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  In a bid to maintain transparency, Apple today announced App Store review guidelines that tend to give a clear view to developers submitting apps to the App Store. The guidelines are void of legal jargons and good thing is that they are direct, clearly saying what can and cannot appear on App Store. Another [...]

  If you’re equally concerned about aesthetics and storing data on a USB pen drive, Kingston has got a perfect product for you. The DataTraveler (DT) Mini Fun has leaped to a new generation and comes in different color combinations. The drive’s rugged silicon housing protects the drive from exterior vulnerabilities and features a key [...]

  It’s not over 24 hours since Apple release iOS 4.1 and hackers have managed to jailbreak it. The exploit has been found in the bootrom, which is said to give low-level access to the Apple device and would be difficult for Apple to patch the hole. The jailbreak is not yet out for public [...]

  Sony today announced that they’ll launch an India-specific PlayStation store by end of this month. This move is to accommodate PS3’s 3D capabilities and allow gamers to download 3D games directly from the store. The PS3 is already 3D-enabled with the v3.30 firmware and with the roll out of a PlayStation Store specifically for [...]

  We’ve got word that Garmin-Asus will be releasing a new Android-based smartphone with navigational capabilities in India soon. It will be Garmin-Asus’ first Android device for the Indian market and will be launched sometime in the fourth week of this month. We don’t know the model number yet but it will run Android 2.1 [...]

  ARM has achieved a great breakthrough in the mobile devices processor market with the Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The new CPU gives 5x better performance as compared to ARM’s previous Cortex-A8 processors and has the capability to be clocked at 2.5GHz. ARM is making this processor available for licensing to OEMs and has confirmed to [...]

  Google yesterday unveiled what can be termed as an innovation in the field of search. They have launched Google Instant that retrieves result as you type. The results change as you refine your search so you don’t have to hit the ‘Enter’ key every time. Google claims that Instant can save 2-5 seconds per [...]

  UPDATE: Nokia has started pre-orders of N8 in USA and many other European countries for $549 and 479 euros respectively. Nokia USA| Nokia Germany. Nokia has confirmed that its flagship model, N8 will be out by end of this month and is up for pre-order in UK. Consumers can pre-book their devices from Nokia [...]

  We were certain about Samsung launching Galaxy Tab in India but could it be this early? NDTV is claiming that Samsung will unveil its Android tablet next month and will go for anything in between Rs.30,000 to Rs.40,000. Galaxy Tab is Samsung’s first Android tablet that features 1GHz processor, 7-inch Super TFT screen, Wi-Fi, [...]

  Oracle yesterday announced that HP’s ex-CEO Mark Hurd will join the company as co-president and director. While this news brought cheers to Oracle and its investors, HP is quite unhappy about it and has dragged Hurd to the court. HP has filed a complaint Superior Court in Santa Clara County claiming that Hurd’s position [...]

  Fly Mobile has announced a new, entry-level phone for Indian consumers. It’s the Harmony (DS102) that is modestly priced at just Rs.1449 and features very loud speakers. We’re not sure about this but Fly claims that the phone is a “near challenge” to portable music players. In addition to this, the phone supports dual-SIM [...]

  LG has confirmed that its high-end smartphones due in fourth quarter of this year will use Nvidia’s Tegra 2 SoC. Tegra 2 chips will be used in LG’s Optimus line of phones and will ensure a competitive advantage to LG, who currently is lagging in the smartphone race. Tegra 2 has many advantages like [...]

  MSI has announced F-Series notebooks for the Indian market that boasts beauty along with brains. The F-Series notebooks consisting of FX400, FX600, FX700, and FR600 come in sizes ranging from 14- to 17-inches and feature an exquisite design along with powerful specs like Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost, Nvidia GeForce GT325M 1GB [...]

  Concerned with the jailbreak that enabled users to play game backups right from their hard drives, Sony has released v3.42 firmware patching the exploit. The firmware doesn’t add any new features but it’s a compulsory update for those who want to access PlayStation Network. Users who don’t want to lose the jailbreak capability should [...]

  LG has brought its first device from the Optimus family to India. The GT540 is first Optimus phone to run on Android and though it will sell with Android 1.6, LG has promised to release Android 2.1 in due time. The phone’s features include a 3-inch touchscreen display, 3G, quad-band GSM support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, [...]