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  While Peek is still fighting to become a permanent secondary device in US and Europe, Aircel has introduced this e-mail only device in India. To give you a gist, Peek is a QWERTY device that only does e-mail and supports push e-mail, view and download attachments, office docs support, security lock and enhanced battery [...]

  SiliconEdge Blue SSDs that started shipping last week in US market is now shipping in India. The 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue SSDs are developed for read-intensive applications. The SiliconEdge Blue SSDs come in storage sizes of up to 256GB and supports 3Gbps SATA interface that helps to achieve a read speed of up to 250MB/sec [...]

  Google and Chinese government’s showdown has risked a lot of companies that used Google services. Motorola was one of them who used their Google Search and Maps for Android phones. However, now they’ve announced that beginning this quarter, Motorola will offer Microsoft’s Bing Search and Maps services on their Android phones. Quite a win [...]

  We had expected a flurry of tablet PCs since the announcement of iPad but this is a huge figure. An ARM executive recently said that there could be more than 50 iPad-like products worldwide. ARM who makes chips for these devices also confirmed that consumers will see a few tablets from mobile carriers in [...]

  Asus has unveiled a revolutionary PC speaker that provides 5-channel surround sound in a small form factor, eliminating the need to connect multiple satellite speakers. Asus says Cine5 speakers is apt for small spaces like study rooms where a user may not have the liberty to setup multiple speakers but seek high-quality audio. A [...]

  Android users can now take advantage of faster browsing and bandwidth savings with the beta version of Opera Mini 5. With the help of Turbo, Opera can show users compressed pages that helps to save up to 90 percent of bandwidth and speed up web browsing. Opera Mini also comes with tabbed browsing, Speed [...]

  Western Digital has introduced a new USB HDD that is claimed to be a perfect solution for users who want to store and view video content from their portable drives. The 320GB My Passport AV is optimized in such a way that it stays at normal temperatures in a hot environment, operates quietly, consumes [...]

  Vodafone is looking to expand its Vodafone 360 service to other devices soon. Allaboutphones got their mitts on some details and if we were to believe it, Vodafone could launch their first Android 2.1 powered 360 phone in May. The handset maker is unknown but the phone is known as Vodafone 845, which according [...]

  Sony’s combination of motion-sensing wand and PS Eye camera has finally got a name. Called as PlayStation Move, the new controller for PS3 will be arriving in Fall of this year. This can be termed as a Wii remote wannabe but Sony claims its more accurate and records precise movement and angle with the [...]

  Time and again we hear a similar statement from MS so it’s not surprising we’re hearing it again when someone compared Xbox 360’s DVD format size restrictions to that of PS3’s Blu-ray. CVG recently had a sit down with Stephen McGill, director of Xbox and Entertainment and this is what he replied. “We have [...]

  It’s taken almost a year to reach our shores but it’s finally here – Seagate’s Blackarmor range of storage solutions. Targeted at small and medium businesses, the Blackarmor Network attached storage drives and external workstation drive claim to give peace of mind to businesses with strong backup solution. The BlackArmor NAS 440/420 Storage Servers [...]

  Using simple web programming languages to create a webOS application is cool but it sure is a challenge when developers have to create a graphic intensive game. Palm is now trying to resolve this by releasing the first beta of Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). The PDK will allow game developers to create games in [...]

  Continuing Apple’s fortnightly iPhone SDK releases, Apple has released yet another one. The iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4 is now being seeded to developers and comes with updated tools to develop apps for iPad. As always, the changelog in the new SDK is absent so we’ll have to wait a day or two before [...]

  LG Electronics has announced their first Android phone for their home market. Dubbed as Andro-1 (KH5200), the phone is a rebadged version of GW620. The Android running Andro-1 will be available from KT and will feature a 3-inch HVGA touchscreen display, horizontal sliding QWERTY, Android Market support, 5MP camera, GPS, Wi-Fi and SNS manager [...]

  Sony has announced three new Bravia LCD TV series in India. The TVs go for the value-for-money seeking customers to deeply pocketed ones. The BX Series or Basic Series tries to provide basic LCD functionalities at a decent price. The sets are powered by Bravia Engine 3 that produce vivid images and feature live [...]