July 2008

  • Vocera, WiFi VoIP, Improves Hospital Efficiency

    Vocera, WiFi VoIP, Improves Hospital EfficiencyDigital-Lifestyles has had its eye on Vocera since 2002, when we spotted their wireless VoIP product. We followed it up in 2004.

    Rather than a more ‘normal’ VoIP product that apes the everyday PoTS (Plain old Telephone Service) that we’re historically used to, it takes a leap forward, doing away with a numeric key pad. Communication is via WiFi.

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  • Gary McKinnon, ‘Hacker,’ Loses House Of Lords Appeal

    Gary McKinnon, 'Hacker,' Loses House Of Lords AppealGary McKinnon, who is accused by the US government of being a ‘computer hacker,’ lost his appeal to the House of Lords yesterday.

    He was appealing against being extradited to the US, but in a unanimous decision, the Lords said to find in favour of McKinnon would, “imperil the integrity of the extradition process.”

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  • Lisa Nova Plays A Twitter Whore

    Lisa Nova Plays A Twitter WhoreLisa Nova is well known on YouTube as making amusing videos where she either plays a character or makes a joke of other people, at their expense.

    Her latest target Twitter, or rather Twitter users.

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  • Google Add Maps to Adverts

    Google Add Maps to AdvertsGoogle are ever-keen to merge their services — but in a subtle way — so you don’t realise that they are taking over the world.

    The latest trick along this path that we’ve noticed is them putting Google Maps into Google Text Ads.

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  • Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Released

    Adobe Lightroom 2.0 ReleasedHurtling down the new product chute at high speed is version two of Adobe’s popular photo-editing and organising suite, Photoshop Lightroom.

    The company is hoping that with booming sales of high-end SLR cameras, enthusiast snappers will be looking for more sophisticated methods of sorting, categorising, editing and tweaking collections of images scattered over their bulging hard drives.

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  • Dell Studio Hybrid Mini-PC: More Details

    Dell Studio Hybrid Mini-PC: More DetailsDell have now released more details about their new Studio Hybrid mini-desktop PCs, and we’re liking the look of them even more.

    With a case barely larger than an external DVD burner, the Hybrid can be set up in vertical or horizontal configurations, with a warm glowing blue Dell logo reminding you where your money went.

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  • Pure One Elite DAB Radio

    Pure One Elite DAB Radio DAB radiomeisters PURE have announced the latest update to their EcoPlus range, the Pure ONE Elite radio.

    Hoping to lure your wallet into a spend-frenzy with its rounded corners, shiny chromed controls and tactile soft-touch finish, the Elite comes in black or white finishes and packs the usual large dose of Pure goodness for £70.

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  • Dell Studio Hybrid Mini-Desktop Set To Launch

    Dell Studio Hybrid Mini-Desktop Set To LaunchWith a swishy YouTube video freshly sent out into the wild (UPDATE: Sadly now marked private), Dell has given the hype machine a nudge to ready the masses for their new Studio Hybrid small form factor desktop PC.

    Claiming to be 80 percent smaller than a typical PC, the Studio Hybrid comes in no less than seven different interchangeable colours to reduce the risk of unfortunate colour clashes with your new curtains.

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  • Google News Generated $100m Year

    Google News Generated $100m YearMarissa Mayer, the acceptable face to Google’s tech dork-ery, appears to have slipped up somewhat.

    She let it out that Google News — one of the only areas of Google that doesn’t have advertising on — generates them around $100 million a year in referrals to main Google, from the 47 million people a month looking at it.

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  • Beer Toss: Wii Game Released

    Beer Toss: Wii Game ReleasedFind a niche … that’s what everyone says about the technology world … or the world of commerce on a larger scale.

    Well JV Games must have been listening because they’ve just come out with Frat Party Games to run on the Nintendo Wii.

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