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  Microsoft yesterday unveiled a new online service for business users. The Office 365 is a complete solution that brings Office suite apps as well as communication products, including Sharepoint, Exchange and Lync under one roof. The service will allow users to work and collaborate with the organization from anywhere since it works with most [...]

  Symbian Foundation has confirmed that Lee Williams, Executive Director of the organization has stepped down from his position, effective immediately. The reason stated for the resignation is for “personal reasons” but considering the current state of Symbian OS in the market, the actual reason could be much more than personal. Tim Holbrow, Symbian Foundation’s [...]

  Dell has launched a special edition notebook for US consumers. Its the Inspiron 15R Alloy Edition that features an aluminum finish with laser-etched alloy waves design. This premium looking 15.6-inch notebook boast decent specs like choices of Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, Windows 7 OS, up to 8GB RAM, up to 750GB HDD, [...]

  HP has announced a significant update to Palm’s webOS operating system. The webOS now jumps to version 2.0 and brings a lot of new features. Some of the notable one found in webOS 2.0 are improved multitasking, Just Type, HP Synergy, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, Skype Mobile (Verizon users only), browser with HTML5 support, [...]

  UPDATE: WD will sell the 3TB drive for Rs.10,700 in India. WD today unveiled a new HDD in its Caviar Green family that boasts the world’s largest storage capacity. The SATA HDD can store data up to 3TB of data on its 750GB-per platter areal density and is equipped with Advanced Format technology that [...]

  It’s no secret that Samsung is riding high on its various dual-SIM offerings. Now, to strengthen its portfolio further, they’ve announced Ch@t 322 that in addition to the dual-SIM capability adds a physical QWERTY keyboard. Additionally, this entry-level device will feature a nice Duos UX with smart home screen supporting social networking sites, a [...]

  Apple Q4 earnings call was expectedly pleasant for the Cupertino giant. They posted a record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion with international sales accounting for 57 percent of the quarter’s revenue. But despite Apple faring well financially and iPhones selling 91 percent more than the previous quarter, Steve [...]

  Apple’s shindig on Wednesday will be related to its Macbook Air line rather than a new OS. According to a source of Cult of Mac, Apple will reveal two models of Macbook Air. First will be an upgrade to its 13.3-inch Macbook Air – a pricey option whereas an 11.6-inch netbook-ish version with a [...]

  Sprint has got a new Blackberry handset, dubbed as the Blackberry Style (9670). The Blackberry Style is a flip phone from RIM that takes advantages of the recently released Blackberry 6 OS and sports a full QWERTY keyboard. The BB 6 OS ups the ante with improved social networking support with Social Feeds, webkit-based [...]

  Nintendo has confirmed that the disc-free version is coming to their console as well. Wii Netflix subscribers in US and Canada will be able to stream Netflix content from today without needing to insert a special disc. Users will be able to install the new channel from the Wii Shop Channel and instantly stream [...]

  HTC has unveiled a new phone for the European market. It will be known as the Gratia or better known as the Aria in the US. Gratia runs on the latest Froyo build and features a 600Mhz CPU, 512MB ROM, 384MB RAM, 3G support, 3.2-inch HVGA (320×480) display, Sense UI, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, [...]

  KDDI today unveiled a barrage of phones under its 2010 Winter collection and amongst all, the X-Ray phone seemed to be the most appealing. The phone has been designed by Tokujin Yoshioka and sports a transparent body, thus allowing consumers to see the phone’s innards. Needless to say, this Japanese clamshell device packs some [...]

  Japanese operator, KDDI has added a new Samsung tablet in its portfolio and surprisingly, it’s not the same as Galaxy Tab. The SMT-i9100 looks different and features some different specs. It runs the same Android 2.2 OS with a 7-inch WSVGA (1024×600) screen, 512MB RAM but has an Ocean Observation UI instead of TouchWiz, [...]

  Lenovo has launched couple of new IdeaPad notebooks for the Indian market. The two notebooks from the Z Series are Z460 – a 14-incher and Z560 – featuring a 15-inch display. The laptops are stylish and at the same time decently spec’d to fulfill all your multimedia needs. Both the notebooks are powered an [...]

  Samsung has finally released the impending update for Galaxy S users. Users can now update their Galaxy S phones to Android 2.2 aka Froyo update bringing improvements and additional features. Samsung’s fastest selling smartphone now gets faster navigation – thanks to the use of Just in Time (JIT) compiler, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, Home [...]