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  Daewoo has launched a netbook spec’ed tablet PC that will most likely be sold in Korea only. Anyways, keeping the geographical considerations aside, the specs are really netbookish because there is nothing extraordinary you would find apart from the touchable display. The tablet netbook has an 8.9-inch screen with 1024×600 resolution, Windows XP Home [...]

  Mark from Nokiablog was at the Eseries Social Media meetup in NYC where he caught the US Director of Eseries marketing, Hugo Hernandez carrying a white Nokia E75. Currently, Nokia has only two colors on offer – Red and Black. While he did not divulge the exact release date, he did say that “it’s [...]

  Looks like HTC Hero’s announcement in the coming days is imminent. The Global Certification Forum that ensures global interoperability between phones and operators, have certified HERO100’s cellular and 3G bands. According to the certification, Hero will support quadband GSM networks and dualband UMTS networks operating at 1800/2100MHz. GCF did not reveal any other details [...]

  Meizu’s iPhone lookalike Windows-based M8 is yet to see a global launch but that hasn’t actually stopped the company to research and know the future of an Android based M8 phone. Recently, J Wong, CEO of Meizu confirmed on its official forum that they have a dedicated team for the Android platform that is [...]

  It was rumored for a long time and even semi-confirmed by a Nvidia employee recently but it was not acknowledged by Microsoft until now. In an official Zune Insider podcast, Matt Akers, the show host and the product team member confirmed that Nvidia’s Tegra is indeed the multimedia brain behind Zune HD who thinks [...]

  Sony has announced limited edition PSP-3005 for the Korean market. Starting from June 26, Koreans will be able to snag three different variants of limited edition PSPs according to their gaming or the entertainment needs. The following packs will be available at the constant price of 278,000 Won: – PSP-3005 with DMB Tuner and [...]

  T-Mobile has finally announced the availability of their second Android phone, myTouch, also known as Magic in other regions. Under the hood, it’s the same phone but T-Mobile has gone a step ahead to allow personalization at a greater level. myTouch 3G is equipped with Sherpa application that learns the user behavior and feedback [...]

  Samsung’s 22-inch 2233RZ 3D monitor amazed users from US, Europe and China since the beginning of the year and now it has arrived to its homeland to do the same. The display supports a nice 120Hz technology that enables better gaming and HD viewing experience. Samsung’s 2233RZ display is compatible with Nvidia’s 3D Vision [...]

  Wall Street Journal is reporting from an anonymous source that Steve Jobs went through a liver transplant about two months back in April in Tennessee. The report does not mention much with the obvious declined comments from Apple but claims Jobs is recovering well and will return by the end of June as planned. [...]

  Well, you still don’t get the promised ultrasn0w tool yet but the iPhone Dev team has gone ahead and released redsn0w that jailbreaks all the iPhone and iPod Touch devices except iPhone 3G S and even unlocks the first-gen iPhone. The jailbreaking tool is available for Mac OS X via Pwnage Tool and Quickpwn, [...]

  Dell has never associated its Vostro line with aesthetics and continued to churn boring looking notebooks for the business minded people. But hey, businessmen need some style too and thus, they have the Vostro 1220 that will supposedly be official in the coming weeks (or maybe months). Agreed it’s not an eye turner but [...]

  Activision is the world’s largest third-party game publisher and when his boss, Bobby Kotick has got something to say, we have to listen. Kotick refers to the PlayStation and he reckons if Sony does not do anything about the PS3 price cuts, he may have to cease supporting the PlayStation platform. If a direct [...]

  UPDATE: LG will launch the monitors in three sizes – N1742L-BF (17-inch), N1941W-PF (18.5-inch) and a 15.6-inch model that will be available in other countries except US. LG and NComputing have teamed up to launch network-based monitors dubbed as the SmartVine N-series monitors. The monitors use virtualization which in simpler terms, will allow up [...]

  While Indians are getting a raw deal from the recently announced Vaio NW Series, Americans on the other hand get some hi-def goodness with the integrated Blu-ray drive, HDMI-out and a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 GPU, all starting from an affordable $880. Rest of the specs include 15.5-inch screen an Intel C2D 2.1GHz [...]

  It was just the beginning of the year when Samsung was flaunting its 16GB 4Gb DDR3 creation and now they have come up with yet another memory module based on its 50nm 4Gb DDR3 tech. Apt for the servers, the 32GB RDIMM houses nine rows of 16Gb DDR3 mounted on each side of the [...]