This morning my wife and I, with Son Leon Ortega in hand, had breakfast with the Gang. There was Dr. Neil Roodyn with his partner Kris, and Adam Cogan with wife Anastasia and their two adorable daughters, Luke Burton (Apple Employee) and fiancée Kathy, and lastly but most uniquely was Billy Hollis (Billys Books) – in Australia, from Tennessee, as part of the Patterns and Practices Summit held in Sydney.

It was Adam’s daughters, Eve and Ruby, which kicked up a storm with my son Leon commandeering the Manly Beach play gym with a real definiteness of purpose. It wasnt long before the girls (all our partners) joined in too. The king of the "twirly whirly" (or whatever they call it) was Billy Hollis!

Obviously, with such brain power on the beach it wasn’t long before I was preaching Tablet to Adam Cogan, we all started bragging about Google rankings and moved onto bees making honey (Adam explained, “they have two stomachs”) and the fact that Polar Bears aren’t white (Hugo pointed out, “they’re black, with translucent fur.”)

Adam Cogan, Hugo Ortega and Leon Ortega

All in all a great morning!

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• Were you at the Patterns and Practices Summit held in Sydney?
• The cafe we had breakfast at was: Cafe Steyne!

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The reason behind the delay in the launch of the BlackBerry 10 is depicted by the CEO of RIM Thorstein Heins recently. In addition to explaining the reasons why the launch of the device with the latest operating system was on his retreat, Thorstein also believes that after its launch, the BlackBerry will be stronger.

CEO of RIM as quoted via Pocket-lint, explain to the source on CIO.com that delays BlackBerry 10 is the right thing to do.

"We could just as scheduled, even if it means sacrificing the quality and stability of the platform. And we decided not to do it, because we must ensure that when providing the BlackBerry, it is the best quality," said Thorstein Heins.

Related criticism is directed at RIM which is considered to be left behind, which affects the decreasing sales of the BlackBerry, CEO of RIM argued that it also will not left behind to innovate.

"We are also not left behind in matters of innovation, to the level of understanding, especially in the U.S., that this trend has changed, and that our position and our value proposition in the U.S. market does not follow the trend has changed," he continued.

RIM also believe though it reduces the number of devices that rains out, but the quality of products along with BlackBerry OS 10, it is hoped will be able to restore the prestige of Canadian mobile phone vendor in the business of mobile devices.

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Ken Hurst is a a photographer based in Waxahachie in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, who specialize in landscape, nature, lifestyle, and travel photography.

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Currently usually power of camera performance is associated with the amount of camera resolution, such as 3MP, 5MP or 8MP. And, so that in general information resolution of 5MP better than 3MP (2048 x 1536 pixels), or 8MP (3264 x 2448 pixels) is more fine than 5MP (2592 x 1944 pixels).

But it seems now it will broken by the latest HTCs camera sensor technology, which is already embedded in the latest HTC’s smartphone, HTC One. Which will begin to circulate in the market next March, HTC creates an innovation called "Ultrapixels".

In Ultrapixel technologies, HTC approach with camera capabilities, instead of the high-scale Mega Pixel resolution quantity (number of pixels) but the pixel size. HTC offers new sensors that can improve the percentage of quality number of pixels to capture 300% more light (2 micro meters, ordinary camera 1.3 micro meter).

Its mean, the technology in the camera Ultrapixel HTC One can enlarge the arrest of the number of pixels in order to record more light and data. The photos will show the lighter shades (although objects in very minimal light conditions) and the colors accurately.

Based on the information from the HTC when their launch HTC One, camera sectors with a capacity of 4.3 MP (4.3 UP, Ultrapixel) arguably has the ability equivalent 8MP-13MP on camera phones in general. Although the resolution of the HTC One camera shots limited to 2688 x 1520 pixels (16:9 ratio). Of course in HTC One has added benefits and advantages of Ultrapixel technology.

For information, from the side of the lens, HTC One using auto focus lenses with focal length 28mm (equivalent 35mm) with f/2.0 aperture. Even the lens is larger than f/2.4 used by iPhone 5 and Lumia 920.

The camera is also equipped with HTC One optical image stabilization, which serves to absorb shocks while shooting or recording video. This camera can record 1080p HD resolution video (@ 60fps).

Meanwhile, at front camera, HTC One is equipped with 2.1 MP sensors with a wide-angle lens. This front camera can record 1080p video resolution.

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Beautiful iPhone 5 photographs by Philippe Blanchard, talented amateur photographer based in Versoix, Suisse.

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