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  Look, what an antitrust charge does it to you. After being fined heftily by European Commission for abusing its monopolistic position, Microsoft wants to play it safe. They have announced not to bundle their IE8 browser along with the next iteration of Windows which will hit in October. “To ensure that Microsoft is in [...]

  LG Electronics is planning and not planning some things in their quest to become the second largest handset maker in the world. In the planned things, LG have confirmed that they’ll focus on customized UI phones or in simpler words expect more 3D S-Class UI equipped phones. They are also planning to unveil an [...]

  Microsoft will be launching a free anti-virus application replacing its unsuccessful paid security suite, Live OneCare. The software code-named as Morro has been taken from Brazil’s Morro de Sao Paolo beach and will be launched in public beta as a download. Though analysts and investors are keeping a close eye on how the free [...]

  LG’s KM900 Arena is now available all over India. Arena is LG’s top-end model that integrates its proprietary 3D S-Class UI. Amongst other good things, it has a 3-inch WVGA multi-touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with manual and autofocus, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, DivX and Xvid capable, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Dolby audio, 3.5mm audio jack, TV-out, Bluetooth [...]

  Nintendo tried the camera motion-sensing controllers few years back but rejected it, confessed Satoru Iwata to Financial Times. His reasoning for passing the tech – which actually looks a promising one – was that the accelerometer based controllers produced better accuracy than the camera based ones. He also said that though they rejected it, [...]

  Interesting move came to light yesterday that had been brewing since the announcement of Pre. Palm have announced Jon Rubinstein as the new CEO while Ed Colligan, the departed CEO will join Elevation Partners. Jon is already the Chairman of the company and will assume his role from tomorrow, June 12. Palm possibly hinted [...]

  This is the third instance where Xperia X2 has come out in the wild claiming its existence. The new pics emerging show a silver variant which actually looks better than black. The About screen pictured also throws some light on the specs. The phone is running a build of WinMo 6.5 OS and has [...]

  PSP has got yet another firmware update but going by Sony’s standards, this has arrived rather late. Anyways, a one and half line post on the PS Blog does not reveal much about the exact changes but promises to improve system software stability during use of some features. [Via Playstationblog]

  UPDATE: The first Android phone in India has been launched. Click here for more details. This has got to be the vaguest of statements. Ajay Sharma, Country Head of HTC India told ET they want to launch an Android phone but don’t know when it will be possible. “We will be launching the Android. [...]

  Researchers at the Nokia Research Centre in UK are working on a new way to keep our phones charged that does not need charger or any other accessory. Sounds farfetched? Not really. They are developing a technology that can harness power from ambient radio waves, which in simpler words mean waves emitted by Wi-Fi [...]

  Intel is planning to release the successor of N270 Atom processor, reports Digitimes. N450 aka Pine Trail is expected to take the helm as early as October from N270 and N280 that power majority of the netbooks currently. Pine Trail CPUs are based on 45nm process and use a 2-chip architecture to integrate graphics [...]

  So Apple claimed iPhone 3G S was the fastest iPhone ever produced but didn’t do the needful to divulge any meaty internal details. Well, guess what, we don’t need it now because T-Mobile Netherlands iPhone 3G S page spurts it out for us. The early rumors were spot on. iPhone 3G S indeed has [...]

  Nokia’s N86 phone is now shipping worldwide. The dual slider phone is Nokia’s first 8MP phone that has also been conferred as the best imaging device by TIPA. Its photography prowess includes Carl Zeiss lens, auto aperture control, mechanical shutter and dual LED flash. If other things are important to you as its camera [...]

  It’s not even a week before Pre went on sale and users have unearthed the webOS root image, which was found in Palm’s webOS Reset Doctor tool. For now, this does not mean much to you and me but developers have already started tinkering with the image that could reveal the whole new facet [...]

  Samsung surprised us today with the launch of an affordable solar powered mobile phone in India. We were banking on the Blue Earth phone but it’s the Solar Guru (Guru E1107) that will make its way first to the commercial market. The phone won’t be looked upon for its features but rather for its [...]