App updates, financial updates, industry notes and more
New apps and updates
- Fotomerchant HV v1.30 was released, including many updates to the Shopping Cart to further improve the user experience of ordering photos.
- Phase One launches Capture One CH for Windows
- Phase One advances IQ4 Infinity Platform with more photographer controls
- Painter 2020 from Corel features new streamlined workflow, GPU-based brushing, and convenient color selection
- Sony introduces live streaming for HXR-NX80 and PXW-Z90 camcorders with upgrade
- VueScan adds full support for 30 film scanners from Pacific Image Electronics
Rumours and reports from around the Internet:
- Kodak launched new design to print service, showcased 3D printing ecosystem, via 3DPrint.com
- How Photobox migrated 6 billion files to the cloud in just five months, via Techworld
- Photobucket still has your photos, and it wants you to come back, via the Verge
- How Best Buy tries to deal with a glut of cardboard boxes, the StarTribune
- Marco Photo Lab added e-commerce print products to its Capturelife workflow, via the Capturelife blog
- Fred’s Inc. is undergoing its third round of store closings, with 49 more stores, via Chain Store Age. Fred’s will have 244 stores remaining.
- Shipments begin for Insta360’s 11K Cinematic VR Camera, Titan, via Insta360 blog
- Masterpiece Graphix, the source for specialty substrates, has changed its name to MGX.
Tech developments to watch
- OPPO unveils under-screen camera tech at MWC Shanghai
- AI: Tech-powered personalised experiences the new normal, via the Edge Markets
- Canon has introduced new high-resolution sensors for industrial uses, via press release
- Sony to release two types of 4K-resolution CMOS image sensors for
security cameras, via press release - Fake photo editing apps on Google Play hid powerful MobOk Backdoor, via press release