When the iPhone was introduced in January of 2007, it caught the mobile phone industry flat-footed. The hardware on the market was archaic compared to the iPhone and the operating systems running on them were years behind Apples iPhone OS. Even prior to the release of the iPhone , Google saw an opportunity to massively increase the amount of eyeballs seeing its mobile ads in a project called Android. Android, a linux-based mobile OS that had been purchased by Google in 2005, was quickly polished up, priced irresistibly and offered as a lifeline to manufacturers floundering for an option....

Think photography is an easy job? Think again. Or better yet, ask Australian photographerLincoln Harrison, who spent periods of up to 15 hours outdoors in freezing conditions at night to capture these mesmerising shots of stars trails charting brilliant semi-circles across the night sky. Harrison says, “It was a gruelling night with a total shooting time of 15 hours in freezing conditions, sunset to sunrise.” And that’s to capture just one of the shots!...

Daily deals sites are everywhere these days, andDaillly, which specialises in selling apps, online services and virtual goods for social games, is one of the best looking we’ve seen. This Easter the site is dropping the deals entirely though, instead focusing on an initiative to raise money for Save The Children’sJapan Earthquake Tsunami Reliefprogramme. For the next week, users will be able to donate $1 or more via the site, receiving a suitably virtual ‘Helping Japan’ badge on their Daillly user profile page, as well as access to some rather gorgeous “I am helping....

Created by Twitter’s ‘Information design nerd’,Miguel Rios, this poster includes all the public #thankyousteve Tweets sent over about 4.5 hours on the evening of Oct 5, 2011. The Tweets are ordered by number of Retweets, from the top left –view high res here. Arnold Schwarnznegger’stweetwas the most retweeted. Similarly, an Argentina based creative agency,Vulsai, has built a live tribute to Jobs calledTo The Crazy Onebased on a similar idea. It’s a little buggy but looks beautiful....

The Next Webrecently postedthis articleabout young entrepreneur and founder ofWIWTPoppy Dinsey. Now as a young woman interested in setting up her own business I found Poppy’s story inspiring. She’s young, she seems to know her stuff, and so far looks pretty successful. Sadly, it seems not everyone agrees with me. Read through the article… go on, I’ll wait. All sounds pretty good right? But then there’s the comments section. This is actually what inspired me to write this post....