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  Asus pulled the trigger pretty fast. The news about Asus prepping a new netbook broke out last Friday and a day after, they have given it an official acknowledgement. The 1004DN is the second netbook (first is Mouse LB-F1550W) to sport a DVD drive and features the usual netbook specs – 10-inch screen, 1.66GHz [...]

  What do we have here? A beautiful looking and probably the thinnest Macbook has been revealed in a Russian magazine. The odds are pretty high that this is just an artist’s figment but we hope it’s real because there aren’t many things in this world which have beauty with brains. The specs listed are [...]

  Apple too has started selling iPhone 3Gs without any contract. Though it will still be locked to AT&T, there will be no prerequisites. A person can buy as many iPhones, does not need to own an AT&T contract and the activation part will be handled by Apple iTunes. The price is obviously the same [...]

  Folks over at WMpowerusers have leaked three more screenshots of Windows Mobile 7. The first screen clearly shows how the Mobile Marketplace on the new OS will look while the second and the third reveals the IM interface and the Zune UI. Needless to say, the overall UI is appealing but the irregularity of [...]

  The spat between Nvidia and Intel has heated up. In a move to counter Intel’s case filing, the GPU maker has countersued Intel for breaching the chipset licensing contract. They claim the agreement is still valid for newer memory controller integrated CPUs including Nehalem and are also seeking to bar Intel from accessing Nvidia’s [...]

Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 – Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion   We know this already but Microsoft has officially declared that owning an Apple product is only possible when you have extra cash to blow off. Lauren has $1000 to spend on her laptop packed with a decent configuration. No prizes for guessing who will [...]

  Apple has announced the dates of WWDC 2009. The conference will be held at the Moscone West, San Francisco from June 8 till 12. WWDC is one of Apple’s major events as well as a launching platform where developers get technical and hands-on sessions and also few product launches. Last year, it was the [...]

  Taking some insight from the retail channels, Digitimes is reporting that Asus will advance to blur the line between the netbooks and notebooks. Sometime in mid-April, Asus will reveal Eee PC 1004DN with an optical drive. Other info associated with this is that it will have an Intel Atom N280 processor with GN40 chipset, [...]

  Samsung is definitely facing a tough time to keep its phone under wraps. The other day we saw S8000 and now we have three more. M8000 is actually the twin brother of S8000 with the same design and few changes. The M8000 is a music centric phone and features a touch sensitive music button [...]

  Opera will announce Opera Mobile 9.7 supporting Turbo compression technology at the CTIA expo next week. Turbo is Opera’s answer to slow internet speeds and also saves bandwidth by compressing the data up to 80%. In addition to Turbo, the new Opera Mobile 9.7 is equipped with Presto 2.2 rendering engine, 100% Acid 3 [...]

  BusinessWeek has spilled the beans regarding the impending launch of RIM’s Blackberry App World. According to them, April 1 which also happens to be the first day of CTIA is the destined date where the floodgates will be thrown open for Blackberry users to delve in the world of apps, presumably quality ones. RIM [...]

  Another day, another netbook enters the overcrowded Eee PC family. Asus has launched Eee PC 1002H which is nothing but 1002HA with some noteworthy changes. The netbook is now powered by an Intel Atom N280 processor instead of N270 like in1002HA and sports a chiclet keyboard. Apart from this, we have the customary netbook [...]

  Sony Ericsson teams up with Maria Sharapova to launch T707 clamshell phone. The phone looks a bit refreshing than current set of SE phones and features pulsating light effects and gesture control to please the customers. The light is adjustable according to different contacts and the gesture control helps to end the call or [...]

  There are many Sony Vaio P fans out there but I am sure most of them are bugged with a common grievance – slow processor. It looks like this is going to be changed soon as folks over at Sony Insider have managed to get some valuable info. Vaio Ps sold in US hail [...]

  We have always accused Chinese mobile companies for ripping off designs from the West but how about this for innovation? The phone is called as the Cool758 and houses an electronic razor which is hidden in a cover at the back. Apart from giving the freedom to carry your razor anywhere, the phone packs [...]