If you’re planning on ordering a UK train ticket online today, you’re out of luck, by the looks of it.
Month: November 2008
Palm: The End Is Nigh?
Struggling smartphone maker Palm is slashing its workforce numbers as it continues to lose market share to rivals Apple and Blackberry (Research in Motion).
Employees are already being ejected at a rate of knots, with spokeswoman Lynn Fox positively spinning the workers’ misery thus: “The goal is to consolidate resources and focus our efforts more effectively.”
Palm currently employs around a thousand employees but has seen their bite of the smartphone market shrink, despite the success of the Palm OS Centro smartphone and their well received Windows Mobile handsets.
Online Scammers Pocket £3.3bn
Computer-savvy fraudsters have scooped up more than $5bn (£3.35bn) through card fraud activities, according to new research.
The wallet-thumping figure comes from security spods Symantec after a year-long study of the Internet’s underground economy.
Oregon Scientific Release Thin Projecting Clock And Weather Station
We’ve been using a projection clock for over a year now and find it great to use.
Somehow you feel like you’re waking up less if you just have to open your eyes and look up at the time projected onto the ceiling, rather than actually lift your head to look at the clock beside you bed, to find out what unearthly hour you’ve woken up at.
Anything that wakes you up less in the middle of the night has got to be a good thing, that is unless you want to wake up of course!
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Searching For The Supremo Smartphone (Part Three)
In Part One and Part Two we worked our way through some of the best smartphones on the market.
LG KF750 Secret
Looking way slick with its carbon fibre battery cover and tempered glass display, the Secret is a neat sliderphone packed with a ton of multimedia gizmos wedged into its slimline frame.
There’s a 5MP autofocus camera with AF-assist light onboard, backed by VGA video recording at 30 fps, plus SloMo and Fast video recording options.
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Pomegranate Phone Launches With Unbelievable Features
Have you seen the Pomegranate Phone yet?
If you thought that the iPhone/ Storm/ Diamond were the very latest, you’re not up to speed.
The Pomegranate Phone has feature that current-generation phones can only dream about.
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Searching For The Supremo Smartphone (Part Two)
In part one of our review of the best smartphones on the market we looked at the Apple 3G iPhone, the Palm Centro, the Blackberry Bold and the Sony Ericsson C905.
Read on for our next selection.
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Apple User Copy Protection Fury
It’s looking like Apple has built copy protection into their new laptops, without bothering to tell prospective purchasers about it.
The currently Apple-faithful who have bought the new laptops, including the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, are finding that if they try to play films – that they have legitimately rented through Apple iTunes Store – through a non-HDCP external screen or projector are begin met with a message “This movie cannot be played because a display that is not authorised to play protected movies is connected.”
Not surprisingly this has angered them a great deal – and quite rightly in our view.
Given how Apple go to a great of effort in launching their products to the world, we think it’s pretty disingenuous not to mention that the laptops that are being bought have High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) built into them.
Future Of Mobile 2008 Event Review
FOM (Future of Mobile) is an event run by Carsonified who also run FOWA (the Future of Web Applications) previously reported by Digital Lifestyles. It took place on Monday and Tues this week (17/18th Nov) in Kensington.
Searching For The Supremo Smartphone (Part One)
Look, we’ll come right out with it. We’re gadget freaks.
We like to strut around with the latest gizmos throbbing in our pockets, and tote the latest technology. When it comes to smartphones, we want the best, but what is the supreme smartphone right now?
We take a comprehensive look at what’s on offer in the top end of the market and chew over bagfuls of specs in our quest to find the perfect smartphone.
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