Correction: Music publishers license guitar tabs for the Web

Please note that there was an error in last week's story about the licensing of websites to reproduce guitar tabs. Music publishers license guitar tabs for the Web reported that the tabs were being licensed by the Music Publishers Association. In fact a separate organisation, the National Music Publishers' Association, is licensing them through its subsidiary, The Harry Fox Agency (HFA). ...more

Digicam becomes jewellery

Fujifilm has announced a digital version of its curvy Q1 camera for ?100 inc VAT. Fujifilm's Christmas gambit will be available from November and will produce images up to 1,600 x 1,200 pixels in dimension. It uses a CMOS rather than the higher quality CCD sensor, but it's still a more than functional camera with Flash, red-eye reduction, 1. ...more

Kiiro camera - small in size and ambition?

Billed as the world's smallest, portable, easy-to-use, non-professional digital still camera, it's certainly all of these, as are most other Webcams. Spec-wise the CJ-100 is of Webcam proportions: it produces stills at a resolution of 350,000 pixels (that's a big chunk off even one megapixel, let alone the 2.1 muscle of today's non-professional consumer digital cameras) and records VGA video at 640 x 480 at 15 frames per sec, with no option to record sound. ...more

Google snaps up Picasa

Search engine Google has bought up Picasa, a company which sells some highly rated digital photo management software. 'Picasa enables users to easily manage and share digital photographs, and its technologies complement Google's' said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice president of Product Management. Founded in 2001, Picasa already has a relationship with Google's Blogger service to make publishing digital photos easier. ...more

YouTube speeds police hunt for murder suspect

A YouTube video has helped Canadian police find a man they believe responsible for a murder. Police in the Southern Ontario city of Hamilton said that they uploaded a one-minute, 12-second clip from a surveillance tape onto the video-sharing YouTube site. The video, which showed suspects arriving at a local nightclub for a Sean Price hip-hop concert, garnered media attention and was viewed more than 30,000 times. ...more