apple archives (58 posts)
Apple's War on Nudity: 500px and ISO500 apps pulled, January 22, 2013
Apple's war on nudity has two more victims: the 500px and ISO500 apps were pulled from the iTunes store because someone could have perhaps seen nude pictures in the search results. The Apple paranoia is this: the only way to...
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Bankruptcy Judge okays sale of Kodak patents to Apple & Google Frenemies, January 11, 2013
The bankruptcy judge overseeing the case has now approved the sale of Kodak's imaging patent to the frenemy duo of Apple and Google for about half a billion dollars. Details via Bloomberg News and CNet.com and Engadget et al.
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Settlement: Apple vs Photographer on Retina image usage, January 9, 2013
From the Good News desk, the Apple vs photographer retina dispute is now settled according to court documents as shown at CNet.com. Swiss photographer Sabine Liewald was suing Apple for license misuse of one of his retina images. Now it...
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Frenemies Google and Apple jointly bid for Kodak's patents, December 8, 2012
Kodak's ponderous tome of digital imaging and other related patents has received a bid of over half a billion US dollars by two frenemies: Google and Apple. This decidedly frenemy jointed bidding favors both companies and may perhaps be a...
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Mobile Noise: DxoMark goes crazy, reviews the iPhone 5, 4S, 4, iPad, Galaxy S3, S2, PureView 808, December 5, 2012
Apparently the people at Dxomark replaced their water intake with coffee because they published seven mobile camera reviews in just four days. They reviewed the iPhone 5, 4S and 4, the "new" iPad, the Samsung Galaxy S III and II,...
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Mobile Noise: iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, App Reviews, etc, November 12, 2012
Photography keeps getting mobiler and mobiler (for lack of a better word), so now that there is a break in the action, this is a good time for a new Mobile Noise round-up. Please note these are intended to be...
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Software News: new DxO Optics Pro 8, Apple DCR 4.01, FCP, P1C1P, October 24, 2012
On the digital imaging front, we have new versions of the following software: + Dxo Optics Pro 8 with press release parade at Photography Blog and Photoscala.de and Imaging Resource and dpreview + Apple RAW 4.01 with support for some...
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Apple announcement: iPad 4th generation, 7.9-inch iPad mini, 13.3-inch Retina MacBook Pro, uber-thin iMac, etc, October 22, 2012
If you are a fan of Apple, there was a big announcement today, Tuesday October 23 2012 at 1pm New York City time. The various technology and gadget blogs covered the event live-blogging-style including CNet and Engadget and The Verge....
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iPhone 5 users discover Lens Flare and Deep Purple, October 7, 2012
With millions of new iPhone 5 users all around the world, it was only a matter of time before some of them pointed the camera outside on a sunny day, and they discovered, the hard way, lens flare and deep...
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Sensor News: iPhone 5 sensor by Sony, new Panasonic 1.12um mobile sensor, September 23, 2012
And now a quick catch up with the latest sensor news. The iPhone 5 retail release mania is hard to ignore, and just about every tech site is reviewing or doing something with the iPhone 5. iFixit and Chipworks decided...
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iPhone 5 available for pre-order (with Sept-28 delivery estimate), September 14, 2012
The new iPhone 5 (announced on Wednesday), a not-camera camera, is now available for pre-order on a two-year contract for $200 (16GB) or $300 (32GB) or $400 (64GB) at Apple and AT&T and Verizon Wireless and Sprint. No-contract prices are...
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(ENDED) IncrediBooth: the premium FREE app of the week (iTunes), August 23, 2012
This weekly free-premium-app promotion expired! If you have a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, then you may be interested in the new free premium app of the week at the Apple iTunes store - it is IncrediBooth, which, as...
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Newsbytes: new Fuji lens factory in Philippines, 80m EFs, etc, August 20, 2012
Another wave of newsy items have filled up the buffers, time to empty the newsy buffers: + Fuji planning to open a new factory processing and assembling lenses for digital cameras, mobile devices, CCTV cameras in the Philippines - via...
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99c iTunes super-app: AppZilla 3 includes 17 camera/photo related apps, August 13, 2012
If you want to get your iTunes app fix without breaking the bank, the new AppZilla 3 super-app (iOS 5 or later) is available for 99c on iTunes. Obviously you are not going to find Photoshop Touch caliber apps there,...
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(ENDED) Free on iTunes: 360 Panorama (get it before Thursday), August 6, 2012
This limited time app of the week promotion ended! Free time now! The current featured premium app of the week offered for free at iTunes (USA iTunes store) is 360 Panorama by Occipital, available in English and German. This is...
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