Last week, Google and Samsung unveiled the latest flagship Android phone, the Galaxy Nexus. Packing a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED display, a uniquely curved display and running the new Android 4.0...

Read More: TNW goes hands-on with the Galaxy Nexus [Photos]

Nokia has finally delivered on its Microsoft promise and launched two new Windows Phone smartphones, introducing the new Nokia Lumia 710 and its sleeker, sexier cousin the Nokia Lumia 800....

Read More: Hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone [Photos]

Following the announcement of the Nokia Lumia 800, Stephen Elop returned to the stage at Nokia World to present a second Windows Phone device that the Finnish giant would aim...

Read More: Hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone [Photos]

We recently reviewed Photo Stats, a great little app which creates infographics about the photos taken with your iPhone. Now developer Dear Future Astronaut has compiled data from users of...

Read More: iPhone photos are usually taken at 4pm, and other interesting stats [Infographic]

Photos, Photos, Photos. Now that photography is all digital, we've got hundreds of them, sometimes thousands of them. With the iPhone, we're taking pictures of meals, our cats and dogs,...

Read More: Calling all startups! What are we going to do with all of these photos?

We've already introduced you to the Google+ Photo Importer which makes it easy to transfer hundreds of photos in no time from your photo sharing sites right into Google+ using nothing more than your iPhone. Dropico, the company behind Google+ Photo Importer, has just released a similar iPhone app, which makes it easy to get [...]

Read More: Facebook Photo Importer lets you transfer hundreds of photos in minutes

It would appear that Google's impending move to phase out Picasa and fold it further into the Google+ suite of tools is around the corner. As the blog Google Operating System points out the Photo link in the Google's navigation bar no longer links to Picasa Web Albums, when logged in to your Google account. [...]

Read More: Is Picasa about to officially become Google+ Photos?

crown.jpg In the social media world, content is king and photos (or diagrams, graphs or illustrations) act as his crown and jewels.Photos are a great way to introduce your topic, break up an otherwise overwhelming amount of text, support and enhance your content.  Also, did you know a tweet containing a picture link often has a click through rate five to ten times greater than a typical tweet?  Adding photos to yo [...]

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What if you could teleport to anywhere in the world, right now, to see what was going on there? That's the idea behind a new photo search app for iOS called Teleportd. While it obviously won't actually teleport you, it allows you explore photos being shared around the world on Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and PicPlz [...]

Read More: Teleportd lets you search photos shared on Twitter, Instagram and more in real time

What if you could teleport to anywhere in the world, right now, to see what was going on there? That's the idea behind a new photo search app for iOS...

Read More: Teleportd lets you search photos shared on Twitter, Instagram and more in real time

When I ask people why they love Foursquare so much, they increasingly point to the service 4squareand7yearsago, which sends a daily email with the subject line: "Where you were a year ago on October 07, 2010. " The email tells you what day it was, where you went and even what the weather was like: October 07, [...]

Read More: What Instagram photos did you take a year ago today? And7YearsAgram lets you know.

When I ask people why they love Foursquare so much, they increasingly point to the service 4squareand7yearsago, which sends a daily email with the subject line: "Where you were a year ago...

Read More: What Instagram photos did you take a year ago today? And7YearsAgram lets you know.

These photos were taken back in 2005 at ex-Apple designer Mike Matas' computer. They're a series of photos Steve took while testing Photo Booth. View them in their full glory here.

Read More: These photos will make you smile: Steve Jobs testing Photobooth

Last week, Facebook introduced one of the boldest makeovers to the Facebook profile page since the company's launch with the new Facebook Timeline. The updated profile provides a deeper look into your past, with navigation that lets you time travel back through the previous months and years spent on Facebook.

The most noticeable and eye-catching change to your Facebook profile, however, is not the Timeline navigation - it's the large banner-sized photo that's displayed at the top of the page wh [...]

Read More: Make Facebook Look More Like MySpace With Timeline Cover Photos From FBCovers

I don't have a lot of interest in taking the generally sharp photos from my iPhone and degrading the image to emulate the output from cheap cameras produced decades ago. There are, however, certain photographic and graphic effects that I do appreciate. One that I've long found interesting are filters that make photographs look like pencil drawings. One iOS app that produces what I consider to be stunning pencil drawing like modifications is free for a limited time.


Read More: My Sketch for iOS Produces Stunning “Pencil Drawings” from Photos. Free for a Limited Time

Twitter turned on the ability to share a photo on Twitter by attaching it to the an SMS text message.


Read More: Twitter Adds Support to Send Tweet Photos Using Text Messages

I have to admit my fascination with Tumblr. Though I don't post things onto my own very often, I love getting lost in a Tumblr spiral for hours. I read stories, I click links and I view pictures…but viewing pictures of Tumblr sucks. If you want to see the full size of an image, you'll do that in a new tab. For many images, it's completely unnecessary, and they're just begging for a lightbox.But integrating a lightbox to your Tumblr is a pain in the tail. Even though you can easily customiz [...]

Read More: Tumblrbox is a dead-simple solution for displaying your Tumblr photos in a lightbox

A few cool stats came across my desk this morning, from social media management platform Roost, that I thought were worth sharing. If you are trying to up your engagement on Twitter and Facebook, here are a few tips and stats to help the cause. These are not magic steps but they are still worth [...]

Read More: A Few Simple Tricks For Engagement: Photos, Questions, Quotations

Ihad a blast at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this week. Met startup CEOs, some new and old friends, marketers, grassroots journalists — and not a few tech pioneers. Here's my Flickr photo set of 80-plus photos — including actor/celebrity Ashton Kutcher (who'll be replacing Charlie Sheen on CBS's "Two and a Half Men," but [...]

Read More: Photos of TechCrunch Disrupt 2011

foursquare thinks its users ought to be in pictures — moving pictures, that is.

Read More: foursquare Asks Users for ‘I Just Checked In’ Videos, Photos