Digital-Lifestyles

Digital-Lifestyles pre-empted and reported thousands of articles on the then-coming impact that technology was to have on all forms of Media. Launched in 2001 as a research blog to aid its founder, Simon Perry, present at IBC 2002, it grew into a wide ranging, multi-author publication that was quoted in many publications globally including the BBC, was described by the Guardian as 'Informative' and also cited in a myriad of tech publications before closing in 2009

  • YouPorn Featured In London Metro Newspaper

    YouPorn Featured In London Metro NewspaperThe times are clearly changing. Metro, one of the give-away papers in London, covered YouPorn in a whole page article in yesterday’s edition.

    As well as pointing out that YouPorn is supposed to be the 27th most visited site in the UK, three slots behind eBay, it surprisingly bigs up the benefits of amateur porn.

    At the bottom of the page, they take it a couple of stages further and give tips on how you can look good when making your own porn video!

    As a side issue, the piece also mentions a UK version of YouTube (new to us), which after a quick glance (you’ve got to research these things, haven’t you) looks like a poor copy of the original.

    We suspect that having such high billing in the Metro, YouPorn’s popularity will be on the rise.

  • YouTube Video Predicts Finish School Gun Attack

    YouTube has been used to post a video-predicting the fatal shooting at a school in Finland, with the none too subtle title of “Jokela High School Massacre – 11/7/2007.”
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  • iPlayer Opening: Post BBC Interview with Mark Taylor, OSC (Podcast)

    iPlayer Opening: Post BBC Interview with Mark Taylor, OSC (Podcast)As promised, below is the interview we did yesterday evening with Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium, following their meeting the BBC Technology staff, giving you the latest news on the BBC’s view on changing the iPlayer to an open platform rather than the Microsoft-only approach they’ve taken until now.

    [audio:https://digital-lifestyles.info/media/audio/mark-taylor-osc-iplayer.mp3]

  • A Third Pay For Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ Download Album

    A Third Pay For Radiohead 'In Rainbows' Download AlbumApparently a third of the people who downloaded the Radiohead album, In Ranbows, that let punters pick their own price for the it, paid for it at all, say Comscore, who carried out a survey of online behavior of over 2 million Internet users.
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  • iPlayer: BBC DOES Want Open Platform: OSC

    iPlayer: BBC DOES Want Open Platform: OSCWe met with Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium (OSC) last night, directly after his meeting with the BBC to discuss opening-up the iPlayer to run on more platforms than just the Microsoft browser.

    It appears that the meetings were positive and boiled down to two points, the BBC feels they haven’t communicated their desires for iPlayer properly and that they want the iPlayer to run on an open platform.
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  • UK iPhone Launch On Friday: iGussets Moisten

    UK iPhone Launch On Friday: iGussets MoistenExpect much shivering and perhaps a little moistening of the iPants as over-excited fanboys settle down to queue up for the UK launch of the iPhone on Friday.

    For some reason we can’t even be bothered to look up, those crazy marketing cats at Apple have set a launch time of precisely 6:02 p.m., with iPhones being made available at more than 1,300 Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse retail locations across the UK.
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  • Google Unveils Mobile Phone Alliance To Create Open Mobile OS

    Google Unveils Mobile Phone Alliance To Create Open Mobile OS.After a frenzy of speculation, Google has announced a far-reaching alliance with over thirty handset makers, networks and other mobile technology companies to kickstart a new era of low-cost mobile phones utilising open technology standards.

    Known as the Open Handset Alliance, the group includes many of the big names in mobile phone chips manufacture, like Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments plus SiRF Technology Holdings, Marvell Technology Group, Nvidia, Synaptics, eBay (owners of Skype), Nuance Communications, NMS Communications and Wind River Systems.
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  • Ashley Highfield & The BBC iPlayer PR Offensive

    We’ve had a listen to the podcasted interview with Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC Future Media and Technology, put out by BBC Backstage and thought it was worth some comment.

    It’s clearly part of a PR battle against those who are voicing disappointment at the BBC making the iPlayer only work on a Microsoft platform.
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  • E-TEN Glofiish X800 3.5G Windows Mobile Smartphone

    E-TEN Glofiish X800 3.5G Windows Mobile SmartphoneJam-packed with the latest mobile innovations for the connected-exec-about-town is the new Glofiish X800 smartphone which is about to start shipping in key markets in about, ooh, two shakes of a lamb’s tale.

    Sporting a two-tone silver and black design that can best be described as ‘industrial’ and ‘functional’, the X800 squeezes in an integrated GPS receiver, HSDPA radio and a large 2.8 inch 640×480 VGA touch screen display.
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  • ZoneGate, Ubiquisys’ Femtocell: A Cellular Base-station In Your Home

    ZoneGate, Ubiquisys' Femtocell: A Cellular Base-station In Your HomeLast Wednesday morning I went along to the first briefing with a company called Ubiquisys to see their product ZoneGate, a Femtocell. If you think you’ve heard of them, it’s could well be because of the investment that Google made in them recently.
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