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  Intel, Samsung, Motorola, Alvarion, Beceem and few more have announced to form WiMAX 2 Collaboration Initiative (WCI) that will work closely with the WiMAX forum to advance the WiMAX technology. The next-gen WiMAX will be known as WiMAX 2 and be built upon the IEEE 802.16m standard adding new capabilities while maintaining backward compatibility. [...]

  NAB Show 2010 kicks off in a few hours in Las Vegas and TV Logic has confirmed to showcase the world’s first AMOLED 3D broadcasting monitor. Apt for color critical 3D stereoscopic visualization for film and broadcast production, the TDM-150W broadcasting monitor features a 15-inch AMOLED 3D display (1,366×768 pixels). The panel has a [...]

  Just like Samsung did to its S2 Portable HDD, Seagate has also entered into a partnership with Paramount Pictures to pre-load movies on their 2.5-inch FreeAgent Go HDD. A purchase and a quick register to the redemption page, enables users to unlock Star Trek (2009) movie without any additional cost. There are other 20 [...]

  Bloomberg is citing “three people familiar with the situation” that claims Palm has put itself on sale. Palm is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Qatalyst Partners who’re trying to find a buyer and will seek bids starting this week. Dell is claimed to take a look but decided to drop out from [...]

  Nokia E71 was one of the best devices to come out of Nokia’s stable and with E72 – successor of E71 – it was no surprise that consumers wanted more than what a year-old model had to offer. Needless to say Nokia did their best to up the ante with E72. But were they [...]

  Samsung has announced a new edition of its 2.5-inch S2 Portable hard drive. The Korean giant has collaborated with KBS Media to pre-load Full House, a TV show from South Korea. In addition to the show, the drive will also feature interviews from the director and the cast. It will sell in July in [...]

  Sony’s decision to remove the Other OS feature from original PS3 has infuriated PS3 owners but if the latest incident gains some more traction, Sony will have to face some monetary loss too. A European gamer was refunded GBP 84 by Amazon UK because he complained to the e-tailer regarding the removal of the [...]

  Sprint is mum on the exact release date of Android 2.1 for Moment but that doesn’t mean you can’t have it now. Good folks at SDX-Developers forum have leaked a 2.1 build of Android meant for Moment. The 7z archive is up for download that consists of two tar files – DC23 and DD03 [...]

  We do know that Xbox 360 is pretty much capable to run 3D games but it seems, for the first time we’ll see the 3D games in action on the Xbox 360. As per Xbox 360 India’s official twitter account, the games will be shown at TechED India 2010 in Bangalore that begins from [...]

  Creative has announced Zen X-Fi Style and Zen Style (pictured above) PMPs. The media players tout to give astounding music quality at an affordable price. The Zen X-Fi delivers the goodness of Creative’s X-Fi technology, found in the Zen X-Fi2. It comes in capacities of 8/16/32GB and features a 2.4-inch TFT display, FLAC support, [...]

  Apple has unveiled iPhone OS 4 and although the consumer release is expected in summer this year, developers will be able to get their hands on the preview from today. Developers will be able to tap in about 1500 APIs in the new firmware. As for the consumer-centric features, users will be able to [...]

  Vodafone’s Zoozoo have a reason to celebrate. Vodafone India today announced that they’ve crossed the iconic 100m customer mark. This makes Vodafone, the third operator in the country to do so after Airtel and Rcom. Vodafone’s Indian operations is a joint venture between Vodafone and Essar, who acquired the controlling stake from Hutchison in [...]

  Olive Telecom has upped the ante in the multi SIM phones game by announcing Wiz, India’s first triple-SIM QWERTY phone. The Olive Wiz integrates 2 GSM SIM slots (with dual standby) and a slot for CDMA RUIM card, which Olive reckons is a good buy if you use different numbers for voice calls and [...]

  Nokia today announced the launch of Comes with Music service in the world’s biggest mobile market. The all-you-can download service will be known as Yue Sui Xiang in China and though rest of the markets have DRM-ed access to the service, Chinese users will get DRM-free music, allowing them to download and play unlimited [...]

  Asus has announced a new motherboard series in India that with a switch of a button instantly unlocks cores of an AMD processor. The motherboard supports Phenom II, Athlon II and Sempron 100 Series processors and comes with ATI CrossFireX, DX10.1, SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0 support. The USP however, is its Core Unlocker [...]