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Nintendo rejected camera motion-sensing tech, says Satoru Iwata

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  Nintendo tried the camera motion-sensing controllers few years back but rejected it, confessed Satoru Iwata to Financial Times. His reasoning for passing the tech – which actually looks a promising one – was that the accelerometer based controllers produced better accuracy than the camera based ones. He also said that though they rejected it, […]

Palm names Jon Rubinstein as the new CEO

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  Interesting move came to light yesterday that had been brewing since the announcement of Pre. Palm have announced Jon Rubinstein as the new CEO while Ed Colligan, the departed CEO will join Elevation Partners. Jon is already the Chairman of the company and will assume his role from tomorrow, June 12. Palm possibly hinted […]

Nokia developing wireless ambient RF charging for phones

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  Researchers at the Nokia Research Centre in UK are working on a new way to keep our phones charged that does not need charger or any other accessory. Sounds farfetched? Not really. They are developing a technology that can harness power from ambient radio waves, which in simpler words mean waves emitted by Wi-Fi […]

Nokia N86 starts shipping

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  Nokia’s N86 phone is now shipping worldwide. The dual slider phone is Nokia’s first 8MP phone that has also been conferred as the best imaging device by TIPA. Its photography prowess includes Carl Zeiss lens, auto aperture control, mechanical shutter and dual LED flash. If other things are important to you as its camera […]

Western Digital brings 4TB My Book Studio Edition II HDD

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  WD have introduced its monstrous 4TB offering for users looking to dump their lifelong collection of movies, songs and other content. Essentially, My Book Studio Edition II is made for Mac with out of the box partition for Mac and Time Machine backup support but it works with Windows too after a quick format. […]

Acer planning to unveil an 11.6-inch ultra-thin notebook

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  Another day another rumor emerges from the Taiwanese shores. The heart of the rumor today is Acer and its ultra-thin notebook Timeline series. Apparently, due to the not so pleasing sales of Acer’s 11.6-inch netbook, its OEM, Quanta Computer has been asked to develop an 11.6-inch ultra-thin notebook. Ultra-thin chassis means it will fall […]

JVC GD-32X1 LCD measures 6.4mm, targets business entities

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  Well, of course this is the slimmest LCD but with an exception. It only takes the panel size into account and not the ports sitting behind, which makes the total thickness of 22.5mm. Anyways, the full HD 32-inch GD-32X1 is aimed at commercial businesses and features 4000:1 contrast ratio, 400cd/m2 of brightness and 100% […]