Tag: Daniel sung
PROFILE: Mark Zuckerberg – CEO of Facebook, bitch!
For a man in charge of the planet’s largest social network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has his private life very much under wraps. Oh, he’s got an FB profile but you can’t even ask to be his friend. It seems the 706 he already has is quite enough.
My next port of call was Twitter. I wasn’t sure if he’d be fraternising with the enemy. I’m not even sure that Twitter is the enemy. I don’t even think either of the two companies know that. Anyway, I looked all the same and after a little bit of research and weeding out of the phonies…
Samsung to launch app store at MWC 2009
Samsung will be announcing its very own app store at MWC. I’m sure I was saying something about the importance of this kind of thing just a few hours ago?
It’ll provide programs for phones on the S60 and Windows Mobile platforms when it launches with 1,100 applications…
Top 10 Tuesday/Wednesday: 10 things to look for in a mobile phone
The launch of the very tasty Toshiba GT01 has got me thinking. What is it I’m after in the perfect phone? Well, what with the choice of handsets these days being about more than having polyphonic ringtones, and section 2 subcategory B of Sod’s Law stating that you can’t have everything, I thought it might be a good time to prioritise, especially with MWC 2009 just around the corner.
So, here we go then. The Tech Digest top 10 features to look for in a mobile phone as according to me and with all the subjectivity and bias I can muster. In reverse order…
SHINY PREVIEW: Toshiba TG01 snapdragon smartphone
You’ve read the specs, now see it in action. This, tech heads and gentlemen, is the Toshiba GT01 touchscreen smartphone that is poised to knock the socks off one and all when it hits the shelves this summer. Yes, it’s got a decent camera; yes, it records video; yes, it had Bluetooth and yes…
Toshiba lays the smackdown with Snapdragon-powered TG01 smartphone
Who cares about MWC 09 around the corner when when Toshiba goes and blows us all away with an announcement like they did not one hour ago? The Toshiba GT01 is the smartphone that’s going to be on everyone’s lips, hands, ears, mouths and just about every other fleshy part you can stick it.
Why? Well, because it’s essentially taken a look at the iPhone, filled all of the gaps and added a few Tosh twists all of it’s own. The lowdown starts here. First up is the obvious one and that’s the 4.1-inch WVGA LCD that just happens to use the same technology as the high end Toshiba Regza TVs…
GALLERY: the 24x zoom Nikon P90 super-compact and the latest from the Coolpix range
To begin with, I was a little upset that it wasn’t the D400 SLR that Nikon announced today. I was getting bogged down with a few of the familiar Coolpix product codes and then I noticed the Nikon P90 bridge-type camera – not quite a compact and not quite an SLR.
In reality, of course…
TECHNOLOGY DEATHMATCH: Camera phone shutter clicks vs no camera phone shutter clicks
Not your traditional Technology Deathmatch today but when I saw this post on Wired last week my hackles were raised to the point of crowbaring the issue into my regular Monday feature and, well, here we are – cameraphones: should they have to make a sound when the shutter is released, or shouldn’t they?
See, the deal is that it’s already the case in Japan and they’re looking to make it so in the States after Republican Congressman of New York, Peter King, asked for a new bill to force all mobile phones sold in the US to have no option of a silent camera click. The idea, of course, is that you can’t then take photos of people…
Nottage Design G1 – the transparent glass pool table in the boozer of your dreams
What do you get for the man who has everything? Why, the Nottage Design G1 glass top pool table, of course, to replace his other one which costs a little less than the AU $39,900 (£17,585) you’d have to pay for this.
Final year student at the University of South Australia, Craig Nottage, has shown us all that baize is for losers by fitting the top of the table with a patented resin material called Vitrik which allows the balls to travel across its service with the exact same amount of friction but with the added bonus of being entirely transparent. Awesome vid this way…
Facebook finds the way to start the cash flowing in – their survey says…
I’m not sure I should feel as outraged as part of me wants to with more news of Facebook’s embracing of the commercial sector like a big cold kiss.
The social networking galacticon’s plan is to allow companies to survey Facebook users by dropping polls into our feeds. Of course, it’s up to you if you want to take them or not and, if they’re dressed up well, I should imagine…
Snow photography – send us your snaps
Tech Digest is officially working from home today, what with the beautiful snowy treat in the UK this morning, so I took the time out before 9.30 to have a snowball fight with my girlfriend in the park. We pelted a few school kids for good measure. Take that one youth of today!
Anyway, once we were done, we got the cameras out and managed to take a good bunch of rubbish gloomy shots. Why, because we were too busy revelling in our defeat of the local under 10s that we forgot the number one rule of snow photography…
