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  Apple’s office apps consisting of Keynote, Pages and Numbers are now available for users using the iPhone or the iPod touch. The iWork suite now takes advantage of the Retina display and allows users to edit, create or share documents on the go. Users can import or export documents from iWork on Mac or [...]

  Apple has confirmed that Steve Jobs along with other Apple executives will deliver a keynote address at the WWDC this coming Monday. There’s no mention of any hardware launch as previously rumored but Apple will reveal the next generation Mac OS X and iOS, namely the Lion and iOS respectively and the new iCloud [...]

  Nokia has announced that its Symbian Anna OS running devices are now shipping. The QWERTY-toting E6 and touchscreen-based X7 will run the latest Symbian OS that will bring 50 new improvements and enhancements like a better internet browsing experience, improved navigation, portrait QWERTY etc. To rehash, E6 is targeted towards the business crowd that [...]

  LG has unveiled a new AIO computer that utilizes its Film-type Patterned Retarder (FPR) display. Use of FPR displays on the V300 means, consumers will be able to watch 3D content without any flicker or eye strain, which is somewhat common in other 3D technologies. Additionally, the display boasts an In Plane Switch (IPS) [...]

  Samsung has released some Galaxy S II sales numbers for South Korea and it does look impressive. At their home turf, Samsung has managed to sell over a million Galaxy S II units in about 30 days of the phone’s launch. Mind you, these numbers are based on supply, which means the figures include [...]

  The megapixel wars is about to begin amongst Windows Phone 7 devices. Russian mobile site owner, Eldar Murtazin published couple of pictures of an HTC device running the recently announced WP Mango update and camera menu suggesting the camera to have a 12MP camera and RAW image support. While Murtazin didn’t mention the model [...]

  Nvidia has announced new 3D glasses that promises to give the 3D goodness at an affordable price. The wired 3D Vision glasses are priced at just $99 and features the same active shutter technology, making it compatible with more than 65 different 3D Vision-enabled products and more than 525 3D games, movies etc. The [...]

  Asus has combined a smartphone and tablet into one with the introduction of Padfone. The Taiwanese company announced Padfone earlier today at the Computex expo, which converges the phone and the tablet into one. Both the tablet as well as the smartphone stand out on their own but dock in the 4-inch smartphone behind [...]

  Sony’s Masaru Kato, vice president and chief financial officer confirmed in an investor conference call that they’re already working on the PS3 successor. Although PS3’s shelf life is still few years away, Sony is incurring some costs in building up the PS4. “For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life but [...]

  It’s raining phones this week. After the announcement of two heavyweight smartphones, here is a mid-range device for those on a limited budget. Wildfire S is touted as one of the smallest phones from HTC but packs in decent hardware like a 600MHz CPU, 512MB RAM/ROM, HTC Sense UI, 3.2-inch HVGA display (320×480), 5MP [...]

  Sony has announced that they’ll restore the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services in Asian countries like Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand from tomorrow. The phased restoration will also bring in new identity protection program, adding a thick layer of security to withstand any future attacks. For Japanese PlayStation users, Sony has even [...]

  Gotta love Nokia for their bold marketing. First they poked RIM with their Whatsapp messaging campaign and now they’re back trying to do something similar against Apple. iPhone 4 made its way out in India today and so did Nokia’s new “iDoalotmore” campaign. As the name goes, Nokia tries to undermine Apple’s iDevice by [...]

  Selling an Android device and locking up the bootloader is not the best way to attract sales. Apparently, HTC has learned it, which is why Peter Chou, HTC CEO confirmed via Facebook that going forward HTC won’t lock the bootloader on their devices. Unlocked bootloader is definitely a plus for HTC as the developer [...]

  eBay-owned PayPal has sued Google over the recently announced Wallet mobile payment service. PayPal says Google misappropriated their trade secrets for its mobile payment business and blames Osama Bedier for stealing the secrets who is an ex-employee of PayPal and current employee of Google. The statement reads “Bedier is now leading Google’s efforts to [...]

  So 32GB is not enough to store your content on the fingernail-sized card? How about 64GB? Kingmax has unveiled the world’s first 64GB microSD card. Unfortunately for most mobile users, the card won’t work as its microSDXC and not a microSDHC one. Kingmax’s card is a Class 6 one supporting SD 3.0 standard and [...]