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  Epson has announced two new projectors, EH-TW3000 and EH-TW4000 for the Indian market. Both the projectors are certified by the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) and projects images at full HD resolution, high dynamic contrast ratio, 2.1x optical zoom and 2 HDMI 1.3 ports. The projectors will be available from this month at a price [...]

  Nokia introduced three music phones today – the 5730 XpressMusic, 5330 XpressMusic and 5030 XpressRadio. The 5730XM is the same phone which was previewed a couple of months back. The phone has a horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard, homescreen for XpressMusic to give quick access to music, videos, games, contacts. It also has Ovi support, [...]

  The iPhone Dev team has done it again. After bringing the tethered iPod Touch 2G jailbreak, they have released a patch to make the tethered jailbreak into an untethered one. If you’re not comfortable doing it manually, you should rather wait for them to release the solution to work with Pwnage or QuickPwn tools. [...]

  Oh yes, McNamee’s claim for Palm Pre last week was a bit blown up and Palm rightly turned it down. In a free writing prospectus filed with the SEC, Palm has agreed that the statement by the co-founder of Palm’s largest stakeholding company was exaggerated. The statement in the second paragraph of the article [...]

  Ok, we have heard some chirping about iPhone Nano before but the latest one is a bit twisted. Apparently, a source of a French blog claims that iPhone Nano is due in June and will be unveiled by Steve Jobs himself (quick reminder: Jobs is expected to be back in June). However, the iPhone [...]

  Dell has raised the standards of laptops offering rugged protection. The E6400 XFR has the next generation rugged protection that complies with MIL STD810F specifications. It also boasts a new protection system, dubbed as Ballistic Armor Protection System which features PR481 material used in military equipments, aircraft etc. Use of this material makes the [...]

  Not that we were surprised by the prices but it will be sad for people who were looking to snag the most affordable Mac at a decent price tag. The new Mac Mini price starts from Rs. 36,600, which at that price could get you a powerful souped up desktop (with a monitor). The [...]

  Dell has let loose another teaser of its sleek and sexy Adamo laptop. The video shows off robots cutting out unibody metal sheet to create the laptop. Needless to say, we can’t wait to have our hands on this one. For live pictures, click here. Dell Adamo

  MSI will be releasing its new VX600 15.4-inch notebook pretty soon. The notebook is niftily designed and tries to give bit of everything to the user. It is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processor, integrated ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410 GPU, up to 4GB RAM and up to 320GB HDD. VX600 also [...]

  Samsung continues its innovations for the Flex-OneNAND fusion memory chip. They will now be using 40nm process technology to produce 8Gb (Gigabit) Flex-OneNAND memory. Flex-OneNAND is a fusion of SLC and MLC NAND in a single silicon chip. With the help of the bundled software, the user can optimize the portion of SLC and [...]

  AMD introduced a new GPU aimed at the enterprise market. The ATI Firepro 2450 is a low profile dual GPU card that allows to plug in up to four monitors simultaneously via both DVI or VGA. It has 512MB of memory, consumes less than 18 watts, PCI Express 2.0 and has DirectX 10.1 support. [...]

  CEO of Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, Reinhard Clemens has got pretty vocal about the two major mobile platforms – Android and WinMo. Clemens goes gaga over Android saying that it is the first OS that does not require much modifications according to different phones. Android is “the first OS that enables the development of [...]

  HTC has a successful run selling phones in European countries including Germany. But the recent developments hint that HTC may have to stop selling their phones if they don’t reach an agreement with IPCom. IPCom filed a case against HTC accusing them of infringing the ‘100 series’ patents which included UMTS related patents used [...]

  For a change, a Chinese mobile manufacturer has not tried to replicate another well known phone. Instead, SBMP N90 phone tries to resemble to remind you of Dubai’s iconic Burj Al Arab. The phone is not as classy nor curvy as the hotel but you’ll get the run-of-the-mill Chinese phone features like dual SIM [...]

  LG has revealed another variant of its affordable Cookie phone with the 3D S-Class UI. The phone has now been renamed as Cooky (LG-SU910/KU9100/LU9100) and it features a 3D sensor, T-DMB, HSDPA and TV Tuner. The phone will be initially sold in South Korea only for 590,000KRW. Press Release [Via Akihabaranews]