Our eyes can see a much higher range of highlights and shadows than photos can capture and display.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

After failing to best Facebook, AOL has sold Bebo to a private investment firm. Bebo will remain accessible to users for the near future. Long term plans have not been announced.

If you have an iPhone, Apple has released iOS4 for download. The upgrade brings some new features, but won’t run on all models yet. This article includes a list to help you decide if your phone will run iOS4.

Toshiba is offering three new notebook devices. The most interesting may be the Libretto W100, with two 7-inch touchscreens running Win7. This article provides some details and a 6.5-minute video showing it in use.

Social networking, the platform at least, seems to be a good way to generate money. The money comes from advertisers eager to exploit the millions of users on Facebook.

If you like to tinker with your computers, Liquidware is selling a do-it-yourself tablet kit. The kit includes a 4.3-inch OLED touchscreen and a 1GHz processor.

Sencha has announced the beta release of Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework. Sencha Touch offers mobile application developers easy access to HTML5 technologies, including Geolocation, localStorage and CSS3.

If you’ve actually read your phone bill, you may have noticed your iPhone doesn’t sleep very soundly at night. In the middle of the night it sends out push notifications over the 3G network.

While many people are unhappy with Mark Zuckerberg, a Pakistani lawyer has filed suit alleging Zuckerberg and other Facebook execs are guilty of blasphemy. Pakistan’s penal code classes blasphemy as worthy of the death penalty.

Social networks have become a way of connecting for businesses, not just socially. But, if after leaving a company you contact former co-workers, have you violated the “do not compete” clause in your contract?