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  LG today announced a portable projector for the Indian market. The HW300G brings HD picture projection using DLP technology in a compact size. The projector integrates an LED lamp that boasts a lamp life of up to 30,000 hours and a brightness of 300 lumens, WXGA (1280×800) display resolution, contrast ratio of 2500:1, HDMI [...]

D-Link today announced their personal cloud solution in India. Called as the mydlink cloud, it allows consumers to control, view, share and access their D-Link network devices remotely. To complement the service, D-Link also introduced some cloud routers, cloud cameras and a cloud storage. The Cloud Router range includes DIR-600L & DIR-605L that will enable [...]

  Microsoft has finally released the much-anticipated Consumer Preview build of Windows 8. The new build brings in over 100,000 changes and Metro apps from the last Windows 8 Developer Preview. To get a taste of what the new OS looks like, users can download the OS either in 64-bit or 32-bit with language support [...]

  Android is penetrating the mobile phone market by leaps and bounds and the new activation numbers released by Andy Rubin confirm that. The SVP of Google Mobile and Digital Content confirmed that they’re seeing over 850,000 Android devices getting activated every day. This is a 250 percent growth year-on-year, making total number of Android [...]

  Adobe has been selling its Photoshop Touch for Android tablets for quite some time and today they’ve announced the availability for the world’s largest selling tablet – the iPad. Photoshop Touch is now selling on the iTunes App Store for US$9.99. To give you a gist, Photoshop Touch gives users core Photoshop features to [...]

  Looks like cloud storage war is getting big in the Android arena. After Box.net announced to give away 50GB of free storage, Dropbox today released an update to its app that adds a new feature and a way to earn up to 3GB of extra space. The app now features automatic photo upload feature [...]

  MWC is just around the corner and every mobile phone company is trying to pull something special off their hat to attract users. Fujitsu for instance, has developed a high-end Tegra-equipped smartphone that is said to be designed in response to the spread of LTE, WiMAX high-speed networks. The unnamed phone runs Android 4.0 [...]

  We have finally got a name to the Panasonic device that was shown first in December. The Japanese company has named it Eluga and will reach the European shores this spring. Eluga has a really thin form factor but is developed to withstand water, dust and shock. While we’re waiting for the full specs, [...]

  Nuance, developers of Swype keyboard have updated its keyboard for Android OS. The app now supports swiping on devices running Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The v3.26.92.38303 also comes with another important addition – Dragon Go! Long press on the Dragon key on the keyboard now opens up Dragon Go! app that enables buying books, [...]

  HTC is expected to come with plethora of devices at the Mobile World Congress. To be honest, it’s not surprising. The surprising fact, however, is that the Taiwanese company is rumored to launch a music streaming service. This little piece of news comes from GigaOm who says that the company is now working on [...]

  What do you do when you have something you won’t use but knows someone else will? You give it to them, of course! HP did a similar thing today by releasing more source code related to webOS. They’ve released the code of Isis webOS browser which is a work in progress based on technologies [...]

  Samsung today barraged the Indian market with four dual-SIM phones, including three Android devices. First is the Galaxy Ace Plus (SCH-i589) that gives users an option to use GSM or CDMA simultaneously. As far as other specs goes, Galaxy Ace Plus is pretty much the same as the original Ace which includes Android 2.3 [...]

  LG’s second iteration of its 3D smartphone will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress. According to an ETNews article, LG will unveil Optimus 3D 2 at MWC later this month while SK Telecom will be the likely carrier to launch it in South Korea. The article also mentions that the glasses-free 3D device’s successor [...]

  Google’s Chrome team has had a busy week. First was the release of the Android-based Chrome browser and now they’ve updated their desktop version to make it better than before. Version 17 is now available in the stable channel and enables faster browsing by pre-rendering the most likely to visit web page. As for [...]

  Microsoft started sending invites yesterday for its Windows 8 event at Mobile World Congress. It’s a consumer preview event where Microsoft will give a detailed peek on the upcoming Windows 8 OS and most likely release the consumer-centric preview version to the masses. Interesting thing about the event is the venue that confirms Microsoft’s [...]