Nikon today announced details of a brand new DSLR camera designed to appeal to keen amateurs.
The D5100 boasts a 16.2 megapixel sensor, a flip-out live preview screen, full HD video recording, and an astonishing 102,400 ISO setting, which Nikon says makes it possible to shoot black-and-white images in almost total darkness.
Quite …
We’ve seen a lot of changes to the way music gets made and sold in recent years. Day-in, day-out, people seem to come up with new ideas.
The latest is to release not songs, but apps. After all, most people – even absolute beginners – don’t seem interested in paying for songs anymore. But they’re happy to pay for apps. Especially apps …
Cyber criminals are turning their attention to social networks and cell phones, according to this year’s Internet Security Report by Symantec.
It makes perfect sense, if you think about it. Just like pickpockets on the street, internet criminals are going to do better if they hang out where most people are.
A decade ago, that was …
Is Apple planning some sort of social photo sharing application in the next version of iOS?
The team at 9to5 Mac have uncovered evidence of something new called Photo Stream.
Does the name sound familiar? It might well do, if you’ve been using a Mac for a while. Years ago, Apple created a system called Photocast, built into its …
Just in case you thought Presidential campaigns weren’t nearly long enough, Barack Obama has done the thoughtful and chosen today to launch his bid for re-election on Facebook.
Why on Facebook? Well, which politician wouldn’t want to post a two-line announcement and get nearly three and a half thousand responses within an hour? (The …
Next time your friend whispers some scurrilous rumor in your ear, then leans back and swears “It must be true! I saw the tweet!” be forewarned: tweets ain’t always what they seem.
Not with a website like TweetForger lurking on the internet.
TweetForger, you see, lets anyone create a realistic-looking tweet supposedly written by
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Blogger has just lifted the lid on some cool new features that will be finding their way into the hosting blogging service soon.
Top of the list is a selection of new views that you can apply to any Blogger blog, irrespective of which template you use for it.
The views are called Flipcard, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot and Timeslide. …
Of all the April Fools stories clogging up the internet today – and there are very, very many – my favorite is certainly one of Google’s. No, not that one. Another one.
I won’t spoil the surprise, I’ll just tell you how to find it. Go to Google, and search for “helvetica”.
If you’re a typeography nerd (or the kind of person who …
Photo site Flickr has just updated its sharing options, making it easier to post photos to other online services.
Flickr says it wants to be a hub for people’s photos. You upload them just once, then share them everywhere.
It makes sense when you think about it. Uploading the same photos to Flickr to share with your Flickr friends, …
Computer maker Samsung has issued a strident denial that it pre-installs secret keylogging software on its computers.
As we reported yesterday, security consultant Mohamed Hassan, writing at Network World, said he’d found evidence that Samsung was installing a keylogging tool called Starlogger.
Today Samsung said: “The statements …
Malware hidden inside a banner advert infected “just a handful” of Spotify users, the Europe-based music streaming service said today.
The attack was hidden inside a graphic banner advert that appeared on Spotify’s free ad-supported service last week.
Although Spotify is still investigating the affair, spokesman Jim Butcher told …
Perhaps responding to online whisperings that he’d gone oddly silent recently, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams wrote a blog post last night, declaring his creation’s future was “bigger and better.”
Comparing the growth of Twitter with his previous successful project, Blogger, Williams said:
“The reason I left Blogger/Google when I
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