Category: Technology

Is video painting, art that uses moving images, so different from traditional painting on a canvas? One of the achievements of great paintings like Picasso’s “Guernica” or the rapid-fire splashes of a Jackson Pollock, is that they evoke movement even though the images are static. Now a new type of painting features images that dart, […]

Video chatting is as easy as making a phone call. For some teens, it’s the preferred way to communicate, until parents find they’re being spied on… As she moved about her Montclair, N.J., house getting ready for work, Tina Kolomasky had no idea that she was being watched. Her daughter Sasha, 11, sat eating breakfast […]

How do you get the attention of a busy person? Try a USB flash drive, the latest – and grooviest – marketing tool… As prices have dropped, artists and musicians are loading them up with creative data and distributing them to potential clients. Photographer Monte Isom has mastered the art of self-marketing. His latest promotional […]

Reports that hacking gangs have struck at least three Belgian banks have sent ripples through financial circles… First indications suggest that a Russian criminal gang may have been responsible for the hackings that have caused at least 15 clients to have suffered considerable losses. Although the hackings had been conducted in May 2007 already, banks […]

Where women’s gadgets are concerned, it sometimes feels as though female emancipation never happened… According to a recent survey by Sony Ericsson, women spend an average of £478 per year on technology compared to just £74 on shoes, and yet manufacturers seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that what women want are pink gizmos […]

Complacency in the TV industry and internet connectivity world will lead to gridlock if users’ requirements are neglected, Digital TX’s MD explains… The power of television is undeniable. When gorillas were first introduced to Longleat Zoo’s Gorilla Island and had to be quarantined and initially segregated from each other, the wardens came up with the […]

A simulated hunting game is attracting everyone from middle-age women to inner city kids. And you don’t have to be into the real thing to get addicted… Mike Pantaleno wipes his hands on his jeans before he takes a bright orange gun, raises it to eye level and squints to line up a shot. It’s […]

Never mind the future of Facebook or what you can do with it, why does it exist and where did its $13m in funding come from? Uploading photos and poking your friends or throwing virtual food at them is all good fun, but for what underlying reason does Facebook exist and how did it manage […]