majek Pictures’ movies shot on an iPhone 4. Now the company has begun editing its productions on an iPad 2.

Google talks video, mini iPhones, Nokiasoft

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Google today unveiled Movie Studio, a new application for the upcoming Honeycomb era of Android tablets that lets people edit videos.

Nokia to use Windows Phone 7

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Microsoft and Nokia announced a broad mobile phone partnership today that joins two powerful, but lagging, companies into mutually reliant allies in the mobile phone market.

Zeiss, Schneider join Micro Four Thirds

Monday, February 7th, 2011

The new ranges of compact digital cameras from Olympus and Panasonic got a shot in the arm with the announcement today of future lenses from Schneider and Zeiss.

Flickr wipes out wrong account, reinstates it

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Flickr accidentally deleted a member’s account, including comments, favourites and thousands of photos, but now has given the photographer a 25-year Pro-level subscription and at least some of his photos back.

Phase One pushes ahead with 80-megapixel sensor

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Phase One, the Danish maker of high-end digital camera gear, announced a new top-end product: an image sensor with a whopping 80 megapixels.

Google pulling H.264 video out of Chrome

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

With its alternative WebM video encoding technology now entering the marketplace, Google has announced plans to remove support for a widely used rival codec called H.264 favoured by Apple and Microsoft.

Pulse: SanDisk debuts mammoth, costly 128GB flash card

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

The new Extreme Pro CompactFlash card coming to the US this quarter will cost an eye-popping US$1500 when it arrives.

Canon camera encryption cracked

Monday, December 13th, 2010

A Russian programmer has found a vulnerability in Canon’s OSK-E3 system for ensuring that photos such as those used in police evidence-gathering haven’t been tampered with.

Google’s Chrome Web Store near launch?

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

The Chrome Web Store, Google’s mechanism to bring online services and features to users of its browser products, appears likely to launch shortly.

Mac OS X update a win for photographers

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Apple’s release of Mac OS X 10.6.5 earlier this week carried some improvements for photographers: better performance, and support for raw photo formats from a handful of newer cameras.

Adobe Photoshop for tablets looms nearer

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

You can’t download Photoshop for your iPad yet, but the technology is getting close enough for Adobe Systems to begin showing what it’s got in mind.

CompactFlash sequel arrives: CFast

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Transcend, a major manufacturer of flash memory cards, has begun selling models built with the new CFast interface designed to succeed the CompactFlash format.

Adobe Max: mobile AIR and taming tablets

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Adobe Systems, whose software has been derided by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as a relic from a bygone PC age, is showing signs that it’s adapting to today’s computing realities.

Canon plans cine-friendlier lens upgrade

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Canon plans changes to its cameras and lenses to make them friendlier in cinema hands.

Hasselblad plans 200-megapixel camera

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

For those who find Hasselblad’s 60-megapixel H4D-60 camera a little too confining, the company plans to sell a 200-megapixel model in the first quarter of 2011.

Apple backs down on Flash-based app ban

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Four and a half months after an Apple licence change led Adobe Systems to scrap a project to bring Flash-derived applications to the iPhone, Apple has reversed the ban.

Browser-based games: Mozilla says the time is now

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Firefox and other up-to-date browsers are capable of running newly complex games, Mozilla argues, launching an effort to get programmers interested.

First impressions: Google Instant search

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

I’ve been kicking the tyres with Google Instant search, and so far I think it’s an improvement.