Verizon Launches LG Versa Touchscreen Phone With Detachable Keyboard

Verizon has introduced the new LG Versa with detachable QWERTY keyboard. The LG Versa has 3-inch touchscreen with 480 x 240 resolution, 2-megapixel camera, EVDO Rev A, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and microSD card slot. However the main feature of the phone is its includes case that has built-in QWERTY keyboard and a 0.94-inch monochrome OLED display on the outside for caller ID, phone status and time. Read More

Dell Starts Shipping Eco Friendly LCDs, Puts a Price Tag on XPS 435 and Mini 10

Dell today started shipping two new LCDs, which they claim are eco-friendly. But both the 22-inch G2210 and 24-inch G2410 use traditional cold-cathode fluorescent backlighting, which isn’t as eco-friendly as the modern LED backlighting. However, Dell says that both displays use ambient light sensors that automatically adjust the backlight to match the environment, reducing unnecessary power consumption in darker environments. Read More

Safari 4 The Fastest Web Browser in the World

Apple on Tuesday released the public beta of Safari 4 and claimed that it is the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and PCs. Well, whether Safari 4 is the most innovative web browser or not is up for debate, but the latest benchmark tests done by CNET show that it’s definitely world’s fastest web browser. CNET used the SunSpider suite of JavaScript tests to compare performance of IE 7 and 8, Firefox 3, Safari 4, Chrome and Opera 9.6. Read More

When Is Apple Going to Update iMac Lineup?

Every technology related website, blog or analyst have tried to predict when Apple will update its iMac desktop lineup since the MacBooks were updated in October. Initially, the rumors were that iMac refresh would come before Christmas for higher holiday sales. But nothing happened before Christmas, and then the news came that we will see the new iMacs at Macworld 2009. However, at Macworld Apple just launched updated 17-inch MacBook Pro, iWork 09 and iLife 09. Read More

Intel Releases Anti-NVIDIA Ion Document

Intel has released an anti-NVIDIA Ion document titled “Nvidia Ion Competitive Position Guide”. The document presents three key arguments against Ion platform adoption. Intel’s first argument against Ion platform is that it is derived from old MCP79M/NCP7A chipset family and is not newly designed chipset. The second point that Intel makes against Ion is more power consumption and addition of unnecessary cost to system’s Bill of Material. The last argument put forward by Intel is that window of opportunity for Ion is very short as Intel will release Pineview processor lineup in Q4 2009, which will combine Atom processor with graphics core on the same die. Lets debunk the above three point that Intel made against NVIDIA’s Ion platform. Read More

Apple Releases Safari 4 Public Beta

Apple today announced the public beta of Safari 4 and the company claims it’s world’s fastest and most innovative web browser from Mac and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. Innovative new features that make browsing more intuitive and enjoyable include Top Sites, for a stunning visual preview of frequently visited pages; Full History Search, to search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages; Cover Flow, to easily flip through web history or bookmarks; and Tabs on Top, to make tabbed browsing easier and more intuitive. Read More

Screenshots Showing Interface Tweaks in Mac OS X Snow Leopard Leaked

World of Apple has published Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.6 build 10A261, which was released to the developers earlier this month. The images show minor design tweaks to the user interface of the upcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The changes to the interface affect Keyboard Shortcuts Preference Panel, add Put Back functionality to Trash and allow folder navigation in Stacks. Read More

Amazon Kindle 2 Now “In Stock”

Amazon introduced the new Kindle 2 on February 9, 2009 at their press event. The new Kindle 2 is slimmer with longer battery life, faster page turns, over seven times more storage, sharper images and a new read-to-me-feature. At the time of introduction Amazon said that Kindle 2 would start shipping on February 24, 2009, but Amazon is now showing the Kindle 2 “In-Stock”. And, if last Kindle launch is any indication it will very soon go in backorder status. So if you are planning to buy the new Kindle 2 go ahead and order it as soon as possible. Kindle 2 is available on Amazon for $359.00.

Microsoft Posts Video About Windows Media Center’s New Picture + Videos Features in Windows 7

Microsoft has posted a video of Windows Media Center Program Manager Noah Spitzer-Williams showing the new Pictures + Videos features in Windows Media center. The video above shows the following features and changes that have been added to Media Center in Windows 7: Read More and Watch Video

MSI Adds Two More Models to Unreleased X-Slim Laptop Lineup

At CES 2009, MSI showed the first X-Slim 320 laptop that copied the MacBook Air like design, but X320 was thicker and slightly heavier than the Air. Though the first model hasn’t been released yet, the company has added two more models X600 and X340 to the X-Slim lineup. Read More

iRiver P7 Portable Media Player Now Official

iRiver has officially launched the new P7 portable media player (PMP) on their website. The company has posted complete details about the new PMP except its release date and price. The P7 will pack 4.3-inch LCD touchscreen with 480 x 272 resolution and onboard memory ranging from 4GB to 32GB with expansion available though microSD card slot. Read More

Complete Palm Pre Walkthrough Video

Small videos of various features of upcoming Palm Pre have been posted online since it was shown at CES 2009. However, thanks to Pre Community, first complete walkthrough video has been posted online. The 26-minute video shows calendar, contacts, browser, Synergy linking of information from Microsoft Exchange, Gmail and various social networks and more. Watch Video

NVIDIA’s CEO Talks About Intel Lawsuit and Ion Platform for VIA

In an interview with Digitimes, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang speaks out against Intel and reveals NVIDIA’s plan to support VIA processor on Ion platform. Intel has filed a lawsuit against NVIDIA, asking the court to stop NVIDIA from producing chipsets that are compatible with any Intel processor that has integrated memory controller. However, NVIDIA believes that it has license to produce chipset for Intel’s processors. Read More

Nanotech to Step-in for Faster, Smaller and More Powerful Computers

Nanotech has been professed as savior of all things human and now it will give us smaller, faster and more powerful computers. Two research teams have developed methods to make transistors that are fraction of the size used today in computer and a film material that stores data equivalent to 250 DVD disc on a surface the size of a quarter using Nanotechnology. Read More

Photo of Next Generation Mac mini Leaked

A photo showing rear portion of upcoming Mac mini has been leaked on the web. The photo shows five USB ports (4 in present gen), mini DVI (DVI in present gen), mini DisplayPort, audio ports, Ethernet and FireWire 800 port on the back of upcoming Mac mini. It has been rumored that the upcoming mini will have an additional USB port along with new mini DisplayPort found on Apple’s laptop lineup, and from the photo it looks like the rumors are true. Read More

Canon Unveils Ten PowerShot Cameras

Canon today introduced ten new PowerShot cameras starting with PowerShot SX1 IS with 20X optical zoom. It is the first PowerShot camera to feature 10.0-megapixel CMOS sensor and support Full HD 1920 x 1080 video recording at 30fps. The camera has a large 2.8-inch vari-angle LCD screen for flexible viewing angles. SX1 comes with 28mm wide-angle lens, Digic 4 processor, HDMI output, optical image stabilizer, motion detection, face recognition and ISO up to 3200. No information about pricing is yet available, but we think it should be in range of $399 to $499. Read More

LG Unveils Flagship KM900 Arena, First Win Mobile 6.5 GM730 and Stylish GD900 Phones

Almost two week before the Mobile World Congress expo, LG posted official pictures of the KM900 Arena on their blog stating, “All will be revealed at Mobile World Congress…” LG kept its promise and confirmed final specs of the flagship Arena handset. The phone uses S-Class 3D user interface to hide Windows Mobile OS by an iPhone like interface design. The S-Class 3D interface allows users to flick between applications by turning the home screen cube like design. Read More

Microsoft Unveils Windows Mobile 6.5 and Recite Searchable Voice Note App

Microsoft today announced Windows Mobile 6.5 with mixed reactions from various analysts at Mobile World Congress. The main feature of the Windows Mobile 6.5 is its new user interface designed for finger input via touchscreen. The UI has two main components the Today screen and the Honeycomb Start screen. The Today screen is inspired by Zune’s interface and provides large buttons, finger scrolling and graphics like Zune. The Start screen is basically an application browser designed as honeycomb. Read More

Review Roundup: Apple iWork ‘09

Apple updated its productivity suite at Macworld in January 2009 and added number of revolutionary new features. The Keynote ‘09 adds advanced object transitions, Magic Move and sophisticated animations just by applying a simple transition. Pages ’09 features Full Screen view that helps you focus on your writing and an outline mode to organize your thoughts. The last application in iWork suite, Numbers ’09 introduces a quick way to group and summarize data and a simplified way to create complex formulas. Below we have added links for five of the best reviews available online for iWork ’09. Read More

Sony Ericsson Unveils Idou Touchscreen Phone with 12.1-Megapixel Camera

Before the Mobile World Congress Expo it was rumored that Samsung will be the first mobile phone maker to launch a 12-megapixel camera phone, but that didn’t happen. And now the title belongs to Sony Ericsson as they introduced first ever 12.1-megapixel camera phone codenamed Idou at its press conference in Barcelona. Read More and Watch the Idou in Action

Is Dell Adamo a MacBook Air Killer?

On Wednesday, Dell updated its Adamo website that now states, “Prepare to fall in love. Introducing a love story from Dell.” And the whole blogosphere went crazy calling Adamo the MacBook Air Killer. Before Adamo, the blogosphere has called Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Voodoo Envy 133 a MacBook Air killer. But both of them turned out to be just another ultra thin and light notebook, nowhere as revolutionary as the MacBook Air. So is the Dell Adamo a MacBook Air Killer or just another thin and light notebook? Read More

Samsung Introduces Environment Friendly, Solar Powered Blue Earth Mobile Phone

Motorola started environment friendly cellphone race when they announced their new phone made by recycled plastic last month. Well, Samsung has one up them by announcing new Blue Earth handset made by PCM (recycled plastic from water bottles), and it features a solar panel on the back that will charge it enough to make a phone call anytime during the day. Read More

Garmin-Asus Reveals Specifications for nuvifone G60 and M20

Garmin and Asus today revealed more details about their upcoming GPS inspired nuvifone G60 and M20 smartphones. The nuvifone G60 will feature a 3.55-inch touchscreen, quad-band GSM/EDGE, 3G HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and geotagging, Internet connected GPS navigation, preloaded maps and automatic route recalculation. Read More

New 16GB iPhone Image Leaked, China Unicom in Talk with Apple

iPod Observer is reporting that Apple is preparing to roll out an updated version of its 16GB iPhone 3G. An image that they received from their source shows a new back design and a new model number A1303. The new case appears matte black and not glossy black found on present generation iPhone. Read More

Intel’s 2009 Roadmap: Add More Cores, Decrease Manufacturing Size and Invest in Fab/R&D

This week Intel has been talking about upcoming processor technologies at ISSCC in San Francisco. At the event, Intel showcased its first 8-core processor prototype designed for servers. The new Nehalem 8-core processor will join the Xeon family later this year and feature 16-thread and 64-bit processing. Intel also talked about its plans to salvage usable part from a defective chip by disabling the core or cache region, which is found defective. Read More

Google Releases Free Push Calendar and Contact Services for iPhone

Google has announced new beta Google Sync for iPhone. The service synchronizes built-in calendar and contacts on your iPhone with your Google account using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol. The use of push protocol keeps your calendar and contact in sync whether you access them from your iPhone or from your computer. You can add or edit contacts or calendar entries right on your device or on your Google account on the web and the changes will be immediately pushed to you various devices. Read More and Watch Video

Sony Unveils XB-Series Headphones

Sony today unveiled five new XB “eXtra Bass” series headphones designed to create a heavy club vibe with rich, powerful bass, while reproducing crystal-clear midrange vocals and high frequency sounds. Three of the headphones are over-the-ear style and two are in-ear style with brushed metal accents. The top of the line MDR-XB700 is a premium over-the-ear headphone with extra-large 50mm dome type driver optimized for bass. Read More

Amazon Introduces Kindle 2

Amazon today announced new slim Kindle 2 with longer battery life, faster page turns, over seven times more storage, sharper images, and a new read-to-me feature. More than 230,000 books are now available for about $9.99 each, many US and international magazines and newspapers plus more than 1,200 different blogs are also available for Kindle 2. Read More

BlackBerry Storm 9530 Available on Amazon for $99

Verizon is trying everything in its power to increase sales of BlackBerry Storm. On Friday, Verizon started buy one get one free program through its stores and website. And, now Verizon is selling the BlackBerry Storm on Amazon for $99 with two-year contract. It looks like BlackBerry Storm sales are falling down fast, after initial high sales at launch and Verizon is taking all possible measures to keep the sales up. If you are a BlackBerry fan you can’t get a better deal on Storm anywhere else.

Intel and NVIDIA Going for Each Other’s Core Business

It is a known fact that Intel will launch their first ever dedicated GPU codenamed Larrabee this year. And on the other hand, rumors are that NVIDIA is heavily recruiting x86 engineers for making its own x86 processor. So, why suddenly both the companies are gunning for each other’s core market? The reason might lie in Intel’s decision to develop a dedicated graphics card. Read More

Analyst: Three New iPhone Models in 2009

Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek claims, “Three new iPhone could be coming in 2009. The first is a 32GB iphone in multiple colors that is likely to arrive during the next six months. Next up is a lower-cost handset based on the 2.5G iPhone, which is targeted for China and India. Third is a smaller version – about one-third the size of the 3G iPhone – that costs 40 percent less and is also likely before year-end.” Read More

Microsoft Leaks My Phone Online Mobile Backup Service

Microsoft has accidentally launched My Phone (aka SkyBox) mobile backup service, which they were going to announce at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain on 16th February. The My Phone service offers 200MB of storage that can be used to backup contacts, calendar, tasks, photos, videos, text messages, music and documents directly from your mobile phone to the online service. Read More

Microsoft Developing Smartphone for Second Half of 2009

Research Firm Broadpoint AmTech claims that Microsoft is planning to release a smartphone of its own in second half of 2009. Research analysts Mark McKechnie and Rob Sandserson say that multiple industrial sources have confirmed Microsoft’s smartphone development plan. With the new smartphone, Microsoft will tightly integrate hardware and software like the iPhone does. Read More

Apple to Include Location and Multitouch Services in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

The upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include geographical location and multitouch apps support. According to AppleInsider, people familiar with the Snow Leopard beta released few days back say that the OS includes CoreLocation framework and a Cocoa based programming interface for leveraging the multitouch function. Read More

Microsoft Explains Windows 7 SKUs

Microsoft has posted a closer look at Windows 7 SKUs on The Windows Blog, to explain you “exactly which edition of Windows 7 is right for you and help you understand how we approached addressing the large amount of feedback we received. According to Microsoft the SKUs are based on feedbacks from the customers and addresses the following: Read More

T-Mobile Officially Launches Samsung Memoir the 8-Megapixel Camera Phone

T-mobile today announced the launch of Samsung Memoir – a full touchscreen mobile phone with 8-megapixel camera and many multimedia features. The Memoir is the highest megapixel camera phone available in US via a carrier. The main feature of the phone is its 8-megapixel camera. The phone is designed to look, feel and work like a point-and-shoot digital camera. The camera has Xenon flash, 16x digital zoom, auto focus and five shooting modes. Read More

Next Gen iPhone in June with Support for 3rd Party Background Tasks

In an interview with Dow Jones, Mark Davis, Program Director for iPhone at Etisalat, has revealed “next version of the iPhone, which is due out in June will be launched in the UAE at the same time”. This news along with iPhone 2,1 code string found in latest iPhone firmware almost confirms that Apple has next generation iPhone ready for summer release. Additionally, Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief has also said at WWDC that Apple will follow the June release cycle for its iPhone updates. Read More

Toshiba Announces iPhone Competitor TG01 Smartphone

Yesterday, Toshiba announced their new smartphone based on Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon QSD2850 chipset in London. The super slim phone is only 9.9mm (0.38-inch) thick and features a 4.1-inch resistive touchscreen with 800 x 480 resolution. Toshiba says that the screen uses many of the technologies like color matching, dynamic gamma correction and LCD backlight control present in their HDTVs, resulting is more colorful and crisper images. Read More & Watch TG01 in action.

Nikon Unveils One Ultra Zoom P-Series, Three L-Series and Four S-Series Digital Cameras

Nikon today announced eight new point-and-shoot cameras that will ship before March 2009. The top of the line CoolPix P90 has 12.1-megapixel sensor, 24X (26-624mm) ultra zoom, 15fps burst mode, 3-inch LCD screen, image stabilization, motion detection, face detection and ISO up to 6400. The camera will ship in March for $399. Read More

Mac OS X and Safari Online Market Share Continues to Grow

Net Applications has released their latest data for online OS and browser market share in month of January. Mac OS X continued its growth whereas Windows continued its decline in operating system market share. Similarly in browser market share, Safari and Firefox continued to grow, while Internet Explorer lost market share. iPhone’s market share also rose to 0.48 percent and it looks like iPhone will surpass Linux by end of 2009. Read More

Palm Pre Video with Detailed Information About Both Software and Hardware

Palm’s VP of design, Peter Skillman shows various features of the upcoming Palm Pre touchscreen phone in a video. The Pre is one of the most impressive smartphone after the iPhone. The video shows how Palm differentiates the Pre from the iPhone, but it also shows how much the Pre is influenced by the iPhone. In fact the design of the shipping box for the Pre is also almost similar to the box iPhone ships in. Read More & Watch Video

Fujitsu Working on Android Platform For Multiple Devices

Fujitsu has started a new initiative called “Service Built for Android” that will focus on home electronics based on Google Android platform. Through the new program Fujitsu will offer consulting, engineering and other expertise to its partners for running devices based on the open-source Android platform. The company is planning to use the platform in various devices like cellphones, portable media player, GPS devices, set-top boxes and netbook like PCs. Read More

India to Showcase $10 Laptop on February 3rd | TechzTalk

A $10 laptop with 2GB RAM, WiFi, Ethernet, expandable memory and 2 watts power requirement would be showcased in Tirupati, India on February 3rd. The $10 laptop has been developed by Vellore Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Science and IIT Madras as an answer to Nicholas Negroponte’s $100 laptop that Indian government rejected two years back. Read More

Apple Working on Next Gen iPhone Model

Code Strings in Apple’s latest iPhone Firmware have revealed that Apple already has a working version of next generation iPhone. MacRumors has discovered and posted the portion of code on their website (shown above) that is designated as “iPhone2,1”. According to MacRumors, the first generation iPhone that was released in 2007 had “iPhone 1,1” label, whereas the iPhone 3G has “iPhone 1,2” label indicating a minor hardware revision. The use of 2,1 in the label implies that the next generation iPhone will see major hardware revision. Read More

Verizon Reports 15 Percent Increase in Revenue, Keeps Quiet about Storm Sales

Verizon today reported that it has added more than 1.2 million new customers in Q4 2008 bringing total number of customers to 72.1 million, which is up 9.9 percent compared to last year. With increase in number of subscribers Verizon also saw 15 percent increase in revenue. The company credited this rise to growth in wireless market. According to Verizon 37 percent of all cellphones sold were high-end devices and revenue from data plans for smartphone’s jumped 41.4 percent. Read More

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Still Lagging in Performance and Web Standards Compliance

Microsoft has been promising that the upcoming IE 8 browser will be more web standards compliant and perform faster on standard web technologies. But the tests performed by ZDNet on IE 8 RCI that Microsoft released yesterday show otherwise. ZDnet took the latest build of IE 8 and benchmarked it using Acid3 test, Sunspider and Google V8. Read More

Apple Releases NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 with Improved Graphics Performance

Apple has released NVIDIA graphics update that addresses issues with Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter and also improves HD performance on Mac notebooks using NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400M chipsets and Mac desktop using NVIDIA’s graphics chips. The update is available via Software Update feature on Mac and it is 3.2MB in size. Apple provided no other details. So we decided to test the update ourselves. Read More

Microsoft Releases IE8 RC1 for Public

As expected, Microsoft today released IE8 RC1 (release candidate 1) for Windows XP and Windows Vista users. This is the third major public beta release of the IE 8 and Microsoft has already said that it will give one more build to testers before finally releasing the complete product. Read More