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  • News: New version of Manga Studio captures comic art in color

    Comic book artists have long depended on Smith Micro's Manga software to draw, lay out, illustrate, and publish Japanese-style manga comics and similar artwork. Manga Studio 5, a new upgrade, promises an even greater degree of creativity and functionality.

  • News: Macworld contest winners: iPhone panoramic photos

    First, we gave some tips and pointers on how to make the most out of iOS 6's panoramic photo feature, and then we asked our readers to submit their best shots. Boy, were we impressed! We received more than 300 entries for our latest Macworld contest, and were blown away with the beautiful photos we receieved. Beaches, sunsets, football stadiums, bridges, cities, and tons of gorgeous landscape shots flooded our inbox, making this a particularly difficult contest to judge.

  • News: BBC iPlayer booms on mobiles as PC popularity fades

    The BBC’s iPlayer service served a record-breaking 2.32 billion programme requests in 2012, but it was mobiles and not PCs driving the boom, the BBC has reported.

  • News: ITU group OKs H.265 video standard to cut bandwidth use in half

    An ITU group has approved a successor to the H.264 video encoding standard, opening the door to future video transmission using only half the bandwidth that's now required.

  • News: Vine's blocked Facebook search rooted in larger trends

    The blocked Facebook friend-search feature on Twitter's new Vine mobile video app may be an annoyance for users, but it's all part of the social networking game.

  • News: Twitter launches Vine for sharing quick, looping videos

    Twitter on Thursday released a new, video-focused iPhone app--replete with a social network of its own. If a tweet is 140 characters and a picture's worth 1000 words, a six-second video of the sort you can create with Vine must be worth 144,000 words or so, by today's exchange rates.

  • News: Twitter announces Vine for video

    Twitter has announced a new mobile video sharing service, called Vine, designed to allow users to connect through short video clips in a fashion akin to tweeting.

  • News: Twitter announces Vine for video

    Twitter has announced a new mobile video sharing service, called Vine, designed to allow users to connect through short video clips in a fashion akin to tweeting.

  • News: Groups raise questions about privacy on Skype

    Skype owner Microsoft should release information about how much user data it gives to third parties, including government agencies, several organizations and individuals said in a letter to company officials.

  • News: Access Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings in your Netflix library

    If you're a Netflix junkie like I am, you're no doubt always on the lookout for ways to make the service better.

  • News: Microsoft's Azure-based video streaming service goes live

    Microsoft continues to expand its cloud offerings with the general availability of Windows Azure Media Services, which lets enterprises skip building their own infrastructure for streaming on-demand video.

  • News: Netflix draws fire for Open Content campaign

    Netflix was taken to task on Wednesday by Time Warner Cable for seeking preferential treatment from cable TV providers for its Open Connect network that delivers Super HD and 3D streaming content to users.

  • News: AT&T adds Polycom's gear to Cisco's for its collaboration service

    AT&T will expand its Business Exchange collaboration service by adding Polycom back-end infrastructure to complement the Cisco Systems technology it's been using for several years.

  • News: US DOJ did not entrap Megaupload, the agency says

    The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agency said in a new filing in the case.

  • News: With cable-cutting on the rise, so is mobile streaming live TV

    Big, shiny HDTVs are generally among the major stars of CES, and this year is no exception. But in our always-connected lifestyle we'll occasionally want to take our TV content with us--and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are becoming increasingly attractive options.

  • News: Netflix offers Super HD streaming to Cablevision, Google Fiber users

    Netflix is bumping up the quality of many of its instant streaming titles to what it calls Super HD, but you won't be able to enjoy it unless you are with a certain U.S. Internet service providers.

  • News: Up close with Canon's tiny, Wi-Fi-enabled PowerShot N

    Canon's headline camera announcement at CES 2013 is a unique little point-and-shoot that boasts a tilting touchscreen, built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, and somehow, an 8X-optical-zoom lens (28mm to 224mm). All those things are packed into a camera that isn't too much bigger than a short (and hinged) stack of Saltines.

  • News: B&O Play unleashes new speakers and TVs you probably can't afford

    Let's just get this part out of the way--B&O Play products are expensive. And they also happen to look and sounds pretty great. The sister company to Bang & Olufsen brought some fancy new toys with it to CES this year, including a new HDTV and some lovely in-wall speakers

  • News: SnapBox turns your smartphone photos into works of art

    Capturing a photo on your smartphone and sharing it with friends is the easy part. But what about turning those shots into printed works of art? Joining the throngs of mobile photo printing services is SnapBox, which offers an easy way to get your photos off your phone and onto your wall. The end result is a unique gallery-wrapped photo mounted on a canvas frame.

  • News: Adobe denies 'free' CS2 downloads are a giveaway

    Adobe has responded to links to freely downloadable versions of Creative Suite 2 saying that if you don't own CS2, you shouldn't be downloading them.