If you are a camera manufacturer, these are absolutely brutal numbers. While the camera on your iPhone may not have killed the DSLR market (yet), it has certainly decimated the point and shoot and consumer DSLR segments. The industry had hoped mirrorless cameras would take off but the numbers show no evidence of that.

This additional interoperability can only be good for users and it’s great to see Microsoft opening up to other services like this. Gone are the days when all their customers used their products exclusively and helping users integrate “third party” services helps everyone.

I love that Apple is doing this and I hope they do much more to promote HomeKit. People have endless frustrations in trying to create this kind of automation in their home and HomeKit promises to make things much simpler — in theory.

Very interesting to see the list of companies who have signed this brief.

You probably know it as “wheelchair rugby” but that name doesn’t do it justice. It really can be awfully, wonderfully brutal.

I loved old gangster movies as a kid (and even still) and you always saw the bad guys with a Tommy Gun. I had no idea of the history behind it.

This is one of those things you don’t think about but, when it gets explained, makes a lot of sense.

This is pretty cool. Congratulations to the women honoured and to Lego for creating this set.

I’m not a heavy Facebook user but I can see how this could be very popular among those who like watching videos on and from the site.

This might be a good deal for some but no CBS, MTV, Comedy Central and the other channels from Time Warner and Viacom might be a dealbreaker for many.

It’s free and offers a little piece of mind for the paranoid among us.

We don’t have a “haggling mentality” in North America but I’ve haggled on all three of the items mentioned in this piece and have literally saved thousands of dollars off the sticker price.

Can you imagine this happening to you? It’s like if Michael Jordan showed up at your local hoop and called, “I got next….”

This is an interesting list. Do you live in one of these ten states? Do you agree with their inclusion or placement?

And people thought Apple’s $300 coffee table book was expensive.

This is either really cool or the beginning of the robot uprising.

This is pretty funny.

I tell my students to NOT buy a new lens when they buy their first, beginner DSLR. There’s no point. The kit lens is “good enough” for beginners until they learn how to use the camera and create great images with it. Only once you know what kind of photographer you are should you start looking to buy replacement lenses.

I hope this is good news for the Pocket team. I’ve been a huge fan (and, apparently a heavy user – according to Pocket, I’m in the top 1% of readers for the past four years!) and really like the service.

These may be the only truly disposable furniture I’ve ever owned. While they are cheap, easy to assemble bookcases, they always seem pretty flimsy. Whenever I’ve moved, I’ve always just thrown out the old Billy and bought a new one.

I’d be sad to see the Olympics disappear but it would make economic sense if they did.

I just learned more than I ever thought I would about the carpet at the Oscars.

This is great news for those of you who have had your screens replaced.

The artist renderings of what these new planets might look like are fascinating.

With the explosion of podcasting comes an equal explosion of people not trained in public speaking. The funny thing is the fix is easy but hard to do.

With Ar/VR “on the horizon”, more and more 360 video is showing up. If you’d like to start creating your own content, this is a good primer to help you get started.

We all know that selfie wasn’t a spontaneous moment so it’s interesting to see how it came about.

We will never again have a format so wonderfully tactile as vinyl. I have nothing to play records on anymore and have no vinyl but I still have a fondness for the physicality of holding a record.

It’s hard to overstate how convenient I find iMessage. On the rare occasions I “see the green” when I text someone, it’s really deflating.

I’ve often wondered what those were.