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
We all know how popular virtual worlds are, with the best known examples being Second Life and World of Warcraft.
These worlds are all very well, but they’re set in a fictional world. Not a bad thing for many people, but some players will hanker for more reality.
Get Real
This is where Twinity comes in. Twinity plan to accurately model cities from around the world and they’re starting with one of our fave cities, Berlin.
If you’re looking for a server to centralise your data on to, but don’t need to go as far as a NAS – or indeed don’t want to have the noise that normally come with a NAS, you might want to take a look at Bubba Two.
It’s a stylish, silent mini server that can current host up to 1TB of storage, with further expansion possible.
In an ever-evolving story, Spammers are starting a new form of spam – News Spam. Email’s that look like they’re news stories but are indeed spam.
A UK Judge has banned a 23 year old man from boasting of his crimes on the Internet.
Andrew Kellett has received an Asbo (anti-social behaviour order), normally used for ban people from specific geographic areas.
If you’re hot on the idea of getting in to the gaming industry — and who wouldn’t be, they just lie around all day playing video games, right? (joke) — getting yourself up to the Edinburgh Interactive Festival this year might be a good start.
Samsung today launched the NV100HD, a compact digital camera with a bonkers 14.7 Mpx resolution.
It sits at the top of their style-led NV range and has a 28mm Schneider Kreuznach wide-angle lens onboard.
It’s not just a still-shot beauty, 720p resolution video can be recorded at up to 30 frames per second – and then be watched, via an HDMI cable, on an HD TV.
Netflix and Microsoft have signed a deal to stream films and TV programmes to the Xbox 360.
Starting in the autumn, over 10,000 films and TV episodes available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers who are Netflix subscribers, all for no additional cost.
We’ve recently become big fans of Lenova (formerly IBM) after grabbing a super-cheap old ThinkPad X32 off eBay for use as a backup lappie. We were so taken by its rock-solid build and all-round dependability that it’s now taken over the Sony Vaio as our primary machine.
We’re still recovering from last night’s alcohol-laden launch of their new Home Hub 2.0, but BT aren’t making life easy for hungover journos, rubbing fresh steaming hot news in our bleary faces this morning.
Although they may struggle to create even a wispy cloud of press interest compared to the great hyperbolic dust storms bellowing forth for even the tiniest updates to the iPod range, Creative continue to knock out some interesting personal media players (PMPs) that perhaps deserve more attention.