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  The land of Opera has taken a new issue at their hands – to make users upgrade from Internet Explorer 6. Considering security loopholes and website rendering issues that makes developers work more cumbersome and tiring, many big Norwegian websites like Finn, Gamer and a few more have started displaying warnings to shift from [...]

  Looks like Samsung is not yet done with the four cams they announced couple of days back. Amazon has listed a new 12MP camera, TL320 that has a nice 3-inch hVGA AMOLED screen, wide angle Schneider lens and 5X optical zoom with dual image stabilizer Zoom. The camera has also got an analog fuel [...]

  As it may sound absurd to you and me, the researchers certainly have a different opinion. Often visiting social networking sites can increase the risk of cancer, stroke, heart disease or even dementia. Their justification, you ask? It’s actually the same thing – isolation, that has also been linked to the increasing use of [...]

  Symbian Foundation is yet to start its operations but the open source Symbian OS is already getting some attention. Last week 14 companies including HP, MySpace joined the foundation and according to Executive Director, Lee Williams by the end of the year, around 400 to 700 members are expected join the foundation. That’s a [...]

  Asus has launched yet another Eee PC netbook in the Indian market. This time it’s 1002HA that performs as good as 1000HA and looks similar to its stylized S101 with brushed metallic chassis. While the other parts of the spec sheet remain the same, Wi-Fi gets an upgrade to 802.11 b/g/n. Priced at Rs. [...]

  Caribbean cellular operator, Digicel along with ZTE have announced Coral-200-Solar which will be the first ultra low cost handset powered by solar energy. Of course, this phone doesn’t have features to boast like Samsung or LG’s solar prototype but Digicel says the low cost can prove beneficial to almost two billion people who are [...]

  Logitech has clubbed its MX Revolution mouse and a keyboard with an LCD display to launch MX 5500 Revolution combo for the expensive lads. The combo gives a high quality mouse to work with, a keyboard that shows information like time, weather, date, calculator etc. and Bluetooth connectivity for a robust and a reliable [...]

  Intel had signed a chipset licensing agreement with Nvidia in 2004 that enabled Intel to use Nvidia’s 3D, GPU, CUDA and other technologies while Nvidia could bring platform innovations to Intel based systems. Now Intel feels they have been snitched because Nvidia is encroaching their territory, by providing better CPU integrated with memory controller [...]

  Hyundai maybe good at designing cars but they are definitely lagging in the CE industry. They decided to come out with a music centric phone and what better way than to attract the iPod loving crowd – with an iPod like phone. Hyundai B400 is similar to iPod’s design, it’s just the touchscreen display [...]

Canon USA has announced the 2009 lineup of its PowerShot digital cameras. The range, that includes a total of 10 cams caters to amateur photographers as well as enthusiasts. Features: Canon Powershot SX1 IS 10 megapixel 20X wide angle optical zoom 2.8-inch LCD Optical Image Stabilization 1080p HD video recording RAW + JPEG shooting modes [...]

  X120 made a brief appearance at CES last month but apparently, was not ready for the real world. Well, LG seems this is the time and have announced the X120 at the MWC that will take the helm from X110. The netbook’s notable features are the Smart-on facility for quicker access to multimedia, internet [...]

  It was least expected but SoC makers have garnered the much needed attention at this year’s MWC that could shape the future of phones and other devices. We have already seen ZiiLabs showing their ZMS-05 SoC running Android and doing HD playback at 720p. Now Nvidia has announced their Tegra 600 Series SoC that [...]

  BenQ also sees the future in all-in-ones and here they are with their AIO range dubbed the nScreen. The couple of nScreen’s that will hit the Japanese and Australian markets in March or April are 18-inch i91 and 21.5-incher i221. Both the AIOs have a 16:9 screen aspect ratio, support HD playback, 1.3 megapixel [...]

  Nokia is giving CDMA users something to cheer for – it’s the dual-slide 8208 sleek phone. The phone has a S40 ‘like’ UI, 2.2-inch QVGA screen, 3 megapixel camera, dedicated music buttons and 20 hours of continuous music playback. There’s no word on the price but it will launch in Q1 2009 in select [...]

  Lenovo and Blackberry maker revealed a nifty solution for people using Blackberry device and Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. Called as Constant Connect, it is a card that can be inserted in the laptop that automatically synchronizes all the e-mails from Blackberry to the PC via Bluetooth. The functioning of the card is pretty simple. As [...]