Vodafone has announced that the new Blackberry Storm will only be available on their network initially in a number of different countries including the UK and Netherlands.
Author: Simon Perry
Cat GPS Tracking
We love daft uses of technology – that’s one of the reasons we’ve been enthusiastic supporters of DorkBot for so long.
The latest that’s sprung onto our radar is people using small GPS devices to track the movement of their cats.
Spotify Mini Review: (91%): Public Launch of Serious iTunes Competitor
For a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music – pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.
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Future of Web Apps In London This Week
Excitement is rising in the Digital-Lifestyles offices for the upcoming Future of Web Apps event in London later this week.
The conference is running this Thursday to Friday, 9-10 October, with workshops running through out the Wednesday.
Search Like It’s 2001 On Google
Google has been going ten years this year and to mark the occassion they’ve released a version of their database as of ten years ago.
First thing that you’ll notice is that it’s got an old school Google logo – not exactly sure if that’s the accurate one, as drop-shadows might have been beyond them.
First Loyalty Points For Music Service Launched In UK
A new way of getting music has launched in the UK.
As Nokia launches their ‘music with phones’ offering today and T-Mobile/Google offered music for the G1, we’ve heard of another company using music to tempt people towards their product.
Nectar, who provide a loyalty card which gives points against purchases, have launched Nectar Music Store in the UK. We understand that it’s the first in the UK using loyalty points as track-buying currency.
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£17 eBay Camera Contained Top Secret Information
Here’s another tale of UK data loss that has to be one for the “You couldn’t make it up” files.
An Englishman has bought a Nikon Coolpix camera from eBay for £17 that had lots of secret information stored on it.
According to The Sun, list is considerable.
- a document marked “top secret” detailed the encrypted computer system used by real-life James Bonds working away from MI6’s London HQ.
- a hand-drawn graphic revealed links between active al-Qaeda cells — with terrorists’ names and occupations.
- photos of rocket launchers and missiles
Although The Sun isn’t explicit — not surprisingly, as why would they confuse their readers — it appears that other data was held on the memory card, but not as photos. These include names, snaps, fingerprints and suspects’ academic records.
Special Branch attention
Having realising what he had, the eBay purchaser reported his findings to the police where he lived, at Hemel Hempstead.
Despite the officers apparently not taking it seriously, the anti-terrorist Special Branch officers turned up at his home and removed the camera and the computer that the pictures had been downloaded to – giving them £1,000 to buy a replacement.
It’s reported that investigation are being made into the seller of the equipment.
RealDVD Brings Lawsuit From Hollywood
A strong sense of Deja Vu is flowing thick around the Digital-Lifestyles offices today as we hear that ‘Hollywood’ is to take legal action against Real Network for their DVD copying software, RealDVD.
Five years ago last month, the collected legal might of the Hollywood studios took a disliking to 321 Studios as they too had the temerity to create and sell software that allowed people to copy their DVDs.
Diesel xXx Porn Video Event Promo
The clothing company Diesel is building up to 30th birthday.
To mark it, they’re hosting parties in 17 cities around the world on the same day.
Being switch on media-types, they’ve released a promo video which is more than slightly controversial – obv a great way to get attention.
They’ve taken old p0rn video footage and superimposed graphics on top of the explicit parts.
MBW-200: Sony Bluetooth Watches For Women
Sony have introduced Bluetooth watches for women that have control over mobile phones.
We all know that lots of women keep their mobile phones in the handbags rather than stuff them in the back pockets like men do and most of them don’t clutch them in their mits a-la Paris Hilton.