Sporting rather pleasing modern silver lines with a black edge, Gigabyte’s new M704 is the latest addition to the growing mob of Ultra Mobile PCs (‘UMPC’) being foisted on the public by a host of manufacturers.
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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
Gigabyte Announces M704 UMPC
Amazon’s Kindle e-Book Reader Gets Official
We first caught wind of Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ wireless electronic book reader back in September, but at the time we weren’t sure if we were dealing with wild speculation, vapourware or the real McCoy.Well, we guess confirmation doesn’t come any clearer than the front cover of Newsweek Magazine, which features the Amazon CEO proudly showing off the new reader with the caption, “Five centuries after Gutenberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is betting that the future of reading is just a click away.”
(more…)Homophobic Pastor Aims To Take Over Microsoft
A seriously homophobic pastor of an American evangelical church has pledged to ‘take over Microsoft’ by encouraging millions of God-botherers to buy shares and overthrow the company’s longstanding policy of championing gay rights.
(more…)Surf Buds: Social Network For Surfers Launches … Quietly
Back in the early days of the Web, newbies often used to refer to Web browsing as Surfing The Web, well there’s a new service that’s just launched that aims to help real Surfers on the Web.Surf Buds tells us that they’re the first online social network created just for surfers.
(more…)UK iPhone: Detailed Review: As A Phone, Its Texting & email
Yesterday’s UK iPhone review covered the Physical characteristic of the iPhone’s and its User Interface.
The PhoneThere’s not a lot to say here yet. It works. A giant on screen keyboard means that manual dialling is error free, and the contacts list is incredibly quick to navigate. If you get a lot of voicemail, the visual voicemail feature will come in handy – the ability to see your voicemails as a list to choose from.
And, as well as being able to cherry pick the message you actually want to hear, you can stop, rewind, replay, just by dragging a slider. This comes into it’s own when someone has left a tediously long message, with one key bit of information right in the middle of it.
(more…)Real Offer 1-Click Video To iPod Downloads
If you’ve been frustrated at only being able to get video content on to your iPod than Apple has sanctioned for iTunes store release, your waiting is over.Real has just announced the release of the latest version of RealPlayer, which lets you load up videos from anywhere on the Internet – including Flash-based services like YouTube – straight on to your iPod via your computer, as long as the content doesn’t have DRM protection on it.
(more…)UK iPhone: Detailed Review
We’re all to aware that many sites have reviewed the iPhone, but the vast majority of them have been done by American sites.Following last weeks UK release we thought it would be interesting to have a look at it through UK eyes, after all, nationalities use devices differently – a great example being the UK obsession with SMS texting, compared with the US not really seeing its value.
(more…)Stewart Purvis Joins Ofcom
Stewart Purvis, news super-hero and friend of DL, has been appointment as the new Partner for Content and Standards at Ofcom.
The Content and Standards Group oversees regulation of television and radio quality and standards and compliance with the Broadcasting Code.
He’s a hard-bitten newsman who has a strong understanding of technology and the changes that it is bring to the world of media.
(more…)Nokia’s N82 5MP Wi-Fi Phone
Leaking all over the web like a war-torn sieve are the press shots of Nokia’s new N82 mobile phone, which is expected to recieve its official launch today (Weds, 14th Nov).The specs are yet to be confirmed, but from what we’ve heard so far, it looks to be a bit of a juicy fella, running on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and serving up quad-band GSM, 2100MHz HSDPA for Europe and offering twin cameras and Bluetooth connectivity.
(more…)Software Filters Out ‘Stupid’ Web Postings
In an attempt to remove copious amounts of dumbness off web forums, a new open source application is being developed to detect and filter out “rampant stupidity in written English.”
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We first caught wind of Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ wireless electronic book reader 
A seriously homophobic pastor of an American evangelical church has pledged to ‘take over Microsoft’ by encouraging millions of God-botherers to buy shares and overthrow the company’s longstanding policy of championing gay rights.
Back in the early days of the Web, newbies often used to refer to Web browsing as Surfing The Web, well there’s a new service that’s just launched that aims to help real Surfers on the Web.
The Phone
If you’ve been frustrated at only being able to get video content on to your iPod than Apple has sanctioned for iTunes store release, your waiting is over.
We’re all to aware that many sites have reviewed the iPhone, but the vast majority of them have been done by American sites.
Leaking all over the web like a war-torn sieve are the press shots of Nokia’s new N82 mobile phone, which is expected to recieve its official launch today (Weds, 14th Nov).
In an attempt to remove copious amounts of dumbness off web forums, a new open source application is being developed to detect and filter out “rampant stupidity in written English.”