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

  • Gmail Contacts Upgraded: Good Job

    Gmail Contacts UpgradedIf you’ve not been into the contacts section of Google Mail recently, you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you do, to see that it’s had a pretty major makeover. We might have noticed it earlier, but we avoided using the old contacts system as it was so clunky previously.

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  • UK Online Advertising Second Biggest In Europe

    UK Online Advertising Second Biggest In EuropeWhen it comes to advertising on the web, UK Internet users are the second most valuable audience, according to a survey by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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  • Cash For Your Life Insurance: New Spam Attack

    Cash For Your Life Insurance: New Spam AttackThere appears to be a new type of spam attack, the focusing of an email blitz for a limited period of time – with a potentially high return for the spammer.

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  • Broadband Rural Customers Lag Behind City Slickers

    Broadband Rural Customers Lag Behind City SlickersLondoners lap up broadband almost twice as fast as folks in in Wales and Northern Ireland, according to a survey by BBC News.

    The speed tests were carried out by Thinkbroadband.com who whipped out the white coats, chewed pencil ends and rifled through papers as they spent two months analysing broadband speeds in no less than 6,000 locations.
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  • pSSD: SanDisk Moving To SSD For Low-cost Laptops

    SanDisk Moving To SSD For Low-cost LaptopsSolid State Drives (SSD) have been discussed for a long time in the industry and the release of the MacBook Air raised it into the minds of the general public, as there was an option to have one instead of the more normal hard drive.

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  • Amazon Remains UK’s Top Online Retailer

    Amazon Remains UK's Top Online RetailerAmazon continues its reign as the Lord God and Master of UK ‘etailers’, with a new survey by web-monitoring firm Hitwise declaring them the most popular online marketplace in Blightyland.
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  • Smartphones “Bigger Security Risk” Than Lappies

    Smartphones Smartphones have become a bigger security risk for businesses than laptops and mobile storage device according to new research.

    Conducted by the ‘endpoint data protection supplier’ (a wha’?) company, Credant Technologies, the survey quizzed 300 senior IT staff and found that 94 per cent of them reckoned that PDA/smartphones presented a bigger security risk than the traditional ultra risky USB mobile storage devices, which registered a 88 per cent risk. (more…)

  • Asus Eee Box B202 Mini Desktop Details Emerge

    Asus Eee Box B202 Mini Desktop Details EmergeWith Computex 2008 warming up nicely, Asustek have been busy dishing out more details on their shiny new products including the ‘mini desktop’ Eee Box B202.

    We’re liking the look of these shiny boxes very much indeedy, with Asus’s engineers creating a light (2.2lbs) and portable 8.5″ x 7″ x 1″ unit that is small enough to be dwarfed by a paperback book.
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  • Onkyo X-NX10A Audio System Packs 80GB HD

    Onkyo X-NX10A Audio System Packs 80GB HDWe’re liking the sleek lines of the new X-NX10A audio system from Onkyo, which packs a built-in HDD.

    The attractive looking mini hi-fi bears a strong resemblance to the well received Onkyo CS515DAB micro system, with the addition of the hefty LCD colour screen now parked on the front of the unit.
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  • Second iTunes Festival London Announced

    Second iTunes Festival London AnnouncedApple are ‘keeping it real’ again this year, with the second iTunes Music Festival. It’s an opportunity to actually see the people who normally just trickle out of your iPod headphones for speakers.

    This year’s event will be at Koko in Camden (nee the Camden Palace), between 1 – 31 July. It’s all opening with N*E*R*D on 1 July. There’s 60 bands playing in total with other artists performing include The Ting Tings, CSS and Chaka Khan.

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