Digital-Lifestyles

January 2009

  • Philip Schofield Gives Twitter ‘This Morning’ Boost

    Philip Schofield Gives Twitter 'This Morning' BoostYou can’t get much more mainstream than the mid-morning ITV programme This Morning.

    Today the show was opened by long-time TV presenter, Philip Schofield, declaring that he’s on Twitter as @Schofe.

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  • Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Smartphone: Details Leaked

    Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Smartphone: Details LeakedCurrently slipping under doorways and out through cracks in the wall are shots of the new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic handset.

    According to a comprehensive pre-release preview on the Mobile Review website, the mid-market Nokia 5730 will pack a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a two inch QVGA screen (240×320 pixels, 31×42 mm), 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, EDGE data and Bluetooth v2.0 with support for EDR running on Symbian S60.

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  • Vodafone To Bag Palm Pre Handset For UK?

    Vodafone To Bag Palm Pre Handset For UK?Rumours are beginning to circulate that Vodafone may be looking to nab the eagerly awaited Palm Pre handset on an exclusive deal when it’s released in the UK.

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  • YouTube Offers First Video Downloads

    YouTube Offers First Video DownloadsYouTube has quietly begun to offer downloadable versions of videos hosted on its site.

    It’s off to a rather limited start, with the selection appearing to be currently limited to videos of president elect President Barack Obama.

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  • Nokia N97 Touchscreen Smartphone Set For March Release?

    Nokia N97 Touchscreen Smartphone Set For March Release?Nokia’s keenly awaited N97 touchscreen handset looks to have its UK launch date confirmed, with the e-retailer Play.com posting up a pre-order page on their site.

    The site lists a release date of March 31st, 2009 for the Nokia N97 with a decidedly upmarket unlocked.sin free price of GBP 479.99 (US$707), with free shipping.

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  • Janis Krums’ Hudson Tweet: A Game Changer

    Janis Krums' Hudson Tweet: A Game ChangerJanis Krums was heading out of New York at 20:23 last night after a busy day, “Leaving the city, had a great day. Trying to beat the traffic. Wish me luck!” he Tweeted.

    Thirteen minutes later he was in a position that he couldn’t have imagined – on a ferry rescuing the passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 that had just ditched into the Hudson River.

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  • PC iTunes Upgrade Failure: Wake Up Apple!

    iTunes has been bugging me for a while about upgrading, but frankly, I’m not that interesting in anything beyond it playing me music occasionally, so I ignored it.

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  • Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PC (Part 2/2)

    Part one of our Sony Vaio P Review was wowed at shiny colours; initial impressions on opening it and amazing screen resolution. Here’s the concluding section.

    Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PCsKeyboard impresses
    If the display didn’t exactly knock us out, the keyboard was an unexpected treat. Although it’s clearly substantially smaller than a full laptop keyboard (Sony say that it’s 88 percent the size of their Sony Vaio TT keyboard, which is already smaller than a regular keyboard), it’s extremely well designed. We managed to get up a fair rate of knots on the thing with few errors and would feel comfortable typing out quite a few emails on it.

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  • Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PC

    We think this is the first serious review of the Sony Vaio P, it’s not a just a couple of quick paragraphs, but a more in depth examination for what it’s like to use. We hope you enjoy it.

    Sony Vaio P Review: Hands On With The Netbook/Lifestyle PCsWe’d already dribbled and drooled all over the first press photos of Sony’s gorgeous new Vaio P Series netbook, so couldn’t miss the opportunity to check it out at the UK launch event at the famous champagne bar at St Pancras station.

    Our first impressions – once we got over the disappointment of the promised free champagne being replaced by a warm cup of coffee (! :) ) – was overwhelmingly positive.

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  • Nortel Files For Chapter 11

    Nortel Files For Chapter 11Wowser. Nortel, (ex-?)networking giant, have filed for Chapter 11 due to financial difficulties.

    In their words …

    Nortel made this decision with the unanimous authorization of its Board of Directors after thorough consultation with its advisors and extensive consideration of all other alternatives. This process will allow Nortel to deal decisively with its cost and debt burden, to effectively restructure its operations and to narrow its strategic focus in an effective and timely manner.

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