World’s largest NAND flash memory maker, Samsung Electronics is thinking to buy out SanDisk to further expand its memory business. Both the parties refrain from confirming or denying the news but both agree of talking to each other “for potential business opportunities”. The business opportunities are unclear but if this one goes through, Samsung will [...]
Australia was the first one to receive it. Then was Japan. And today its USA’s turn to snag Microsoft Xbox 360 cheaper than any of the current gen consoles. The new prices come in effect from today and gamers will be able to buy the console starting from $199.99 for the Arcade, $299.99 for the [...]
Railway company in France, SNCF will start carrying closed trials of RFID enabled USB tickets. SNCF already uses RFID tickets for commuters and putting an USB interface is an extension to provide anywhere recharging. The RFID USB drives created by Neowave helps to store personal information details on the chip and the USB interface enable [...]
UPDATE: The recall has been announced worldwide which makes the total count of recalled notebooks to 440,000 units.
Not a good news for Sony VAIO users. Sony USA has recalled around 73,000 units from the VAIO-TZ series fearing of overheating. The recalled notebooks include from the VAIO VGN-TZ100, VGN-TZ200, VGN-TZ300 and VGN-TZ2000 series which have [...]
So Dell’s Inspiron Mini officially enters the highly competitive netbook market. Ubuntu loaded version starts from $349 which will feature an 8.9-inch LED backlit display, 4GB SSD, Wi-Fi and 512MB RAM. On the other hand, the XP variant doubles up the SSD and RAM to 8GB and 1GB respectively and adds Bluetooth 2.1 and a [...]
Now why didn’t notebook case manufacturers think of this before? Here is Napbook designed to protect your notebook as well as double up as your pillow just in case you wanna cover up for the last night’s sleep, anywhere anytime. It is the brainchild of Hafsteinn Juliusson from Iceland who has just added more fluffiness, [...]
UPDATE: Another website is reporting lower end models of N10. The listed ones are N10E-A1 ($649.99), N10J-A1 ($749.99) and N10J-A2 ($849.99). The only XP version is N10E-A1 with 1GB RAM and 160GB HDD. N10J-A1 and N10J-A2 will both run Vista and will have 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD and 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD respectively. [...]
Nokia’s powerpacked Nseries phone, N96 has hit the retail shelves. The phone is available now at all Nokia outlets for a whopping price of $796 (Rs. 35,000) excluding taxes and subsidies. For those who are still unaware of the mammoth device, this one packs 16GB of internal storage (expandable to 24GB with microSD card), 5 [...]
The prisoners in Camp Jail, Pakistan are having a bad time. Not because of the time they are spending in jail but because of phones stuck in the wrong places. Officers apparently found out that 37 prisoners carried phones in the prison and concealed them in their bodies. Officers managed to remove it from 30 [...]
Sony Ericsson’s been calling all the developers to develop apps for their next flagship phone, Xperia X1. They have announced the availability of Software Developer Kit (SDK) which will allow them to create apps which can sit on its interactive Panel. Panel Interface is in short, nothing but a quick access to the nine most [...]