! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 5 January 2009 | Tagged as: Platforms
It’s crazy looking creation for sure, but Lenovo’s new dual screen ThinkPad W700ds has the features to set some designers heartbeats into double-quick techno time.
Based on the clever-clogs ThinkPad W700 we took a look at back in August last year, the W700ds, the beefy laptop serves up workstation performance with not one, but two screens.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 5 January 2009 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, Web 2.0
While Christmas is traditionally the time that sees traffic levels plummet on websites as folks head off to far flung families or incoherent revellers find themselves unable to type due to dangerous lager levels, Facebook enjoyed a veritable festive frenzy.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 5 January 2009 | Tagged as: Twitter
Funny to see The Daily Mail run a piece on how ‘celebrities’ are signing up on Twitter entitled, “How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives.”
They deride the Tweets of the ’stars’ as casting “a fascinating light on just how mundane, not to say downright dull, the day-to-day existence of many stars really is.”
! Posted by on 31 December 2008 | Tagged as: Tweets
H a p p y N e w Y e a r !!! We’re getting it in now while we still can :)
! Posted by Simon Perry on 25 December 2008 | Tagged as: Announcements
We wanted to send a quick hello and happy holidays to all of our readers. See you on the other side of new year.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 December 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Reviews
After a near-Olympian bout of advanced pondering and spec-sniffing - as witnessed in our recent Looking For The Ultimate Netbook feature, we finally plumped for the Asus Eee 901.
The netbook is available in both Windows XP and Linux versions, and we plumped for the XP version on account of our familiarity with the OS and the fact that it promised a slightly longer battery life (albeit at the price of reduced flash memory).
! Posted by Simon Perry on 18 December 2008 | Tagged as: Content
One of the fears/ dangers of opening up to public comments on a Web site is that someone will get involved who has the ability to produce words at a remarkable pace and those words will be destructive. Another outcome is that they’re hilarious.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 18 December 2008 | Tagged as: Google
Don’t you just love Google’s old school Error Page?
It reminds us of a time of innocence in the company. One that feels many light years ago.
Ahhh… happy days.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 18 December 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Business, Music, Legal
If you haven’t heard, mxiwit, the great Web service that lets people create their own online mixtape, complete with a player that looks like a real old compact cassette tape with rotating reels, is closing, describing their situation as being “between a rock and a hard place.”
There’s two pieces of good news to add to this sad news.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 18 December 2008 | Tagged as: Gadgets, USA, Mobile, Cellular, Reviews
We managed to get a brief hands on with the Peek email gadget at the WiredStore in New York and thought we’d share a few impressions.
This little fella is designed for one thing only - accessing mobile email over the GPRS data network - and comes with a full keypad and a 240 x 320 pixels colour screen (with a rather small font size).
Digital-Lifestyles (alpha remix)
Reporting the effects of Technology on the Media and Communications.
There are 4,922 stories so far, and growing daily.
Dec 19 2008
We put Asus’s 8.9″ screen netbook through its paces. Will it emerge a winner?
Dec 18 2008
We take a look at the ‘only mobile device devoted solely to email.’
Dec 12 2008
We’ve got hold of the new top of the line handset from snom - the snom 820 - and are the first to review it.
It’s the flagship - and currently only member of - the new snom 8 Series range and radically redesigned from their 3xx series.
The look is striking, making it stand out as […]