A recent report shows that Facebook holds 4% of all pictures ever taken. To be more specific, Facebook hosts140 billion pictures out of the 3.5 trillion taken in history. When you consider the timeline of photography, it really hasn’t become widely accessible to the public until a few decades ago. In the early 1900s, photography more »

We focus so much on smartphones and their applications these days, we tend to overlook the large number of individuals out there that haven’t made the switch to constantly-connected phones. In an effort to give those users a way to take advantage of Twitter’s features, the company announced that pictures can now be posted to Twitter by way of SMS.

Google is rolling out yet another service that is accompanied by a nicely put together video. The new service is called Google Business Photos and it’s now taking applications. Google Business Photos is meant to give businesses a greater presence online by giving potential customers a sneak peak into what the interior of a business looks like.

The BlackBerry Bolt Touch 9900 is expected to be announced officially by RIM at the upcoming BlackBerry World Conference. As you can see from the image above and below, it sports a portrait style physical QWERTY keyboard complemented by a decently sized touch screen display. It is expected to run the new BlackBerry OS 6.1, more »

There’s a new version of Google Picasa for Windows and Mac. There are plenty of new features – the biggest one is face scanning. When you load up the new version of Picasa, the software scans your pics and looks for faces. Underneath the faces is a spot for a name. Names can be autocompleted more »

Here’s a typical scenario. You take a bunch of pictures on your camera and eventually take that memory card to your PC with the intent of showing them off and eventually end up leaving them on your computer. Honestech has a clever solution for this scenario called the Fotobox. It is a flash memory card more »

When it comes to sharing pictures, the iPhone has lots of apps to handle that. Every other phone already has MMS to send photos to friends. Microsoft, a small start-up out of Redmond with a market cap of only $174B, is prepping its “My Phone” service.

The service, the name of which appears to be a “The Simpsons” reference, is supposed to take pictures from your Windows Mobile phone and send it to a Microsoft server. Then you or a friend can go to a Microsoft site and see the pictures. You will even have the ability to do some photo editing on the site.

Microsoft is offering 200MB of storage. It is widely believed that Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that “640k ought to be enough for anybody.” 200MB seems like a ton of storage, then. However, compared to most other services, 200MB is a paltry amount of space.

The service is still in beta, so there will probably be some changes before it is officially rolled out.

Dell just put out two videos promoting their soon-to-be released Adamo. One video focuses on the actual laptop and the other is much more of a teaser. The first video shows the Adamo being built by robots while the laptop parts floats in air. It has lots of spinning 360 degree shots with relaxed music more »

When it comes to cameras, there is a great big variety to choose from, from camera phones to point and shoot to those fancy SLRs. It seems like every company is trying to sell you on the fact that you need their model. So, how do you know which one is right for you?

It’s about you

What it boils down to is what you are actually going to be doing with your camera. Are you just going to be taking a few pictures to email to your friends of you guys hanging out in the dorm partying? Do you want one that you can use to take shots of little Johnny playing soccer? Are you into wildlife photography? Do you want one where it does all the work for you, or do you want to have full control over the settings?

There’s plenty more after the break. Gadgetell’s resident photography expert, Jodie Andrefski, lays it all out for you. Plus, get some tips on how to make any of your photos better.

BlackBerry Storm (front)

Executive Editor Adam Berger got his hands on the BlackBerry Storm. So here are some real, in the wild, shots of the BlackBerry Storm. We’re testing out the phone and will be back with some first impressions of the long delayed BlackBerry Storm. Plenty of pictures after the break.