Paris: A French court on Tuesday banned a gossip magazine from further publishing topless photographs of the wife of Britain's Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, and ordered it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple. The injunction granted to the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, as the couple are formally known, also prevents France's Closer magazine from selling the pictures to other media. The court in...
11:03 AM, Sep 19, 2012
San Francisco: Google has snapped up the digital photo editing service Snapseed as part of its effort to compete against Facebook's online social network. Snapseed is the centrepiece of Google's acquisition of Nik Software, which developed the service's photo-editing technology. The deal announced Monday gives Google a popular service that competes against Facebook's Instagram, whose tools are widely used to display, touch up and share photos taken on smartphones and...
10:52 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Dublin: Britain's Prince William and his wife are to make a criminal complaint against the photographer who took topless pictures of the Duchess and against the French magazine that published them, their office said on Sunday. The pictures have rekindled memories in Britain of the media pursuit of William's mother, Princess Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 while being chased by paparazzi. Britain's tabloid...
06:55 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: An early announcement by Adobe's Tom Hogarty, in an official blog post, confirms that Photoshop CS6 (13.0) will be the last version to support Windows XP. He adds that Photoshop CS6 does not support Windows Vista. "In addition, all subsequent Photoshop feature updates specifically for Creative Cloud members will no longer support Windows XP. Leveraging advances available on newer operating systems and hardware allows us to deliver significantly...
10:31 AM, Sep 16, 2012
London: Paparazzi, French media and a British royal: The publication of topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate has reunited the same players whose clash ended with the untimely death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Parisian car crash. William, who has long harbored a grudge against the paparazzi who chased Diana in the days and hours leading up to her 1997 death, was clearly infuriated. The royal couple...
12:09 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: An inquiry was ordered after a Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army filed a complaint that explicit photographs and videos of his wife were uploaded on the Internet by a serving Major. The inquiry is being headed by a Brigadier. Both the Lieutenant Colonel and the Major are presently serving in Army Aviation Corps in Bhatinda. If sources in the Army are to be believed, this is a...
10:14 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: If anyone told me four years ago I'd be writing about Sherlyn Chopra, I'd have asked "Sherlyn Chopra, who?" The odd child of a booming Indian social media scene, Chopra arrived blazing across the horizon, riding a popularity wave in the wake of a tremendous publicity coup she pulled over contemporaries, many of whom with little or no access to the magical world of influential Hindi film stars....
10:57 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: Kareena Kapoor was at her candid best during her interaction with the media at the United Arab Emirates for the promotion of her upcoming film 'Heroine'. She said she's definitely not as slim as she appears in some of the still photos from the film's posters and publicity material and mostly every picture is improved upon with the help of the Photoshop software. The 'Emirates 24/7' publication reported...
02:04 PM, Sep 05, 2012
London: Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton has vowed to support her brother-in-law Prince Harry through his naked photo scandal. The duchess has a close bond with Harry and told her husband Prince William they should pledge their full support to him following the incident, which saw him pictured nude following a game of 'strip billiards' in his Las Vegas hotel suite. "William called Harry straight away and gave him a...
12:45 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: Sherlyn Chopra is hopping mad at the Indian media for calling her 'sleaze queen', 'down market' and 'cheap' after she posted on Twitter pornographic images of a woman, thought to be her, masterbating with a cucumber. "Huge thanks to the media and others for titles such as 'wanna be', 'the queen of sleaze', 'down market', 'cheap', 'desperado', 'shameless', etc. Out of my 16 or 17 tweets which I...
10:41 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: Sherlyn Chopra seems determined to beat competition Poonam Pandey and Sunny Leone and she will stop at nothing. On late Saturday, Chopra, the first Indian to be featured on the cover of Playboy magazine, tweeted a series of pornographic images which she said she hoped would help her trend worldwide on Twitter. She gave fair warning to anyone likely to be offended by the images (of a woman...
10:26 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Coimbatore: Incidents during the past week at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Madras) have left me bewildered and worried. Not because a photographer colleague was assaulted on the campus but more so the way the institutes administration is mishandling the development. As someone who loved following the highs and lows in the higher education sector for nearly a decade, I am rather concerned about the drift in the IIT...
02:56 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Chennai: There seems to be no end to the flip-flops on part of the IIT-Madras management. While on Saturday they had clearly stated to media representatives in front of senior police officers that they would ensure withdrawal of the false complaint filed against The New Indian Express photographer Albin Mathew, this stand was reversed at a faculty meet held inside the campus on Sunday where professors were apparently told that...
02:27 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Chennai: The police have registered a case against six persons, including IIT-M Professor Maiya and five security guards of the institution, for assaulting Express photographer Albin Mathew. Both Mathew and Maiya were summoned to the Kotturpuram Police Station on Wednesday evening.After preliminary probe, a case was registered under Sec 147 (punishment for rioting), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506 (ii) (threat to cause...
07:51 AM, Aug 24, 2012
One of the super-hit script writers of last decade Ranjan Pramod's debut directorial venture 'Photographer' did not do well in the theatres. Though the movie featured Mohanlal in a double role, which had a very different backdrop and fresh story-lines,still it remains as one of the biggest flops of the star. And following its shock, Ranjan virtually kept himself away from the film industry doing nothing that he was famous...
01:49 PM, Aug 19, 2012
London: A man in Britain has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of raping a seven-year-old girl and taking photographs of his act. Policemen quizzed James Felton, 34, of Lancashire, after they were approached by school teachers worried about the child's behaviour, The Sun reported. He is said to have acted in "a moment of madness". Felton denied any wrongdoing but the officers recovered two...
04:11 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Noted fashion photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta passed away in Mumbai today following a heart attack. He was among India's leading photographers and his works have been published in prestigious magazines across the world. Prabuddha never received any formal education in photography, but he was determined to teach himself the technicalities of photography. He was among those rare Indian photographers who didn't hesitate in showcasing nude portraits, in 1996, he...
06:53 PM, Aug 12, 2012
