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Toshiba has announced to ship its high density NAND flash chips fabricated with 32nm technology soon. Samples of 32nm based 16Gb (2GB) and 32Gb (4GB) flash chips are available now which can be used to integrate in memory cards, USB drives and other embedded products. The 32Gb chip will first be applied to memory card, [...]

  Envious? You should be because Connor Mulcahey aged 13 from Weston, Connecticut has won Apple’s one billion app contest. He takes away home $13,746 worth of Apple products, including a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch, Macbook Pro and a Time Capsule. Lucky guy, I must say. Apple

  Add one more color to the ever expanding PSP color collection. Apparently, this lime green colored PSP was pictured just after it was produced in a Chinese Sony factory. The details are sparse at the moment but if it is true expect something to come up at the E3. [Via Joystiq]

  Apple has privately distributed a bulletin to all its authorized service centers to take note of the iPhone like cracks being developed on Macbooks. The bulletin now reverses Apple reluctance to replace the bottom case of the Macbook caused by normal usage. Service centers can now identify these cracks on areas like below the [...]

  The iPhone Dev team has released a beta version of redsn0w allowing iPod Touch 2G owners to jailbreak the device by running it from the command line. However, if you’re not comfortable running command lines, you should wait because the same redsn0w functionality will be integrated in the GUI tools which will be released [...]

  LG Electronics has launched a music player for budget minded consumers. The LG UP3 Neon comes in 2/4GB variants and plays MP3, WMA and WAV formats. In addition to this, the player also integrates touch sensitive controls, small display, FM radio and voice recording. The 2GB player will retail for KRW 55,000 (USD 42) [...]

  Hot on the heels of PS3’s firmware update, MS also released an upgraded firmware for its Xbox 360 console. According to Major Nelson, there’s no new features as such but “this update addresses interruption issues that some Xbox LIVE users may have experienced when playing a limited number of Xbox 360 games.” Users need [...]

  This has got to be the best fusions of tech we have seen in recent times. Jon wanted his RX-8 to be “live” and always connected and thus, he hooked his car with a low power PC equipped with 3G, GPS and created a password protected web server link. The result is that he [...]

  Yes, it’s just a mockup but I kinda like the design. It’s slim (practically, not possible though), curvy and sexy. Is that a front video camera on the ear piece? [Via BBG]

  Western Digital has expanded its My Book line of external HDDs and is now available up to capacities of 2TB. 2TB is heaps of data equivalent to 241 hours of full HD videos or around 500,000 songs. The My Book line comes with support of both Mac and PC and is priced from $330 [...]

  Wii’s GPU (AMD) and CPU (IBM) suppliers had announced about their 50 million milestone, thus it was about time for Nintendo to officially acknowledge the same for the console. At the GDC yesterday, Nintendo announced that their global Wii shipment has surpassed 50 million units making it the fastest selling console in the gaming [...]

  We have already had enough dope on HTC’s 2009 phone lineup (here and here) but the thing surfacing a few days back has got something new to tell. According to the sheet, the new devices added are Chief, Captain, Tachi, Star and Superstar. The last two however are interesting from the newest lot. Superstar [...]

  Korean ladies, you’ll have got another mobile option to choose from, in the form of LG Telecom’s BlingBling (canU-F1100). The clamshell phone is painted in subtle blue and pink colors and have LEDs placed on the sides which goes off in case of an incoming call or a message. However, the USP of the [...]

  At a conference held in Taipei, HTC’s CEO Peter Chou confirmed that they are looking to launch at least three Android phones in 2009. With Magic already out, it leaves us with two other phones waiting to be announced. Which ones could it be? Maybe the leaked phone list could be of our help. [...]

  There’s not much to tell about this one but ATI’s Radeon HD 4890 has been pictured from quite a few angles. The few changes expected in the 4870’s successor is the changes in the PCB to handle extra power for higher clock speeds. The GPU is also expected to be clocked at 850MHz while [...]