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  Samsung Seek (M350) that was leaked last week has been given the official treatment by Sprint today. The Blue and the Red version is available from today for just $29.99 on two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate whereas the Pink colored Seek will start selling from June 6. Seek, as we know features a [...]

  Not everyone likes watching 3D movies or play 3D games. Nintendo knows it too, which is why their upcoming 3D-capable DS handheld console will have a switch to turn on or off the 3D content. In an interview with Forbes, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed that “it will be easy to turn off the [...]

  Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) and Wi-Fi Alliance have agreed to cooperate on the development of the next-generation Wi-Fi certification program. In this program, both the associations will align their technology specifications so that Wi-Fi can be operated without any issues in the 60GHz frequency band. This will allow Wi-Fi to a faster short-range transmission [...]

  Today is May 10 and as promised, Apple has started taking pre-orders of the both the variants of the iPad. The iPad can be ordered in Australia, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Japan and will be shipped on May 28. Here’s a list of the prices being sold in all the [...]

  Samsung has launched an X170 Barbie Special Edition notebook in an attempt to follow the success of its Corby colored notebooks. The notebook is unsurprisingly targeted at females and comes in glossy pink or black color along with the Barbie icon. Additionally, the notebook will be loaded with various Barbie themes and wallpapers. The [...]

  Nokia’s patent battle with Apple continues as they’ve filed another complaint against Apple for infringing five “important Nokia patents”. Nokia’s complaint now also includes iPad 3G and the patents supposedly infringed by Apple are related to enhanced speech and data transmission, using positioning data in applications and innovations in antenna configurations that improve performance [...]

  As was rumored, Sony’s teased VAIO Ultra Mobile PC turns out to be an updated VAIO P. The new VAIO P now comes with a redone design and new colors to attract the young crowd. VAIO P’s (VPCP119KJ) base configuration includes 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor, 8-inch (1600×768) display, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD, Wi-Fi [...]

  Apple has put a date to the launch of iPad outside US. Beginning May 28, both variants of iPad will ship in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK whereas consumers will be able to pre-order the iPads from May 10. iPad is already a success in the United States [...]

  Apparently, Toshiba is preparing a powerful 13-inch notebook that will not only take the crown of being the lightest notebook but will also come with Toshiba’s Super-Charge Ion Battery (SCiB), which are known to charge devices in as little as 10 minutes. The notebook is expected to be under a kilogram and will integrate [...]

  Apple’s been selling the iPad Camera Connection Kit for copying multimedia content directly from digital cameras and with the latest hack surfaced on the web, the Camera Connection Kit will allow users to access data from the external HDD as well. To make this work, you need to have a jailbroken iPad without which [...]

  Western Digital’s WD TV Live has become the first network-based media player to earn the ‘Compatible with Windows 7’ certificate. The compliance comes with a newly added Play To feature found in Windows 7. With Play To, users can stream content to the player from their Windows 7 PC within Windows Media Player 12. [...]

  Fujitsu has developed a new color e-paper that is touted to give the best color image quality. Fujitsu’s e-paper project team achieved it by redesigning the panel structure completely and image re-write methods. With the new technology in place, the color e-paper boasts reflective property that helps the e-paper to be bright by 1.3 [...]

  The proliferation of digital cameras and phones with superior camera sensors have led to capturing of lots of digital pictures. These digital pictures are often stored on our hard drives or on the cloud but what if you want to develop them and frame them in the real world? Sure, you could give it [...]

  Many of you out there might have ordered the iPad 3G and if you’ve been wanting to work with a non-AT&T micro SIM card, here’s a nifty guide to make yourself one. All you need is the original SIM card, a knife and scissor. The process is pretty simple but you’ll have to take [...]

  If you ever wanted to keep a check on anyone’s activities on Apple’s newest ‘magical’ gadget, Retina-X Studios has announced the new Mobile Spy app for iPad. After installing, the user can view victim’s emails, contacts, website history etc from his Mobile Spy online account. Retina-X Studios has also confirmed to add logging of [...]