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  Epson’s offering to the business world, the B510DN is a colour inkjet printer that has low cost page per print like the laser printers. The B510DN is huge than a conventional inkjet Multifunction device (MFD), nearly the size of a laser printer. Hence, make sure to allocate some good real estate to the printer [...]

  Direct to Home (DTH) services have come a long way in India. With so many operators to choose from, so many channel packs to select, it at times becomes very difficult to judge the best fit. The DTH advantage over conventional analog cable television line is that it offers digital picture quality and watching [...]

  Dell is predominantly a computer-making company but has evolved to become a complete mobile device manufacturer with the entry in the tablet and a re-entry mobile phone market in the past couple of years. Dell entered the tablet arena to cash in on the demand generated by Apple’s iPad with its 5-inch Streak tablet. [...]

  RIM upgraded its Bold line with an all new Bold 9780. At first glance, you’d miss the Bold 9780 as the Bold 9700 but it comes with one major difference – the Blackberry OS 6. The new Bold 9780 comes with RIM’s new eye pleasing OS, making it first the non-touchscreen Blackberry phone to [...]

  From DVD players, Home Theatres to Blu-ray players, entertainment has taken a leap from one form to another. In fact, people even watch movies on their PCs. We don’t mind to sacrifice the sheer pleasure of watching our favourites on our Full HD LCD TVs probably for the reason that we don’t want to [...]

  Phones have become an integral part of our lives. No matter wherever we go or whatever we do a phone is something we’ll have in our pocket. Needless to say, these prized possessions are also subject to a lot of abuse like accidental drops, scratching against objects in pockets etc. and it becomes necessary [...]

  Over the years, iPod nano has undergone a lot of changes. What started as a sleek, tall audio player for the first two generations was revamped as short and fat video player in the third generation and the fourth generation adopting the ol’ tall sleek look while the previous gen adding a camera to [...]

  One thing I like about Apple is that they’re not afraid to experiment with their product designs. Take the third generation iPod Shuffle, for instance. They took a bold step to take away the physical player controls in lieu of in-line music controls, which to be frank, was not accepted by all. Thankfully, Apple [...]

  Singapore-based Creative may be struggling to compete with the likes of iPod touch or Zune but they surely have created a name when it comes to the value for money priced music players that belong to the ZEN series. The first ZEN device came in 2007 and since then, Creative has rolled out many [...]

  Portable speakers for music devices and laptops are available aplenty, which is why companies try to lure consumers by offering a distinctive value to their products. We’ve checked out some uniquely-shaped but awesome sounding speakers in the past. Today we have a portable speaker from Proporta. The manufacturer claims that these speakers bring the [...]

  FIFA franchise might be one of the best-selling series for EA Sports but ask any football fan and he would prefer Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) over EA Sports’ FIFA, mainly due to better gameplay. However, things have started to change since the last year. FIFA 10 although not without its share of flaws [...]

  If you’re wondering whether to invest in Samsung’s cheapest touchscreen phone, Champ (GT-C3303) then quickly head to Samsung Hub. They managed to get their hands on the device and took the phone for a spin for a detailed review. The phone is lauded for its music prowess but fares satisfactorily when it comes to [...]

  The ways by which our computers can get affected have increased in recent years. The hackers have become smart but if you want to keep them at bay, you must have an antivirus suite that is smarter enough to thwart these attempts. The latest version of Symantec’s Norton Internet Security claims to do just [...]

  At the EA Showcase we also managed to get our hands on the Sony’s latest motion controller, Move. It is a motion-sensing controller that functions with the help of PlayStation Eye Camera claims to give a 1:1 tracking. On the design front, PS3 Move is ergonomically designed. The curved shape of the controller sits [...]

  Sony has segregated its headphone range targeting different consumers with different set of headphones. The EX series goes for the crowd seeking good sound quality with equal comfort, DJ Monitor for the audiophiles and XB series for those seeking the thumping bass effect at affordable prices. We recently tried out the XB300 from the [...]