Europe starts antitrust proceedings with Google over Android: "The day Google feared has finally come: The European Commission has filed formal charges against the search giant for anticompetitive behavior related to Android. The European Union's commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, has been officially probing the platform, trying to establish whether Google was abusing its dominant position in the market by preventing or hindering competitors from developing Android forks, rival applications and services."

Nokia (and Symbian) had possibly a 20-year head start in mobile and they squandered it. The solution: blame Google. It's redonkulous. The same is true of Blackberry, which still owns the worlds most advanced OS kernel: QNX.

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Kodak resurrects Super 8 with a new video camera: "Kodak hasn't made a Super 8 camera since 1982, however the company announced on Tuesday at CES 2016 that it will debut a prototype video camera designed by Yves Behar that utilizes the venerable analog medium. Citing the preference towards physical media of many Hollywood directors -- including the likes of Steven Spielberg, JJ Abrams and Quentin Tarantino -- Kodak says that it will launch multiple Super 8 cameras, film development services and post production tools as part of its Super 8 Revival plan."

Back from the dead and ready to party!

Labels: Kodak, photography, Super8

Impossible Project debuts its take on the Polaroid cameraThe Impossible Project is releasing a new, old-timey instant camera on May 10th for people who want to be able to print their photos on the spot. It's called the I-1, and it works like Polaroid cameras of old, but with a modern twist.

Impossible not to love, yes?

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Apple planning 2016 'iPhone 7' to be thinnest yet, in-line with new iPod touch & iPad Air 2
Details on next year's so-called "iPhone 7" upgrade were shared by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities in a note to investors on Sunday, a copy of which was obtained by AppleInsider. His sources indicated Apple is planning to make the new iPhone between 6.0 and 6.5 millimeters thick.

Now the iPhone 4s is retro.

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Everything Google is rumored to announce at its I/O dev conference this week | VentureBeat | Dev | by Harrison Weber
After months and months of rumors, we got our first look at Google’s upcoming Photos service yesterday. Most importantly, the upcoming (and still technically unconfirmed) service won’t be baked into Google+ — this, in turn, fuels rumors that Google has lost faith in its floundering social network.

New from Google, it's Photos!

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New high-res shots of likely iPhone 6 ultra-thin metal frame surface | 9to5Mac
Some new shots of a purported iPhone 6 metal chassis have appeared on the web today. The images line up with previously leaked iPhone 6 design schematics, a blurry picture of a frame, dummy models, cases, and manufacturing components.

And the camera? As good as a Lumia I hope!

Labels: camera, iphone 6, polaroid

iOS 7 adoption ‘much slower’ than iOS 6, ad network says | VentureBeat - The most likely one is simply that iOS 7 is a much bigger update than iOS 6 was. It changes more, it looks significantly different, and it affects how iPhone owners use their devices much more than iOS 6 did.

I was going to throw out iOS 6 dev but I am rethinking it.

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