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Michael Dell snaps up Magnum photo archive
185,000 historic prints bound for University of Texas Michael Dell’s investment tentacle, MSD Capital LP, has acquired the Magnum Photos agency’s extensive print archive for an undisclosed sum, Bloomberg reports .…
Continue reading »Snapture iPhone App Now Allows Sharing via Twitter And Facebook
Many iPhone users are probably familiar with Snapture, one of the most popular paid photo apps for the brand. His developers upgraded it a few days ago and its new features will make it even more desirable as they include the ability to share photos on social networks like Facebook or Twitter (which has become almost a must for a top photo app), a new tap-to-focus capability, and also various color modes (black & white, sepia, negative). With all these included, the offering seems to have been pretty attractive at $1.99, the current price of Snapture as it has reached 700,000 downloads already.
Continue reading »Orb goes Mac – at last
Photos, music via little fluffy cloud Orb, the Slingbox-in-software app that allows you to access your music, TV and photos on any device, has finally unleashed its long-awaited Mac version.…
Continue reading »Teens Sue High School That Punished Them for Racy MySpace Pics
Two Indiana teenagers have sued their school district after they were punished for posing suggestive photos on MySpace. The girls, tenth-graders at Churubusco High School in Churubusco, Indiana, say they were humiliated after the school banned them from fall semester extracurricular activities, and forced them to apologize to the all-male Athletics Board — composed of varsity coaches — and attend three counseling sessions. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed the proposed class-action suit on behalf of the girls and all present and future students at the school who participate or may participate in extracurricular activities.
Continue reading »Mash-ups, sampling, probably OK! Britain
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When the media refer to Britain’s efforts to impose harsh measures, on behalf of Hollywood and the major record labels, against people accused of sharing with each other online, they have his lordship Peter Mandelson as the author. However, let’s be clear on this: he’s just the front man for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures, as are Nicolas Sarkozy in France and the heads of other governments acting against their own citizens at the behest of a set of hardcore commercial entities which answer only to their shareholders and investors. So when paidContent says “Lord Mandelson’s three-strikes proposal,” it’s wrong.
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