Author: ShinyJess
Five gadgets under threat of extinction
This great photograph has just landed in the Shiny mailbox – a tricky photo to take, requiring a top-end camera, surely? Apparently not. This picture was taken using a mobile phone, specifically the Nokia N8. The photographer is Jason…
The Royal Wedding app – it had to be from the Mirror
It's here – the Royal Wedding app. For £1.19 you get 10 chapters of royal love history, with lots of photos, videos and audio narratives from the paper's royal correspondent James Whitaker. There app takes you all the way…
Samsung notebooks do not come with keylogging software after all (false alarm)
It must have been a rough day for the Samsung PR department when security researcher Mohamed Hassan brought forward allegations of keylogging software coming as standard with certain notebooks. Hassan claimed to have found the StarLogger keylogger software in…
Mad science Coffee Joulies cool your drink right down (and keeps it warm)
Dependant on the black stuff to get going in the morning? Me too. Here's a little something if you are finding it too hard to wait for your coffee to cool down enough for it to be drinkable (or…
Microsoft Hotmail embeds LinkedIn, Posterous and more into email service
The Active Views project is intended to keep users in Hotmail when they get a link to other sites. So if you get a picture link sent to you from Flickr, say, you will be able to see it…
Need a girlfriend? There's an app for that
And a popular one it is too: "Due to high demand we are only able to accommodate a limited number of users on this site. Register early to get in line." This is the welcoming message on www.cloudgirlfriend.com -…
A Facebooked life: how our lives are documented by social networks (video)
This little time-lapse video is the work of Martin Luere, brought to us by New Scientist. The film charts a life on Facebook: setting up the account, falling in love, being caught cheating, breaking up and then finding someone…
We don't want internet on the Underground, say Londoners
It's a high-pressure situation already, travelling on the Tube when it's packed. Do we want to add internet connection to this hotpot? No, we certainly do not, was the answer in a recent study. 55% do not want Transport…
The iPad will fail, claims Dell
The pressure of the open enterprise market means the iPad will be overtaken by Windows- and Android-based tablets, is the bold prediction from Dell. Andy Lark, global head of marketing, told CIO Australia: "[Apple has] done a really nice…
Skype installs its first phone booth
Now this is an interesting concept – Skype phone booths. The project is underway – the first booth has been installed at Tallinn Airport in Estonia. Travellers can use the booths to place calls using Skype credit, in the…
