How to stop newly recorded iPhone videos from wiping themselves ‘accidentally’

Have you ever recorded a video clip on your iPhone – only to discover it has deleted itself after trying to get the camera application to respond… and are wondering why?
 

BYOD boom means new attention to the ‘consumerisation of IT’

The Holiday season saw happy revelers unwrap millions of new, Internet-ready mobile devices. From the latest smartphones to tablets and Ultrabooks, a new class of powerful devices has hit the market.
 

BenQ adds more joy to super-portable Joybee projector

BenQ's new Joybee GP2 video projector is highly portable and works with an array of media sources. Onboard memory allows it to be used independently of other devices.
 

iPhone ‘worker abuse’ iProtest at select global Apple iStores

Ethical worker rights do-gooders plan wheelbarrow delivered petition protest featuring 250,000 signatures and an ethical iProtester dressed in a presumably ethically made iPhone iSuit – in Sydney, Washington DC, New York City, San Francisco, London and Bangalore.
 

Eventbrite says g'day to Australia with a freebie

Eventbrite has localised its ticketing platform for Australia, and is providing event organisers with an opportunity to try its services at no charge.
 

Possible responses to Optus TV Now case threaten our rights

Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is reportedly foreshadowing changes in the legislation to stop Optus offering its TV Now service, following the company's court win last week. Any changes are likely to whittle away at the exemption we currently enjoy to time-shift programs.
 

How to hard reset your smartphone

Like your computer the best way to give your system a performance boost is to take it back to bare metal. In smartphone terms, that means performaing a hard reset. Here's our guide on performing a hard reset on the most popular smartphone platforms.
 

Increase your DropBox by 5Gb for free

  Longtime readers know I am a strong advocate for DropBox, the cloud-based file-synchronisation service. For a limited time you can increase your free DropBox capacity by 5Gb following these simple steps.
 

Next billion mobile connections won’t come quickly

While mobile devices like smartphones are invariably the primary mode of personal and business communications in major, developed markets around the world, the next one billion of the world’s new mobile connections is likely to mainly come from remote rural areas in emerging markets, according to a newly published report.
 

Apple’s Q4 2011 dominance no surprise to iOS faithful

If you’ve ever used Apple’s iOS, and then had to suffer through the mishmash of interfaces, front-ends, endless processor and hardware variations and more from the world of Android, it should be absolutely no surprise that Apple was able to reclaim the Q4 2011 top spot.