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

  • Vodafone To Buy Back £1Bn Shares

    Vodafone To Buy Back £1Bn StockVodafone Board feels that their shares are undervalued at present, so to build the share price up again, they’ve just sanctioned the self-purchase of up to £1 Billion of their own shares.

    The publication of this decision comes the day after a Vodafone’s shared dropped almost 14% over the day, the largest single-day drop in its history.

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  • LX3: Panasonic Lumix Flagship Digicam

    Panasonic Lumix LX3 Flagship DigicamWe’ve already talked about Panasonic’s new superzoom camera, but to be honest we’re far more interested in its new prosumer Lumix DMC-LX3 digital camera.

    Aimed at pros looking for a carry-everywhere SLR back-up and mustard-keen photo enthusiasts who insist on manual options galore, the compact LX3 comes in moody black and no-nonsense silver colour finishes.

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  • Apple Scoops Up Record $1bn Profit In Three Months

    Apple Scoops Up Record $1bn Profit In Three MonthsUnbridled bouts of iJoy erupted around Apple HQ yesterday as the company posted a hefty profit of $1.07 billion on revenue of $7.46 billion for its financial quarter ending June 30, 2008.

    This whopping great bag o’cash adds up to Apple’s best-ever June quarter for both revenue and earnings, with the company’s total gross margin exceeding industry expectations, with $1.33 billion in cash being added to Apple’s bulging coffers.

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  • W302 Sony Ericsson Walkman Launched

    W302 Sony Ericsson Walkman LaunchedOf the phone released today, the W302 is bottom of the range, a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset that comes with a 2-megapixel camera, 3D games, FM radio and Bluetooth stereo A2DP with just a 512MB Memory Stick Micro card lobbed in the pack.

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  • W595 Sony Ericsson Walkman Launched

    W595 Sony Ericsson Walkman LaunchedSporting a similar feature set as the W902 (albeit with a lower camera megapixel count of 3.2MP), the W595 comes with shake control, SensMe, 3D games, FM radio, auto screen rotation, Bluetooth stereo A2DP and a smaller 2GB Memory Stick Micro card bundled.

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  • W902 Sony Ericsson Walkman Launched

    W902 Sony Ericsson Walkman LaunchedThe quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE; UMTS/HSDPA 2100 W902 Walkman is the most feature-packed of the three released (W595 & W302), offering a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, shake control, Sens Me, 3D games and comes with a bundled 8GB Memory Stick Micro card.

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  • Sony Ericsson Announces W302, W595 and W902 Walkman Handsets

    Sony Ericsson Announces W302, W595 and W902 Walkman HandsetsAs the Walkman phone brand hits it third birthday, Sony Ericsson W902 have rolled out another three new handsets to add to the 77 million Walkman phones sold to date.

    The Walkman phone range came blinking into the day with the W800 that we got our hand on back in April 2005 and Sony are hoping that the new W302, W595 and W902 models will keep the punters shuffling back for more.

    We’ve split the three phones out to separate posts …

    W902 Sony Ericsson Walkman
    W595 Sony Ericsson Walkman
    W302 Sony Ericsson Walkman

  • DMC-FZ28: Panasonic Lumix Boasts 18x Optical Zoom

    DMC-FZ28: Panasonic Lumix Boasts 18x Optical ZoomHeading for the shelves and ready to to start wooing bird-watchers, wannabe paparazzis and other looooong zoom-lovin’ types is the mid-range Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 digicam.

    Sporting a veritable John Homes of a zoom, the 10 MP DMC-FZ28 packs a colossal 18x (F2.8-4.4) optical range, starting off at a handy wideangle 27mm setting and soaring up to a 486mm – which is probably powerful enough to snap the Phoenix lander on Mars. Possibly.

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  • NXP: Dual View Screen For Car Use

    NXP: Dual View Screen For Car UseIn a world where increasingly people have to watch a flickering screen to be entertained, it’s not surprising that screen in cars has been a big success.

    For parents it’s a great way to keep their children quite while they travel to their destination. Heaven forbid that they talk to each other.

    That aside, Digital-Lifestyles is all about the development in areas, even if we don’t necessarily use it ourselves, so we want to learn.

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  • Unshredder: Join Together Shredded Documents In Software: Review-ette (20%)

    Unshredder: Join Together Shredded Documents In Software: Review-ette (20%)Back in the day, you needed a team of dedicated followers to re-assemble a shredded document, as the Iranians did when the US left their embassy in Tehran in the late 1970s.

    These days there’s a darn bit of software to help you do it.

    Unsurprisingly it’s called Unshredder and they label it the “first commercial document reconstruction tool in the world!”

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