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  Samsung, responsible for churning out ‘world’s first’ products, and will now claim to another first in the industry. They have announced that they will showcase their slimmest LED backlit HDTV at the CES which measures not more than 6.5mm – 7mm in thickness. That’s pretty slim considering LG was touting its almost 25mm TV [...]

  Sure, it ain’t iPhone but Viewty from LG laid the path for a better future for the Korean company. They have announced that Viewty has crossed the 5 million sales figure in a span of under 15 months. Korea accounted for around 350,000 units while Europe for a massive 260 million units and the [...]

  You know how these trusted sources are, but Crunchgear is swearing by them to claim that the new Palm phone will have few more exciting things other than the Nova OS. The phone (which the source claims to have seen) will have a slider form factor with the QWERTY keypad hidden behind the humongous [...]

  Rumormongers with their pre-Macworld rumors are making an effort for everyone to closely monitor the sans Steve Jobs expo. The word is that the 17-inch Macbook Pro will receive an update and will feature the touted aluminum unibody enclosure just like its smaller siblings. The new 17-inch Macbook Pro is also rumored to have [...]

  The first shout about Sony Ericsson’s C510 aka Kate was heard a month ago. However, this time it has come out to oblige the lens, giving us a closer look. The phone is expected to be announced in Febraury 2009 in the mid range segment. The phone is from the Cyber-Shot series, so expect [...]

  Acer’s already ruling the netbook market and their game plan for further penetration is a larger sized Aspire One. The images you’re looking are of a 10.1-inch Aspire One and CES is the likely place for this baby to officially declare the successor of the highest selling netbook. There are not many changes in [...]

  Sony is definitely facing a tough time to keep the intrinsic details of its hyped Vaio P subnotebook under the wraps. The latest leak sheds some more details on the specifications of the device. The 1.33GHz Intel chip will be from the Atom family, precisely the Z520. The additions to the earlier report are [...]

  Two enthusiasts Matthaus Krzykowski & Daniel Hartmann are showing a proof of concept of Google’s Android OS running on a netbook. With just four hours of toiling, the duo managed to get Android up and running on Asus Eee PC 1000H. The point to be taken from this concept is that Android operating system [...]

  Creative sent their first email newsletter regarding Zii today. Creative is emphasizing Zii as ‘Stemcell Computing’, which is nothing but Stem cell-like silicon (chip) that is “able to grow and multiply into different solutions and ecosystems.” Another statement from the newsletter says that “even in the midst of these turbulent times, you will discover [...]

  The rumors about a large screen sized iPod Touch were pretty rife, the other day. However, VP of Mobile Strategy from Jupitermedia feels that this rumor will only be a rumor and Apple’s “reluctance” is more accurate for rolling out a large screen device. Michael Gartenberg says that “if you wait long enough anything [...]

  Here is another reason to be at CES this year. Laptop Mag has got an exclusive hands-on the HP Firefly injected with ‘Voodoo DNA’ prototype and is said to grace the HP’s booth at the event. The notebook is huge with 17-inch screen and 13-pound of mass (definitely not luggable), overclocking support and a [...]

  Logitech India has finally released a driving wheel for the PS3 racing fans. The Driving Force GT is actually the official racing wheel for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but it will work just fine with other racing games. As you would expect with the ‘official’ tag, the wheel has been developed keeping GT5’s racing [...]

  As I am writing this, iPhone-Dev team must be on its way to release it. Confirmed by a post on their blog, they are about to release the iPhone 3G unlock software. Agreed, they are a bit late but we are not complaining. Head over to their blog and keep hitting the F5 key [...]