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  Sony is already onboard the Google TV initiative and now South Korea’s LG Electronics is also looking to hop on the Google TV train. However, there’s one glitch — LG is wary about adopting it because Google could dominate the software space and LG doesn’t want to remain a mere hardware provider. “Google TV [...]

  You can say Google’s idea could be similar to Nokia’s Ovi App Wizard but Google has taken it to another level. Instead of giving limited options like in Nokia’s tool, Google’s App Inventor for Android gives (first-time) developers a lot of things to take advantage of. It not only takes away the hassle of [...]

  UPDATE: The Indian prices for the GTX 460 are: 768MB – Rs. 13,129; 1GB – Rs. 15,049. Nvidia has unveiled a new GeForce GPU aimed at gamers with a limited budget. The GTX460 promises to give outstanding DirectX11 performance at an affordable price of $199. Nvidia says the GPU has been built from scratch [...]

  Apple has issued a knowledge base article that confirms some Time Capsules they sold off in 2008 are defective. Some Time Capsules faced an unexpected death or a shutdown just after it was started. Apple has now detailed saying that Time Capsules that were sold in between February 2008 to June 2008 were affected [...]

  Motorola’s churning out Android devices mainly targeted at the high-end market. But soon, the American phone maker will offer an Android device for the masses. The WX445’s full feature set is not confirmed but it’s expected to a 2.5- to 3-inch of touchscreen display, Android 2.1, camera without flash (presumably 3.2MP) and 1170mAh battery. [...]

  It’s a bit of joy and disappointment for iPhone 4 users seeking jailbreak. Good news is that Geohot has managed to jailbreak the device, which you can see in the photographic evidence above but the bad news is that he probably won’t release it. “As far as a release goes, it probably won’t happen [...]

  As promised, we’re here to announce WinX HD Video Converter winners. The 20 lucky folks are as follows: Frank Nelson Shirish Maurya Rachel Crisman Ernesto Lopez Abhishek Chaudhary Mehul Agarwal Alex Fletes Panuphong Meenildee Shaurya Dedhia Tim Moody Nevil Gary DeGregorio Francis Drake Sudeep Shukla Pamela Channell Summer Kyle Louise Song Yuan Rahul Alan [...]

  Apple’s iPod Shuffle range has never had a display but now some pictures of a small 2.2-inch display have surfaced that will supposedly be the display of next-gen iPod Shuffle. The pictures are posted on a Taiwanese site, Apple.pro who claims this screen belongs to “iPod touch nano” or “iPod touch shuffle” (we prefer [...]

  Samsung’s Galaxy i899 that was lurking on Reliance’s website for few days has gone official. The Galaxy i899 is India’s first CDMA device that will be sold exclusively by Reliance Mobile. Its priced at Rs. 19,900 and considering no Android device for CDMA network, this phone packs decent features. The Galaxy i899 will feature [...]

  In an isolated incident, one unlucky iPhone 4 owner saw his iPhone catch fire. As you can see, the USB cable is totally melted as the phone’s USB port was said to be defective. BGR’s source who sent this pic says the customer’s hand was slightly burnt but luckily nothing major happened. [Via BGR]

  Asus has enjoyed a good brand name when it came to motherboards, netbooks and other computer products. But ask about mobile phones, well, they’re completely out of the competition. They too realized it, which is why they tied up with Garmin, renowned maker of GPS device and services. Now Garmin-Asus have few number of [...]

  As we had expected, Samsung has unwrapped Galaxy Beam (I8520) in Singapore, the world’s first smartphone with built-in pico projector. Users can use the projector to project multimedia content from their phones from 5- to 50-inches in size. Galaxy Beam runs Android 2.1 and features 3G support, a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen (WVGA), TouchWiz [...]

  We reviewed Cowon’s V5 last month and despite it giving a worthy PMP experience, we couldn’t help but notice the absence of Wi-Fi. Good thing is that Cowon is now making amends to its 4.8-inch media player. Cowon has today introduced V5W in South Korea that not only adds Wi-Fi but also supports playback [...]

  Samsung has officially introduced the recently leaked Intercept (SPH-M910) Android phone. The phone will be released on Sprint on July 11 and will target consumers seeking an entry-level smartphone. For just $99 (after $100 mail-in rebate), a user will get an Android 2.1 running smartphone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, EVDO Rev. 0, Wi-Fi, [...]

  Sony has detailed three new Cyber-shot cameras expected to go on sale in mid-September. Sony will offer the Cyber-shot T99 in multitude of colors and is able to capture photos at 14.1 megapixel with 4x optical zoom and Optical SteadyShot. The camera can record videos at 720p HD resolution and supports Sweep Panorama with [...]