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Google announced on Wednesday that it is rolling out a significant redesign for its social networking platform Google+, which will allow users to create a more customized experience on the site.

The company said it will introduce a variety of new features to the site in the next few days, from customizing apps and the navigation bar to more flexibility with profile pages and pictures. (more)

There is just something about underwater photos that make it look all like a dream. Perhaps it is the surreal feel surrounding the moray eel that you have just snapped, or the ruins of the great Titanic that has sunk to the bottom of the ocean, with its hulking frame forming part of the underwater scene that greets your eyes, where its once luxurious rooms are now homes for all sorts of ocean dwelling creatures. As for the kind of equipment used to snap such photos when underwater, they are nothing short of being super expensive – at least, when compared to your regular camera, that is. (more)

In a way, I am quite glad that most of the world has agreed to the SD memory card standard – it just makes life a whole lot easier whenever you purchase one of these puppies, knowing that it is capable of being hooked up to a slew of different devices out there (unless you are talking about older generation Sony products, of course, that relies on nothing but their proprietary Memory Stick format). Well, over the years, the standard sized SD memory card just did not do, and we folks wanted something smaller – and hence heralded the birth of the microSD memory card which is as small, or even smaller for some of us, than the size of our fingernail. (more)

The new iPad — what a stupid name — hasn’t been released yet in mainland China. But, like all iPads before it, it has found its way here via gadget scalpers in Hong Kong and the United States, who smuggle the devices into the country on the assumption that there will be a market for them. Previously, that has been so true that scalpers can sell the devices at obscene markups and still move product. But with the new iPad, things seem to be different. (more)

Youtube has finally addressed one of it’s major issues – the algorithm (bit of maths) that reccommends a video to you after you watched another one has been changed to take more account of the total length of time a video has been played for (engagement) rather than the number of times it has been “watched” (more)

Airpush, the leading app monetization solution for Android developers, announces that it has been named a finalist in the Mobile Excellence Awards and the ASPY Awards.

The Mobile Excellence Awards recognized Airpush as a finalist in the Best Mobile Innovator category, which honors a company that has proved to be the most progressive or launched the most groundbreaking product, service or model. Airpush was nominated in this category along with Pinger, Fiksu, Acision Collect SMS and Prepaid SMS Reply and Location Labs. (more)

Two years ago Nokia sold 30% of its smartphones in Western Europe. Today it sells 15% in that market. Its unit shipments went from 5 million to about half that and its market share went from 55% to 11%. Its rank in the market went from first to fifth.

The fall is exceptional and dramatic. The two charts below show smartphone market shares. (more)