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Photos: Legless photographer snaps from ground up

News This picture was taken in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as part of a series shot in burst mode as Connolly was skateboarding off the sidewalk and into a street. He shot behind his back with his Nikon D200 digital SLR while trying to dodge cars, including...

Tags: shot, shots, exhibition, skateboard

4 July 2008, 9:28

News.blog: WiiWare launches with six US games

News Nintendo on Monday put its latest shot across the bow of Microsoft and Sony when it officially launched WiiWare in the US, its new online repository of downloadable games. Ostensibly a service where Wii gamers will be able to shop for new...

Tags: sony, developers, platform, xbox

13 May 2008, 9:04

Lords support data-loss law update

News The issue of public data loss shot into the public eye with the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, which sparked a host of revelations about missing data in government. Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a...

Tags: house, loss, bill, government

29 April 2008, 8:57

Photos: Up close with Saturn's icy geysers

News Another enhanced shot of the surface. NASA's Cassini probe has successfully flown through the plume of a geyser and took its closest approach to the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, according to first reports of the mission from NASA.

Tags: space, mission, science, surface

14 March 2008, 9:46

Photos: Apple debuts iPhone 'software road map'

News The SDK gives the hot-shot gadget its entrée into the business and even gaming worlds. Here are are some photos to help you feel like you were on Apple's guest list for the official launch of the company's iPhone software development kit on Thursday.

Tags: networks, jobs, president, iphone

7 March 2008, 9:49

News.blog: A new focus for photographers

News It's one of the oldest, most common problems in photography: that picture you thought would be the prize shot is out of focus. Refocus Imaging, a Silicon Valley start-up, thinks its technology can be used to make cameras that can fix that problem...

Tags: fix, field, research, raw

29 February 2008, 9:22

Top topics ring in Mobile World Congress

News Apple's skydive into the smart phone market has been a flashy shot across the industry's bows -- showing up bad design and underlining the need for incumbents to up their game to see off the upstart, which has already snatched third place in the...

Tags: ads, dedicated, manufacturers, tech

8 February 2008, 9:31

Photos: A brief history of MSN and Yahoo

News Signs of the Web's maturity are evident in this vintage Yahoo shot, too: there are links to view videos and listen to streaming Web radio. After months of rumours, it looks like it might actually happen -- if

Tags: archive, credit, story, msn

4 February 2008, 9:27

Apple Mac usage 'spectacular' in 2007

News Net Applications found that Mac operating systems represented more than 7 per cent of Web traffic during December, but that figure shot up after Christmas to just over 8 per cent on the last two days of the year.

Tags: cent, windows vista, statistics, operating systems

3 January 2008, 9:06

Photos: Roam the heavens with Google Sky

News This may look like a sunny-side-up egg -- but it's actually a face-on shot from Hubble of a small spiral galaxy called NGC 7742. Google added a feature a couple of months ago called Sky -- which lets users roam the heavens from its Google Earth...

Tags: navigate, earth, credit, star

29 November 2007, 9:53

iPhone unlikely to arrive in China soon

News Apple's iPhone is unlikely to hit Chinese shelves soon because of technical and fee issues, industry executives said on Wednesday, a day after shares in the company's stock price shot up on hopes of a deal with China Mobile.

Tags: stock, talk, chinese, executive

15 November 2007, 9:07

Photos: California's wildfires rage on

News The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home, where TV shows like The Rockford Files were shot, was listed for sale earlier this year at $17m (£8m), according to news reports. Webshots member "Kaloke" says this shot was taken from atop Quail Hill looking...

Tags: air, response, tech, earth

25 October 2007, 9:02

NY's 'Halo 3' launch nearly starts riot

News A team of Mountain Dew minions were walking around with trays of plastic shot glasses containing a seemingly endless supply of samples of its Halo 3-branded energy drink, 'Game Fuel'.There was a guy in a Master Chief outfit, of course.

25 September 2007, 8:14

Photos: SpongeBob dives into digital

News The 3-megapixel SpongeBob digital camera, which costs $79 (£40), comes with character overlays that let people pose with SpongeBob and his pals as a photo is shot. The SpongeBob SquarePants 15-inch LCD TV hooks into computers, DVD players, gaming...

19 September 2007, 9:19

Sony lines up iTunes video challenger

News The PSP had a shot to define the mobile market, and that opportunity has now passed," said James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. To Sony, the weak spot in Apple's iTunes fortress could be in video downloads.

6 September 2007, 9:03