First mentioned on Digital Lifestyles back in October 2008, the music playing Spotify app has impressed us so much that it’s become a regular feature in the office.
In case you’ve forgotten already, let us refresh you about what the program does: Spotify serves up instant, legal access to millions of tracks completely free of charge via an interface every bit as slick as iTunes.
Water levels rapidly rose in the office when we cast eyes on the drool-inducing, dribble-releasing Leica M8.2 Safari edition digital camera kit.
Designed for, well, people with far more money than sense, this stunningly beautifully high-end camera outfit retails for a gasp-inducing $10,000 and is centred around the 10.3 million pixel M8.2 camera, an updated version of the Leica M8 which was released in July 2007.
Speculation continues to grow that the Internet auction website eBay is preparing to flog off its VoIP telephony service, Skype.
The story sprang up after eBay head honcho John Donahue recently described Skype as a ‘great stand-alone business,’ sparking off a flurry of rumours about a possible sell off.
There seems to be a growing band of unhappy bunnies among Blackberry Storm customers, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal.
The paper reports that Research In Motion’s first touch-screen device has attracted a storm (sorry!) of complaints from users about the handset’s buggy software and temperamental hardware.
The British Library has expressed concerns that future historians may face a “black hole” of lost material unless urgent action is taken to archive contemporary websites and other digital records.
Lynne Brindley, the library’s chief executive, is concerned that Britain’s cultural heritage may be at risk as new technologies make current standards obsolete. Some have noted that this is already happening, with photos stored on computers lost forever when hard drives fail and mobile phone snaps easily being lost or never transferred off the handset.
Over 210 billion emails were sent every single day in 2008, according to recent research by the Web site performance business firm Pingdom.
The company with the funny name estimated that steenkin’ spam accounted for 70 per cent of all email sent, with the total spam count for the year being an almost unfathomable 53.8 trillion emails.
The total global online Internet audience has passed the one billion mark according to digital marketing intelligence provider, comScore.
Their smartypants sounding ‘World Metrix audience measurement service’ calculated that the total number of web surfers logging on the web last month reached the landmark 1bn figure.
Acer has announced details of its stylish new 10in Aspire One netbook, due to go on sale next month.
The specs look pretty good, with the Aspire packing the now-standard 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB RAM backed up by a sizeable 160GB hard disk and a widescreen 1,024 x 600 pixel display
For computer nerds and technology freaks in New York, the place to be around Christmas was the excellent Wired Store in midtown Manhattan, which veritably bristled with the latest gadgets, gizmos and must-have widgets.
Seeing as many MP3 players come with cheap headphones so frightful that they make LCD Soundsystem sound like a drunk busker, spending a few bob on a decent pair can make a real difference to your sonic pleasure.