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  Sony Computers have released the sales figure of its latest PlayStation Move Controller. They’ve shipped over a million Moves in North and Latin America, which is not that bad considering its been in the market for just a month. Sony is also facing strong demand in the Europe and has sold about 1.5 million [...]

  Lenovo today announced that its ThinkPad line of laptops will reach a major milestone this month. Lenovo says ThinkPad notebooks that started selling 18 years ago will cross sales of 60m unit this month, which is equivalent to about 14 laptops sold every minute. To commemorate this landmark, Lenovo has introduced Nvidia’s Optimus technology [...]

  Motorola has got a little treat for its smartphone users in India. Milestone, Milestone XT720 and Backflip users now get a free maps update, enabling them with updated maps, points of interests and directions. The maps are provided by MapsmyIndia and gives users free access to voice-guided navigation to over 620 cities and 576,000 [...]

  UPDATE: Motorola contacted us today to clarify the phone prices. The price mentioned below is Maximum Retail Price (MRP) and have announced a Recommended Retail Price (RRP). The RRP of Milestone XT720 is Rs. 27,490 and Backflip’s RRP is Rs. 19,490. Motorola has tripled its Android phone tally for the Indian market with the [...]

  Forget all the issues hounding iPhone 4 because it is one of the successful products launched in Apple’s history. iPhone 4 that went on sale on June 24 has surpassed 1.7 miillion sales figure in first three days of its launch (till June 26). “This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. [...]

  If you needed another confirmation about how well iPad is doing, Apple has announced yet another milestone its tablet device has crossed. In just 80 days or under 3 months, the iPad sales have surpassed 3 million units. It phenomenal considering its averaging more than a million units a month. “People are loving iPad [...]

  While most smartphones these days have CPU speeds reaching up to 1GHz, Motorola’s decision to go with a 550MHz CPU and 256MB RAM for Milestone XT720 was a bit strange. But the good news now is that Motorola has decided to give the phone a worthy upgrade before it hits the retail channels. The [...]

  Motorola has just made Milestone XT720 official that takes Android devices to a whole new level. It’s one of the slimmest Android devices – measuring just 8.9mm – and sports an 8 megapixel camera and Xenon flash. Moreover, it also supports 720p HD video recording and comes with a bundled HDMI cable for you [...]

  Apple has decided to steal some press amidst the tablet frenzy going on at Computex. The Cupertino giant has announced that they’ve surpassed two million iPad sales since it first went on sale on April 3. The incredible feat was achieved well under two months and was possible due to the recent availability in [...]

  While Motorola has been selling the Android 2.1 loaded Milestone in India, they’ve released the much needed Android update for users in UK. Users can now grab the latest Éclair Android 2.1 update for their Milestone device that claims to bring live wallpapers, 9 home screens, text to speech, free voice-guided navigation and enhanced [...]

  Apple’s newest shiny gadget has reached its first major milestone within a span of just 28 days of its official release. Apple sold its one millionth iPad on Friday and unsurprisingly, they’re elated about it. “One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone [...]

  Motorola’s drought of new phones cost them their small market share in India but they’re trying to grab it back with the introduction of Milestone. Milestone is the GSM brother of Droid that sells in US. Milestone is one of the thinnest QWERTY sliders around and features an Android 2.1 OS, 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen [...]

  Apple’s very successful iTunes Music store will be reaching 10 billion song downloads soon and to celebrate the iconic milestone, Apple is giving away a $10,000 worth of iTunes Gift Card to one lucky user. iTunes users above 13 can enter into the countdown contest by submitting this form or buy a song from [...]

  Nokia today announced that their newest version of Ovi Maps with free navigation has topped more than a million downloads in a week. Since the announcement on Jan 21, Ovi Maps has been downloaded 1.4m times and is currently averaging one download/second, which is astounding. Nokia says free navigation was only possible due to [...]

  Today’s the day when PlayStation was born. Back on this same day in 1994, Sony had launched PlayStation (or PSX or PS1) that eventually sold more than 100m units pipping the then reigning Nintendo and Sega. Flash forward it today, although Sony’s PlayStation does not lead the pack but they’re definitely inching towards it [...]