Fast food customers keen to enjoy Wi-Fi access while consuming their McSludge and McProcessed Meat Of Uncertain Heritage will be pleased to learn that McDonald’s is about to roll out a free Wi-Fi service across its 1,200 outlets.
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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
McDonalds Offers Free Wi-Fi And Fries
Vodafone Scoops Up Spanish And Italian Broadband Firm
Mobile mega-company Vodafone has waved its enormous wad in the direction of Europe and acquired the Italian and Spanish assets of telecoms firm Tele2 AB for an eye-watering £537 million.The Swedish-owned Tele2 enjoys a big presence in Italy, offering fixed-line and Internet services to more than 2.6 million users, including 400,000 broadband customers.
(more…)Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
If ever you wanted a shirt that shouted out to the world, “LOOK AT ME! I’m a complete geeky l005er LaMeR5”, then this has to be the one for you.Available from ThinkGeek, the t-shirt features a glowing animated display that dynamically reveals the current Wi-Fi signal strength in the area.
As cool as a heatwave only twice as hot, the display is powered by three AAA batteries and can reveal the signal strength status of nearby 802.11b or 802.11g networks.
(more…)Wiinstrument: Wii Drumming On Mac: Video & Podcast
We’ve all see Wii-motes being used for all sort of strange purposes, well this one is useful.A bunch of students at University of Potsdam, Germany have written a programme that lets you use your Wiimote and nunchuck to trigger sounds, such as drums and cymbals on a Mac. It’s not just drums that can be triggered, but any MIDI sound.
The accelerometer in the Wii-mote senses how hard the drums are being played, varying the loudness and harshness of the sound. It’s wire-free as it uses Bluetooth to connect.
(more…)Video Adverts on YouTube Homepage
We know that Google is driven by advertising, right?Well, since buying YouTube, they haven’t plastered the site with advertising, as a less savvy company might do, but they have played around a few times with raising revenue including adding promotions, supposedly linked to the video playing, at the bottom of the video, but above the playing controls.
(more…)Toshiba Libretto 50 Ultra Mobile PC- Ten Years On (Part 2/2)
Yesterday we stepped back in time to review our old Toshiba Libretto 50, today we continue on that journey, looking at battery life and programs and give you our conclusion.
(more…)Charlatans To Give Away Their Single
The Charlatans plan to give away their forthcoming single.If the news from earlier in the week about Radiohead letting their fans choose how much to pay for their next album didn’t make you sit up, you could well spit out your coffee when you hear what Alan McGee and the Charlatans are planning to do.
(more…)Sputnik 1 Anniversary: 50 Years Today
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik by what was then the Soviet Union.It’s the date that the first man-made object was placed in to geocentric orbit, going around the world in a elliptical path.
(more…)Toshiba Libretto 50 Ultra Mobile PC- Ten Years On
With the industry’s focus once again looking towards Ultra Mobile PCs, we were prompted to dig out our old Toshiba Libretto 50 and see how it shapes up in comparison.Released over ten years ago in January 1997, the Tosh was seen as something of a mini-marvel in its day, being the first mini-notebook computer to both pack an Intel Pentium (hurtling along at 75MHz) and run Microsoft Windows 95.
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Mobile mega-company Vodafone has waved its enormous wad in the direction of Europe and acquired the Italian and Spanish assets of telecoms firm Tele2 AB for an eye-watering £537 million.
If ever you wanted a shirt that shouted out to the world, “LOOK AT ME! I’m a complete geeky l005er LaMeR5”, then this has to be the one for you.
We’ve all see Wii-motes being used for 
We know that Google is driven by advertising, right?
Yesterday we 
As you know, we love the 
The Charlatans plan to give away their forthcoming single.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik by what was then the Soviet Union.
With the industry’s focus once again looking towards Ultra Mobile PCs, we were prompted to dig out our old Toshiba Libretto 50 and see how it shapes up in comparison.