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  If trendy colored notebooks with different design patterns is what you’ve been longing for, Sony has got you covered with their new entry-level VAIO E series. The series comes in variety of bright colors ranging from Caribbean Green to Hibiscus Pink to Maple Brown. But looks isn’t the only thing Sony has concentrated on. [...]

  If you’re hesitant of calling this the next-gen iPhone, believe me you’re not alone. However, AppleInsider’s sources tend to disagree. The sources, which AI says has “an impeccable track record in matters such as these” claims the picture, in addition to showing iPad prototype, shows the 4th generation iPhone. AppleInsider does try to explain [...]

  Dell has announced full specs and pricing of Alienware’s portable gaming rig, M11x. It is touted as the most powerful 11-inch notebook and rightly so because of the possibility of installing up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 335M GPU and Core 2 Duo processor. M11x scores over 6,100 in 3DMark 06 [...]

  The phone which we knew as Faith last month has got the official treatment and will now be known as Aspen. Scheduled to go on sale in Q2, the Sony Ericsson Aspen will try to please the suit-clad crowd with its various business-centric features like full QWERTY keyboard, Slide View to access common features [...]

  Looks like we’ve got the first phone that will boast the next-gen Bluetooth tech. The Bluetooth SIG that certifies every Bluetooth enabled device has approved Samsung’s upcoming S8500. There’s no picture or detailed specs of the device but the listing claims it to be a “stylish” touch phone. Other things revealed were 3.1-inch AMOLED [...]

  It’s not even a week after iPad’s official announcement and we’ve a new rumor claiming that Apple is working on a larger sized tablet. TechCrunch has got hold of a source who claims that this tablet will be released next year and not only it will boast a larger screen, it will also have [...]

  Samsung has announced a new 2TB HDD targeted at high performance desktop users. The EcoGreen F3EG takes the helm from its predecessor F2EG and integrates 500GB per platter, which is capable of storing up to 880 hours of DVD videos or 500,000 MP3 songs in a power efficient manner. Since its eco-friendly, the drive [...]

  Intel and Micron’s joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) has achieved a major breakthrough by developing the world’s first 25nm-based NAND flash. Using the 25nm process technology, Intel believes the NAND can give consumer electronics manufacturers a way to integrate larger amounts of storage in a cost-effective manner. Intel and Micron has developed an [...]

  Meizu may be known as a company that ripped off iPhone’s design to create its M8 device but it sure has a following in the Chinese market. Over the past few days, Chinese forums are abuzz with pictures of what is known as the M.one tablet. It may not have been surprising if Meizu [...]

  We’ve seen quite a few videos showing Nokia devices running Windows OSes but this seems to be the first time where a Nokia device, in this case N900, running Mac OS. User by the name of toninikkanen uploaded the video who claims to have used PearPC emulator. It took over 1.5 hours just to [...]

  Nokia N97 users can now grab off the latest firmware update that claims to resolve some issues and improve on some fronts. Firmware v21.0.045 promises to bring reliability to voice calls and improvements to scrolling, music player, browser and more. Needless to say, it also supports Ovi Maps with free navigation. The update is [...]

  Acer Taiwan’s Prez Scott Lin confirmed that they have no plans of making a product to compete with Apple’s iPad. Lin says that although Acer can make a similar competing product but “such a product does not fit into Acer’s business model.” Lin pointed out that churning out a device similar to iPad could [...]

  Microsoft is already selling 250GB Xbox 360 bundles in US & Europe but Japanese will be the first ones to get the 250GB HDD as an add-on accessory. The drive will be available in retail stores from March 11 for 15,540 Yen ($172) and as per Microsoft’s spokesman, Kei Iwasaki, MS currently does not [...]

  iPhone Dev team has released the final build of its redsn0w jailbreaking tool. The latest v0.9.2 can jailbreak all iPhones and iPod touches and supports v3.x firmware. The jailbreak however, is with a catch as newer models will still have a tethered jailbreak, which means you’ll have to jailbreak again after you completely restart [...]

  Samsung today unveiled industry’s first DDR3 RAM using the 30nm-class process technology. The 2 gigabit (Gb) memory module has successfully completed customer evaluations and is claimed to increase productivity while reducing power consumption. Mass production of these RAMs is expected in the second half of this year and when applied with the 30nm process [...]