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

  • Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 Digital Compact Announced

    Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 Digital Compact AnnouncedRocking up on the 12 megapixel bandwagon is Panasonic, who have just announced their new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 digicam, a sweet-looking snapper sporting a 1/1.72-inch sensor, 28mm wide-angle zoom and image stabilisation.

    Shimmying its way to the vanguard of the Lumix FX compact camera series, the Lumix FX100 packs Panasonic’s Venus Engine III processor supporting a High-Speed Burst shooting mode that can knock out a sizzling eight shots per second, with a High Sensitivity mode taking the sensitivity into the stratospheric heights of 6400 ISO.
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  • EMI Agrees Terra Firma £3.2bn Takeover

    EMI Agrees Terra Firma £3.2bn TakeoverBritish private equity firm Terra Firma looks to have fought off heavyweight rivals – including the mighty Warner Music – to put in a winning offer for the ailing EMI music group.

    The deal values the music group at just over £3.2 billion (including debt), and is set to see off other hopeful suitors including US investment firms Cerberus, One Equity Partners and Fortress, all of whom had been granted given access to EMI’s books in preparation for finalising their bids.
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  • Legal Action Against Apple Over MacBook Displays

    Legal Action Against Apple over MacBook DisplaysJust after the back-patting of the release of the upgraded Apple MacBooks last week, there news that Apple is the target of a class-action in the US.

    The case for false advertising and misrepresentation centers on the claims by Apple that the MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks display supports “millions of colors” and offer views “simply unavailable on other portables.” The plaintiffs say this isn’t the case and that they are only capable of displaying the “illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as ‘dithering.”

    To get all medieval on your arse with the numbers – the monitors is only capable of 6 bits per channel (18-bit colour), rather than 8 bits per channel. This enables the displaying of only 262,144 colours without dithering, as opposed to the 16 million colours that 8-bit could do.

    More when we hear it.

    (via Appleinsider, where you can find a PDF copy of the complaint)

  • Sky+ Subscription Charge Ending

    Sky+ Subscription Charge EndingSky has made the decision to scrap the subscription charge for the Sky+ PVR service starting 1 July 2007.

    Since its inception in 2001, Sky has been charging users of the Sky+ service £10 per month to keep using it, this includes receiving the EPG information, required to drive the service.
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  • Casio EX-Z1200SR Exilim 12MP Flagship Launches

    Casio Exilim EX-Z1200SR 12MP Flagship LaunchesAs one flagship burns to the ground in London, Casio have launched their new Casio Exilim EX-Z1200SR camera, which sails at the front of their fleet of compact digital cameras.
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  • Chargepod 6-Way Charger For Road Warriors

    Chargepod 6-Way Charger For Road WarriorsThe last time we went away on a business trip, we had to set off with a bag almost overflowing with adapters, lugging no less than five of the ruddy things for our travelling tech kit of a Palm Treo, Ricoh GR, Nikon D80, Vaio lappie and DVD burner.
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  • Sky TV Looks Set To Sign Distribution Deal With Tiscali: Virgin Media Would Suffer

    Sky TV Looks Set To Sign Distribution Deal With Tiscali: Virgin Media Would SufferMurdoch’s Sky TV looks set to surprise industry pundits and mightily miff Virgin with a sneaky agreement with Internet television/ broadband ISP group Tiscali.

    According to an article in The Times today, Tiscali have been slurping coffee and dunking biscuits with the BSkyB boys, and look set to get jiggy with a deal to let Tiscali deliver the TV channels pulled from Virgin’s service recently.
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  • SMC HotSpot In A Box: Potential Consequences Of UK Use

    SMC have launched a business friendly Wi-Fi HotSpot in a box (SMCWHSG14-G).

    It’s designed to support up to 100 concurrent users and comes with a printer so Wi-Fi access codes and invoices can be issued simply.
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  • PSP Online Store Coming

    PSP Online Store ComingSony is adapting their idea of the PS3 online store, taking it to their handheld games machine, the PSP – in the US at least.

    It’s expected that a wide variety of content could be downloaded to it – demos, full games, possibly even music and videos.

    With a planned start date of Autumn, or Fall for our US readers, access will be via the handheld’s Wi-Fi, using the Web browser that comes built-in.

    It’s not exactly a lightening move, given that the UK release date of the PSP was September 2005 – and that was behind the US and Japan. This was acknowledged by Jack Tretton, Sony Computer Entertainment America president, “I think the advent of a long awaited and quite frankly long overdue ability to deliver a downloadable service for the PSP will help us out a great deal.”

  • British Visa Data Blunder: Why The Government Shouldn’t Have Your Data

    The UK Government has been exposed to a very embarrassing technology related problem – revealing the personal details, and travel plans, of people hoping to visit the UK from India.

    A schoolboy programming error on the VFS-UK application site, which exposed the application data details, simply by changing the reference number in the URL, was first discovered by Sanjib Mitra.
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