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  Intel and its production partners of Classmate PC revealed the convertible tablet at the CES. Not much has changed from last time – there’s a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, Windows XP, 180-degree swiveling screen, accelerometer and a stylus. Since it is meant for children, Intel has made the netbook rugged to [...]

  Looks like Nokia inadvertently leaked out the successor of 5700 XpressMusic. The 5710 XpressMusic was found lurking on Nokia’s US website. The rumors about the successor were doing the rounds for around a year and if this phone carries the same rumored specs, then there will be not many changes except the camera, which [...]

  A new research by a Harvard University Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that a single search on Google generates about 7 grams of CO2 and two searches sums up the energy equivalent to boiling the kettle for a cup of tea. This might not make much impact but consider this equation when 200 million search [...]

  Installing Mac operating system on netbooks is not new. There have been many netbooks including the Eee PCs that have been tried and tested successfully. However, the previous hackintosh required a patched Mac installation file to detect the netbooks as a genuine Mac system. Now EeeMac Journey has churned out a very nifty tutorial [...]

  LG was showing its X110 netbook’s successor at the CES expo. The X120 looks pretty similar to X110 and even bears the same specs like a 10-inch WSVGA screen, 1.6GHz Atom proc, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 3G and runs Windows XP. However,this offering is upped by LG Smart On, which is Splashtop’s Instant On [...]

  Kodak revealed two new digital cameras and a HD video recorder at the just concluded CES. First is the Z980 that offers a nice 26mm wide angle with support of up to 24X optical zoom Schneider-Kreuznach lens and 12 megapixel sensor. There’s also a 3-inch display, SDHC support and Smart Capture feature that adjusts [...]

  “Here comes iPhone’s big brother: a 32″ inch (or larger) iTable with Multi-Touch,“ reads the press release. This ‘larger than life’ iPhone sans cellular capabilities is the creation of PQ Labs which is just an LCD TV laden with PQ Labs’ Multi-Touch overlay screen and the proprietary software. They are even demonstrating their device [...]

  Asus promised to show the netvertibles at the CES and here they are with the T91 and T101H. The T91 has an 8.9-inch swiveling touchscreen display to transform itself to a tablet netbook. Processing duties are handled by Intel’s Atom Z520 processor, with presumably a gig of RAM and host of other features like [...]

  Nokia’s ‘Touch’ 5800 XpressMusic phone has reached the Indian shores and is available at all Nokia outlets. The phone is priced at a competitive Rs. 19,999 which makes it a worthy contender to snag some share off the music phone market. Here’s a rerun of the specs – 5800 XpressMusic features a large 3.2-inch [...]

  Going by Dell’s track record of churning out big, ugly looking laptops this newly announced laptop is going to amaze you – it’s slim, sexy and beautiful. This is the first offering which will be a part of Dell’s luxurious Adamo lineup to take on the…Macbook Air. The release didn’t have any mention of [...]

  Dual GPU GTX 295 is finally a reality as Nvidia has given the needed official acknowledgement. Two GTX 200 GPUs stuck together make this beast world’s faster dual GPU card. The specs are no surprise here as it is based on 55nm, DirectX 10, internal SLI with 1792MB of DDR3 memory, 480 processor cores [...]

  MSI is showing its cool wares at its CES booth. It’s the whole Wind family that is making its presence felt. The Wind fleet consists of couple of netbooks, AIO PCs and a Nettop. Wind netbook range will have U115 – world’s first netbook with hybrid SSD/HDD storage and U120 that includes 3.5G as [...]

  The Indian subsidiary of Acer has announced a further price cut on its current 8.9-inch Aspire One model. This is the second price cut we are seeing in under a month. The new price for the Linux variant now stands at Rs. 14,499 ($301) while the Windows version goes for Rs. 16,499 ($343). Acer’s [...]

  AMD at CES announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series GPUs for laptops. Bringing all the coolness of the desktop HD 4000 Series, the Mobility variant of HD 4000 will also support DirectX 10.1, HD content playback and CrossFireX technology. Different 4XXX series will further target different categories like HD 4300 for thin [...]

  Looks like iPod Touch will have to face a lot of competition now. Another in the line to compete with Apple’s touchscreen offering is Sony’s X-Series of Walkman players. The players, NWZ-X1050/1060 boast a 3-inch wide OLED touchscreen as well as dedicated media buttons to ease the navigation. Apart from the goodness of Walkman [...]