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BBC - dot.life: Sexting teens
If you think your offspring is not involved in sexting, think again. That is clearly the message from a new survey that reveals the habit is becoming more and more common among teenagers. Sexting is, as Wikipedia puts it, a "portmanteau of sex and texting ."
BBC News - Apple wins iPod hearing dispute
The judge upheld a 2008 ruling, saying "the plaintiffs simply do not plead facts showing that hearing loss from iPod use is actual or imminent". "The plaintiffs do not allege the iPods failed to do anything they were designed to do nor do they allege that they, or any others, have suffered or are substantially certain to suffer inevitable hearing loss or other injury from iPod use," Senior Judge David Thompson wrote in a statement.
The rise of the iPhone generation | Comment is free | The Guardi
An iPhone user. Photograph: Ryan Pyle/© Ryan Pyle/Corbis If you have an iPhone , you may be reading this with an app. A newspaper? Made of paper? Go and suck an arrow and protest against feudalism by dying of plague, Luddite.As prices edge upwards, net-using habits change and other gadgets take on their functions, netbooks will become far less popular, he thinks. Asus kicked off the netbook trend in 2007 when it launched the Eee PC 700 and 701. The 700 sported a 2GB solid state hard drive, 512MB of Ram, a 900 MHz Intel Celeron processor and a seven inch screen. E-book readers are starting to do more than just handle text
BBC News - Technology changes 'outstrip' netbooks
Although a relatively small sector at the moment, analyst firm Juniper Research predicts that AR will generate incomes of $732m (£653m) by 2014. AR allows mobile operators to combine the increasing functionality of smartphones, such as GPS, video and accelerometers, with the increasingly available number of location-based apps. Already mobile phones use location technology to help people find their way around, such as an iPhone app developed by UK firm Acrossair to help people find their nearest tube station. New look