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• 19 March 2013

• News: Apple TV 5.2.1 brings redesigned Hulu Plus app, security fixes

  Hulu Plus lovers, rejoice: Apple's Apple TV 5.2.1 software update, released on Tuesday, brings a redesigned interface for the premium TV and movie streaming service. The update also patches a number of bugs involving the execution of unsigned code and security holes in the Apple TV's kernel.

• News: Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch resigns to work at Apple

  Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple, a one-time close partner of Adobe that became the most vociferous critic of its Flash technology.

• News: Wacom unveils Cintiq 13HD

  Artists, designers, and photographers seeking a compact, pro-level interactive pen display will soon have a new one to consider--the Wacom Cintiq 13HD. As with previous Cintiq models, you can draw directly on its built-in LCD screen with a digitizer pen.

• 13 March 2013

• News: Facebook, Twitter called out for deleting photo metadata

  Photographers turning to social networks like Facebook and Twitter to promote their work may be losing the legal rights to their photos because the sites are deleting the images' metadata.

• 12 March 2013

• News: AMD announces availability of its Elite A-Series APUs for notebook PCs

  AMD today announced the availability of its AMD Elite A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), formerly codenamed Richland. These processors, designed for use in notebook PCs, combine either two or four x86 CPU cores with a graphics engine derived from AMD's Radeon HD 8000 series of discrete GPUs on the same chip.

• News: Internet freedom advocates pleased with European Parliament backtrack on porn ban

  Net freedom campaigners celebrated a victory on Tuesday after the European Parliament decided against calling for an all-out ban on Internet pornography.

• 18 February 2013

• News: Windows Live Messenger to make way for Skype on 8 April

  Microsoft has confirmed it will replace Windows Live Messenger, aka MSN Messenger, with Skype on 8 April.

• 13 February 2013

• News: Product snapshot: Canon PowerShot G15 camera

  As point-and-shoot cameras go, there are two distinct categories. You can buy a point-and-shoot camera without a great deal of control -- these are made for people who just want to take photos, with no fussing around.

• News: Product snapshot: Panasonic LUMIX GF5 camera

  Micro Four-Thirds is a ‘mirrorless’ interchangeable lens digital camera system and lens mount family. If that all sounds a little daunting, here’s a simpler explanation: these cameras have big sensors (like chunky digital SLRs) stuffed into tiny bodies, because all the unnecessary and complicated pieces of their designs have been abandoned.

• 12 February 2013

• News: How to key a shot with Final Cut Pro X

  You've seen it in countless Hollywood movies. And it's easier than ever to do yourself. I'm talking about compositing: the process of combining a foreground subject and a background "plate" to create a single "composite" image. By shooting a subject against a colored background and then using software to remove the color, you can place your subject in any environment you like. This process is called "keying" or "pulling a key."

• 11 February 2013

• News: AMD promises to squash confusion and quickly clarify 2013 Radeon plans

  The graphics geeks were a-buzzin' this weekend, spurred on by an interview with an AMD product manager that suggests the company might not be releasing new Radeon HD 8000 series graphics cards until late in 2013--or possibly until 2014. Could AMD really be content to sit pat with the current Radeon HD 7000 lineup for the rest of the year?

• 07 February 2013

• News: Judge invalidates 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims in Microsoft case

  A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft.

• News: 33 expert tips and tricks for iOS 6

  Perhaps you are already an iOS master. Or maybe you consider yourself more of a novice. Either way, we feel confident that at least some of the tips and tricks for iOS 6 that we present below will be new to you. What's more, we hope you love them--and benefit from them--as much as we do.

• News: Nokia to launch 41Mp PureView Lumia smartphone

  Nokia is planning to make a 41Mp PureView camera Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphone.

• 04 February 2013

• News: The Cat Empire and more live and free from Internode

  As part of its sponsorship agreement with WOMADelaide, Internet service provider (ISP), Internode, will offer free, high definition live streams of key performances from the 2013 instalment of the event.

• News: Google and Mozilla hail WebRTC interop between Chrome and Firefox

  Developers now can create audio and video communications applications that work across the Chrome and Firefox browsers without the need for plug-ins.

• News: Expo Notes: Hyper launches CameraMator DSLR device at Macworld/iWorld

  Photographers love the freedom and flexibility of creating images, but when the shooting environment becomes complex, the folks behind the lens need all the help they can get. Hyper's CameraMator, a wireless tethered photography device, lets you see and remotely control your shoot from a distance on an iPad, iPhone, Mac, or Android device.

• News: Expo Notes: BuzzCard gives your blogs, podcasts that polished video edge

  Somehow, it doesn't look like a business app. But it is.

• News: Panasonic doubles color sensitivity of digital camera sensors

  Panasonic has developed a new way to drastically increase the color and light sensitivity of digital cameras including those used in smartphones.

• 01 February 2013

• News: Will.i.am talks tech, new phone accessories at Macworld/iWorld

  Hip-hop star Will.i.am is best known for his music projects, but the Black Eyed Peas rapper is branching out into tech.

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