The Nintendo Wii looks set to overtake Microsoft’s XBox 360 as the dominant console system this year, according to the white-coated analyst bods at research firm iSuppli.
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Daily Mail Launches Free SMS Service
Whining middle-Englanders, polyester slack-wearing Conservatives, nostalgic old duffers and social climbing Home Counties types will soon be able to send outraged texts for free, thanks to a new service from Associated Newspapers’ Daily Mail.
(more…)Elonex Unveil £99 Laptop
Mover over Asus and tell Eee the news – there’s a new bargain basement laptop in town, in the shape of the Elonex One, set to retail for under a hundred quid.
The super, nay ultralow cost laptop is set to be wowing Brummies when it’s introduced at The Education Show in Birmingham on 28th February.
(more…)Symbian Shift 77.3m Units In 2007
Apple may be busy shuffling facts about to make their modest iPhone sales sound more impressive, and Microsoft may be bragging about the 14.3m Windows Mobile phones sold in the last 6 months, but when it comes to sheer volume of sales, they’re right at the back of the class compared to Symbian OS.
(more…)Nokia High End N96 Announced
Featuring more bells and whistles than a loved up gang of NuRave Morris dancers, Nokia have unveiled their new Nokia N96 high end handset at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona.
Billed as being optimised for video and TV, the N96 sports a beefy 2.8″ 16m colour TFT, QVGA (240×320 pixel) resolution screen, 16GB of internal memory and support for high-quality videos in a wide range of formats, including MPEG-4, Windows Media Video and Flash Video.
(more…)Microsoft Buys Danger, Sidekick Makers
Microsoft’s wad may have failed to woo Yahoo yesterday, but they’ve had more luck flashing the cash at the software firm Danger Inc, makers of the software that powers T-Mobile’s hugely successful SideKick web phone.
(more…)Samsung G810 S60 Smartphone Packs Wi-Fi, GPS
Samsung G810 have announced details of their top of the range Samsung G810 slider phone.
Packed with kitchen sink-including functionality including geo-tagging and Wi-Fi, the handset looks ready and willing to square up against the hugely popular Nokia N95 smartphone.
(more…)Nokia Adds N78, 6210 Navigator And 6220 Classic Phones
Nokia, the undisputed heavyweight mobile phone-shifters of the world have announced three more multimedia phone models at the mobile industry’s annual knees-up in Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress 2008. (more…)
Palm Centro Gets European Release
Palm have announced the European release of their Palm OS-based Centro smartphone, their smallest and lightest Palm smartphone to date.
(more…)ACDSee Pro2 Photo Manager (90%)
A long time favourite with the Digi-Lifestyle crew, ACDSee’s Windows photo manager has always impressed us with its ability to take a manly grip on large, unruly digital photo collections and slap them into nice ordered piles.
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