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  French netbook site, Blogeee is among the few lucky ones to get their hands on Asus’ Eee Keyboard, which won’t be in the retail market before August. However, instead of ogling this PC in a keyboard, they stripped it to reveal the innards that run this marvelous piece of technology. The Eee Keyboard has [...]

  Microsoft has renewed its Laptop Hunters marketing campaign with the latest ad. The new ad shows Matt and Olivia try to find a perfect laptop that has a large screen, battery life and ability to share pictures under $700. Needless to say, they wander around the Macbook – white Macbook to be exact – [...]

  Sony Corp. CEO, Howard Stringer is particularly not amused by the price cut blabber going on by industry stalwarts, the recent being Activision CEO who threatened to pull out from the PlayStation platform. Stringer turned down Kotick’s threat as a standard business tactic and said, “He likes to make a lot of noise. He’s [...]

  Many netbook vendors are contemplating an Android netbook but Samsung has denied the possibility of the same, at least for the short term. Mobinuate asked Samsung France Telecom’s director, David Eberlé about it and he said there’s “no short-term project aimed at launching a netbook with Android.” In other words, Samsung is not ruling [...]

  UPDATE: LG has confirmed that this is only a concept for now and no guarantee if it will ever come to market. Couple of months back, LG had confirmed about its 12MP offering. And though they are yet to announce it officially, the GC990 Louvre phone was spotted in Warsaw where LG was displaying [...]

  Don’t let your hopes about a true PSP successor die yet. Eurogamer Spain claims to have received some information related to PSP2’s graphics. Apparently, the new PSP console will house a quad-core SGX543 GPU chip, same as iPhone 3GS but will increase the peak performance of 133m polygons/sec overtaking the graphical prowess of an [...]

  Interesting news to start the day. Google today introduced its own operating system dubbed as Chrome OS. It’s not a full fledged OS to give Windows or Mac a run for its money but for computers that only know to do one thing – surf internet. Though Google is targeting netbooks for its new [...]

  It looks like we’ll finally have a netbook that will break the Atom mold. As rumored before, Acer is prepping 1810T from the Timeline series that is fitted in a slightly modified Aspire One 751’s chassis. The spec sheet includes the same 11.6-inch screen with 1,366×768 resolution but here is where it gets better [...]

  After promising to change everything we know, Creative’s Zii suddenly flew into thin air with no updates for about five months or so. But the good thing is that it is back and looks as if Creative employees were working hard to justify the claim. They are working on a new powerful PMP powered [...]

  Seriously, if you’re not so excited about the PS3 Slim, you might want to consider this. Two of the best games, MGS4 and Killzone 2 on PS3 are being bundled at the current going price of the 80GB console. Agreed, it’s not a direct price cut but you’ll be getting around $80 worth of [...]

  The iPhone Dev team has updated its jailbreaking and unlocking solutions to v0.8 that integrates iPhone 3GS jailbreaking and unlocking support. Download the redsn0w for Windows, Linux or Mac from the link below and then install Ultrasn0w 0.8 from Cydia. Though we’re not sure, the ultrasn0w unlock should work with purplera1n jailbroken devices since [...]

  Palm has announced their GSM band equipped Pre is Europe bound. UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain will be the first European countries to get the device and will hit retail shelves just in time to make the most from the upcoming holiday season. The phone will arrive on O2 and Movistar networks. Pre is [...]

  After retreating from the phone market in Europe and China in 2007, NEC Corp. is mulling to restart its overseas sales. They haven’t zeroed in the market or the phone but it seems Europe will be the first stop. NEC withdrew from the international market because their phones, even though packed with features were [...]

  Just yesterday we were talking about the next LG Black Label phone and today they have semi-confirmed it. LG’s playing coy to share the phone details but has confirmed that it will be known as the new Chocolate, making it the fourth phone from the Black Label Series. The claim that “the new Chocolate [...]

  Apple, RIM (Research in Motion) and Nokia are contemplating to launch Indian variant of their respective App Stores. Though, Apple App Store and Nokia Ovi Store are accessible from India, there are not many apps specific to India which makes it a problem for them to target the Indian handset users. RIM’s Blackberry App [...]