Content in its shift to become digital
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.
With a spec sheet to rival budget cameras, Samsung’s ultra thin M8800 should really be thought of as a camera with a phone attached rather than just an ‘umble cameraphone.
The handset comes with a 8 megapixel sensor with autofocus, backed by Dual Power LED flash, ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction) and WDR (Wide Dynamic Range). Keeping up the camera-heavy features, there’s an Auto Panorama Shot feature, geotagging support (via the integrated GPS) and a photo browser (Accelerometer Sensor, Tilt and flip with sorting by Face/Time/Colour/Folder).
YouTube has swiped aside Internet monsters Google and social networking phenomenon Facebook to win the honour of the ‘coolest online media brand’, according to this year’s CoolBrands survey.
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.
Sigma’s first stab at producing a high end, pro-luring digital compact failed to feel the love of the photo cognoscenti despite the big juicy dSLR sensor lurking inside, so the company have tried again with their updated version 2.
We were mighty excited by the recent announcement of Panasonic’s world-first Micro Four Thirds system camera, the Lumix DMC-G1, and our interest has peaked even higher with the news of their forthcoming Panasonic LUMIX G digicam which adds high definition video to the mix.
Tudou, the Shangahi-based video sharing site that is reported to stream over 15 billion minutes of video every day — thrashing YouTube’s 3 Bn — has just launched an HD service.
Looking to snaffle a slice of HD action is Casio who have just announced their new Exilim EX–FH20 digital camera.
High end, wallet-draining, camera toffs Leica have announced their D-Lux 4 and C-Lux 3 digital compact cameras.
Based entirely on the already-released Panasonic Lumix LX3 and FX37 cameras, the Leica versions come with gracefully understated exteriors, a few default parameters and, of course, the drool-inducing red badge that says, “I am a veh serious photographer.”
The creator of the World Wide Web has voiced his concerns that his invention is being used more and more to spread misleading information, rumours and bonkers conspiracy theories.
The comments by Tim Berners-Lee came just a week after many science-lite websites were busy speculating that the end of the world was nigh with the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider, ironically located at CERN where Berners-Lee did his pioneering work on the web.