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  Sony will be releasing WiMAX-enabled notebooks in the Indian market soon. The full details are still awaited but Sony says they’ll roll out only after the Government has allotted the requisite spectrum. “Once the 3G auctions takes place and private players come into the space, we will come out with our products, which will [...]

  Dell’s Mac Mini-styled nettop is now on sale. The 7.8×7.8-inch square tiffin box is available in UK with a starting of £299 and going up to £784 for a power packed rig. For the starting price, you’d get a 1.6GHz AMD A64 2650E CPU, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, integrated graphics, DVD combo drive and [...]

  Qualcomm’s new Smartbook range will show its face tomorrow, according to Forbes. Forbes spoke to few Qualcomm execs who confirmed that the first Smartbook will be announced tomorrow at the company’s annual analyst meeting in New York. Although Qualcomm didn’t divulge anything substantial related to tomorrow’s Smartbook, they did say something about Snapdragon platform [...]

  After setting its foot in Europe, Motorola’s Milestone will next be seen in Canada. It will be the first Motorola Android device to be available in Canada and Telus will be the exclusive carrier. The Canadian Milestone seems unchanged from the European unit and features a 3.7-inch WVGA display, HSPA, 5MP camera with dual [...]

  Netflix streaming is now available to American PS3 gamers, provided you ordered the Netflix disc. But if you haven’t, you can order one yours for free. Netflix is available to PS3 users at no extra cost and will only have to shell out $8.99/month for the Netflix membership. Order Netflix disc [Via PSblog]

  Intel has introduced Reader, a nifty gadget for people affected with reading disabilities, dyslexia or partial blindness. The rugged Intel Reader consists of a camera, OCR engine and a screen that takes pictures of the printed text, converts and displays/reads aloud the scanned text. It also plays MP3s and converts the scanned docs into [...]

  Its raining phones in Japan. Two Japanese operators, Softbank and NTT DoCoMo have announced 17 and 19 phones respectively. The phones range in every form factor with clamshell being the favorite and power packed spec sheet. Most of the phones have no less than 3.5-inches of display, at least an 8MP camera, GPS and [...]

  It’s a good day today for the Finnish mobile maker as they have shipped the first batch of Maemo 5-powered N900 phone. N900 is seen as the first Nokia device that will help them grab some marketshare in the high-end phone market. The phone is now shipping to customers in Europe, Middle East, Russia [...]

  NTT DoCoMo has licensed Nissan’s revolutionary clearcoat paint. The Scratch Shield is touted to be more scratch resistant than regular clearcoat paints and also features self-healing capability. Nissan uses it worldwide for its cars but now NTT DoCoMo will also use for their phones, effectively giving the power to magically repair scratches, restoring it [...]

  The world will get yet another mobile operating system, courtesy of Samsung. The Korean conglomerate has named it Bada, meaning ocean in Korean because of the limitless possibilities, just like an ocean. We still don’t know how it will look or function but Samsung promises one of the easiest platforms for devs to create [...]

  The worst fear came true. Apple released the v10.6.2 update for Mac OS X and with that took away Atom CPU support that was used by hacktinosh users for installing Mac OS X on Atom-powered netbooks. The 10.6.2 update is said to start instant rebooting of the netbooks, leaving with the only options of [...]

  Epson has created what is said to be the world’s first 4K-compatible high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) TFT liquid crystal panel for 3LCD projectors. The prototype display measures only 1.64-inches but it boasts a mammoth resolution of 4096×2160 pixels, four times higher than the full HD (1080p) resolution. Epson reckons the use of projectors has expanded [...]

  As scheduled, LG’s OLED TV has gone on sale in its motherland. LG’s 15-inch OLED television is the largest commercial OLED display available and will sell for 3 million Korean won or around US$2,600. To recall, the 3.2mm thick OLED TV uses its own light source and and features 1000 times faster response rate [...]

  Nokia India just hit us up notifying about the charger recall program for the Indian consumers. In India, the recall program is only applicable for Nokia 7210 Supernova users who bought the device from June 15 – August 9, 2009. Affected users will be given new replacements at no extra charge. A. IDENTIFYING CHARGERS [...]

  If you’re compelled to give your netbook a much needed friend, LG has announced 2.5-inch XD5 Mini HDDs. It does not offer anything extra but it comes with “My netbook friend” written just to make your netbook feel special. Otherwise, the curvy 13mm thin XD5 Mini comes in capacities of 320GB and 500GB and [...]