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  The Taiwanese rumormonger has spurned a new juicy one today. This time, it’s about the Cupertino giant and its small netbook. According to them, Apple has roped in Wintek to provide multitouch panels for its netbook with the shipments expected to begin from Q3 2009 while Quanta Computer will be making the whole product. [...]

  The scientist at Osaka University, Japan has devised a gadget that can control other gadgets. Mimi Switch can start a new track on the iPod, turn on the room lights and even start a washing machine, all with the help of user’s facial expression. The device looks like a normal earphone but is fitted [...]

  Philips Research is busy working on transparent OLEDs that can be used as glasses for windows. The transparent OLED is a concept for now which looks like a normal window when turned off but illuminates when it is turned on. Philips has prepared a 12cm prototype and claims that it could take a few [...]

  Owing to the pressure for curbing monopolistic practices and also many disgruntled IE users, Microsoft has now added an option to remove IE8. The option was discovered in the Windows 7 build 7048, which means that this option could be very much present in the upcoming RC release. However, this won’t be a complete [...]

  Ok, being a major investor in Palm would want you to say good things about it, but Mr. McNamee let us be practical. Roger McNamee, the co-founder of Elevation Partners has a 39% stake in Palm and is making bold claims that Pre will make iPhone users to switch to Palm’s new webOS based [...]

  MSI shows off its first 20-inch AE2010 Wind Top, joining its 19-inch and 22-inch siblings. Unlike AP1900’s Intel processor, this one goes for the single core AMD CPU along with AMD’s 780G chipset. The screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio, UVD (Universal Video Decoder) for HD playback and few other features. Press Release

  Kodak announced a new camera at the concluded PMA expo. The Kodak Easyshare Z915 is another entry level offering which has a 10MP sensor with 10X optical zoom, innovative Smart Capture that adjusts camera settings according to the scene, 2.5-inch LCD and SDHC/SD memory card support. The camera will be available in red, blue, [...]

  MSI has confirmed that the first X-Slim series notebook to hit the Indian shores will be X340. It will be available from the second half of April at a price of Rs. 65,000. There’s no word when X320 or X600 will be released. X340 is a 13-inch notebook, pretty much similar to X320 but [...]

  It seems Nokia’s unofficial threat worked for them as well as other companies too in Finland. The Finnish Parliament has passed the legislation that will allow Finnish companies to spy their employee’s emails. However, the new law does not permit companies to spy on all the email contents. Instead, a company can go through [...]

  Nokia USA has confirmed that they have now fixed the 3G issue that was present in the NAM variant of 5800 XpressMusic phone. A firmware update will bring the phone to function as intended. An updated 5800XM will soon start retailing at Nokia stores while others who have already received the device can contact [...]

  My skepticism about this ploy doesn’t matter because Samsung India thinks giving out a mid-range phone with every purchase of a laptop will help them spur the notebook sales. The phone that will be offered to the consumers is J700 slider phone valued at Rs. 6,089. I don’t know if we can say it [...]

  Hail the guys at Crackberry because they have scored the first live picture of Blackberry Niagara 9630. A crossover of Curve 8900 and Bold 9000, the Niagara 9630 is a CDMA and quadband GSM based world edition phone packing GPS, possibly 3G but no Wi-Fi. [Via Crackberry]

  Believe me, you wouldn’t want one of these if you’re a sucker for good looking phones. Check out the newly announced FR6000 and FR68 phones; ruggedized, built for demanding conditions and oozing with features. Both the phones adhere to IP54 tests that can withstand drops from up to 3 feet and can work in [...]

  We already knew Research in Motion had plans to open their own app store but now their plans look more concrete with the announcement of the official name and the developer’s page going live. The Blackberry App World follows the same funda – allows users to buy and install apps and games from a [...]

  For some, giving PS3 chassis a scary revamp could be gross while others would take it as a piece of art but we would say it’s scary as well as awesome considering the hard effort put in by the modder. The result was achieved by molding the heated epoxy putty on the console, which [...]