Digital-Lifestyles

September 2007

  • Amazon To Launch ‘Literary iPod?’

    Amazon To Launch 'Literary iPod?'Online bookseller Amazon is about to unveil a wireless electronic book reader, according to The Independent.

    Described as “a kind of literary iPod,” the paper reports that UK publishers are already scrambling to digitise their entire range of titles in time for the product’s launch, rumoured to be as close as a month away.

    The book reader follows hot on the heels of the Sony eBook Reader, which impressed us after a brief hands-on trial a while ago. Sony’s device is around the size of a hardback book, is easy to read in daylight and can store up to 80 digital books with a battery life of around 7,500 pages.
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  • Facebook Friends ‘Aren’t Real Chums’

    Facebook Friends 'Aren't Real Chums'You may well have screenfulls of grinning online buddies spanning a host of social networking sites, but new research shows that when it comes to the real world, you don’t have any more close friends than the rest of us.

    Will Reader, an evolutionary psychologist at Sheffield Hallam University headed up a team studying Facebook and MySpace users and found that, “weak ties are (more common) but there is no difference in the number of close friends people have.”
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  • General Dynamics Itronix GoBook MR-1 Rugged Laptop

    General Dynamics Itronix GoBook MR-1 Rugged LaptopDesigned for rugged outdoor blokes with lantern jaws and a taste for adventure, the launch of the General Dynamics Itronix “ultra-mobile” PC has been announced for us Europe types.

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  • MyGeek Subscription Service Offers 24/7 Remote Home PC Help

    MyGeek Subscription Service Offers 24/7 Remote Home PC HelpYou probably know the feeling. It’s 4am, there’s a vital deadline approaching in the morning, your PC’s just gone on the blink and that techie mate that you normally rely on to help you out has fallen asleep in a pool of lager.

    Normally, your only option is to break out the booze cabinet and drink the deadline away, but there is now another option.
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  • Vodafone’s New Handset Line Up Includes iPhone Rival, Samsung F700

    Vodafone's New Handset Line Up Includes iPhone Rival, Samsung F700Vodafone UK have announced details of their new handset lineup, which includes an exclusive agreement to offer the F700 smart phone from Samsung.

    Touted as an ‘iPhone rival,’ the touchscreen- packing Samsung offers audio and video playback, 3G and HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) support – potentially providing speeds as high as 7.2Mbit/sec – and a ‘proper’ hardware pull-down QWERTY keyboard.
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  • OQO Model 02 Ultra Mobile PC Gets Updated

    OQO Model 02 Ultra Mobile PC Gets UpdatedThe weirdly named OQO Inc – makers of ‘model 02’, the world’s teeniest ultra mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista and packing 3G mobile broadband – have announced some updates to their flagship diddy-model.

    The cheeky little puppy of a PC weighs just one pound, and comes with a 5″ sliding WVGA LCD screen, integrated thumb keyboard and track stick.
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  • SanDisk Sansa View Media Player Announced

    SanDisk Sansa View Media Player Announced For those music lovers not currently worshiping at the shiny altar of Steve Jobs and the Church of the iPod, Sandisk’s new widescreen flash-based portable media player might just be the ticket.

    Thinner than a pencil and with a clickable scroll wheel controller that glows a rather pleasing blue, the Sansa View comes in 8GB and 16GB versions and keep you stocked up in mobile tuneage for a healthy 30 hours of tunes (or 7 hours of video).
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  • Eudora ‘Penelope’ Open Source Beta Released

    Eudora Penelope Open Source Beta Released Late last year, Qualcomm finally called time on its commercial email application, Eudora, announcing that it would be releasing it to the open source community.

    The long serving program dates back to the late 80s when it first surfaced as a freeware program for Macs called UIUCMail.
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  • Palm European Release – “Not The Centro”

    It's Not The Palm Centro!Blimey. Palm have managed to confound us again.

    First founder Jeff Hawkins decides to ditch the ‘smartphone companion’ Foleo only a few months after declaring it to his bestest idea evah in the whole world, and now his outfit are saying that the new phone being announced next week isn’t going to be the Centro as widely expected.
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  • Sandisk ImageMate 12-in-1 USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Reader Review (70%)

    It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were confidently predicting that our Targus USB Card Reader should see us in good stead for the future with its ability to read 14 varieties of memory card.

    Sadly, the recent purchase of a SHDC-capable device proved us wrong. Although the SDHC card fitted in the reader’s SD card slot just fine, it wasn’t interested in playing ball and a brief search on the web confirmed our fears: the Targus and SDHC get along like Cardiff City and Swansea City fans.
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