The Joby GorillaPod Micro takes the weak link out of using a tripod: You and me. Tripods, even tabletop modes, are infinitely useful but they’re also clumsy and often just something else to carry. Not the Micro 250. This diminutive model is designed to stay on your camera and deploy when needed. Three legs...
The European Commission has criticised social networking sites for failing to do enough to protect children’s privacy. In tests carried out by the Commission on nine sites, only two had default settings which made minors’ profiles available only to their approved contacts – in other words, profiles for kids that are public by default...
Despite Sony Ericsson’s evident commitment to Google’s operating system, the company was rumoured to be investing into the Windows Phone ecosystem and tipped to release smartphones running Microsoft’s new mobile operating system. However, in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg poured water on speculation that his company...
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sony Ericsson President and CEO Bert Nordberg made a number of interesting statements about the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Motorola. Defending the decision to pick Android as the choice operating system for its mobile handsets, Nordberg posits that it was ‘the best choice they could...
Image: News Corp. See Also: Murdoch: The Daily Will Cost ~$56 Million To Run In Year One The Daily Continues To Hemorrhage Money Here Are The Best iPhone And iPad Apps You Missed This Week Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper, The Daily, has 80,000 paying subscribers, according to publisher Greg Clayman, Michael Learmonth at Ad...
The BBC is producing a new Doctor Who Adventure Game called The Gunpowder Plot, featuring a cast including Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill and Ralf Little, who’s playing the role of Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes was part of a group of English Catholics who planned to blow up the House of Parliament over...
With Amazon only charging $200 per Kindle Fire, it’s widely assumed the company is taking a major loss on each device sold. That might not be the case, after all, according to a new estimate of the cost of Kindle parts by UBM TechInsights, which says the Kindle Fire’s parts are $150 in total....