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  UPDATE: Recall details for Indian Nokia consumers added here. Nokia today announced an exchange program of mobile handset chargers due to the possibility of a shock hazard. The faulty BYD-made Nokia chargers’ plastic cover become loose and separate, exposing the internal components and thus exposing to a shock when plugged in a live socket. [...]

  Apple products come with three qualities– simplicity, sleek body and minimalistic design. The latest 3rd Generation iPod Shuffle boasts all the three qualities but I think Apple may have gone too far with minimalism. The new iPod Shuffle is totally different from its predecessor and adopts a flash drive-esque form factor with just one [...]

  Zii powered products are yet to be seen in the real market but ZiiLABS, creators of Zii chips and Creative’s subsidiary is continuing its domination in the SoC sector. They’ve announced the 3rd generation media applications processor, ZMS-08. The Stemcell processor offers quite a number of features that diminishes the difference between the capabilities [...]

  Indian BlackBerry users can now take advantage of RIM’s BlackBerry App Store. The BlackBerry App World is a downloadable app that provides a range of free as well as paid applications ranging from different categories. Few India-centric applications include Hungama MyPlay, CNBC TV18 Moneycontrol, Mundu Radio and Arrowmatics. To download the app, a user [...]

  iPhone users in Australia encountered what is said to be the world’s first iPhone worm. The worm took advantage of jailbroken iPhones (and iPod Touch) with SSH installed and using the default user/pass. The worm was created by a hacker known as ikee and replaces the screenlock wallpaper with 1980s popstar Rick Astley with [...]

  Undoubtedly, Adamo XPS is one of the coolest laptops that has been created and if Dell designer’s had their way, it would’ve been much, much cooler than the present version. PC World got their mitts on the early prototypes of Adamo XPS that reveals designers’ somewhat crazy and not to forget, expensive ideas. The [...]

  Take this with a pinch of salt but if couple of BGR sources are to be believed, Apple and AT&T might have something interesting for the consumers this Christmas. According to them, the $99 iPhone 3G will be replaced with an iPhone 3GS bearing the same 8GB capacity. The reasoning sounds a bit way [...]

  Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad gave hopes for a decent looking (and functioning) tablet on the cheap but according to Silicon Alley Insider that hope looks quite bleak. They’ve heard from several sources that CrunchPad is delayed or dead due to increasing expenses. CrunchPad was first supposed to hit the retail shelves in mid-2009 but with [...]

  It was claimed that the 10.6.2 Snow Leopard update would not support Atom processors, effectively killing the hackintosh scene. Now the word is that the latest seed of the update brings back the Atom support. The developer seed 10C535 has enabled Atom support and with that the possibility of installing Mac OS X on [...]

  Android and Snapdragon combo seems to have hit the right chord with handset manufacturers. We’ve seen couple of companies adopt it and now here’s a confirmation from LG about the same. LG is developing a handset that will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset and run Android OS. Other details are next to none but the [...]

  After a series of teasers Dell has come clean with its super sleek and sexy Adamo XPS notebook. The 13.4-inch notebook is indeed a testament of craftsmanship and engineering excellence, which packs decent specs in just 9.9mm shell. The laptop’s specs include Windows 7 OS, 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV CPU, 4GB RAM, [...]

  Toshiba has pipped the competition by announcing the industry’s largest capacity 1.8-inch hard drive. The MK3233GSG that already has HDDs in capacities of 160GB and 250GB will also have a 320GB one, targeted at thin mobile devices and external HDDs. The drives feature an industry highest areal density of 801Mbit/mm2 and supports SATA interface [...]

  Motorola DROID will be accompanied by another DROID tomorrow. The DROID family has got an addition and its not from Motorola but from HTC. The DROID ERIS is Verizon’s version of Hero and for a cheap $100 (after $100 mail-in rebate), user will get a decently packed phone. The phone is equipped with Sense [...]

  More images of Kurara have slipped out showing the phone from different angles. New details are still under wraps but one thing that is found missing from the last leak is the HD inscription, which hints that the previous image might have been a nice photoshop effort or the phone which we’re currently looking [...]

  So shooting a gadget at a stationary object just for the heck of it seems to be the new rage. We’ve seen Sony attempting their PS3 crash into a Bravia and now a French gaming mag has attempted to shoot Nintendo DS through a wall. Agreed a video of DS crashing into the wall [...]