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Spam, the scourge of the inbox, has bounced back to the same horrific high levels as five months ago according to anti-spam company Postini, a division of Google.
Back in November last year, spam levels registered a dramatic drop when Internet backbone providers cut off McColo Corp., a California Web-hosting service used by steenkin’ spammers to coordinate e-mail attacks.
We purred enthusiastically when we got to review the Olympus E-410 back in 2007, and we’re liking the look its latest update, the E-450.
Now a member of the “four thirds” clan, the E-450 is near identical to last year’s E-420, and the ten megapixel shooter shares the same Live MOS sensor with live view, 3.5fps continuous shooting, 2.7-inch LCD, ISO 1,600 max sensitivity and four thirds lens mount stuffed in the same bijou 5.1 x 3.6 x 2.1-inch and 13.4 ounce body.
Continue reading Olympus E-450 Four Thirds Pint-Sized dSLR Announced
Music streaming service Spotify has struck up a deal with 7digital to offer users paid MP3 downloads.
The collaboration will give listeners access to more than 6m tracks for downloading and should help make what is already an irresistible app even more compelling.
Continue reading Spotify Teams Up With 7digital To Add MP3 Downloads
Another one falls.
Vodafone have announced that they are switching their music catalogue from Universal Music, Sony Music and EMI away from DRM-protected music to MP3 format.
This makes Vodafone the first global mobile operator to do it.
Not only will these tracks but DRM-free in the future, but people who have bought DRMd tracks already will be able to change them to MP3 for FREE. Are you listening Apple? No DRM-dropping tax.
A detailed study by tech spods Nielsen Online has found that UK users spend one in every six online minutes browsing social media and blogging sites.
Facebook continues to be the don of social networking sites globally, visited monthly by thirty per cent of users in the nine markets tracked in the study (UK, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the US) with Facebook’s global audience now a phenomenal 108.3m users.
Continue reading Social Network Sites Continue To Grow As Facebook Flourishes
Remix culture has just found its latest incarnation.
Kutiman, a member of a collective called bacon oppenheim, has taken music videos found on YouTube and blended the audio and used the visuals to create individual versions of tracks – essentially using YouTube as a box of samples to pick from to create some great tunes.
Continue reading ThruYou: Remix Cluture’s Latest Incarnation
Sony has give their New Product Trumpet a lengthy parp to announce the arrival of its latest super-zoom camera, the Cyber-shot HX1.
Strutting the streets with Sony’s all-new Exmor CMOS sensor – last seen in Sony’s Alpha range of cameras – and packing an effective resolution of 9.1 megapixels, the SLR-style camera employs the powerful BIONZ image processor.
Continue reading Sony Cyber-shot HX1 Ultrazoom Snapper Packs CMOS Sensor
They’ve taken their time to join the megazoom digital camera market, but Pentax have just rocked up with their new X70 digicam packing a hefty 24X optical zoom lens in a reasonably compact and lightweight body.
Sporting 12 megapixels and a 1/2.3-inch chip, the X70 bridge camera comes with the usual auto exposure options, plus aperture/shutter priority and metered manual modes for tinkerers.
Continue reading Pentax Goes Superzoom With New X70 Digital Camera
A new UK based survey has found that nearly half of web users have used illegal file sharing sites to help themselves to free content.
A study involving over 1,000 consumers by Tiscali.co.uk and music site DrownedinSound (DiS) found that 46% of users had used peer-to-peer sites (P2P), with Limewire (34%) and BitTorrent (25%) being the most popular.
Continue reading Nearly Half Of UK Web Users Have Illegally Downloaded Music
Olympus has announced its new E-620 DSLR, sporting a 12.3MP camera sand incorporating features from the recently introduced E-30 in a compact body.
Pitched at the upper entry-level market, the E-620 offers three-level image stabilisation, a 2.7″ tilt and 270 degree swivel LCD and snazzy features like Art Filters and Multiple Exposures.
Continue reading Olympus 620 DSLR Offers In-Camera Effects Galore