We're something of ROCCAT fanboys here at RandomlyAccessed, with the PC peripheral company bringing the heat to Razer with their line of quality gaming products. Well, they're now back with a new gaming mouse.

Joining it's wired Kone and Kova brothers, the new wireless Pyra gaming mouse offers up ROCCAT technology for mobile gaming with a smaller form factor, but all the technology of the two desk-bound offerings already in their stable. There's 1ms response time, with 1000Hz polling rate and a middling 1600dpi "motion blue-optic" sensor which should be enough to tackle the majority of titles.

The design allows for it to be used by right or left hookers, and should be available from the middle of April for around €60 (with a wired model coming in at the same time for €40).

The inventor of one of the defining products in the home computer revolution has come out and admitted that he doesn't actually use a computer anymore. What's more, he has his emails read to him (so make sure you don't SHOUT in your electronic mails to the man).

Although his later work (the C5 electric vehicle...thing) wouldn't hit the big time, the ZX80/81 sold in enough numbers to encourage a number of users into the computing space in the 80's, and he was duly knighted for his contributions to electrical development.

Any specific reason for not using a computer now? He claims he can't be bothered and the entire process now is a nightmare - and for the most part I'd say that a lot of people would agree with him.

[The Guardian] (Image)

The amount of salt you need to take this information with would probably give you a coronary, but a tech website (that I admit, we've never heard of before) has been tipped that the entry level iPad will be hitting these shores for a hair under £390.

On the face of it, this number looks to have been plucked out of the air, but there is some precedent to back it up. Apple usually charges a 20% premium over the pound-value of the US pricing (to cover taxes as well as the increased cost of doing business in the UK), and currently the straight conversion of dollar to pound would sit the entry level device at £330.

So, whilst the £389 figure seems logical to the point of believability, it would be unwise to call Zurich in preparation at this stage.

[Geeky Gadgets] (via Pocket-Lint)

3 Google employees have been convicted in an Italian court today after supposedly breaching Italy's privacy laws over a horrific video of children bullying an autistic classmate was uploaded to Google Video in 2006.

The court indicted 4 Google employees (who had absolutely nothing to do with the video prior to its removal for ToS violations) for criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code, although the defamation charge was dropped, as was one employee.

This case shows how much current legislation is behind the times, if platform providers - and individual persons - can be charged for the content users upload (when we all know YouTube is just a dumb-pipe between content and end users) to sharing sites, then something has to change.

Common sense would dictate that the persons filming a clip for internet distribution have received everyone involved's permission to appear, however, that was not thought to be the case here.

Google is appealing the decision.

[Google Blog]

Twitter has just announced that they are now serving 50million tweets per day on the microblogging platform, meaning that over 600 are being posted per second.

In 2007, when the site first started hitting people's radar, they were pushing 5000 tweets per day, with that growing to over 300,000 per day by 2008.
Over the course of 2009, the numbers being delivered jumped 1400% from 2.5m to 35m - highlighting the massive growth the service (and social media in general) had over the past year.

Now with 50m per day being posted to the site from clients and devices in every walk of life, and from every corner of the world, Twitter is starting to make it into the mainstream's psyche.

On to 100m!

[Twitter Blog]

The European Commission has approved the proposed merger of rival UK mobile phone networks; the France Telecom-owned Orange and the Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile.

Together, the pair will create the UK's largest mobile provider by subscriber numbers, pulling in 30million users into one pool operated by the same outfit, overtaking O2 who is currently in the lead.

The deal did raise concerns for the network "3", as it has one of the smallest footholds of the major players, but the EU has put into place stipulations on the merger that would require the combined company to open up more of their spectrum and share 3000 more mast sites with "3".

Still no word on branding or naming of the combined company yet though, and there's still a ways to go before we see a unified experience online and on the high street, but it's a start.

[Recombu]

One of the convergent features of most smartphone platforms now is that they enable users to monitor their sporting activities with the use of technologies like GPS and a stopwatch.

Now, Puma has teamed up with phone manufacturer Sagem to bring all manner of sports features into one device built for the purpose. The (aptly named), Puma Phone packs a 2.8" touchscreen, HSPA data, 5 hours talk-time and 350 hours stand-by time, a solar panel on the back for green and on-the-fly charging (we're surprised more devices don't do this actually) as well as a 115g weight.

As for the sports features, the handset crams in a GPS tracker, compass, geotagging, routing and mapping for location duties as well as a pedometer and stopwatch.

It will be available across Europe from April.