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  With information leaking at regular intervals, T-Mobile thought it was about time to give this phone an official tag. Samsung Memoir aka SGH-t929 has been launched in the USA to give users the power of 8MP photography along with Xenon flash, 16X digital zoom and five shooting modes. The phone also boasts Bluetooth, GPS, [...]

  After slipping out many details about Skybox, ZDNet has again scooped to bring in some meaty info about Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7. According to their sources, the WinMo 6.5 RTM will be out in April 2009 with first devices slated to come out in September 2009. On the other hand, developers will get [...]

  The temporariness must be the reason iPhone Dev released the iPod Touch 2G jailbreak solution silently. Anyways, people seeking desperately to jailbreak the player can head over to RedSn0w to download Redsn0w Lite. The ‘Lite’ tag along with Redsn0w denotes it as a tethered jailbreak, meaning you need to run the jailbreak commands each [...]

  Garmin and Asus have announced a strategic alliance that will allow both the companies to leverage each other’s expertise to make co-branded phones. First in the nüvifone line of Garmin-Asus phones is G60 which will be exhibited at the MWC trade show. Garmin-Asus is trying to keep the full details for the expo but [...]

  Microsoft had already cleared its intentions to create competitive cloud based services. Now Mary-Jo Foley from ZDNet has come up with some details regarding the Microsoft’s Skybox service. Skybox will go through a regular transition, starting with the version 1 beta. The beta will mark the start of the service from MWC and will [...]

  The desperate need makes a person to take action. This is what happened to Mrs. Muyonjo from a remote village in Uganda who got fed up from dishonest battery chargers of her village and the fact that the first charging point was twenty miles away from her home. She took five size D batteries, [...]

  BGR’s awesome source has done it again, this time seeping out a picture of Acer’s unnamed touchscreen device which will be exhibited at the MWC expo. The picture shows an unusual swiveling form factor but a closer look makes me to believe it more of a QWERTY dock with the phone placed on top. [...]

  Sony Corp.’s new finger vein authentication technology makes fingerprint recognition and other security measures a thing of the past. With Mofiria (yes, that’s what they call) onboard, devices like mobile phones and laptops could provide more security by scanning the finger vein patterns as it is different for different people and does not change [...]

  Google’s latest initiative to enlighten masses with the world of internet has made them to stop at Tamil Nadu, India. The Internet Bus will roam across 15 TN towns to make people use internet and discover its advantages. Most of the services showcased will be from Google along with some movie trailers and entertainment [...]

  Asus’ last Eee PC shout was heard back in CES where they revealed interesting products and concepts in the Eee PC line. Now they reckon the consumers are ready for another dose of Eee PC and thus, 1000HE comes into picture. The 10-inch netbook integrates Intel’s power efficient N280 Atom processor that helps to [...]

  Indian ministers really needs to take some lessons on technology terminologies. The $10 laptop which was being touted all these days turns out to be a storage device. Yes, a freakin’ storage device. The laptop device unveiled yesterday is 10-inches long and 5-inches wide with the total cost pegged at around $30 but is [...]

  Motorola really can’t keep mum. First they spill out about Windows Mobile 6.5 hitting in 2009 and now Sanjay Jha confirms what most of us were waiting to hear from Microsoft’s mouth. In an earnings call, Jha said that Windows Mobile 7 will be coming out in 2010 and this year they’ll be concentrating [...]

  The dreaded nightmare for many has turned out to be true. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 will be available in different flavors, so as to target different audiences. In all, there will be 6 variants – Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic (for emerging markets), Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, [...]

  Despite a ‘huge gathering’ at the campus of Sri Venkateshwara University Tirupati, we are still left with the pictures of the world’s cheapest laptop. Anyways, the Union Minister for HRD, Arjun Singh today revealed the laptop which was jointly developed by the University Grants Commission, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and the Indian Institute [...]

  We have seen Qualcomm trying to show the capabilities of its Snapdragon platform and now we’ll see the first device powered by Qualcomm’s system-on-chip (SoC) at the upcoming MWC. Made by Toshiba, the TG01 definitely looks to possess beauty with brains. The 9.9mm thin handset boasts Toshiba’s custom made 3D UI layer which will [...]