We all know how popular virtual worlds are, with the best known examples being Second Life and World of Warcraft.
These worlds are all very well, but they’re set in a fictional world. Not a bad thing for many people, but some players will hanker for more reality.
Get Real
This is where Twinity comes in. Twinity plan to accurately model cities from around the world and they’re starting with one of our fave cities, Berlin.
A UK Judge has banned a 23 year old man from boasting of his crimes on the Internet.
Andrew Kellett has received an Asbo (anti-social behaviour order), normally used for ban people from specific geographic areas.
Samsung 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.
Netflix 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.
We’re still recovering from last night’s alcohol-laden launch of their new Home Hub 2.0, but BT aren’t making life easy for hungover journos, rubbing fresh steaming hot news in our bleary faces this morning.
Continue reading BT Announce Super Fast Fibre Optic Broadband
BIC, famous for disposable pens and lighters, is launching the BIC Phone in France today.
As with their other products, the BIC Phone focuses on core functions – making and receiving phone calls & texts.
Available in two playful colours, citrus orange and lime green, the USP of the BIC mobile phone is that it’s ready to go when you buy it.
None of this normal fiddling around with wrestling the battery out of the packaging, finding the charger and leaving it for X hours to get it ready to use – the BIC Phone is charged a ready to go.
Continue reading BIC Phone Launches In France: €49, Mobile & Ready To Go
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.
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O2 Broadband and Be Broadband have put on their Billy Whizz boots and surged past their competitors in the broadband speed charts, providing average download speeds over twice the national average.
The figures come from broadband analysts at broadband.co.uk, with spokeschap Edd Dawson commenting, “Such is O2’s dominance in the average download speed charts that they are an incredible 47% faster on average than their nearest rivals Virgin Media.”
Continue reading O2/Be Broadband Twice As Fast As National Average
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.
A Manchester- based IT consultant returned from a holiday in Portugal to find something worse than the dull northern weather to greet him in the shape of a hefty £31,500 telephone bill.
Finding himself dissatisfied with the entertainment on offer in Portugal, Iayn Dobsyn had elected to download an episode of Prison Break and a load of MP3s by using his mobile phone as a modem.
Continue reading Vodafone Customer Slapped Down With £31,000 Data Roaming Charge