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Mozilla Firefox (Fennec) Alpha available for download

Mozilla Firefox (Fennec) Alpha available for download

 
Opera behold as here comes Mozilla with their first ever mobile browser, Firefox aka Fennec. Currently in Alpha, the availability for the time being is restricted to just Nokia N810 devices. However, if you’re still interested to give it a spin, Mozilla has got an emulator ready for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users. [...]

Sharp puts Blu-Ray recorder in TV

Sharp puts Blu-Ray recorder in TV

 
Sharp Electronics latest creation is a head turner. They revealed the new DX range of Aquos TVs which are touted to be the world’s first TV sets to sport an integrated Blu-Ray recorder. The DX series spans six different sizes starting from a decent 26-inch to go up to 52-inch. For later viewing pleasure, a [...]

Microsoft sues DHL for damaged Xbox 360s

Microsoft sues DHL for damaged Xbox 360s

 
Microsoft is playing hardball to DHL who had the responsibility to ship their Xbox 360s. DHL has been sued by the Redmond giant seeking in excess of $2 million in damages after a train derailment which happened in October last year. A total of 21,600 Xbox consoles were damaged in that incident and the case [...]

Obama target gamers with in-game advertisement (Updated)

Obama target gamers with in-game advertisement (Updated)

 
UPDATE: Click here on how to find that ad. Sorry PS3 gamers it doesn’t work for you’ll.
Politicians have a lot of work to do to attract different people from different walks of life. Barrack Obama for example is trying hard to lure gamers to vote for him. Check the screenshot above as he took an [...]

Russian firm hacks Wi-Fi passwords with NVIDIA GPUs

Russian firm hacks Wi-Fi passwords with NVIDIA GPUs

 
Wi-Fi Security stalwarts have a new issue at their hands. A Russian company, ElcomSoft claims to have built a software which exploits NVIDIA GPU’s parallel computational power to crack secured Wi-Fi connections using WPA or WPA2 encryption.
WPA/WPA2 are the most widely used encryption protections which can be hacked with brute force attacks. What Elcomsoft [...]

Gadgets blamed as Qantas Plane goes out of control

Gadgets blamed as Qantas Plane goes out of control

 
If Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) claims turn out to be true, the Australian passengers may face a hard time to fiddle with gadgets while flying. Recently, an Australia bound Qantas flight QF72 from Singapore suddenly lost control at an altitude of 37,000 feet and had to rush for an emergency landing. To add more [...]

Eee PCs may not die soon, touch screen Eees coming next year

 
From next year, we won’t need a mod to make this real as Asus will be announcing their touch screen enabled Eee PCs at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Samson Hu, GM, Eee PC business unit talking to Digitimes revealed their future plans regarding their best selling netbook. He also pointed out a cheaper (sub-$300) [...]

Moto RAZR V3 is the highest selling phone in USA

Moto RAZR V3 is the highest selling phone in USA

 
What the ….???! NPD Group released a report of the five top selling phones in US which to everyone’s surprise is Moto RAZR V3, heading the mobile phone charts. Motorola may have hit the right note to appeal the US citizens but still have a lot of work to do to please the world. No [...]

RIM uses Synaptics Clearpad module for Storm

RIM uses Synaptics Clearpad module for Storm

 
Synaptics will be raking in some more moolah. They have confirmed that RIM’s first touch screen phone, Storm uses their Clearpad custom module to provide multi-touch gestures like copy-paste and so on.
The total revenue expected from this deal is under cover but the touch screen boom is definitely proving worthwhile for Synaptics. Prior [...]

Japanese Robogirl looks unwell and scary

Japanese Robogirl looks unwell and scary

 
I totally agree to the fact that she looks real but damn she looks more of a sleepy Android than a human being. This robot is the mastermind of the team at Osaka University whose bragging the claim to create the most human-like robot suit ever created. Dubbed as Repliee R-1, the robot can blink, [...]