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• The ABCs of camera phone technology

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 11 May, 2012 20:15

  Camera phones have come a long way since the first sub-megapixel models of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Aside from being more broadly available -- there's barely a phone sold today that doesn't have a camera -- they've also become much less of a novelty and much more useful as cameras.

• APP OF THE DAY: Flickr

  By Patrick Budmar | 05 April, 2012 10:50

  The Flickr Web service has become invaluable to budding photographers to share their photos online.

• Ditch the PC for your scanning needs

  By Keith Shaw | 09 March, 2012 03:36

  The scoop: Xerox Mobile Scanner, by Xerox, about $250

• Windows Phone owners: no Windows 8 for you...yet

  By Ginny Mies | 01 March, 2012 03:32

  Microsoft showed off the Windows 8 Consumer Preview today in Barcelona on the third day of Mobile World Congress. As the PCWorld phone editor, the whole event felt incredibly familiar. XBox live support? Apps that work together? A dynamic start screen? It sounds a lot like Windows Phone.

• Flickr rolling out new look for viewing photos

  By Jared Newman | 23 February, 2012 04:19

  The Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr is about to get a makeover, with new interfaces for viewing and uploading photos.

• Storify launches iPad app

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 23 February, 2012 04:12

  Storify, a service that lets you curate content from multiple social networks to create a story, has launched an app for the iPad.

• Apple's Mountain Lion share menu lacks Facebook option

  By Cameron Scott | 17 February, 2012 12:41

  Apple's new Mountain Lion OS, which was previewed Thursday, includes a sharing feature readily available in most apps -- but users can't use the menu to share via Facebook.

• iPhone 4S already second most popular cameraphone on Flickr

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 23 November, 2011 04:46

  The iPhone 4S is already the second-most popular cameraphone used by Flickr members less than six weeks after its release.

• NYC developers to hack new photo apps

  By Joab Jackson | 18 August, 2011 03:28

  Hoping to spark some entrepreneurial creativity in the Big Apple, online tools provider Aviary has organized a New York City event for developers to hack together new photo-based applications.

• Google Gmail snafu lesson: Backup, backup, backup

  By Ian Paul | 02 March, 2011 03:49

  Gmail is hard at work restoring service to about 40,000 Gmail users after a software bug deleted their e-mail messages, folders, labels and filters. So, while things are looking good for those users affected by the bug, this episode proves, once again, that while Web-based services may be robust, you still have to take responsibility for your own data.

• Flickr user says site deleted 4,000-picture account

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 03 February, 2011 04:16

  A Flickr user says the site accidentally deleted his account -- with more than 4,000 photos on it - and can't recover it.

• Flipboard for iPad is much better now

  By Jared Newman | 17 December, 2010 08:43

  Clearly, I was in the minority when the Flipboard iPad app debuted last July.

• Telstra unveils machine to machine portal

  By Renai LeMay | 28 September, 2010 08:49

  It’s not just humans who use Telstra’s Next G mobile network to place calls and share data. Increasingly, inanimate objects — cars, vending machines and even digital photo frames - are doing the same. And Telstra hopes they will do it even more.

• Microsoft personal clouds to invade consumer markets

  By Matthew Sainsbury in Washington | 14 July, 2010 09:08

  For the first time at the 2010 World Partner Conference, Microsoft delivered a consumer keynote.

• Flickr revamps photo page

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 June, 2010 06:51

  Flickr has given a makeover to the layout of its site's photo display page, making the default picture size larger, revamping the navigation scheme and consolidating capabilities and information under fewer menus and sections.