Samsung NV100HD Packs A Bonkers 14.7 Mpx

Samsung NV100HD Packs A Bonkers 14.7 MpxSamsung today launched the NV100HD, a compact digital camera with a bonkers 14.7 Mpx resolution.

It sits at the top of their style-led NV range and has a 28mm Schneider Kreuznach wide-angle lens onboard.

It’s not just a still-shot beauty, 720p resolution video can be recorded at up to 30 frames per second – and then be watched, via an HDMI cable, on an HD TV.

Continue reading Samsung NV100HD Packs A Bonkers 14.7 Mpx

Netflix On Xbox 360 Exclusively: Analysis

Netflix On Xbox 360 ExclusivelyNetflix and Microsoft have signed a deal to stream films and TV programmes to the Xbox 360.

Starting in the autumn, over 10,000 films and TV episodes available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers who are Netflix subscribers, all for no additional cost.

Continue reading Netflix On Xbox 360 Exclusively: Analysis

Flickr/Getty Deal: Analysis

Flickr/Getty Deal: AnalysisThe deal between Getty and Flickr, which exclusively gives Getty the right to pick the best images from Flickr and sell them via gettyimages.com to their customers in the creative, commercial and editorial industries — they call it the ‘first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community’ — is, in many ways, inevitable.

Getty have caused a considerable amount of heart ache to professional photographers by re-adjusting their rates and contracts for images in their commercial library.

Continue reading Flickr/Getty Deal: Analysis

Scrabble Aims To Outshine Scrabulous On Facebook

Years late to the party, Hasbro and Mattel look to oust the unofficial Facebook hit app.
Scrabble Aims To Outshine Scrabulous On FacebookThe unauthorised Scrabble rip-off ‘Scrabulous’ continues to be a phenomenal hit on the social networking site Facebook, despite the best efforts of copyright owners Hasbro and Mattel to get the application closed down.

Continue reading Scrabble Aims To Outshine Scrabulous On Facebook

Euro Tech News: Steve Kennedy Deserves Your Vote!

Euro Tech News: Steve Kennedy Deserves Your Vote!We’re really pleased to see that Steve Kennedey’s, Euro Tech News blog has been short-listed for the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08, which have recently been announced.

Computer Weekly describe the selected sites as “this year’s must-read blogs for IT professionals in the UK,” which is a great accolade for Steve – quite rightly too.

Steve Kennedy really knows his onions — why else would we ask him to write for Digital-Lifestyles? — and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the comms and tech world.

His experience is extensive and oh so very deep. As the old phrase goes, he’s forgotten more about comms than most people will ever know.

Massive knowledge aside and on the personal side, he’s also a really nice bloke.

Vote for Euro Tech News
Steve’s Euro Tech News is listed in the Wireless and mobile blogs section and deserves your vote, he really does.

Vote For Steve!

DRM-free MP3 Downloads Surge By 300%

DRM-free MP3 Downloads Surge By 300%CD and DVDs sales may be going down the dumper, but downloads of DRM-free music are going through the roof.

MP3 download site 7digital.com is reporting that sales have rocketed since they introduced DRM-free music from major labels Warner and EMI, with the site now riding high as the UK’s second biggest digital music retailer, after iTunes.

Continue reading DRM-free MP3 Downloads Surge By 300%