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  Saxon Innovations from Tyler, Texas has shouted out loud that their owned patent has been violated by gadget importing companies which include the likes of Nokia, HTC, Palm, Panasonic and RIM. The investigation is in the process, and if the International Trade Commission (ITC) finds the complaint legitimate, companies could be banned from importing [...]

  Intel announced an attractive pricing scheme for businesses picking up at least 1000 units. Select Quad-core chips received a discount ranging from 16-40 percent within just 20 days. 3GHz Core 2 Quad Q9650 chip now goes $316 as compared to December’s rate of $530. That’s a direct drop of 40%. Other chips like Q9550 [...]

  NTT DOCOMO is now offering its consumers in Japan, the world’s first waterproof phone with fingerprint sensor. The phone called as F-01A is created by Fujitsu and packs a decent amount of features. It has TouchStone fingerprint technology and TrueNav for touchpad-like navigational control, both sourced from AuthenTec. Other features the clamshell boasts are [...]

  Michael Arrington from TechCrunch yesterday showed up a prototype of his CrunchPad web tablet. Unlike other netbooks in the market, this tablet is capable of doing only one thing – surf the web. The specifications of the prototype include a 12-inch touchscreen display and is powered by a Via Nano processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB [...]

  Asus recently announced F50 and F70 range of notebooks. The F50 series is touted to be the world’s slimmest and lightest 16-inch notebooks while F70 has a 17.3-inch display which is the world’s first 17-incher to have a 16:9 aspect ratio for cinematic veiwing. The F50 will sell in two variants – one with [...]

  Dell didn’t seem to like it when HP’s Fred Bullock compared the excellent battery life of its Elitebook 6930p with a Dell laptop. Apparently in a bid to prove themselves, Dell put its Latitude E6400, HP Elitebook 6930p and Lenovo ThinkPad T400 to test. Dell hired Principled Technologies to commission the study and used [...]

  PlayStation Blog has confirmed that a new a firmware (v5.03) for PSP will be available for download soon. The blog post again does not mention what are the changes except that it “improves system software stability during use of some features.” I guess we’ll have to wait for the firmware to be live before [...]

  At last someone has managed to get his hands on the new 10.1-inch Aspire One. As we can see from the images, there are not many changes from the last time. It still has the brushed metal finish around the keyboard, glossy body and a nicely designed laptop hinge. However, a new thing to [...]

  The canU series from LG today saw a new addition almost after a year. It is the canU-S1000 phone which is equipped with an AMOLED screen. The phone boasts a crisp 2.8-inch WQVGA (400X240) AMOLED screen, OZ service (3G service by LG Telecom), DMB, 180 degrees rotating screen, m-commerce and a Japanese dictionary. The [...]

  Really, there is no connection with Creative’s Zii, but definitely a strong bond with Wii. Pictured above is a prototype of Matrix’s WiiZii mod. This is a solderless, plug and play, firmware upgradeable mod solution which Matrix claims, to work with all Wii versions. But the exciting part over here is the included support [...]

  CherryPal, makers of environment friendly PCs have announced its first netbook at the Sundance Film Festival. CherryPal touts Bing as a truly green netbook but in fact it carries the same specs as many other netbooks available in the market. However, for the record, the untouched specs include 10.2-inch screen (1024X600), Intel 1.6GHz N270 [...]

  This shouldn’t come as a surprise. NPD has released their December report which claims to have Nintendo Wii at the top spot. Over the year, 10.17 million units got in the hands of US customers, accounting for 55% of the total current gen console sales in 2008 making it the first ever console to [...]

  Nokia’s desperate attempt to sell N79 has made another variant alive. Enter the N79 Eco to please the environment lovers. You still get the same N79 but this offering sheds the bundled charger which in turn makes the packaging smaller, creating less wastage. It is a smart move on Nokia’s part because it hits [...]

  If everything had gone as planned before, Kogan Agora could have been the second Android phone available in the market. But as fate has it, Ruslan Kogan, the man behind the Australian brand announced in a blog post that Kogan Agora phone has been delayed indefinitely. Why? According to him, the device won’t be [...]

  If you game a lot on Wii, you must be recharging the Wii remote batteries at least once a week. And if removing the batteries and recharging them proves to be a tedious task, it’s time to get yourself a Wii Remote Dock charger. This charger we received recently proved to be simple enough [...]