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  It’s not a surprise but here’s a confirmation from the predominant PC maker that its first smartphone creation, Mini 3i will soon go on sale. China Mobile, the world’s largest operator will sell the device in the Chinese market by the end of this month. Along with the shipping confirmation, Dell also confirmed the [...]

  A new iPhone worm has found its way out that have malicious traits as opposed to the Rickroll worm found two weeks ago. The worm identified as “Duh” or “Ikee.B” uses the same modus operandi as the rickroll worm, effectively putting only jailbroken users with default SSH password at risk. The first sign came [...]

  Smoking is injurious to a human’s health and now according to Apple, it is injurious to your Apple machine too, enough to void the Applecare warranty. A US blog, Consumerist received two different reports from readers claiming they’ve been denied repair of their Apple products (one Macbook and an iMac) despite being under the [...]

  iPhone is ready to set its foot in the land of Samsung and LG from this week. KT, the second largest operator in South Korea will start selling the iPhone from Nov 28 (this Saturday). Interested users can pre-order now via its online store or 2,600 other KT authorized distributors. There will be three [...]

  We can finally put a country to the Nokia E72 shipping announcement from last week. E72 has been announced for the Indian market and I think it’s been priced just right. Pegged at Rs. 22,989, the E71 successor comes with a full QWERTY keypad, 5MP camera, optical navi-key, 3.5mm headphone jack, digital compass, A-GPS, [...]

  With the release of Norton Internet Security 2009, Symantec made a significant change and boost to the overall image of Norton security products. Continuing the legacy of 2009, the latest version is light on resources with clean and easy interface. Installing the security suite is a straight forward process. No need to configure or [...]

With the ever increasing use of Digital cameras and need to manage your digital photo collection it’s becoming increasingly important to have a good photo-video management and editing suite. Although there are many free tools available on the Internet, Corel’s Digital Studio tries to distinguish itself by offering various new features.

Samsung’s tradition of showing handsets before the official announcement continues. At a Corby event, two upcoming phones were snapped that will supposedly be marketed under the “Diva” brand, targeting the fairer sex. Starting with S5150 Olivia, the phone has a clamshell form factor with a small external display gracing the front beneath the mirror-like body. [...]

  We’ve seen iPhone being adopted as an instrumental tool in various fields and it’s good to see its potential been tapped by the Indian doctors. Narayana Nethralaya Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology in Bangalore are pilot testing an iPhone software that will push retinal images of patients living in rural areas to doctors’ iPhone devices. [...]

  Sony’s PS3 console is about to get a new browser, if the report from PSInsider is to be believed. A source close to Sony hit them up claiming the Japanese multinational is in talks with Mozilla to port Firefox to the console. However, it’s not clear if both the companies have signed the dotted [...]

  Well, well, what do we have here? Another Motorola Android phone, of course. Dubbed as Motus the phone’s image was leaked on a Russian forum, which is said to be from the Cliq family with the new external design. Specs are unconfirmed as of now but Androidandme claims some meaty specs like quad-band GSM, [...]

  Expectedly, Google gave the first glimpse of its Chrome OS at the Google HQ yesterday. Sundar Pichai gave a quick demo of the OS and it does look promising. The OS, which is nothing but a browser boots in 7 seconds and enables to do most of the things like checking e-mail, chat, edit [...]

  With the price tag it carries, SanDisk is definitely not targeting the average consumer wanting to store content. In fact, these exorbitantly priced cards come with crazy speed, which SanDisk claims is apt for DSLR users. This 32GB SDHC card gives a read/write speed of up to 30MB/s, thus allowing the DSLR users to [...]

  Sony Ericsson’s Kurara has sprung up again revealing more details of the promising device. Kurara is claimed to give Samsung’s Omnia HD run for its money with the integration of ARM’s Cortex-A8 processor, 256MB RAM and PowerVR graphics. It also supports 720p and claimed to be the fastest S60 around. Eldar from Mobile-review has [...]

  Sony has another reason to touts its PS3 as the console that does everything. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center also known as C3 uses the cheap $300 PS3s to crack passwords of computers of alleged child pornographers. A warrant allows the government officials to seize the suspect’s computer but due to [...]