Paypal is passé. Square is for squares.  There’s been a huge spike in the number of start-ups selling cool new ways for consumers to pay online. Many are pioneering new ways to get rid of credit cards altogether and allow us to just wave our smartphones at the till (NFC supported by mobile phone providers) or login on our phones to pay with selected retailers (TabbedOut). But we like our plastic... 

If you are someone who is deeply passionate about photography and like to express yourself through photography, you need not necessarily be a genius with the cameras. But, have you been recently spending sleepless nights wondering how to choose the Best SLR Camera in 2011? We understand your confusion considering the fact that current DSLR camera market is overcrowded with competitors. You can feel... 

Don’t be surprised if we say that the hottest camera phone this season is the iPhone 4; this has been confirmed by Flickr, a website with a vibrant community of serious photographers! As a matter of fact, iPhone 4, 3G and 3GS are the most popular camera phones beating HTC at Flickr. Meanwhile, point and shoot cameras are showing a steady decline. The most popular camera used in terms of pictures... 

DSLR (digital SLR) cameras are highly valued by photographers because of their resolution, sensitivity, versatility in the field, availability of a wide variety of objective lenses, night vision modules and because they allow an accurate preview of framing close to the moment of exposure. Many photographers also prefer DSLRs for their larger sensors compared to most compact digital cameras, now... 

It took 172 minutes on a rooftop to shoot 1655 overlapping 21.6 megapixel images and 94 hours to stitch them together. The result is not only a mind blowing 26 gigapixel view of Dresden, Germany, but also the world’s biggest photo. You can click on the image here for a slightly bigger version or follow the link for the super-dee-duper huge original interactive view, which you can scroll and zoom... 

The most remarkable news that thrilled everyone from the world of motion pictures and photography is the recent announcement from Sony – the development of a single lens 3D camera technology capable of recording natural and smooth 3D images of even fast-moving subject matter such as sports, at an unbelievable 240fps (frames per second). The combination of Sony’s new single lens 3D system... 

Evidently the most dramatic announcement of this month’s Apple event was the addition of video capability in the latest generation of the iPod nano. Think beyond music and photos; an iPod with video capturing and Gaming in it. A massive upgrade to Apple’s smallest-screened media player, adding very good video- and game-playing capabilities to the previously music and photo-only popular iPod nano....