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  If you’ve a love for art, for netbooks and the most important thing in today’s time – lots of money, then there’s a specially designed Acer Aspire One for you to splurge. There’s nothing to cheer on the specifications as it’s the old 8.9-inch model but it’s the design for which you’re paying. Painted [...]

  Envious? You should be because Connor Mulcahey aged 13 from Weston, Connecticut has won Apple’s one billion app contest. He takes away home $13,746 worth of Apple products, including a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch, Macbook Pro and a Time Capsule. Lucky guy, I must say. Apple

  If you’ve been following the netbook scene for some time and have a little practical sense, you wouldn’t be surprised to see Nvidia ION powered netbooks coming to the fray. So we were not surprised to hear that this transitional step for netbooks was about to be a reality. A source at Nvidia told [...]

  Lenovo currently sells netbooks under the IdeaPad line. However, a Lenovo executive has confirmed that they are looking to reach suit clad consumers in the coming months. Lenovo will be offering a ThinkPad branded netbook to businesses while the IdeaPad netbooks will focus on average consumers. The details on the netbook is scarce at [...]

  Blighty users looking for a touchscreen phone that doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket can pick up Orange’s new Vegas phone. The phone is somewhat similar to HTC’s first Touch phone but bears a different D-pad and call/reject buttons. Anyways, this Pay as you Go phone costs £48.50 (€54 or $71) and comes [...]

  US President Obama will be able to satisfy his Blackberry addiction in the coming months. The National Security Agency is doing the customary encryption checks to see if his 8830 meets the federal security standards A nod from them would mean Obama can use the phone in the White House and even during official [...]

  The rumormongers were feeding us with lots of Nokia news lately. However, Nokia’s official blog has decided to put all the grapevine floating around the interwebs to rest, and for good. Regarding the Nokia 1100 rumor, they have confirmed that there is no issue with the 1100 software and is not hackable. The hot [...]

  Samsung Electronics today announced its first quarter results which stood at 28.67 trillion won, 13 percent down from the last quarter of 2008. Thanks to an increase in equity income, its net income reached 620 billion won and operating profit at 470 billion won after last quarter’s dismal 740 billion won loss on a [...]

  Intel has tied up with AOC, Gigabyte, iBall and Seagate to bring a nettop that could be assembled by its channel partners under their own brand name. The strategy will make Intel to cash in on the reputation of the channels enjoyed by them in their respective regions. With the device targeted at the [...]

  Congratulations, Apple. Their cash rich App Store has passed the 1 billion app downloads milestone in just nine months of its launch. It also marks the end of the giveaway where a lucky user will walk away with a $10k iTunes gift card, Macbook Pro, iPod Touch and Time Capsule. Apple hasn’t revealed the [...]

  At the Euroluce International Lighting Fair in Milan, Philips is showing world’s first OLED lighting concepts that involves human interaction. The lights are suited for both professional as well as consumer use and feature ultra flat shape and soft light effects. Philips has created different OLED lighting concepts like standing, wall-mounted, desk-top or ceiling [...]

  Apple’s not really fond of the new low cost PC phenomena which netbooks have brought in and when Apple’s interim CEO, Tim Cook was asked about this during an earnings call – he did the obvious, thrashed it. He said, “when I look at netbooks, I see cracked keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very [...]

  Lawyer of one of the convicts, Peter Sunde from the Pirate group has demanded a retrial after reports surfaced that the judge is a member of same copyright protection organizations as several of the plaintiffs. The judge, Tomas Norström, for instance, is a member of the Swedish Copyright Association that also has Henrik Pontén, [...]

  Apple posted its second quarter results for fiscal 2009 and we can say that it is one of the safest companies in these times with $29 billion in the bank. The revenue recorded was $8.16 billion with a net profit of $1.21 billion, up from a year-ago quarter that posted a revenue of $7.51 [...]

  Verizon has dished out an entry level slider phone from Samsung that aims to give you more bang for your buck. With $49.99 after a $50 rebate, the Trance gives a 220X176 resolution display, touch-sensitive navigation keys, 1GB internal memory that can be expanded up to 16GB with microSD cards, ICEpower speakers powered by [...]