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  After grabbing a meaty share in the netbook processor market, Intel wants to…at least intends to grab some share in the netbook OS market. The first step is to gather feedback from the netbook users itself and thus, they have rolled out their Moblin OS in Alpha. Moblin is Intel’s version of Linux based [...]

  New rumor to prove Dell’s imminent smartphone foray is the existence of couple of prototype phones. WSJ, who reports after checking with ‘the sources familiar with the matter’ that one phone uses touchscreen interface while the other phone is said to have a sliding keyboard with the screen and a numeric keypad on the [...]

  Samsung has pulled out another first. This time they have developed the world’s first 4GB DDR3 RAM based on 50nm process technology. These DRAMs favor servers because of its high density and low power consumption (40% less than 2GB DDR3), helping to increase the overall efficiency of the servers and decrease upkeep costs. Samsung [...]

  UPDATE:Eurogamer is reporting that NFS: Shift will be available on PC as well as PSP. A fourth ‘secret’ installment is also in the works which I think will be the same across all platforms. Need for Speed’s continuous downfall made many believe that Undercover would be last title of this amazing racing series. But [...]

  GDrive might reach us anytime now. Brian Ussery found an interesting tidbit when he delved into a file used in the Google Pack. It had some reference to GDrive. According to the file, the service was described as an online file backup and storage, making it certain that Google is on its way to [...]

  Last year, India caught everyone’s attention by announcing a laptop that would cost just $10 to own, but later made a redaction of the statement by saying it was $100. The latest happening is that the first figure was indeed true. The government will display a prototype of the Rs. 500 ($10) laptop in [...]

  Lucky guys at Popsci managed to get their hands on one of the first commercially available projector based phones. Samsung Show was on display at the CES this year but no other details were revealed. And now, not only we have got some specs but also a hands-on video. The phone has a built-in [...]

  Macrumors has unearthed something unusual which points us to the next version of iPhone. The latest 2.2.1 firmware carried a new product code for iPhone, classified as ‘iPhone 2,1’. As most of you’ll must be unaware that Apple uses this code to distinguish iPhone, iPhone 3G and two generations of iPod Touch. The original [...]

  Even though Nokia has competitive phones to go head to head with the ilk of Blackberry, iPhone and others, they have always concentrated on a market which most of them have failed to capture – the low and the midrange handset market. Now with the sliding economy, this gives a perfect reason to the [...]

  You know, deriving price of the handsets on the basis of hardware purchases is actually baseless but iSuppli loves to do it, and so do we. This time they have stripped down Blackberry Storm and calculated the cost of each component present in the device. The study says that $203 is the total cost [...]

  Post this incident, I am sure Michael Dell will not handle the Russians directly. At the opening ceremony of the World Economy Forum in Davos, Russian PM, Vladimir Putin gave a 40-minute speech followed by a Q&A session. The Dell CEO grabbed this opportunity by boasting about Russia’s technical and scientific advancements and then [...]

  Panasonic announced an upgrade to its Toughbook 19 tablet PC and Toughbook 30 notebook. The Toughbooks are meant for rough, outdoor use and keeping that mind, Panasonic is offering these devices with LCDs that can be viewed directly under the sunlight. They are equipped with a brightness measuring at 1,000 nits. The screens also [...]

  KDDI Japan revealed 12 new phones as a part of its 2009 au lineup including the S001 phone by Sony Ericsson. This slider phone bears a Global Passport tag which means that it can work anywhere in the world, supporting both CDMA as well as GSM networks. It packs a huge 3.3-inch OLED screen [...]

  Western Digital’s latest HDD will solve all your storage problems. They have unveiled a HDD which is touted to be the industry’s first 2TB drive. Housed in a 3.5-inch shell, the 2TB WD Caviar Green stores 500GB of data on each platter. If the huge storage space is not a deal clincher for you, [...]

  Good news WinMo fellas or rather Touch Pro users, Mozilla will be releasing its Fennec mobile browser for HTC’s Touch Pro phone in the first week of February. Yes, this will be limited to single WinMo device but at least, that’s a start. I am sure as soon as the app is released, coders [...]