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  In a bid to promote the Gateway brand in its homeland, Acer has announced ZX2300 all-in-one PC bearing the Gateway sticker. The PCs will take a dig at Eee Tops but with a larger screen sans the touchscreen interface. ZX2300 will sport an 18.5-inch screen with an aspect ratio of 16:9 and a resolution [...]

  Sony Ericsson’s leak streak continues with three phones belonging to the Walkman and Cyber-shot family surfaced. First up is a slider phone from the Walkman series, W395 aka Yao. The phone sports a 2 megapixel camera, 176X200 pixels display and support for 8GB memory. The C901 (Filippa) will suffice Cyber-shot fans with its 5MP [...]

  Samsung and MSI both have launched their own version of Valentine edition netbooks. While Samsung’s NC10 just paints the pink hue to please the lady, MSI goes a step extra with a heart design on the lid of its U100 netbook. No change in the specifications. Samsung’s Pink Edition will sell for $347. No [...]

  Huawei published a list of products to be exhibited at the MWC next month which also includes a phone based on Android platform. There are no other details as Huawei deems it perfect to unwrap the device next month on the show floor. Apart from the phone, other products that will be on display [...]

  Barack Obama has “won the fight” to keep his Blackberry device with him. Obama’s penchant for Blackberry is no secret as his device was often found clinged to his belt during his campaign trail. However, everything is not hunky dory. The officials are now working on ways to enhance the security of the software. [...]

  The day has finally come. Acer has given the 10.1-inch Aspire One the official acknowledgement. The specs sheet is the same with a 10.1-inch WSVGA LED backlit screen (1024X600 pixels), runs Windows XP Home and has up to 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and webcam. The optional part seems to be the Bluetooth [...]

  Corsair is the latest entrant in the crowded SSD market. Its first and only offering S128 gives 128GB of storage space and boasts a read/write speed of 90/70 MB/s. The drives use Samsung’s controllers as opposed to ubiquitous JMicron 602 controller. The inclusion of Samsung controllers could prove a boon to Corsair since Samsung [...]

  A few days back Hirai made a pretty bold statement claiming PS3 to be the leader in the current console wars. Guess what? This hasn’t gone very nice with Microsoft and when asked about what they had to say, Aaron Greenberg had reply for him, a nasty one. “This sounds like an old hardware [...]

  Nokia E75 was first discovered in September last year when Nokia slipped out the marketing materials of the phone. There were no other details at that time except the QWERTY slide-out keyboard. Now DailyMobile has managed to get their hands on the device and pictured it from every angle to suffice our geeky eyes. [...]

  Fujitsu will be revealing their zero-watt PC at the upcoming CeBIT in March. The computer dubbed as Esprimo Green is touted to be the first PC that consumes no electricity when in standby mode and is still able to manage LAN, Bluetooth or even UMTS when needed. We are interested to know how are [...]

  HP did give some evidence about its Mini 1100 Series yesterday and now few pages at their website reveal the specifications of the devices. The specs are repetitive with a 10.1-inch screen, 1.6GHz Intel Atom, 1GB RAM and 60GB HDD. As previously rumored, ExpressCard/54 slot also makes an entry and the only difference between [...]

  Asus today unwrapped their Eee Top ET1602 touchscreen AIO PC. No real surprises as such from the last time we saw it but there are a few things which points to a troubled future of the device, at least in India. First is the price. The Eee Top carries a hefty price tag of [...]

  The US Apple Store quietly bumped the specs of its $999 white Macbook. The new specs now includes a fast 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 1066MHz FSB, 2GB DDR2 RAM, integrated Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics and Bluetooth 2.1. Well, the specs don’t exactly match the higher unibody versions as the notebook still sports [...]

  Please welcome another member in the Touch family, the Touch Cruise. Oh yes, it is the Iolite which made an appearance earlier this month. HTC says the new Touch Cruise upgrades their 2008’s GPS offering which also goes by the same name. What’s so special about this phone? Well, the footprint button or rather [...]

  Qualcomm announced that they have acquired some part of the graphics and multimedia technology assets from AMD. The deal also includes intellectual property and other resources that were a part of AMD’s handheld arm. Qualcomm has its intention clear with this buyout. They will integrate AMD’s graphics prowess into their system-on-chip (SoC) product, more [...]