I’ve got over 78,000 spam emails sitting in my Gmail account – and that’s with them auto-deleting after three months. Crazy isn’t it?
Normally there’s very little humour to the messages, but we can see spammers trying new methods like the news scam that they came up with recently.
In a fascinating development, search engine kings Google have released a new browser to take on Firefox and Internet Explorer.
The tabbed browser, known as Chrome, promises superior memory handling, a more stable environment and faster downloading of complex pages.
Continue reading Google Chrome Attacks Browser Market With Its Own Browser
If you’re still feeling the love for your old vinyl tunes but the thought of getting up from your Ottoman every twenty minutes to turn over Supertramp’s ‘Crime of the Century’ is too much to bear, then the Ion LP 2 CD combo record player/CD burner could be for you.
Continue reading Ion LP2 CD Offers PC-Free Vinyl To CD Conversion
Mike has forgone the usual drinks and random chatter that you get at a launch and replaced it with writing you all this report – What a lovely fellow. Coming to you … near live from the Treo Pro launch …
This afternoon the Digi- Lifestyles crew and assorted hacks, freeloaders and blaggers shimmied into the comfortable surrounds of The Hospital Club in Covent Garden, London for the UK launch of Palm’s new Treo Pro phone, a Windows Mobile device designed to let “mobile workers to stay on top of both their professional and personal lives.”
We love babbling PR tosh, so when a spectacularly ludicrous pile of techno-hyperbole oozed into our inbox from Asus, we simply had to share it with you lot.
The company wrote to tell us all about their ‘Bamboo Series’ of laptops – consisting of 12.1″ and 11.1″ models powered by Intel Core 2 Duo-powered processors – which are being trumpeted as “spurring the Green Computing Revolution,” no less.
Continue reading Asus Announce Bamboo Laptops In Massive Fug Of Hyperbolic Tosh
The quantity of stinking spam heading into your inbox may depend on the first letter in your e-mail address, claims a new study.
After analysing more than 500 million junk messages, University of Cambridge computer boffin Dr Richard Clayton discovered that e-mail addresses starting with an “A”, “M” or “S” were plagued with around 40% of spam in their mailboxes.
Continue reading Spammers Love Emails Beginning With An A, M, S, R Or P
Microsoft has whipped open its colossal wallet once again and waved a hefty $486 million wad in the direction of Greenfield Online, owners of the popular European price comparison website, ciao.com.
After casting envious looks at the hugely successful AppStore for the iPhone and hearing about Google’s proposed Android Market for the Android smartphone platform, Microsoft looks set to belatedly join the online mobile apps store party.
Continue reading Microsoft Skymarket Online App Store Arrives Late To The Party
For cool cats who demand the iciest of speakers, Harman Kardon’s delightfully daft GLA-55 two-piece computer speakers could be just the thing.
Looking like they’ve been hewn out of a chunk of Titanic-sinking pure iceberg, the see-through speakers certainly catch the eye and the Harman Kardon dudes love them so much that they’ve lobbed the Big Book Of Modesty on the bonfire, proclaiming their icy creation as being, “arguably the best 2.0 speaker system available today.”
Continue reading Harmon Kardon GLA-55 Speakers Offer Ice Cool Looks
LG have today announced their entry in to the sub-notebook category, the Netbook X110.
Joining the trend which started getting attention when the Asus Eee was launched, LG says that theirs offers “the full PC experience,” and comes in three colours white, black and pink. It runs Windows XP Home and uses the Intel Atom processors