PDA photo calculator updated
Britain’s Douglas Software has launched an enhanced version of its Photo Calculator software for PDAs. Photo Calculator 2.2.0 is designed to solve everyday optical equations in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
It will, for example, calculate depth of field, hyperfocal distance, image dimensions and angle of view. There’s a ‘resolution option’ allowing the user [...]
Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile Editor now available to Android developers
Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., announced third-party application developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to easily make it a part of their applications. In addition, Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 is available, providing users of the Google Mobile operating system with quick and easy photo-editing [...]
Boomers slowly warm to mobile web
Mobile imaging is a growing trend on smart phones such as Apple’s iPhone — but eMarketer reports that one key demographic has been slow to adopt phone photography: baby boomers.
“Boomers are underrepresented among smart phone users,” the research firm says.
According to the Pew Research Center, more than 85 percent of boomers own a mobile, but the [...]
ProCamera mobile app reaches U.S. market
Jens Daemgen, Mannheim, Germany, announced ProCamera 2.6, a leading European solution for the iPhone camera has now been released to the American marketplace, available for $2.99 in the App Store. ProCamera is a self-described, advanced iPhone photography application adding greater functionality and possibilities to the iPhone, by taking full advantage of all hardware and software [...]
Tiffen updates Tiffen Photo fx iPhone app
The Tiffen Co., Hauppauge, N.Y.,, announced version 3.0 of its Tiffen Photo fx creative effects software, for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Tiffen Photo fx 3.0 software available on the Apple iTunes App Store, now features 67 filters organized into 9 different groups and 780 presets, including filters sets previously available only as paid [...]
Ascend Media and Moblico partner to provide text couponing
Ascend Integrated Media and Moblico, both of Overland Park, Kan., signed an agreement to offer mobile promotions and couponing capabilities for corporate, non-profit and association custom media clientele.
With Moblico technology, Ascend will provide clients with a new channel of communication that allows direct marketing of information through sponsored text messages and mobile coupons. Moblico will [...]
Photobucket unveils Android app
Photobucket, Seattle, Wash., announced a free Android application providing a “full imaging suite” for mobile devices, complete with automatic upload, content management, and image search capabilities. The latest release reflects its recent merger with mobile imaging company Ontela, an automatic backup solution. It also allows users to browse their albums and popular photos from others, [...]
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7 Series
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., unveiled the next generation of Windows phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. For the first
time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers will be able to purchase [...]
Intel and Nokia team up for new software platform
Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., and Nokia Corp., Espoo, Finland, have announced plans to merge their Moblin and Maemo software platforms. According to a press release, this will create a unified Linux-based platform that will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, [...]
FlashPhix 2.2 Photo Lighting app hits the App Store
Phoenxsoftware, Haaltert, Belgiium, released of FlashPhix 2.2 for iPhone and iPod touch devices, adding new features to control the color of a picture’s lighting which comes in addition to the ability to control light and dark tones separately. The feature set turns FlashPhix into a perfect mobile Lightroom replacement and even enables iPhoneographers to apply [...]
