Matt Richtel and Brad Stone report for The New York Times:
“SAN FRANCISCO — Housing prices in Silicon Valley remain defiantly high. New BMWs and Saabs cruise Highway 101. But for the first time there are signs that the current economic downturn is taking its toll on the country’s cradle of technology and innovation.

Job growth [...]

From DPhotoJournal.com:
“WATSONVILLE, CA, April 7, 2008 ExpoImaging Inc., developer of innovative camera accessories, including the ExpoDisc Digital White Balance Filter and the ExpoAperture2 Depth-of-Field Guide, today announced the U.S. availability of Ray Flash: The Ring Flash Adapter. Designed as a portable and lightweight adapter for a hot-shoe flash unit, the Ray Flash replicates [...]

Reported by Daryl Lang for PDNonline.com:
“Updated 5:20 p.m. with results from later auctions Tuesday. Big-spending bidders set several auction records Monday night at Sotheby’s, where a collection of 19th and 20th century photography raked in a total of $8.9 million. Photo auctions Tuesday brought in another $8.4 million in bids. At the [...]

Philip Gefter reports for The New York Times:
“THE soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the red tiles roofs of Italy. But always the eye is drawn to the distinct line where sky meets [...]

By Zach Honig of PopPhoto.com:
“A group of young students in the rural mountain village of Eal Keshan, Afghanistan were given the opportunity to share a glimpse of their lives with strangers worlds away.
Concern Worldwide, a non-profit humanitarian organization focused on improving the quality of life in third world countries, provided the donated disposable cameras that [...]

The Associated Press reports:
“NEW YORK (AP) — A primitive image believed to be taken decades before what is widely considered to be the dawn of photography has been pulled from an upcoming auction to allow further research as to its authorship.

The image of a leaf was scheduled to be sold at Sotheby’s next [...]

Carol Vogel reports for The New York Times:
“The fifth-floor rotunda of the Brooklyn Museum on a recent afternoon was strewn with a curious array of body parts. Resting on a mover’s blanket was most of “Miss ko2,” a busty blond waitress whose jellyfish eyes stared up at the ceiling (and whose white-painted fiberglass bosom [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“ROCHESTER, NY.-The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film opened the exhibit Conscience The Ultimate Weapon through June 1. A new interpretation of the 1968 Eastman House exhibition featuring civil rights and Vietnam-era photography by Benedict J. Fernandez. More than 800 photographs are part of Conscience The Ultimate Weapon, being presented during [...]

Editor & Publisher reports from the Associated Press:
“NEW YORK Ten years ago this week, a U.S. military search team digging into a steep mountainside in southern Laos found camera parts, film, broken watches and bits of wreckage — proof that a South Vietnamese helicopter had been shot down there in 1971, a UH-1 [...]

Posted by Daryl Lang of PDNOnline.com:
“Major upcoming events and contest deadlines:

FOTOFEST2008: March 7 to April 20 Houston, Texas, plays host to FOTOFEST2008-CHINA, the Twelfth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art, [...]