GALLERY: T-Mobile G1 unboxing pictures – unleashing the Android

I’m often unmoved by internet unboxings, very often in fact. But images of a Google Android T-Mobile G1 is something a little different both because we’re all as curious as children at the top of the stairs spying on their parents’ dinner parties and because I think I’m going to get one now that my contract’s run out and I’m bored of looking at everyone else’s iPhones.

We followed the G1 at launch and on video but nothing quite says hello like a good old fashioned gallery. Click on the image below to start the tour.

Top 10 Tuesday: Credit Crunch Bargains – gadgets for under £50

So Bradford & Bingley get nationalised but the US Congress reject their multi-billion dollar scheme to bail out the fat cats and help steady the economy. Let’s face it, times are not looking economically awesome – not in the short to medium term at least – and it might be wise to rethink that jewel-encrusted gold MacBook Air.

But we wouldn’t want you to go gadget hungry here at TD. Certainly not. So rather than have to decide between your next meal and a DVD player I bring you the Top 10 Credit Crunch Bargains for under £50. Come, get your gadgets here, they’re lovely. Fifty pound a pound!…

Technology Deathmatch: Nikon vs. Canon (DSLRs)

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Good afternoon grappling fans and welcome to the inaugural Monday afternoon beat-up smackdown that is Technology Deathmatch. Coming to you live from a grimy basement deep in the bowels of Shiny Towers, sweat drips from the dank, brown-stained walls as clamours of Far-East businessmen shake fistfuls of foreign, red bills and driving the temperature to boiling point.

Headlining the event today is the much contested, much debated, much anticipated re-match grudge match that is the battle of the cameras. Yes, ladies and gentleman today it’s the big one, the shakedown, the pay off. In the blue corner with the dented spit bucket, founded in 1917, it’s the Mightiest of the Macros, the Stepper Supremo – Nikon!

And in the red corner – which used to be green but has become unrecognisable because of the coats of blood and guts – 20 years the junior, it’s the Prince of the Press Corps, the Colour King – Canon!

I’m your referee for the day and I expect a good clean fight. I don’t want to see any K-mounting, no aperture gauging and plenty of flash photography. Now, let’s get it on!…

FEATURE: Modern Day Malware & Organised Crime

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Quarter past nine on a Monday morning. I’m staring at the thick oak beam of long polished table wondering what the hell I’m doing at briefing about internet security. My last journalistic foray into this turgid corner of the tech world had me stuck talking anti-virus software with one of the chief marketing officers at a leading company. I recall a solid 40 minutes of the internet neighbourhood watch warnings as the canapes passed just out of reach behind his back. The hungrier I got the more it sapped my soul. My last conscious thought was “never again”. Never again; until today.

I’m not sure if it was the lure of the Soho House, the charm of the invitation or, more likely, the promise of breakfast but somehow, between them, they short-circuited that old memory in my brain; they silenced its voice. Down went that corner of my neural net; a localised blackout and now here I am in my trainers and jeans, most others with a collar at least. Quarter past nine on a Monday morning. Fifteen minutes before I’m usually at work.

Ed Gibson begins the day more upset than I am that his cooked breakfast hasn’t arrived but that’s probably where the similarity ends. Edward P Gibson is Microsoft’s chief security advisor and a former operative with the FBI. He takes comfortable control of the room of assembled journalists with the warmth and ease of his Midwest drawl. I wonder if that manner served him well at the FBI. I wonder if he’s enjoying his retirement, but by the end of the morning I’ll have changed my mind about how much rest he’s getting in his new profession…

d3o double hard protective fabric – turns you into Spiderman

The d30 technology has been around for over a year now but I’ve never seen it before and I’ll bet a lot of you won’t have either. So, for those who have read about this incredible protective material, just enjoy the footage of a man being hit over the head with a shovel again.

d30 is a specially engineered intelligent material that’s soft and pliable like putty under normal conditions but when under physical stress it becomes solid and highly shock absorbent; so shock absorbent, in fact, that you can do things like this…