Digital-Lifestyles

Simon Perry

  • Orange Mobile Broadband: Asus Eee 900 And Modem Free: £25/month

    Orange Mobile Broadband: Asus Eee 900 And Modem Free: £25/monthThe battle for Mobile Broadband is heating up in the UK.

    At the weekend, Orange launched their latest offer to try and entice UK must-have-data freaks onto their network.

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  • UK File-Sharer Has To Pay £16,000: Historic Background

    UK File-Sharer Has To Pay £16,000An unnamed woman in UK has been ordered to pay £16,000 after having been found guilty of sharing a game, Dream Pinball 3D, on P2P networks.

    The initial default judgement was made against her was at the London County Court on 27 May.

    Subsequently the Patents County Court in London handed down damages of £6,086.56 plus costs and disbursements of £10,000.

    Recent UK actions
    Davenport Lyons, a UK law firm, has been instructed by Topware Interactive, a video game company started in Germany, to pursue UK residents who have been sharing their games on P2P network.

    We all know that law is a slow moving beast, but as far back as March, 2007 there was discussion on P2P sites about letters that had been received from Davenport Lyons, which had targeted 500 people at that point.

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  • 16-24 Year Olds Still Obsessed With TV, Despite PVRs

    16-24 Year Olds Still Obsessed With TV, Despite PVRsJust when you think that there’s hope for humanity, that mankind has escaped the slavery that is television, a survey turns up that tells you the complete opposite.

    Published today, a study of 2,00 UK digital TV viewers reports that some of the supposedly tech savvy generation Y (16-24 year olds) are still choosing watching TV over other more normal activities.

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  • NBC Olympic Online Figures Are Huge

    NBC Olympic Online Figures Are HugeWhen I was in Beijing last year there was a lot of talk of the current Olympic being the first ‘Broadband Olympics.’

    It appear that for one US broadcaster, NBC, it’s becoming true.

    The number of people accessing their Olympic coverage are highly impressive. After a week of the Games, NBC have had 25 million unique visitors to their NBCOlympics.com site.

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  • HTC Touch Diamond Is EISA European Smart Phone 2008-9

    HTC Touch Diamond Is EISA European Smart Phone 2008-9HTC are, we suspect, bouncing around with considerable joy today, after they were told that their HTC Touch Diamond has won the EISA European Smart Phone of the year 2008-9 award.

    The handset runs on on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional overlaid with an updated version of HTC’s TouchFLO 3D interface, which is designed to keep the itty-bitty stylus in its silo and make the operating system more finger friendly.

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  • NDS: Permira To Take It Private

    NDS: Permira To Take It PrivateNDS, a DRM, PVR and interactive TV company, will be taken private, away from its current public listed status.

    News Corporation currently owns approximately 72% of the equity and a stunning 96% of the voting power of NDS through its ownership of 100% of the outstanding Series B shares.

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  • Twinity: Virtual Berlin Tour Start

    Twinity: Virtual Berlin Tour StartTwinity, the virtual-world based in the real world, is continuing to offer more attractions to the users of their Alpha City, Berlin.

    Adding to their list of events, which has previously included a Bitropolis digital film festival and digital art shows, they’re now offering walking tours around the virtual Berlin.

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  • YouTube NOT Doing Live Video

    YouTube NOT Doing Live VideoA couple of months back one of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, somewhat excitedly announced on video with pretty blogger, Sarah Meyers, that YouTube would be offering a Live version.

    There was considerable amount of excitement around this, and a fair amount of terror in the companies that are in the live video space currently.

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  • Twitter Cuts UK SMS Service

    Twitter Cuts UK SMS ServiceTwitter has decided to drop the distribution of outgoing SMS in the UK, citing escalating cost.

    While UK users will still be able to update Twitter using their mobiles, those updates will not be distributed via SMS to their ‘followers.’ Updates will still be visible over the Web, as previously, as well as other, third-party services.

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  • Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s Location Service Finally Launches

    Fire Eagle, Yahoo's Location Service Finally LaunchesYahoo has finally released Fire Eagle, their much-discussed location service.

    Bloggers have been banging on about it for ages, which became all the more heightened after it was shown to the delegates by Tom Coates at eTech in March.

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