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  Symantec is back with its yearly update of Norton 360, which is Symantec’s answer for an all-round protection. It not only promises to protect from virus and infectious malware, the all-in-one security solution will help users backup their data as well optimize their computers to keep it running as smooth as possible. The latest [...]

  Western Digital is now selling its fast 750GB 2.5-inch Scorpio Black HDD in the Indian market. The hard drive meant for notebooks and other portable storage devices supports SATA interface and promises desktop-like performance with spin speed of 7200RPM. Apart from giving additional capacity and speed, the Scorpio Black drive has a 16MB cache, [...]

  T-Mobile USA today resurrected its Sidekick line with the Sidekick 4G. The phone has been developed by Samsung and is aimed at heavy messaging users with its five-row physical QWERTY keyboard that is revealed via a “pop-tilt” hinge and other messaging centric features like Group Text and more interestingly, Cloud Text that will allow [...]

  As expected, Microsoft has released the consumer-grade version of Internet Explorer 9. The browser is available for download for Windows Vista and Windows 7 at http://beautyoftheweb.com in 39 different languages. The new IE9 is far ahead when you compare it with previous generations of IEs with an all new clean UI, hardware acceleration, HTML5 [...]

  Singaporeans waiting for Samsung’s Galaxy S II won’t have to wait much longer. Samsung Asia’s CEO, Gregory Lee confirmed to CNET Asia that its upcoming super phone will be available in Singapore from next month. Despite the confirmation of the release month, there are few details that are still unclear. There’s no word if [...]

  In an SEC filing, Nokia has confirmed that they’ll pay its current CEO, Stephen Elop a sum of more than $6m as compensation for lost income. Nokia paid about $3.18m in October 2010 and will pay $3m more in October 2011 to Elop for moving from Microsoft. The filing also revealed Elop’s gross base [...]

  Folks over at iFixit have done the inevitable by dissecting the all new iPad 2. You can see the guts of Apple’s latest tablet, which may not win on the repairability front but has a clean design on the inside as well. iPad is touted for its battery life and it is evident with [...]

  If you’re concerned of getting a Sony Ericsson Android phone just to enjoy PlayStation games, Nvidia has confirmed that their Tegra-based Android devices will be able to do the same as well. Later this year, Tegra-based phones and tablet will get PlayStation Suite that will allow users to play original PlayStation games on their [...]

  All those phones in Japan which we used to ogle till now can be ours for real. NTT DOCOMO has announced that they’ll offer to officially unlock all the new devices for a nominal fee. Customers buying any phone launched after April 1, 2011 will be eligible to have the phone’s SIM lock removed [...]

  Epson’s offering to the business world, the B510DN is a colour inkjet printer that has low cost page per print like the laser printers. The B510DN is huge than a conventional inkjet Multifunction device (MFD), nearly the size of a laser printer. Hence, make sure to allocate some good real estate to the printer [...]

  Lenovo has teamed up with Intel to bring their version of Classmate PC, dubbed as Classmate+. The Lenovo Classmate+ is based on Intel’s Learning Series reference design that comes with the software suite, educational software and other teaching resources. Lenovo is the first MNC to provide Intel Learning Series classmate PC to the global [...]

  Today’s digital cameras can share images instantly with the built-in Wi-Fi or via Eye-Fi cards but none of cameras currently available in the market boast 3G connectivity. In a newsletter sent by Gdgt, Peter Rojas claims that Sony is looking to change with their under-development Cyber-shot camera. The camera will have a built-in wireless [...]

  Sony has rolled out a new firmware update for PS3 users. The new v3.60 update won’t bring a horde of features for you to enjoy but if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, post-update the PS3 will allow users to upload their game saves on Sony’s servers. For those who aren’t a PS Plus sub, [...]

  Apple has dropped the iOS 4.3 update couple of days early and is now available for download from iTunes. The software update is free and will update the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to the latest OS that brings in lots of features like improved AirPlay, faster Safari performance, iTunes Home Sharing that allows [...]

  Kinect’s way of making ‘user as the controller’ has worked for Microsoft. The Redmond giant has confirmed that its revolution gaming sensor has sold more than 10m units worldwide also driving Kinect-standalone games to more than 10m. Another interesting thing about this milestone is that it has bagged the award for becoming fastest selling [...]