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  WD has introduced its My Passport Studio Portable hard drives in India. The drive appeals to Mac users because of its integrated FireWire 800 port, pre-formatted with HFS+, TimeMachine support, 256-bit hardware based encryption and automatic as well as continuous backup with WD’s bundled SmartWare software. Additionally, the drives also have an USB 2.0 [...]

  Most flash drive manufacturers are now moving to USB 3.0 drives due to its superfast transfers but Corsair is pushing the USB 2.0 interface, literally to whole new level. The Flash Voyager GTR series are equipped with quad-channel architecture that helps to achieve read speed to up to 34MB/s whereas it clocks a write [...]

  Panasonic has announced a new 12.1-inch Toughbook that endures like no other convertible tablet and is yet the lightest in its category. The Toughbook C1 is the lightest (3.2lbs with one battery and 3.7lbs with two batteries) 12.1-inch convertible tablet and features some interesting design and specs. The notebook sports a multi-touch enabled screen, [...]

  It was last week we heard about RIM working on Blackberry’s slider device and now we’ve got the first live picture of the phone. The new picture matches the BGR render somewhat but is seen sporting a trackball for “additional navigation”, a touchscreen display and Bold-esque QWERTY keyboard. BBleaks who posted the image isn’t [...]

  Olive’s launch of FrvrOn (or Forever On) entry-level phone wouldn’t have garnered any attention had it not been for one but important feature. The simple candybar is touted as a hybrid phone that has a slot to insert an AAA battery allowing the phone to charge the Li-ion battery whenever it’s short on juice. [...]

  TVs are not the only electronics that are going 3D. Acer has announced two new projectors that are capable to project 3D content. Coupled with Nvidia’s 3D Vision, the projectors – H5360 and X1261 – are able to crank out realistic 3D experience by converting regular 2D images to three dimensional. Other than that, [...]

  Apple has announced that they’ve filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringement of 20 Apple-owned patents. The lawsuit has been filed simultaneously with U.S. ITC and U.S. District Court and claims HTC infringing on iPhone patents related to UI, underlying architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs’ jab at HTC reads as follows: “We can sit [...]

  Asus has again delayed its Eee Keyboard PC. ASUS chairman Jonney Shih confirmed today at CeBIT that the revolutionary Eee Keyboard will now ship in April because they want to give the best user experience and quality to consumers. Asus has been showing the Eee Keyboard since early 2009 and have been delaying the [...]

  Zune HD users can connect with friends on world’s largest social network. Microsoft has released the highly anticipated Facebook app (after Twitter) for Zune HD and is now available for download from the Zune Marketplace. The app allows user to view/update their status, post photos, videos, view profiles as well as receive messages through [...]

  Asus talked, showed their e-book reader creations and now they deem CeBIT as the right place to make it official. They’ve unwrapped DR-900, a 9-inch reader that boasts Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity options and a huge battery life of up to 10,000 pages worth of reading before you’ll need to find a power slot. [...]

  Sony’s and old PS3 users PSN woes are now over as they’ve announced to restore the PSN service. The outage spared the PS3 Slim model but users with older PS3s were unable to access PSN and even play games with trophies due to a clock bug. The internal clock functionality recognized 2010 as a [...]

  Nokia today announced the very first phone from its CSeries. Dubbed as C5, the phone won’t make you want it in the first instance but could prove a good buy for consumers looking for a smartphone at cheap price. The phone has a 2.2-inch display, a 3.2MP camera, FM Radio, 3.5mm AV jack, microSD [...]

  Nvidia has officially acknowledged the next-generation ION graphics, infamously known as ION 2 at the CeBIT expo. It’s a discrete GPU that attaches via a PCI Express slot and supports Intel’s latest Pine Trail CPUs. Nvidia touts the next-gen ION is able to crank out graphics 10 times faster and has a huge 10 [...]

  The speculations were correct. The clock bug has been confirmed by Sony and is taking its toll on “fat” PS3s. Sony says the problem is “caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system” and advises users to stay away from their consoles until the bug is fixed so as to [...]

  HD2 seemed one of the few devices that would run Windows Phone 7 OS flawlessly. But Microsoft today dropped the bomb saying that HD2 doesn’t make the cut to receive the upgrade, as previously rumored. As a matter of fact no phones currently running Windows Mobile 6.x OS will receive an upgrade. Why? Well, [...]