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  Nokia N900 seems to be getting a lot of love from developers. After seeing couple of videos running Windows as well as Mac operating systems, developers have come forward to exploit the gaming part of it. One video uploaded on YouTube shows N900 flawlessly running Duke Nukem 3D with Wiimote acting as an controller [...]

  Symbian, world’s most widely used platform has gone open source. Symbian Foundation, who owns the platform has released the source code of the OS for developers to fiddle with. This important step could mark Symbian’s future of Symbian that although is in existence for over 10 years but has failed to capitalize to new-age [...]

  Acer might have turned down the idea to develop an iPad competing product but Japanese electronics manufacturer, Sony thinks otherwise. At a news conference in Tokyo Sony’s CFO, Nobuyuki Oneda admitted that time wise Sony maybe behind the iPad but reckons they’ve the capability to deliver a killer product to rival Apple’s unreleased product. [...]

  Users looking for a decent performer in the graphics department but don’t want to shell out much can take a look at ATI’s newest offering. The Radeon HD 5450 lowers the price bar to around $60 from 5670’s $100 but gives at par performance with 512MB memory and support for DirectX 11, Eyefinity multi-display [...]

  Cisco has announced a new wireless router in India that promises to do a lot more than just enabling wireless internet access. The Linksys WRT160NL comes with a processor and OS of its own to allow users to harness the full potential of the device as a router and as a media server. It [...]

  Nokia quietly announced a new phone, which on second thoughts would be aptly called as an upgraded one rather new. 6303i Classic is the same as 6303 Classic but the new variant comes with larger memory and two new colors. The phone now holds 55MB of internal memory as compared to 6303 Classic’s 17MB [...]

  We’ve got the first pictures of C5 candybar phone from the Nokia’s trademarked CSeries. DailyMobile got hold of the images and to be honest, the phone looks like just another Nokia candybar. The phone will be unveiled at the MWC in Spain this month and features S60 v3 with FP2 OS, HSPA, 3.2MP camera, [...]

  Microsoft just sent an e-mail stating that Office 2010 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for download to Connect users. Users beta-testing the suite can go ahead to Microsoft Connect and download the latest builds – v4734.1000 for 2010 client and build v4730.1010 for server products. However, one important thing to know is that [...]

  Samsung has announced their first Android phone for their home market, which is also the first Samsung device to run Android OS 2.1. The phone’s known as SHW-M100S and will arrive in March on SK Telecom. M100S comes with an 800MHz processor and sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen (WVGA), 5MP camera with 720p video [...]

  Asus today unveiled two USB 3.0 equipped N-Series notebooks in an event in Taiwan. The notebooks – 16-inch N61 and 14-inch N82 features Core i5/i7 to handle the processing duties while choice of ATI or Nvidia GPU will fill up the graphics department. Now coming onto the important feature, both the notebooks feature one [...]

  Verizon has got its first phone from Motorola running Moto’s MOTOBLUR. Dubbed as DEVOUR, the phone will take advantage of Verizon’s superior 3G to deliver content synced with MOTOBLUR. For the uninitiated, MOTOBLUR brings contacts, social networking, e-mails, chat logs everything under one roof. As for the features, Motorola is yet to spill out [...]

  Nokia today announced that their newest version of Ovi Maps with free navigation has topped more than a million downloads in a week. Since the announcement on Jan 21, Ovi Maps has been downloaded 1.4m times and is currently averaging one download/second, which is astounding. Nokia says free navigation was only possible due to [...]

  Google’s Nexus One was also blessed with an over-the-air software update yesterday and it sure was more exciting to what Apple had on offer for iPhone/iPod touch users. The new update brings Google Goggles, updated Maps app, fixes 3G connectivity and most importantly, adds multi-touch. Users will be able to use multi-touch functionality in [...]

  LG has proudly announced that its LD100 LTE modem is the first LTE device to receive Telecom Engineering Center (TELEC) certification, which is required by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC). This approval not only means LG’s device adheres to Japanese Radio Law technical regulations but will also allow LG to field [...]

  Apple has updated the iPhone OS to v3.1.3. Being an update on the same v3, this doesn’t bring drastic improvements but promises to do some things right. For instance, it will improve accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS, resolve third-party apps launch issue and fixes app crash using Japanese Kana keyboard. For [...]