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  Japanese firms like NTT DOCOMO, Fujitsu, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications have decided to come together with Samsung to produce chips related to wireless communications. According to highly reliable Nikkei business daily, these companies are joining hands with Samsung to produce baseband chips and thus, reduce the reliance on Qualcomm chips that controls 80 [...]

  Announced at IFA earlier this month, Sony has announced their Android-based Walkman for the Japanese market. The NWZ-Z1000 Series portable media player will be available in Japan from December that will give the goodness of Android OS and audio quality you expect in a Walkman device. The player boasts an Inflection Surface Form design [...]

  U.S. Cellular has introduced a new smartphone in its lineup – the Motorola Electrify. The Android-based smartphone is packed with features yet will go for a modest price tag of $199 after $100 mail-in rebate. Amongst the features, Electrify is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch display with qHD resolution support, 8MP camera [...]

  AT&T has announced to expand its Windows Phone lineup with three new phones. The US-based carrier will launch one phone from HTC and two from Samsung in Q4 2011, all running the latest Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango. Starting with HTC’s offering, the Titan will come with a huge 4.7-inch display, 1.5GHz processor, 8MP [...]

  Have you ever wanted to control various PCs in your office with the single keyboard or mouse? Well, Truong Do, a developer at Microsoft has heard you. As a side project, Truong developed Mouse without Borders that allows you to do just that. A user has to install the software in up to 4 [...]

  Lenovo has bolstered its all-in-one computer offerings in India with the refreshed IdeaCentre B320. This 21.5-inch AIO not only works as a regular computer but also doubles up as a television set. With the OneKey TV feature, a user can quickly watch television on the AIO machine without having to power on the PC. [...]

  Samsung has given a tentative timeframe for users to expect the major bada 2.0 update. Samsung bada’s official twitter account tweeted today that the bada 2.0 is expected to be released from the next quarter, which is as early as next month. More interesting news is the fact that bada 2.0 will reach all [...]

  The lawsuit drama between Apple and Samsung reached a new level as the Dusseldorf court has banned Samsung tablet in Germany. The court upheld their previous injunction stating the Galaxy Tab 10.1 did infringe on Apple patents and copied iPad’s minimalist design. Interestingly, other manufacturers like Acer, Asus and Toshiba won’t have the same [...]

  Looks like India is seeing a surge in low-cost tablets. After Reliance and Mercury outed their versions of tablet PCs, iBall has come up with iBall Slide. It’s a 7-inch WVGA tablet that runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, 3G support via USB dongle and features 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 8GB internal [...]

  The patent war between Apple and HTC continues as the Taiwanese giant has filed a lawsuit and amended a complaint with the ITC in the United States. However, the news that makes it more interesting is that HTC is using patents that were previously owned by Google. According to Bloomberg, Google had gained ownership [...]

  Google had promised to launch Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS in Q4 of this year and it seems they’ll deliver right on time. Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt confirmed that they’re trying to release the new OS sometime in October or November. “We have a new operating system, internally known as Ice Cream Sandwich [...]

  With the rise in the sales of Android devices, hackers have been attracted to the one of world’s largest mobile platform. According to reports by Mcafee and Norton, Android is the number one target by hacker’s for malware, making it necessary for users to protect themselves from any untowardness. We’ve been trying out Norton’s [...]

  After a series of leaks, Motorola’s power packed Droid Bionic has got official. Scheduled to go on sale from Sep 8, Droid Bionic is Verizon’s first smartphone to boast 4G LTE connectivity along with a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM. The phone promises to give LTE download speeds up to 12Mbps and upload [...]

  Seagate has launched a new 4TB GoFlex hard drive, which is the industry’s first external hard drive to sport such capacity. Coming in a new streamlined industrial design, the GoFlex Desk Drive can hold up to 4 terabytes of data, enough to hold over 2000 HD movies. Additionally, the new drive supports GoFlex adapter [...]

  Carol Bartz has been fired as the CEO of online giant Yahoo! The news has been confirmed by Bartz who says the removal decision came to her by the Chairman of the Board via a phone call. Meanwhile, Yahoo!’s Board has appointed Timothy Morse who is the CFO will take the role of an [...]