Digital-Lifestyles

September 2008

  • Palm Treo Pro UK Launch: Near Live Report

    Mike has forgone the usual drinks and random chatter that you get at a launch and replaced it with writing you all this report – What a lovely fellow. Coming to you … near live from the Treo Pro launch …

    Palm Treo Pro UK Launch: Near Live ReportThis afternoon the Digi- Lifestyles crew and assorted hacks, freeloaders and blaggers shimmied into the comfortable surrounds of The Hospital Club in Covent Garden, London for the UK launch of Palm’s new Treo Pro phone, a Windows Mobile device designed to let “mobile workers to stay on top of both their professional and personal lives.”

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  • Asus Announce Bamboo Laptops In Massive Fug Of Hyperbolic Tosh

    Asus Announce Bamboo Laptops In Massive Fug Of Hyperbolic ToshWe love babbling PR tosh, so when a spectacularly ludicrous pile of techno-hyperbole oozed into our inbox from Asus, we simply had to share it with you lot.

    The company wrote to tell us all about their ‘Bamboo Series’ of laptops – consisting of 12.1″ and 11.1″ models powered by Intel Core 2 Duo-powered processors – which are being trumpeted as “spurring the Green Computing Revolution,” no less.

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  • Spammers Love Emails Beginning With An A, M, S, R Or P

    Spammers Love Emails Beginning With An A, M, S, R Or PThe quantity of stinking spam heading into your inbox may depend on the first letter in your e-mail address, claims a new study.

    After analysing more than 500 million junk messages, University of Cambridge computer boffin Dr Richard Clayton discovered that e-mail addresses starting with an “A”, “M” or “S” were plagued with around 40% of spam in their mailboxes.

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  • Microsoft Buys Up Ciao.com

    Microsoft Buys Up Ciao.comMicrosoft has whipped open its colossal wallet once again and waved a hefty $486 million wad in the direction of Greenfield Online, owners of the popular European price comparison website, ciao.com.

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  • Microsoft Skymarket Online App Store Arrives Late To The Party

    Microsoft Skymarket Online App Store Arrives Late To The PartyAfter casting envious looks at the hugely successful AppStore for the iPhone and hearing about Google’s proposed Android Market for the Android smartphone platform, Microsoft looks set to belatedly join the online mobile apps store party.

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  • Harmon Kardon GLA-55 Speakers Offer Ice Cool Looks

    Harmon Kardon GLA-55 Speakers Offer Ice Cool LooksFor cool cats who demand the iciest of speakers, Harman Kardon’s delightfully daft GLA-55 two-piece computer speakers could be just the thing.

    Looking like they’ve been hewn out of a chunk of Titanic-sinking pure iceberg, the see-through speakers certainly catch the eye and the Harman Kardon dudes love them so much that they’ve lobbed the Big Book Of Modesty on the bonfire, proclaiming their icy creation as being, “arguably the best 2.0 speaker system available today.”

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