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

  • Microsoft Stops Selling XP To Major Retailers

    Microsoft Stops Selling XP To Major RetailersMicrosoft is set to stop selling its long-serving Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers from today, with the company shunting all new customers on to its newer Vista operating system.

    The news hasn’t gone down well with a sizeable slice of Windows users who really don’t fancy being forced into using the resource-hogging, eye candy treats of XP’s successor, but despite Internet campaigns, petitions and exhortations to keep XP soldiering on, Microsoft looks hell bent on retiring its venerable operating system.

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  • Smartphone Growth Might Spawn Spammers

    Smartphone Growth Might Spawn SpammersThe rising popularity of smartphones like the BlackBerry Pearl, Apple iPhone and Palm Centro may soon make them juicy targets for steenkin’ spam and pesky viruses. Not the first time this has been mentioned, but smartphones have never been more popular.

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  • Russian Spam: Come on Google, Sort It Out

    Russian Spam: Come on Google, Sort It OutWe’re getting more and more Russian spam. A hideous amount of it. For example, we had 10 of them getting through the gmail filter in less than an hour today.

    We say spam, because we assume it’s spam as we didn’t ask for it to be sent to us, but mostly because we can’t read Cyrillic, so we’ve got no idea what it’s all about!

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  • Bill Gates: A Mini Retrospective

    Bill Gates: A Mini RetrospectiveToday Bill Gates is stepping away from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, having built the company from zero in 1975 to the giant it is today.

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  • PA Case: Motorised Suitcase Becomes ‘Weightless’

    PA Case: Motorised Suitcase Become 'Weightless'We’ve all struggled with getting our luggage to co-operate with us, having to persuade it that it should go in the direction we want it to.

    A UK company, Live Luggage, has decided to take on this problem with their PA Case – a motorised suitcase. (more…)

  • Digital Tick TV Scheme “A Mystery”: MPs

    Digital Tick TV Scheme With the 2012 date of switch off of UK analogue TV drawing ever closer, British MPs have been hearing about the current levels of adoption of Digital TV.

    The UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee heard that many TVs that were still being bought, were not Digital ready, with those purchases, totaling millions of pounds, arguably being wasted. (more…)

  • 4cast Weather App For Palm OS (90%)

    4cast Weather App For Palm OS (90%)Us Brits are well known for our obsession with the weather, and for those of us who like to know what’s going on in the Cumulonimbus and Cirrocumulus departments at any given point of the day, the 4Cast mobile weather app for the Palm platform is one of the very best we’ve seen.

    Able to download the latest Yahoo weather updates via hotsync, Bluetooth or wireless download, 4cast makes it easy to add your own list of city forecasts which can be updated individually or all at once. (more…)

  • IFA 2008: Continued Evolution

    IFA 2008 AnticipatedOne thing is clear, IFA, _the_ European consumer electronics show, knows how to put on a show and how to entertain.

    If you’ve been to the show in Berlin that runs between the end of August and that start of September you’ll know what we mean – it’s huge and the companies that exhibit there really go to town to make their stands special.

    It’s also very popular with over 100,000 trade visitors from 93 countries visiting it last year. (more…)

  • Highest Popping Toaster: Exclusive Video And Slow Mo Of World Record

    Highest Popping Toaster: Exclusive Video And Slow Mo Of RecordYou may have heard about the Highest Popping toaster in the world and the intention to get it into the record books.

    We were at the RCA yesterday when the devices creator, Freddie Yauner, 26, launched himself (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun) into the Guinness Book of Records with his bonkers over-powered toaster.

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  • Ricoh Launches High-End Caplio GX200 Digital Camera

    Ricoh Launches High-End Caplio GX200 Digital CameraWe almost dribbled with must-have camera love when we got our hands on Ricoh’s high-end Caplio GX100 digital compact camera last year, and fresh moist patches have already appeared around the office with news of its successor, the GX200. (more…)