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Nokia introducing the NFC enabled, Nokia 6212 classic 2008-04-23 20:39:00 Near Field Communication (NFC) allows users to access and share content easily between electronic devices. The new phone, integrated with NFC, allows users to access services, share content, maintain paiments and ticketing with few taps on the device.The Nokia
6212 classic comes with a 2 megapixel camera 2 inch qvga display, fm radio and music player, optional micro sd card with up to 4GB.The shipping for the Nokia 6212 classic will start in the third quarter of 2008 in Europe and Asia with an estimated retail price of 200 Euros.Nokia Press
Sony joins Nokia's in unlimited music service. 2008-04-22 22:05:00 Sony BMG, announced partnership with Nokia
to make their musical catalog available on some of Nokia devices. After buying one of these Nokia devices the customer will have access for a year to the music of Alicia Keys, Foo Fighters or any other Sony BMG artist.The customer could download music from Nokia's service "Come With Music" to a PC or to another Nokia handheld, but not to iPOds or other non-compatible devices. After the 12 months the user will have the option of purchasing new content or joining Nokia's subscription service.The new concept here is the download are not temporary, users can keep their files after that period and there is no limitation on the number of songs.Nokia will launch "Comes With Music" service in the second half of the year.Cnet News Read more:Sony
GTA IV expected to break sales record 2008-04-20 20:25:00 Take-Two's latest installment of Grand Theft Auto, GTA IV, is slated for an April 29 release for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.The game is predicted to sell $400 million for the first week of release, the biggest debut of a video game title.The game will offer, for the first time, multiplayer options with up to 15 modes, each supporting up to 16 players.The standard version price will be $59.99. The special edition which include artwork book, soundtrack cd, encased in a metal deposit box, will cost $89.99.efluxmedia
The new Asus Eee PC 900 will come with Windows XP 2008-04-16 16:55:00 The latest version of the Eee PC, the low cost laptop, is expected to be offered with either Linux or Microsoft's Windows
XP Home. The ultra-laptop will come with 8.9" display, 1 GB of RAM, 1.3 megapixel camera and a 12GB (XP) or 20GB (Linux) of Hard-drive.The price, announced at Asus
press conference is $513.Microsoft, as previously announced, pushed back the end-of-availability for XP Home to June 30, 2010, specifically for the Ultra low-cost PCs.ComputerWorld
Blu-ray sales not as high as expected 2008-05-02 17:53:00 Despite the win in the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle, potential consumers still hold on. Their is a decrease in standalone Blu-ray players (not PlayStation 3, combo players, or PCs with Blu-ray drives) since the beginning of the year.There was a 40 percent decrease between January to February and only small increase of 2 percent between February and March, after the win against HD DVD.More apparent reason reason is still the price of around $400 in March. During the holiday season the price was closer to $300. But also, many costumers settle for DVD quality picture and don't see justification in spending more money on what they see as slight increase in picture quality. According to Sony, one of the main producers of Blu-ray drives, $200 players won't be available until next year.Cnet News
LG, Samsung to develop Mobile DTV standard 2008-05-14 21:03:00 After months of introducing different versions of mobile DTV products, LG and Samsung
have joined forces to develop
one device, that will allow for digital television on cell phones.Both companies won't elaborate on the features of their product, or what elements from past products, will be included in the joined device.With digital television now in mobiles, I think we are getting closer to the d Read more:Mobile
Motorola takes mobile experiences to a new level with the Moto Z10 2008-05-18 19:03:00 New array of applications are available now on the Moto Z10, a 3G device based on Symbian OS. The device can offer displaying full feature films to capturing, editing and sharing high quality video clips.In addition to the preloaded software and content, hundreds of applications and content titles have been made to be available for the Symbian community to explore.Some of the software titles that Read more:Motorola
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22 inch wide LCD Monitor under $200 2008-05-30 19:06:00 This LCD 22" wide screen Samsung monitor goes for $189. So what's the catch? It's a recertified product, it supports VGA and DVI, but not HDMI. And because it's recertified the warranty expires after 90 days. Still, it's a great deal.Via: Cnet News Read more:Monitor
Mozilla Firefox 3 out:: over 8 million downloads in 24hrs 2008-06-18 16:40:00 According to Mozilla
, the new version of their browser Firefox
3 passed the 8 million
mark within 24 hours. The company attempted to set a Guinness record for most downloaded software, and wait for approval of the result.The question is how many of these people switched from Internet Explorer, or are they long time Firefox users waiting for the end of Beta testing for version 3. And if they are IE Read more:Mozilla Firefox
Sony plans a movie download service for its PlayStation 3 2008-06-29 21:51:00 The service will be launched this summer in US and later in the European and Japanese markets.The first rumors about a movie
download service came out in 2005 in a interview with Sony
executive. In December 2006, Financial Times article gave information about this service, available for the Sony PSP and being a possible rival to Apple's iTunes. PSP owners could download media from Sony's website t Read more:plans
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Gates to step down from Microsoft 2008-06-27 18:34:00 Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates
is stepping down from running the company.Gates, one of the world's richest men, is planing to devote his time to charity work. Gates programmed his first computer at the age of 13. After 2 years in Harvard, he dropped out to found Microsoft with his friend, Paul Allen. Their big break came when they signed a deal with IBM develop their operating system software lat Read more:Microsoft
Toshiba introduces 1.8" Hard Disk drive, 160 GB 2008-07-05 18:24:00 Toshiba presented 1.8" SATA hard disk drive
, the first with a capacity of 160 GB.The new drive will have improved rotation speed over previous models of the same size - 5400 rpm and better interface speed of 1.5Gbps.The new 160GB drive, MK1617GSG, and an 80GB drive, MK8017GSG, will enter mass production in August. Read more:Toshiba
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