How can other industries use photography? Robert Mathewson, CEO of Geedra, explains how he is bringing smart photography to the construction business, and what intelligent imaging can do for the photography industry.

SmugMug is a premium online photo sharing site that has branched out with its own mobile imaging app, one that substantially improves photo capture on the iPhone. Co-founder Don MacAskill tells us why the company took up software development and how it’s benefitted the company, and discusses the impact of social imaging on photography.

How can phones handle multiple megapixel photos? With technology from imaging software developer Scalado. What is coming next from the innovative company? For that we turn to chief technology officer Sami Niemi.

Personally Printing Everyone’s Pictures and Using Pinterest to Spur imaging interest. Kodak has added support for the Pinterest image sharing serve to its Gallery app for Android. A recent survey shows 28 percent of Kodak Gallery users say they have joined Pinterest, Kodak reports. Here to tell us more about Android, Pinterest and how pooling photos together to let everyone make prints from everyone else’s image can boos printing revenues — is Kodak Gallery Vice President of Products Mark Cook.

There has already been a surprising amount of activity in the camera market this year, with new many models launching in less than three months. Here to provide some perspective on image capture is Infotrends Group Director Ed Lee.

Magisto's technology completely automates video editing. It debuted as a web service and in a partnership with YouTube — but now it's available as an app for the iPhone, turning that device, the company says, into "the world's smartest camera." VP of Products Roy Klieger explains how the company started, what it offers, where it is going — and what it can do for you.

Combining a picture with a 3D model of an object of even a building used to be a difficult task requiring a powerful desktop computer. Now a new app from Limitless Computing can do it on your iPad or Android phone, showing you what an architect's model will look like — while you are standing in the propsed building site. SightSpace 3D can even send the composited image to a client from the phone, or generate a 3D video. What's next for on-the-go Augmented Reality? Dr. Errin Weller and Jeffrey Franklin fill us in.

The What the Duck comic strip has been called, “hands-down, my absolute favorite cartoon on the planet. Period. It is the one strip that makes me laugh out loud every time.” by Scott Kelby, Award-winning Author and Editor-in-chief of Photoshop User magazine. Watch everyone's favorite photo-centric comic strip take the stage, as Aaron Johnson describes his serendipitous journey from photo hobbyist to syndicated cartoonist and published author. Get ready to sit back and laugh as Johnson entertains audiences with ve-plus years of fan favorite strips, the inspiration behind those comics, and insight as to why the photography business is ripe for humor. Aaron covers the all too familiar issues with the industry and explains why sometimes the best thing we can do is shake our heads and laugh. It's one-part stand-up, one-part presentation, and all parts LOL.

Phones snap up photo usage from cameras More than a quarter of all photos taken are now captured with a phone. The share of consumer photos captured in the U.S. taken on smartphones has grown to more than a quarter of all shots snapped, while the camera proportion has declined, reports market research company NPD Group. Here to tell us all about the Imaging Confluence Study is NPDs senior imaging analyst Liz Cutting.