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  Companies have a knack to patent everything right from the word spoken to A thought during a product development. The result of this is that they have a lot of patents lying with them that will hardly be ever used. However, instead of keeping it as a dead investment, Nokia has come up with [...]

  At the press conference showing its summer lineup for Japanese operators, Panasonic shed some light on some interesting things for the future. Keisuke Ishii, director of the mobile business said that they are “seriously considering developing an Android phone and entering overseas mobile phone markets in fiscal 2010.” The bait for the Japanese company [...]

  T-Mobile’s leaked Android roadmap is the culprit again. It has now revealed Motorola’s sliding QWERTY Morrison that is expected to launch in the holiday season. No details whatsoever but with Morrison, T-Mobile will take its upcoming Androids count to 5 with Houdini, G2, BigFoot, Morrison and Huawei’s touchscreen phone. On Motorola’s side, this will [...]

  Sony is in preliminary talks with music publishers to offer song downloads to users on PlayStation Network (PSN). While this will be targeted majorly at PSP users, the probable and logical extension will be to offer the same to PS3 users as well. This move from Sony can be viewed as tit for tat [...]

  DVR is a nifty thing to have and LG’s integrated right into its new Plasmas that has its Time Machine feature. The 50- (50PS70) and 60-inch (60PS70) Plasmas TVs were announced in Korea today and houses a 160GB HDD to do the recording job or user can hook up additional storage via the USB [...]

  Publicists know how to attract attention and THQ’s latest attempt will mostly hit the target. To commemorate the launch of Big Family Games on Wii, THQ sent a gold-plated Wii to the Queen along with the first copy of the game. The Royal family is one of the most looked upon families and when [...]

  Americans now have one more home server to choose from, this time coming from the largest selling netbook vendor. Acer’s Windows based Aspire easyStore Home Server is apt for home and small business users who want to share, preserve and access data from a centralized location. The Aspire easyStore will go for an affordable [...]

  Macrumors caught hold off a couple of job listings that hints about the few features that will possibly make it to the iPhone 3.0. The first job listing is for a low level programmer who understands processor architecture, specially ARM and its NEON vector unit. The current and the previous iPhone and iPod Touch [...]

  Samsung has announced a 20-key SGH-t349 phone that will be available from T-Mobile USA soon. The candybar phone sports a partial QWERTY keypad, much akin to Blackberry’s SureType phones or Nokia’s E55 but comes with low end features. The phone has a 2.2-inch screen, 1.3MP camera, music player, Stereo Bluetooth, speakerphone, EDGE data, up [...]

  Panasonic unveiled couple of camcorders in its home market that features something, worthy enough for a ‘world’s first’ tag. TM350 is the world’s first HD camcorder that has a 64GB of flash storage and can record full 1080p content for about 16 hours in AVCHD (H.264) format. The camera integrates a 3MOS sensor that [...]

  Forget September because the word on the street is that Storm’s successor could head our ways soon. Though the exact date is still a mystery, the little birdie over at Verizon tells BlackberryOS that it could be launched in this month or next. The Storm 2 is expected to have Wi-Fi, new touchscreen technology [...]

  This is not the first time we have heard death sentences for Blu-ray format so we’re not surprised when SanDisk’s honcho is the latest one to say it. His reasoning is that because smartphones are the hot-selling mediums for watching videos, Blu-ray can’t really survive since the phones cannot benefit from it. Eli Harari [...]

  Ken Brinkman was a proud owner of his unibody Macbook Pro until this happened. His notebook’s MagSafe cable went kaput by burning itself as well as damaging the notebook. Thankfully, he was not injured but Macbook Pro’s resurrection looks doubtful. He does not even know if Apple will give him a replacement or not. [...]

  Microsoft’s backup and restore service, Myphone has now advanced from limited-beta to open for all. It does not need an invitation and can be tried by any Windows Mobile handset user. The free service works by installing a syncing app on the phone with the Myphone account. The app on the phone wirelessly backs [...]

  The rumor already claimed Dell was cooking something and today they have given us a confirmation. Dell’s Doug Anson, Technology Strategist is showing Dell Mini 10v netbooks running different operating systems including Android’s Cupcake version. Though he does not go beyond saying Android is “small and a snappy” environment, it actually is the first [...]