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  MSI has got a netbook to give Asus’ 1000HE a run for its money. The U110 ECO equipped with an Intel Atom Z530 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD3200 manages to crank out up to 9 hours of battery juice. Other than the massive battery life, the netbook features run-of-the-mill specs with 10-inch LED backlit [...]

  Lenovo’s Flickr Stream revealed the Pocket Yoga netbook concept yesterday and today we are seeing pictures of a new device. The device that looks nothing more than a concept takes a netbook-ish form factor with no keyboard, only multimedia buttons and supposedly a large trackpad below. What is it actually? A netbook sized PMP? [...]

  Now that we were really hoping to see this Lenovo shelled netbook to retail soon, Johnson Li, Director of Lenovo’s Beijing Inovation Center spills the beans that Pocket Yoga is just a concept. Yes, only a CONCEPT. He claims that Lenovo developed this concept about two years ago before the netbook and Vaio P’s [...]

  Apple is facing a lawsuit from an Ohio parent whose kid’s pants caught fire because of iPod Touch in his pocket. The incident occured when the iPod Touch was switched off and the kid suffered second degree burns on his legs and thankfully was saved by his friend who pulled out his pants in [...]

  UPDATE: Lenovo Pocket Yoga is just a concept. The image which we saw a few days back that hinted on Lenovo’s version of Vaio P has now been confirmed by Lenovo’s official Flickr stream. Images uploaded on the stream shows Pocket Yoga in full glory. As seen in the sketch, the netbook will sport [...]

  With millions of telecom subscribers being added each month, the Indian telecom industry is looked as the land of opportunity. The scientists at IBM apparently think the same which has led to the development of a technology that allows users to communicate via speech with the websites. The new protocol, Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP) [...]

  Game publishers are pressuring Sony to lower PS3 prices or they may divert their development resources to world’s largest selling console, Wii. Even though, we have heard rumors about the imminent price cut before (which never happened), Mike Hickey, analyst with Janco Partners reckons that Sony might eventually cut from $50 to $100 in [...]

  Kevin Rose, founder of Digg has got his share of hits and misses with Apple rumors in the past. Now he throws another one regarding the iPhone OS 3.0 that will be unveiled tomorrow. The iPhone OS 3.0 will have the copy/paste feature but won’t have background apps and video functionality. According to him, [...]

  LG’s KM-900, better known as Arena has finally made its first stop in Europe. It will be available for purchase from this month in major European countries. Arena is LG’s flagship model for 2009 that boasts a new UI dubbed as 3D S-Class UI. It’s got a lovely 3-inch WVGA touchscreen capable of multi-touch [...]

  A Chinese business daily is reporting that HTC’s Blackberry-esque Maple device might show its face at the upcoming CTIA expo next month. Apparently, HTC is in talks with four US operators to market and sell their phone. According to a recent specs leak, Maple is expected to carry a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, 528MHz processor, [...]

  March 13, 1989 was the day when Tim Berners-Lee from England proposed an universal linked information system to exchange documents which gave birth to what we better know as the World Wide Web (WWW). The http, URLs, browser and everything related to web was a result of his frustration because of the incompatibility to [...]

  If this phone ever comes to the market, the phones providing few seconds of excitement with DJ turntables will be a thing of the past. KR8 (pronounced as create) is the brainchild of Jose Thomas DeLuna that will allow DJs to create tunes on the go. A user can create or edit tracks with [...]

  Actually there’s nothing much to see in the new light iPod Shuffle but if your nerdy mind still can’t take that as a reason, guys over at iFixit exposes the innards of the cheapest iPod just for you. One interesting fact is that it is lighter than a letter sized paper and needs around [...]

  Without questioning Samsung’s logic for geo-targeted names we present you Lucido aka Ultrab S7220. The phone was unveiled last month at the MWC and Samsung deems Lucido (whatever that means) as a perfect name to attract the blighties. No surprises here, the candybar phone has an AMOLED screen, 5MP camera 7.2Mbps HSDPA, accelerometer, aGPS [...]

  Opera has released a testing copy of its server side optimized Turbo enabled Opera browser. The browser, as we all know, works pretty much like Opera Mini which sends the requested website to Opera servers for optimization and brings back the compressed version of the website. I am currently trying it out and the [...]