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  Lenovo US has announced couple of new laptops for business users loaded with Windows 7. The notebooks, SL410 and SL510 are specifically targeted towards SMBs with its affordable starting price and decent feature set. Both the notebooks come with options of Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, 16:9 high definition screen with a provision to [...]

  Samsung’s T*Omnia successor has gone official in the home market. The T*Omnia II (SCH-M710/SCH-M715) will be available via SK Telecom and expectedly, Samsung has modified the device to suit the Koreans. Few changes from the original Omnia II are the integration of DMB, T map, T Store services and reduction in internal memory (T*Omnia [...]

  AT&T announced to file a lawsuit against LCD makers who were allegedly involved in the price-fixing of the LCD panels. The lawsuit was filed in District Court in San Francisco that included companies like LG Display, Samsung, Sharp, AU Optronics, Chunghwa Picture Tubes alleging them to run an international cartel to illegally fix, raise [...]

  There is really no reason for you to crash a PS3 into an LCD unless you have a point to prove. In this case, the point for Sony Australia was to promote their latest Christmas campaign wherein a Bravia LCD buyer would get a PS3 thrown in for free, which they did it literally. [...]

  RIM has at last let the cat out of the bag by unveiling Bold 9700 aka Onyx. Blackberry Bold 9700 offers high-end performance with support for tri-band 3G HSDPA / quad-band GSM networks, Wi-Fi and a powerful 624MHz processor along with 256MB of flash memory. Bold 9700 hosts a 2.44-inch vivid light-sensing display (480×360), [...]

  Dell’s upcoming Android-based MID has seen the light of the day albeit unofficially. The MID known as Streak features Android 2.0 OS with 5-inch WVGA (800×480) touchscreen, 5MP camera with dual LED flash, front-facing camera for video calls, microSD card slot and 1300mAh battery. Dell Streak is also rich in connectivity boasting widely used [...]

  Keeping its weird name debate aside, bookseller Barnes & Noble announced its Nook e-book reader yesterday. Nook has been priced as same as Kindle ($259) but scores on a lot of fronts than Amazon’s offering. The most visible change is the integration of two screens – e-ink display for reading and a color touchscreen [...]

  Apple India was quick to put a price and availability details to the new Mac products that were unveiled yesterday. Magic Mouse will be the first in the line to be available by the end of October. It will retail for Rs. 3,890. The 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs will start from Rs. 64,900 and [...]

  Samsung Giorgio Armani (B7620) has already made its way out in the international market and now the non-QWERTY slider specifically meant for Samsung’s home market has also been given the official treatment. The W820/W8200 Giorgio Armani will be released later this month but Samsung has started taking pre-orders with stores like New World Department [...]

  Apple Store’s downtime is an indication of new incoming products and expectedly, the Cupertino-based company have returned announcing a fleet of products. To start with, Apple’s Mighty Mouse is now transformed into Magic Mouse bragging the first rights to bring multi-touch technology to mice. Magic Mouse adopts all the intuitive finger gestures instead of [...]

  Canon has upped the DSLR game by announcing the next chapter in the EOS-1D series – EOS-1D Mark IV. The camera promises astounding picture quality with its 16MP CMOS sensor, dual DIGIC 4 imaging processors and 14-bit A/D conversion at 10fps. EOS-1D Mark IV possesses Canon’s new 45 points autofocus system which includes 39 [...]

  AMD today announced a range of Athlon II processors including the first triple-core processors. The three-core CPUs help to fill the price and performance void which is created by the dual- and quad-core CPUs. The triple-core procs run at clock speed ranging from 2.2GHz to 2.9GHz and operating at TDP up to 95W. The [...]

  Barnes & Noble will be making their e-book reader official today but WSJ who got an early sneak peek shares some details. The B&N reader that was spied last week will be called as Nook and will go head to head with Kindle in terms of pricing, which means around $259. The e-book reader [...]

  Agreed, the Blackberry watch is not like Samsung or LG’s full-fledged watch phone but it is close. Tentatively called as the inPulse, the watch is a Bluetooth accessory specifically designed for Blackberry. We’re not sure if it can carry out calls but it will obviously display time as well as a preview of the [...]

  Xbox LIVE Preview Program that brings Zune, Facebook and Twitter to Xbox 360 is underway but with the latest update there’s another change that won’t go well with the Xbox 360 users. The update makes the unauthorized memory units used in the console incompatible, effectively forcing you to buy certified (overpriced?) Xbox 360 storage [...]