It seems Sony has been cursed with the never ending battery woes. A new voluntary recall of around 100,000 Sony manufactured batteries has been issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission after a few reported incidents, some including burns to the users. Out of the total number, about 35,000 batteries were sold with […]
Archives for October 2008
SoftBank brings Live TV on iPhone 3G
Put Live TV support in phones and they’ll sell like hot cakes. At least this is the case in some Asian countries and who knows better than Samsung and LG who have the largest portfolio of phones integrated with DMB. Well, now Japan’s SoftBank, the official carrier of iPhone 3G have also come up […]
Nokia E63 caught live at the Symbian Smartphone Show
It seems Nokia is unable to keep their phones under cover. Another phone alleged to be E63 leaks out at the Symbian Smartphone Show for us to ogle. The phone is a smaller sibling of E71 with lower specs which makes us to believe that it will be cheaper than the former. The classy […]
HP expands Mini family with Mini 1000 netbook
HP’s Mini family got a new member in the form of Mini 1000 netbook. Though HP seems to be excited by the addition of three new netbooks, these are actually different variants of the Mini 1000. The variants are – HP Mini 1000, Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition and Mini 1000 with MIE. The […]
Samsung demonstrates 0.05mm thick OLED display
Samsung’s SDI division showed up their latest display creation to woo attendees at the FPD International 2008 Expo. They demonstrated a 0.05mm thick 4-inch OLED display hung in the air to make it flutter from the breeze. Samsung has named it as Flapping Display and it is so thin that even a light breeze […]
IBM develops ZTIC USB drive for secure banking transactions
IBM’s research lab at Zurich have created a simple and effective security device to ensure safe online banking for consumers. Dubbed as the Zone Trusted Information Channel (ZTIC), a simple USB drive that creates a direct and secure channel to the bank’s online server for transactions irrespective of user’s PC being affected with malware […]
Sony: PS3 browser faster than IE7
It hurts. It really hurts. Consider a full-time employee taunted by some part-time kid with the words “You suck at your job. I do it better than you.” Now substitute the full-time employee with Microsoft’s IE7 while the part-time with PS3’s browser. Sony claims that the new v2.5 firmware update to PS3 not only […]
LG Electronics to hike prices of their products
Those people contemplating to buy consumer electronic goods – specific to LG, I have some bad news to share. Come November 1 and the India division of LG Electronics will hike the prices of most of its consumer goods. Amitabh Tiwari, the Indian head for LG India cited the hike was due to the […]
Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbook for students
The marketing whizzes at Lenovo thought of something new to sell their netbook. They rebranded the IdeaPad S10 to IdeaPad S10e albeit with some minor changes to garner interest from students. The S10e has a 10.1-inch display with a choice of running Windows XP or SUSE Linux. It also has a Splash Top powered […]
Casio 8.1 megapixel W63CA Exilim Phone
Renoir and Pixon please make way for the new heavyweight champion coming from the land of rising sun. Casio, the maker of the phone refrains from giving any marketing friendly name but simply christens it as W63CA Exilim phone. The clamshell phone uses Casio’s ‘Exilim engine for Mobile’ and packs a lot of photography […]
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