Instagram Gives Birth to Trendy Fashion Photographers

It is somewhat a little difficult to admit that Instagram, one of the leading iPhone applications for Twitter photo sharing, is popularly used for stylizing among street style photographers. Even more peculiar reality is that most of these fashion photographers were not so active before Instagram; most of the ‘well-followed’ photographers on Twitter are the ones who did not even have any experience of street style photography before they started using Intagram.

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“I started using Instagram about two weeks after it launched in the App Store and just fiddled around with pictures of my family and friends,” stated one of the photographer from NY, Anthony Danielle, who has acquired almost 18,000 followers with her username takinyerphoto. He said that “I’d see other people doing street work and thought, ‘I could do that,’ and I just started taking pictures of people on the street.” In addition to the amazing styling feature of the app, the experience is even more enhanced with the iPhone’s portability and camera reliability. Instagram has helped strengthen, rather develop, the hobby of Danielle which he never thought he’d end up doing. He claims that even the most darkest and useless photos he takes, are often ‘stylized’ into art with Instagram’s and Camera+‘s filters.

Kno Launches Its New Textbook App for iPad

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Just this Friday, Kno textbook app was released in the app store for iPad, this means discounted textbooks are now more convenient to get for the students. As the app description section in the app store states, Kno app is offering customers “the world’s largest selection of over 70,000 titles at 30-50% off the list price.” This 30 to 50 percent discount on the total price of the expenses of text books can mean a lot of money for a college student. The app is enrolled with already a full textbook and PDF reader with full integration. Additionally, the package contains a course manager, which is a feature that will allow the users to easily sort out their textbooks to keep them classified according to their courses and term. Moreover, miscellaneous features like the one-touch text highlighting, annotation capabilities, and the ability to “ask questions, post comments or share your location with study buddies,” are the selling points mentioned regarding the app in the Apple App Store listing.

RIM Keeps Losing Its Market Share to Apple, Google

According to the report of a recently conducted research, the analysts have declared that Research In Motion has laid off even more of its market share to the giants, Apple and Google, in the extremely competitive U.S. smartphone market than ever before. Now that the two mobile phone giants are attempting to cut price targets, it has raised even more concerns for the BlackBerry maker. Even this Friday, the shares of RIM kept on declining, as the research firm stated that the market share of company has been reducing constantly since three months now.

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Meanwhile the rapidly grown Android platform of Google has peaked up to a 36.4 percent shares in its value and Apple's iPhone increased to a 26 percent, whereas, RIM kept falling down and has lessened down to 25.7 percent from its 30.4 percent share last quarter. These statistics were published in the report of comScore, whereas it has lead to a drop of RIM’s position from second to third in the market. This on-going struggle of RIM is very much unlikely to get easier any soon, the upcoming new iCloud service of Apple is anticipated to cause even more troubles for RIM, predicts Sterne Agee analyst, Shaw Wu.

The shares of RIM, who was once the leader in the corporate smartphone market, have almost lost all of their value since Apple's iPhone and Google's Android software completely transformed the whole sector. The shares of RIM have gone 3.7 percent lower on the Nasdaq at $38.93, which is the first time they ever went below $40 since March 2009. Many analysts claim this downfall of RIM to be aided by its poor price targeting in stock citing concerns, increasing competition and uncertainty in the timings of launch of new product.

The new BlackBerry Bold, a touchscreen model of RIM, was actually announced to be released in "summer," i.e. somewhere early May. But this mobile is not even reaches the stores until September yet, pointed out the tech blog Boy Genius.