Digital-Lifestyles

August 2008

  • Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700 Packs Onboard Digitiser And Colour Calibration

    Lenovo's ThinkPad W700 Packs Onboard Digitiser And Colour CalibrationSubstantial amounts of desirous drool were seen dribbling from the mouths of our graphics department with the announcement of Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation.

    Created for graphics professionals, photographers and designers on the move, the W700 packs a bright (400-nit) 17-inch display with a resolution of 1920×1200 (WUXGA) and beefy Intel Extreme Quad-Core processors, but what makes this laptop really stand out from the crowd is the inclusion of an optional built in Wacom digitiser and colour calibration unit.

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  • Fujifilm Announces Finepix J100, J110W, J120, J150W And F60fd Digicams

    Fujifilm Announces Finepix J100, J110W, J120, J150W And F60fd DigicamsThe cats at Fujifilm’s New Product department have been busying themselves of late, with a veritable litter tray of new digital cameras ready to roll out to the masses.

    No less than four additions to their J series of digital compacts have been announced, regaling under the names of the FinePix J100, J110W, J120 and J150W.

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  • Gary McKinnon Gets European Court Date: Newsflash

    Gary McKinnon Gets European Court Date: NewsflashYou’ll remember that UK ‘hacker’ Gary McKinnon had lost his House of Lords Appeal at the tail end of July.

    He’s attempting to stop his deportation to America to be tried on hacking charges.

    He and those in his defence camp, including his lawyers, Kaim Todner LLP, will be breathing a sigh of relief, for the next two weeks at least.

    We’ve just heard that the Presidents of the European Court Human Rights will hear his application, before the full Chamber, on 28th August 2008.

    Background on the case

  • Kindle E-Book Reader: ‘The Apple iPod Of The Book World’

    Kindle E-Book Reader: 'The Apple iPod Of The Book World'We’ve never been particularly wowed by its clunky, mid-90s appearance, but we’re certainly digging the functionality of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and according to CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney it may prove to be a bigger smash than first expected.

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  • Tesco Offers DAB Radio For £35

    Tesco Offers DAB Radio For £35Supermarket giants Tesco will soon start offering shoppers the smallest and cheapest personal DAB Digital radio in town, the teensy weensy Technika DAB-108P.

    Set to retail for £34.97, the midget-sized Technika measures up at just 6.9cm long by 3.8 cm wide and weighs in at a mere 52g.

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  • Niklas Zennstrom’s Ran Yacht Wins Cowes

    Niklas Zennstrom's Ran Wins CowesWhat do you do if you’ve sold your business for X billion dollars?

    Well if you’re Niklas Zennstrom of Skype and Kazza fame, you share a passion with other Tech billionaires, like Oracle’s Larry Ellison – Sailing.

    If you’ve got large bundles of cash in your pockets, you don’t just get any old boat and hope that you might do quite well, you invest a ton of wonger and gather yourself a world-class crew.

    The boat, a Transpac 52, was commissioned in 2006, designed by Reichel/Pugh, famed Yacht designers and runs under GBR 528R.

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  • iPhone Apps: 60m In First Month

    iPhone Apps: 60m In First Month, $30mSteve Jobs has been chatting to the Wall Street Journal about the iPhone, its App Store and the ‘Kill Switch.’

    Jobs confirmed that an impressive 60 million iPhone applications have been downloaded in the first month of the iPhone App Store.

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  • Opera Lands O2 Germany Mobile Deal

    Opera Lands O2 Germany Mobile DealOpera have been receiving more success in placing their Web browsing software on different platforms, particularly mobile phones.

    The latest win is a big one.

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  • iPhone “Kill Switch” Storm

    iPhone Given the media’s initial blind obsession with the iPhone, writing about it as if it were the third-coming, it’s not surprising that, true to form, they’re now getting overheated with a possible bad news story.

    It centers on an apparent “Kill Switch,” that _might_ be used to kill applications on the iPhone.

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  • GoGo WiFi Across All Delta Airlines Planes

    GoGo WiFi Across All Delta Airlines PlanesIt looks like WiFi on planes is starting to be rolled out again.

    US operator Delta Airlines is to offer WiFi Internet access across their fleet of planes using AirCell’s Gogo service.

    Going mad in corporate-eez, Richard Anderson, Delta’s chief executive officer, blabbed, “Delta remains committed to providing a travel experience that maximizes the time our customers spend with us onboard by offering them even more productivity options” – translated – we’re going to offer WiFi to people who fly on our planes.

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