"If the tax office hadn't called, I wouldn't be where I am now, " laughs the 33-year-old, now president of Plaza Create, Japan's largest photo-processing chain, with over 800 shops.
It's a photo-op, but an informal swearing-in ceremony, and that's taking place actually this afternoon.
You might not know it from the war room's poster-size photo of a rhesus monkey slumped against a tree branch.
That's Google's own photo-hosting tool, and one of the best aspects of it is its ability to ingest and display metadata.
Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification.
For instance, one reason Washington is often surprised when countries like Pakistan test nuclear weapons is that other governments have a good idea what times of the day they are within range of U.S. photo-reconnaissance satellites, and so they conduct sensitive operations while the satellites are out of range.
The paper demonstrated the hypothesis through a complicated experiment in which college students were asked to make a judgment about something they could not know for certain -- guessing someone's weight in a photo -- before having their moods swayed either positively, negatively or neutrally by snippets from films intended to provoke either anger, euphoria or no strong feelings.
Photo Journals are clearly designed to take over Apple's now-defunct MobileMe photo galleries.
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On its face, it's a simple photo uploader -- but it's more than that, really.
The process involves ID verification using a passport, driver's licence with photo-card and a utility bill.
Once you send them your passport, driver's license and photo -- you've given them the tools for identity theft.
Following in its rival's footsteps, photo-sharing service Flickr - which is owned by Yahoo - launched its own photo filtering service on Wednesday.
There are many memories for me in this building, from nights in the BBC Club - including one where I ended up helping Frankie Howerd back to the head of light entertainment's office - through to photo shoots, and all the colleagues I have worked with.
He's seeking to obtain the assets of bankrupt Oriental Photo Industrial, Japan's first photo paper and color-film maker.
The Christian Science Monitor reported Thursday night that Carroll did not recognize the military's photo of al-Jubouri.
It has given its fans countless thrills, ever since Lee Petty (daddy of Richard) sped to the checkered flag in his Olds simultaneously with Johnny Beauchamp's T-Bird in a photo finish that required three days to sort out.
The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.
After getting our eager mitts on Nikon's long overdue D3 successor, aptly named the D4, we got a second chance to revisit our fat-bodied, photo-taking friend at the company's CES booth.
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If you snap a photo in the app, you can then edit it using all of Android's built-in camera features (cropping, color balancing, photo filters and borders).
By 1993 proud Kodak was playing catch-up to Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co.
If you want to know more about all the cameras on board, Wired has created a handy Photo-Geek's Guide.
The Mountfort boys are at the young end of the recommended age range for children's digital cameras, but their photo-friendly upbringing more than makes up for their shortness of tooth.
Beckham's schedule in China of meetings, photo-ops, and dinners won't likely offer many soccer-playing opportunities.
Twitter and Instagram in Apple's app store this week is a photo-sharing service called Snapchat.
If the status update is text-only, your friend's cover photo is used instead.
Bloggers also were spotlighting tools like Hipstamatic and Camera Awesome, as well as Twitter's own new photo service that includes Instagram-like filters.
"Offering the Q10 in 100 color combinations is a unique way for PENTAX to showcase its commitment to supporting photo enthusiast's creative self- expression, " said John Carlson, Sr.
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Casio's original Dynamic Photo function, which creates composite moving images using the camera's own high-speed image processing technology, now does even more.
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Next she flashed a photo of Microsoft's founding team--Bill Gates, Paul Allen and another nine of the geekiest dorks you've ever seen.
E-mail might work if it's a photo or two, but if the rest of Aerosmith had also been there, you might have to either pick and choose a few or send them at reduced resolution.
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