This week our sister site Bizgene has been looking at how you design a website not only from the business but also the legal persepective. You can follow them on Twitter or LinkedIn for more in-depth conversations about how to implement this stuff, but in the meantime, read on for everything else happening on the site this week.
April, 2011
Hardware is no longer the only weapon in the smartphone wars, but it still counts for a great deal. Nowhere is this less true than with your blower’s screen: it’s the thing you’re going to be gazing at for upwards of hours per day for up to two whole years or more, so you better be sure it’s easy on the eye.
Phone peddlers have cottoned on to this in recent months, and crafted new tech and evocative branding around their flagship phones’ displays, and to the point of confusion. AMOLEDwhatnow? Rectum display did you say? We’ve put together a primer on all the different screen types and buzz words out there right now – join us as we cut through the hype and focus on the pixels, won’t you?
The sun’s out, and we’ve got two bank holiday weekends in a row – it can only mean one thing. BBQ season is upon us. We’ve got the best grills and accessories to make your day sizzle, from six burners that’ll feed the whole of the royal wedding party, to portables for taking with you to get away from it all.
A super-slim phone that belies its stuffed innards – the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc might be the world’s thinnest Android phone, but it still manages to pack in plenty, such as its nippy 1GHz processor, 8.1-megapixel camera and one of the sharpest displays found on any Android phone.
iPhone location tracking is big news today after researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden revealed iPhone tracker, a data-mining tool that allows you to view a map plotting stored location data that your iPhone deposits on your Mac.
Rory Cellan-Jones was on the Today programme attempting to explain it to John Humphries and the web is full of people explaining how sinister Apple is. Only, it’s not sinister whatsoever and it’s no alone in saving that location data. It’s great fun for conspiracy theorists and opportunistic politicians to jump on the bandwagon but really, the story here is a) old and b) a lot less scary than the headlines might make you think…
In the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, mobile gamers now have the chance to play portable games on a handset using proper console-style controls. That means actual buttons – none of that touchscreen stuff. Not forgetting that it is a fully-fledged Android mobile with a host of smartphone features squeezed in. Continue reading for everything you need to know about the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.
Apple Store employees have been told there’ll be no days off in late May which happens to be when the Apple Store‘s 10th birthday rolls around. Apple retail employees were told this week via email that they’ll be needed between May 20 and May 22. Now what could be planned for those days?