Peter Raffelt

So, next year might be the year of HTML5 replacing native apps. Or it might not. Suffice it to say that if it does happen, it would have nothing to do with we technicians. We no longer get to be the tail that wags the dog.

A really nice text of an independent software developer consultant to read.

Ich würde hier gerne etwas Werbung für die Crowfunding Idee von John Grøtting machen. Wenn ihr gerne kocht und euch dass Konzept gefällt, stimmt doch ab für seine Idee. Auf dieser Seite geht es zur Abstimmung.

Nacht des Wissens in Hamburg: Die DESY Tour 2011, viele Entdeckertouren, Rennmaschinen bei DESY, Auf den Spuren von Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Auf den Spuren von HIGGS & Co., etc.

I don’t doubt there would be many hurdles for such a suggestion, not least the research and resources needed to make it real. But given that we regularly (and rightly) bemoan the lack of important international stories in the mainstream media, why not leverage the skills of those photojournalists who are actually reporting to make something more substantial regularly available?

David Campbell stellt die Frage, ob nicht mehr Agenturen als Verleger arbeiten sollten. Ein interessanter Aspekt in der sich verändernden Medienlandschaft. Oder auch, aus der Not eine Tugend machen.

The 1981 self-portrait taken by celebrated photographer Cindy Sherman was sold at a Christie's auction Wednesday. The sale surpassed Christie's estimates of $1.5-2 million ringing in at a final price of $3,890,500. That's not only a record for the photographer, but also the "highest price ever realized for a photograph," says Daniel Kunitz, editor in chief of Modern Painters.

I got inspired of "Over Netanyahu’s Shoulder: A (Telephoto) Analysis of the Prime Minister’s U.N. Speech Edits" via the BagNews-Originals to recommend it as an illustration on one of our Politics page (we choosed the landscape).

Truly a different perspective.

Noch einmal optisch aufgereit: Das sind die iPad-Herausforderer.

Amazons Kindle Fire ist der neueste Versuch, Apple vom Tablet-Thron zu stoßen. Inzwischen hat fast jeder Hersteller Wischrechner im Angebot. Dabei gehen die Konzerne unterschiedliche Wege, von Andreas Albert

(Reuters) - More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store.

It is these traces, or marks of war, many of which overspill from their own time zones, that drew photographer Donovan Wylie to the country.

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His pictures are sublime studies of the landscape littered with military outposts, and mix the notion of the observers and the observed, something much of his previous work in Northern Ireland has addressed.

BBC picture editor Phil Coomes about Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie.