Digital-Lifestyles

October 2007

  • Trusted Reviews Site Bought By IPC

    Trusted Reviews Site Bought By IPCWell known tech news and reviews site Trusted Reviews has just been bought by mega-publisher IPC.

    Terms have not been disclosed.
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  • i-mate Ultimate 9502 And 8502 Smartphones Announced

    i-mate Ultimate 9502 And 8502 Smartphones AnnouncedSmartphone kings i-mate have shuffled out two new high-end Ultimate smartphones, both packing QWERTY keyboards.

    The 9502 packs in more features than a Friday night multi-screen cinema, offering a high resolution touch screen display, tri-band 3.5G, 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and quad band GSM with EDGE.

    The beefy handheld features a 2.8″ VGA (640×480) touch screen that slides out Sidekick-stylee, with a 39-key Qwerty keypad lurking below.
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  • Dell Remains #1 in US, Apple Hits 3rd Place – But Not For Long

    Dell Remains #1 in US, Apple Hits 3rd Place - But Not For LongDell remains the King Of The Hill of PC sales in the United States, owning a hefty 29.1 percent of the market ahead of nearest rival Hewlett-Packard, at 25.7 percent.

    The figures come from the latest quarterly PC shipment report from Gartner, who placed a surging Apple in third place with 8.1 percent of the US PC market (in a similar report, rival analysts IDC put Apple’s share at a smaller 6.3 percent of the U.S. market).
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  • Samsung Announces 5 Megapixel Cameraphone With Optical Zoom

    Samsung Announces 5 Megapixel Cameraphone With Optical ZoomSamsung has pulled on the little rope and sent the velvet curtains shimmying asunder to reveal the Samsung G800, triumphantly declaring it the world’s first 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom.

    Although the quality of phone cameras has been increasingly steadily recently, most come burdened with the digital zoom, which is, frankly rubbish.

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  • Skype: Over 10 Million Online Today

    There’s plenty of people and publications saying that Skype has been a failure for eBay.

    Word to the wise – have you noticed that today it’s crossed the 10 million line today. That’s 10m people running the software concurrently. Pretty strong support in anyone’s book, we’d have said.

    What with that and the introduction of the Skype High Quality video service coming out soon, it’s hardly a slouch is it?

  • Tesco: Bringing Open Source To The Masses?

    Tesco: Open Source Pioneers?Wow, Tesco’s Online are knocking out brand-new computer complete with Linux-loaded on it.

    Who would have guessed that the company that started their online shop totally reliant on using the Microsoft Web browser to be able to use it would shifting so radically.

    OK, so the 80Gb eSys ePC is only driven by an Intel Celeron processor running but it is running at 2.66GHz and comes with Ubuntu Version 6.06, Open Office – all for £139.93.

    Open source for the masses?

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  • TV-Links.co.uk Arrest: Media Industry Is Too Slow … Again

    TV-Links.co.uk Arrest: Media Industry Is Too Slow ... AgainAs many people are starting to realised TV-Link, a site which linked to TV programmes of many types, has been shut down and the man behind it arrested.

    Details were reported last Friday, with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) being behind the action.

    The site had been a firm favourite with those at Digital-Lifestyles, as it made available content that just isn’t available anywhere else.

    To those of you who lived through the original rise of music sharing services, you’ll be experiencing a total sense of Deja-vu.
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  • Yamaha PJP-25UR VoIP Conference Call Sound Station

    Yamaha PJP-25UR VoIP Conference Call Sound StationAnyone who’s ever sat through long conference calls with a load of people sat around a table will be familiar with occasionally having to lurch over the desk to talk into the ‘sound station’ thingy.
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  • SanDisk TakeTV Player: Watch Web Downloads Without Wi-Fi

    Watch Web Downloads Without Wi-FiWith most of the world stampeding to wireless solutions for just about everything, SanDisk reckon they’ve hit on a winner with their unashamedly cable-toting device.
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  • Social Networking Sites To Plateau In 2012

    Social Networking Sites Set To Plateau In 2012Social networking sites are set to scoop up 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep reeling punters until at least 2009, but sniffy investors are still harbouring doubts about the long term growth of the market.
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