We’ve been pondering, prevaricating and putting off buying a netbook for ages, endlessly checking the spec sheets of competing models, waiting on new model updates and then holding off buying because another ruddy even better one had just been announced.
Continue reading Desperately Seeking The Perfect Netbook – The 10″ Choices
Here’s another tale of UK data loss that has to be one for the “You couldn’t make it up” files.
An Englishman has bought a Nikon Coolpix camera from eBay for £17 that had lots of secret information stored on it.
According to The Sun, list is considerable.
Although The Sun isn’t explicit — not surprisingly, as why would they confuse their readers — it appears that other data was held on the memory card, but not as photos. These include names, snaps, fingerprints and suspects’ academic records.
Special Branch attention
Having realising what he had, the eBay purchaser reported his findings to the police where he lived, at Hemel Hempstead.
Despite the officers apparently not taking it seriously, the anti-terrorist Special Branch officers turned up at his home and removed the camera and the computer that the pictures had been downloaded to – giving them £1,000 to buy a replacement.
It’s reported that investigation are being made into the seller of the equipment.
A strong sense of Deja Vu is flowing thick around the Digital-Lifestyles offices today as we hear that ‘Hollywood’ is to take legal action against Real Network for their DVD copying software, RealDVD.
Five years ago last month, the collected legal might of the Hollywood studios took a disliking to 321 Studios as they too had the temerity to create and sell software that allowed people to copy their DVDs.
With a spec sheet to rival budget cameras, Samsung’s ultra thin M8800 should really be thought of as a camera with a phone attached rather than just an ‘umble cameraphone.
The handset comes with a 8 megapixel sensor with autofocus, backed by Dual Power LED flash, ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction) and WDR (Wide Dynamic Range). Keeping up the camera-heavy features, there’s an Auto Panorama Shot feature, geotagging support (via the integrated GPS) and a photo browser (Accelerometer Sensor, Tilt and flip with sorting by Face/Time/Colour/Folder).
Continue reading Samsung Announce M8800 Pixon: “Slimmest 8MP cameraphone” LG disagree
Although our days of using Hotmail ended years ago when Google launched its GMail service offering far more server space, it still remains a hugely popular service, and Microsoft have started to sprinkle some fairy dust over the free e-mail pioneer.
Continue reading Microsoft Updates Hotmail (Windows Live Hotmail)
YouTube has swiped aside Internet monsters Google and social networking phenomenon Facebook to win the honour of the ‘coolest online media brand’, according to this year’s CoolBrands survey.
We’re huge fans of GoogleMaps, so we’re chuffed to see us folks in Blighty being offered some of the treats that our Stateside cousins have been enjoying since last August
Continue reading Google Maps Adds Live Traffic updates For England
Worldwide revenues from mobile adult video chat services are set to hit a pocket bulging $1.5bn within the next five years according to a new report from Juniper Research.
Their research reveals that the average monthly spend for this specialist market has throbbed up to 20 times higher than for other types of adult services, with profits set to keep on thrusting upwards.
The head of the UN’s agency for information and communication technologies has gazed deep into his crystal ball and predicted that there will be 4 billion mobile phone users by the end of this year – which equals more than half of the planet’s estimated 6.7 billion inhabitants.
Continue reading Mobile Phones: Than Half The World’s Population Are Now Connected
The clothing company Diesel is building up to 30th birthday.
To mark it, they’re hosting parties in 17 cities around the world on the same day.
Being switch on media-types, they’ve released a promo video which is more than slightly controversial – obv a great way to get attention.
They’ve taken old p0rn video footage and superimposed graphics on top of the explicit parts.