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  Most of the countries are waiting to get their hands on DSi in region discriminated colors, Ninty’s homeland will be getting three new colors for the handheld console. Available at the same price, the DSi will now be selling in Pink, Green and Blue from March 20. [Via Engadget]

  The feud between Nvidia and Intel has been intense over the past and this week. We have seen Intel suing Nvidia, bad mouthing Ion platform while Nvidia was busy seeking new friends for Ion. Now Nvidia has come back again to give a fitting reply to the loose claims made by Intel. It looks [...]

  Sony is trying every move to widen its PSP install base. Now at the Destination PlayStation conference, SCEA announced a Lilac colored PSP that will be available in a special pack. It will come in a Hannah Montana PSP Entertainment Pack targeted at girls, especially the tween girls. Apart from the console, the buyer [...]

  Motorola’s CEO was pretty spot on about the launch time frame of Windows Mobile 7. Ballmer, the man himself has now officially confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 will indeed reach consumers in 2010 while this year will be taken by the interim Windows Mobile 6.5 variant. The confirmation came in a conference call where [...]

  Let us keep the legitimacy discussion of this feat at bay for now because you don’t see a computer OS loaded up in a mobile phone everyday. Windows 3.1 on N95 looks so old now.

  Netbook manufacturers are trying to blur the line between the smaller sized netbooks and conventional notebooks. The 8.9-inch screen was a standard which was quickly followed by 10-inch and now companies are looking to up the ante with 11.6-inch screen size. According to Digitimes, LCD panel producers are preparing themselves from the sudden surge [...]

  All that tech and expertise that got into the making of a 3G watch phone is cool but selling it an exorbitant price will make all that coolness a total waste. The word on the street is that Orange will pick up LG’s GD910 and sell it for a whopping £1000. If 1000 bucks [...]

  Apple has announced the downloadable beta version of Safari 4 browser. Apple claims the browser now has more than 150 features and with the new Nitro engine, it can load JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. I am trying it right now and I feel it’s a better version of Google’s Chrome, which [...]

  Definitely not as beautiful as the Xbox 360 in the Dark Knight garb but the new X360 Elite in red is anytime better than the default black color. This limited edition will give users a copy of Resident Evil 5, red wireless controller, 120GB HDD, headset (black) and a token card for downloading premium [...]

  It looks like Acer is gearing to spruce up its Aspire One range. The image above shows a sleeker 10-inch Aspire One that will be sold alongside the current model. The exact specs are unknown at the moment but the source says it could be an SSD only model with OS options of either [...]

  Samsung has announced Anycall SPH-W7100 phone that features a few self defense tools, which the youth and women can take advantage off. It has a loud siren that can go up to 100dB, equivalent to a heavy truck horn and could be heard from a 70m distance. If the phone is switched off or [...]

  When Chinese can make a concept phone to reality, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. The latest addition to the perfectly cloned masterpiece is PK Nokia 5800 which is the obvious rip-off of Nokia 5800XM. If the cheap price tag, dual SIM card and coolness that matches Nokia are the things you dig for, [...]

  Taking legal assistance is not the only thing Intel is doing. They have reportedly released a document titled Nvidia Ion Competitive Position Guide that says against the Ion platform. Intel’s document is presumably released to vendors who are contemplating of selling Ion based systems. The document squabbles that Nvidia’s Ion is derived from MCP79M/NCP7A [...]

  PSP-4000 or PSP2, one thing’s for sure that it will be the successor of PSP-3000. VG247 seems to have connected with a ‘highly-trusted’ source who says that PSP-4000 will be a “complete aesthetic overhaul”. It will be based on the current PSP hardware but it won’t be known as PSP2. Other things revealed were [...]

  The proof that Gigabyte is all geared up for CeBIT 2009 is over here. They have seven different videos inviting us to visit their booth at the expo next month. As of now, their product portfolio details for CeBIT is scarce with only the confirmation of a trio of netbooks that will mark their [...]