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  Even though a laptop is a portable computer that is meant to be used on our laps, most of us don’t do it. The simple reason is that the heat generated beneath the machine is too much for our laps to handle and the only way to solve it is to create an obstruction [...]

  Intel had signed a chipset licensing agreement with Nvidia in 2004 that enabled Intel to use Nvidia’s 3D, GPU, CUDA and other technologies while Nvidia could bring platform innovations to Intel based systems. Now Intel feels they have been snitched because Nvidia is encroaching their territory, by providing better CPU integrated with memory controller [...]

  Post this incident, I am sure Michael Dell will not handle the Russians directly. At the opening ceremony of the World Economy Forum in Davos, Russian PM, Vladimir Putin gave a 40-minute speech followed by a Q&A session. The Dell CEO grabbed this opportunity by boasting about Russia’s technical and scientific advancements and then [...]

  Multi-touch on G1 is very much possible but the end product was never shipped with the feature depriving many craving the multi-touch. Now a developer Luke Hutchison has posted a nifty tutorial that can make multi-touch on G1, a reality. He patched the kernel and re-flashed the firmware. If these terminologies seem alien to [...]

  If you’ve been tracking Obama’s Blackberry saga then you must be aware that he has been permitted to keep the device albeit with some compromises. However, this decision has made someone unhappy – the Redmond giant, Microsoft. Their point of concern is that all the data sent from his Blackberry could be spied on [...]

  It’s the same corporate politics that we see in most of the companies. The tale or rather an article in the Taiwanese edition of Business Today discusses about what’s going wrong with Asus. The article says that last quarter loss cannot alone be blamed to the low consumer demand. Another contributor to the loss [...]

  Qualcomm announced that they have acquired some part of the graphics and multimedia technology assets from AMD. The deal also includes intellectual property and other resources that were a part of AMD’s handheld arm. Qualcomm has its intention clear with this buyout. They will integrate AMD’s graphics prowess into their system-on-chip (SoC) product, more [...]

  iPod and gun combo is not new but this time it serves a different, real purpose. Check out this M110 Sniper Rifle mounted with an iPod Touch. The Touch mounted Rifle runs KAC Bullet Flight app that will help the Sniper to achieve more precision. He can add details like weather conditions, target distance, [...]

  After giving the world’s first iPhone 3G unlock, the iPhone Dev team has set their eyes on iPod Touch 2G. The jailbreak solution for the iPod Touch is called as Redsn0w and according to the team the jailbreak solution is ready…well almost. The process is currently in the ‘manual stage’ and they are working [...]

  Dell has launched an online store to cater to the software needs of the customers. The Download Store is touted to be the first online software superstore wherein individual user as well as SMEs can order software titles, download them and manage volume software licenses within the included Dell Locker. In a nutshell, this [...]

  Apart from bombarding the CES expo with Eee line of products Asus also showed a computing concept. We name this shared computing concept as ‘Eee Share’ which allows two users to share one notebook computer with the included two thin displays as well as two keyboards. Very futuristic but don’t pin your hopes on [...]

  A new research by a Harvard University Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that a single search on Google generates about 7 grams of CO2 and two searches sums up the energy equivalent to boiling the kettle for a cup of tea. This might not make much impact but consider this equation when 200 million search [...]

  You know the road ahead is rough when there’s no one around you to support. The entity on this road is UIQ whose crutches, Sony Ericsson and Motorola started showing disinterest in the abilities of the platform. This resulted in both the companies announcing their decision to move away from UIQ in search of [...]

  Samsung, responsible for churning out ‘world’s first’ products, and will now claim to another first in the industry. They have announced that they will showcase their slimmest LED backlit HDTV at the CES which measures not more than 6.5mm – 7mm in thickness. That’s pretty slim considering LG was touting its almost 25mm TV [...]

  A lady with overworked gray cells has got a simple yet marketable product that can keep your mouse hand warm in a chilly environment. The Mouse Hand Warmer is nothing but a small 12 X 12 inches blanket where you put your mouse and hand in it to feel the warmness inside. It will [...]