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  Wii has not been a complete multimedia package like other consoles and thus, Nintendo never felt the need to give a mega storage space with it. But that has not led few people, at least this guy to accept this fact and ventured on his own to give Wii, the missing HDD. Of course, [...]

  We would have liked if Apple spoofed Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter ads but it looks like they are reserving their replies for Laptop Hunter ads via other mediums. Four ads were released and as with every other Get a Mac ad, these are cool, witty and enjoyable.       [Apple via 9to5Mac]

  Sprint is now selling Instinct’s smaller, better version for $129.99 after fulfilling all the customary obligations like mail-in rebates and signing up with a 2 year contract. The phone comes with two color options – Cobalt Metal and Touch of Copper and packs 3.2-inch touchscreen display with TouchWiz UI, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, 2 megapixel [...]

  LG Electronics has officially unwrapped Viewty Smart phone after being leaked by its German blog a few days ago. The svelte 12.4mm phone packs a 3-inch touchscreen display with 3D S-Class UI, Wi-Fi, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, GPS, geo-tagging, DivX and Dolby support, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, FM Radio, 1.5GB of internal memory, microSD card slot and [...]

  The Pirate Bay drama that started on Feb 17 has finally come to an end. The district court judge has ruled that all four Pirate Bay members are guilty and have assisted in making copyright content available to the masses. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström have been sentenced to 1 [...]

  What?! Really? Taiwanese component suppliers are feeding us with some Nokia news that we really want to hear. They are claiming that Nokia is planning to replace 5800XM’s resistive touchscreen display with a capacitive one. Why? But of course, to compete with the touchscreen offerings from Apple, LG, Samsung and others. The suppliers point [...]

  Here it is. Nokia unveiled the E75 in India a couple of days back and today we got a chance to play with it. Our first impression: yet another good looking E Series phone with a snappy UI. Expect a full fledged review soon.

  This one’s arrived fresh from the reputed Taiwanese rumor bakery. According to the sources hooked up with Digitimes, Samsung is developing a 15.6-inch RGB LED backlit notebook panel that will go with its high-end thin notebooks when its launched sometime in second half of the year. There are no other details whatsoever but the [...]

  You hardly see Apple commenting on competitor’s moves but when it does, the whole world notices it. Apple’s spokesperson Bill Evans recently commented on Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter ads that takes a dig at Apple’s pricey products. This is what he had to say. “A PC is no bargain when it doesn’t do what you [...]

  Samsung has pulled off another industry first by bringing full disk encryption (FDE) to SSDs. The FDE solution is developed by Wave Systems and is offered on both 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs with storage sizes up to 256GB. FDE enabled SSDs automatically encrypt any information that is written onto the drive without compromising on [...]

  While we have seen couple of computers running on Android, this is the first time S60 platform has made an appearance on an Atom based computer. Guys at S60 on Symbian Customer Operations (SOSCO) took an off the shelf Atom based motherboard and ported to show S60’s potential. As Symbian itself puts it, they [...]

  For most of us, spam is nothing but piece of crap lying in our inbox waiting to be deleted. However, when you count the impact of spam on the environment, it leaves back a staggering amount of CO2, contributing to our global warming. According to a report by ICF and Mcafee around 62 trillion [...]

  Nokia declared its Q1 2009 results today and though the company is facing a decline in profits as well as shrinking device shipment, its first mass market touch phone did exceptionally well. Nokia has managed to shift 2.6m 5800XM units in this quarter with over 3m since its launch. There’s no doubt that 5800′s [...]

  In a bid to appeal to the businesses, Dell is now selling Vostro A90 netbook which is nothing but a rebranded Mini 9. If you haven’t guessed yet, the specs are similar to Mini 9 but since its targeted at businesses, Dell has made the netbook look bland professional with just one color and [...]

  Seagate has introduced SV35.5 HDDs that are meant for rigorous use, making it an apt choice for video surveillance systems. The 7200RPM drives come in storage capacities of up to 1TB and are able to sustain 140MB/s sequential data rates, assuring the steadfastness and the performance of digital video surveillance systems. Other things that [...]