SlideShow: Canon's PowerShot N camera at CES 2013

Photos by Alex Davies

Canon's PowerShot N is a small point and shoot camera designed to compete with the rising tide of smartphones that are pretty good shooters. Compact, easy to use and with a flip-out touchscreen the PowerShot N also has built-in WiFi which helps make sharing photos much easier. The Canon PowerShot N costs $300 and features a 12.1- megapixel CMOS sensor and DIGIC 5 Image Processor, the ability to record 1080p Full HD video and built-in Hybrid Auto and Face ID systems.

Instagram faces class action lawsuit due to Terms of Service fiasco

By all accounts, Instagram has had a landmark year. Massive adoption throughout 2012 as Instagram boosted its user base by 1,100% since it was purchased in April for $1billion. Instagram has even recently surpassed popular microblogging service Twitter in terms of daily users. Twitter had 6.9 million daily users in August, while Instagram had 7.3 million. Yet, Instagram ends the year on a sour note with backlash resulting from their revised Terms of Service (which they reverted) and now a class action lawsuit from users.

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Flickr offers 3 free months on Pro Accounts for the holidays

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

With all the recent falloout resulting from Instagram's ever wavering terms of service, Flickr has experienced a resurgence of sorts. A stunning new iOS app and Yahoo!'s renewal under CEO Marissa Meyer were just the beginning. Now Flickr is offering everyone 3 free months of free Pro Account service, go get it right now. Flickr will give unlimited uploads, the ability to post to 60 groups and many other features. 

Instagram expands to profile pages for users

"We're launching Web profiles to give you a simple way to share your photos with more people and to make it easier to discover new users on the Web," Instagram said in a blog post.

The profile pages will give Instagram's 100 million users a way to directly view and appreciate their shared photos on the web. A long awaited feature, web profiles can't be used to upload or post photos since that would alter the mobile nature of Instagram's image sharing focus.

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