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NYTimes is reporting that Google, Intel and Sony have joined hands to develop Google TV, a set-top box with web browsing functionality. The venture will see Google taking advantage of its advertising experience, Intel trying to head on to television space from computing whereas Sony trying to gain foothold in the competitive TV market.
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It’s taken couple of weeks but HTC has responded to Apple’s iPhone patent-infringing claims. In a press release issued today, HTC disapproved Apple’s allegations and confirmed that they’ll “fully defend” themselves in the court room. HTC further said that they try to tackle competition through innovation and emphasized on their ‘technology firsts’ which are as [...]

 
Qualcomm has filed an application with the Indian Government that will allow them to bid in the upcoming BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) auction for the 2.3GHz band spectrum. The bidding is to facilitate and accelerate the deployment of TD-LTE that will enable Indian consumers to experience broadband speeds here as well as on international roaming. [...]

 
After a series of betas, Opera Software has released the final builds of their popular mobile browsers – Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10. These browsers tout compatibility with almost any phone in the market and bring a lot of enhancements to user’s web browsing experience. In addition to faster browsing speeds, the browsers [...]

 
Nvidia today announced a nice software solution that will enable 3D gaming and movies on the new 3D TVs. 3DTV Play harnesses power from any GeForce GPU supporting HDMI or DVI and outputs 3D content on all HDMI 1.4 compatible 3D TVs. The software helps to convert over 400 gaming titles to stereoscopic 3D and [...]

 
While Peek is still fighting to become a permanent secondary device in US and Europe, Aircel has introduced this e-mail only device in India. To give you a gist, Peek is a QWERTY device that only does e-mail and supports push e-mail, view and download attachments, office docs support, security lock and enhanced battery life. [...]

 
We had expected a flurry of tablet PCs since the announcement of iPad but this is a huge figure. An ARM executive recently said that there could be more than 50 iPad-like products worldwide. ARM who makes chips for these devices also confirmed that consumers will see a few tablets from mobile carriers in Q2 [...]

 
Android users can now take advantage of faster browsing and bandwidth savings with the beta version of Opera Mini 5. With the help of Turbo, Opera can show users compressed pages that helps to save up to 90 percent of bandwidth and speed up web browsing. Opera Mini also comes with tabbed browsing, Speed Dial, [...]

 
Sony’s combination of motion-sensing wand and PS Eye camera has finally got a name. Called as PlayStation Move, the new controller for PS3 will be arriving in Fall of this year. This can be termed as a Wii remote wannabe but Sony claims its more accurate and records precise movement and angle with the help [...]

 
Using simple web programming languages to create a webOS application is cool but it sure is a challenge when developers have to create a graphic intensive game. Palm is now trying to resolve this by releasing the first beta of Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). The PDK will allow game developers to create games in C [...]

 
Continuing Apple’s fortnightly iPhone SDK releases, Apple has released yet another one. The iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4 is now being seeded to developers and comes with updated tools to develop apps for iPad. As always, the changelog in the new SDK is absent so we’ll have to wait a day or two before devs [...]

 
Sony has announced three new Bravia LCD TV series in India. The TVs go for the value-for-money seeking customers to deeply pocketed ones. The BX Series or Basic Series tries to provide basic LCD functionalities at a decent price. The sets are powered by Bravia Engine 3 that produce vivid images and feature live color [...]

 
Taxi travelers in Taiwan will have something interesting to do the next time they’re stuck in a traffic. MTaxi, one of leading taxi operators in Taipei and Vmax Telecom have signed a deal to fit in WiMAX-enabled MIDs in 1,000 taxis. The in-taxi Mobile WiMAX service is known as Mobile Internet Cafe and will be [...]

 
Sony will be diving into the soon-to-explode 3D LCD TV market. They’ve confirmed to launch their first 3D TVs in June where it will be gracing retail shelves worldwide. Sony is planning to launch 40-inch and 46-inch models priced at 290,000 ($3,225) yen and 350,000 yen ($3,875) respectively and will bundle two pairs of 3D [...]

 
After our tryst with MapmyIndia’s dual offerings, we took SatGuide’s Moov 200 for a ride to check if it’s worthy enough to compete or not. SatGuide’s Moov 200 is a direct competitor to MapmyIndia’s Lx130 because of similar features, same screen size and in the same price range.