Apple is the proud owner of iPad trademark, gets it from Fujitsu

Posted on March 27, 2010, 10:01 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

No more sleepless nights for Apple’s lawyers, at least not until the Nokia and HTC suits begin to heat up. The company is now the proud owner of a slightly used trademark: iPad™, as of March 17, is no longer a Fujitsu mark and has been assigned to Apple. Much speculation had surrounded the trademark process for iPad, as Fujitsu’s mark was being challenged by Apple as early as September 2009, but it looks like the two companies have come to some sort of agreement. Continue reading this post »

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iPad App Store and More Early Games Revealed

Posted on March 27, 2010, 9:46 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

It looks like the crafty folks over at MacRumors have figured out how to snake their way into the not-yet-public listing for top revenue iPad apps. Now, we’ve got a flood of information coming out about software for the device that’s not coming out for another week or so. As you can see above, quite a few rumored and revealed games are already charting on the iPad store, and it looks like prices are running from $3.99 to $9.99. “HD” appeared to be the preferred nomenclature for iPad games yesterday, but “for iPad” is in there as well. It also looks like Enigmo for the iPhone will be Enigmo Deluxe Continue reading this post »

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Nvidia unleashes GTX 470 and 480 monster cards

Posted on March 27, 2010, 6:08 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

Let’s get the hard data out of the way first: 480 CUDA cores, 700 MHz graphics and 1,401MHz processor clock speeds, plus 1.5GB of onboard GDDR5 memory running at 1,848MHz (for a 3.7GHz effective data rate). Those are the specs upon which Fermi is built, and those are the numbers that will seek to justify a $499 price tag and a spectacular 250W TDP. We attended a presentation by NVIDIA this afternoon, where the above GTX 480 and its lite version, the GTX 470, were detailed. The latter card will come with a humbler 1.2GB of memory plus 607MHz, 1,215MHz and 1,674MHz clocks, while dinging your wallet for $349 and straining your case’s cooling with 215W of hotness. Continue reading this post »

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Nokia Buys Internet Mobility Company Novarra to Bolster Mobile Browsing

Posted on March 27, 2010, 5:44 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

Nokia said today it has purchased Novarra, a maker of mobile web browsing technology. The companies didn’t disclose the purchase price.

Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, currently builds its own mobile browser, so it can incorporate the Illinois company’s technology into its own future browsers. Since data service usage is skyrocketing, having a good mobile web browser is essential. Continue reading this post »

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Aspire Ethos line from Acer with 5943G and 8943G models

Posted on March 25, 2010, 4:39 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

Acer’s aspirational laptops have a new Ethos to them now, and it clearly has something to do with entertainment. The newly revealed 18.4-inch 8943G sports a 1920 x 1080 resolution and a true 5.1 surround sound setup, meaning that somewhere within its shell reside five miniature speakers and a sub. Processor options range all the way up to the quad-core Core i7-820QM, which offers 8MB of built-in cache and a 1.73GHz clock speed that cranks all the way to 3.06GHz

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US Army is interested in Apple iPad

Posted on March 25, 2010, 3:33 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

The Army uses Apple products for a host of reasons. They’re durable, easy to use in the field, tough to hack, and readily available (unlike many specialized computer hardware items). They’ve been known to use iPods Touch as simple translation tools (they can translate and say “get down!” in Arabic–useful in our worldwide exportation of freedom!). So what went on in Cupertino? Continue reading this post »

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Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G: Its just wow

Posted on March 25, 2010, 3:22 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

Sprint may finally have the “hero” device it has been lacking: The EVO 4G, a feature-packed handset that will be the first to run on the company’s 4G WiMax network.

Designed by HTC, EVO runs Google’s (GOOG) Android 2.1 operating system and boasts some killer features: A 4.3-inch touchscreen display, a 1GHz Qualcomm (QCOM) Snapdragon processor, an eight-megapixel camera on the back, a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front (presumably for video chat), support for HD video capture, an FM radio and, of course, 3G/4G capability, which should theoretically support download speeds of more than 10 Mbps, Continue reading this post »

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Canon introduces EOS-1D Mark IV Digital SLR

Posted on October 20, 2009, 8:26 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

The new Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Digital SLR camera is a high-speed multimedia performance monster with a 16-megapixel Canon CMOS sensor, Dual DIGIC 4 Imaging Processors, and 14-bit A/D data conversion, all at 10 frames-per-second (fps), with the widest ISO range Canon has produced to date. Canon EOS-1D Mark IV also features 1080p Full High-Definition video capture at selectable frame rates packaged in Canon’s most rugged and durable professional camera body.

The Canon EOS-1D Mark IV allows for three video recording resolutions – 1080p Full HD and 720p HD in a 16:9 aspect ratio and Standard Definition (SD) in a 4:3 aspect ratio. The camera will record Full HD at 1920 x 1080 in selectable frame Continue reading this post »

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Barnes Noble Nook eReader Will Allow Users to Lend Books- $259

Posted on October 20, 2009, 8:08 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received 1 Comment ».

It may seem like overkill at this point, but Barnes & Noble is releasing their own e-book reader today: the Nook, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Although an official event and annoucement is scheduled for later today, most of the important information has already been leaked. Like Spring Design’s Alex, it will run on Google Android OS. While it’s roughly the same price as Amazon’s Kindle, it’s not really cheap, with a reported price tag of $259. But with some extra assets like a color touchscreen and e-book lending abilities, I find it a bit more of a deal. Amazon should start planning a major holiday bargain if they want to continue their control of the e-book reader market this winter. Continue reading this post »

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Apple Reports $1.67 Billion Quarterly Profit on Record Sales

Posted on October 20, 2009, 4:49 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

Apple enjoyed its most profitable quarter ever, as the company set sales marks for both Mac and iPhone sales. The company announced earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Monday. For the quarter ending September 30, Apple reported a net profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per share, on revenue of $7.9 billion. Those numbers blew away analysts’ earnings and revenue estimates of $1.42 a share and $9.2 billion in sales, respectively. Mac sales floated 17% over the year-ago quarter to 3.1 million units, setting a new quarterly record. While Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones this quarter, realizing a 7% unit growth over the same quarter last year. Continue reading this post »

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Revo Domino D3 packs Last.fm, DAB+, wireless streaming and iPod dock

Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:28 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

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Revo has outed the Domino D3, a new DAB radio that combines a whole range of radio formats with iPod connectivity, wireless streaming capabilities and Last.fm access for a whole myriad of music.

With a contemporary design, the Domino D3 features a joystick for users to navigate their way around the radio’s features, and an OLED display for showing off exactly what you’re listening to. Continue reading this post »

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Windows Mobile 6.5 – more details announced ahead of launch

Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:24 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

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Microsoft is launching the first smartphones packing Windows Mobile today, and has shared a few details on the new OS ahead of its full announcement.

With a cleaned up, easier-to-use interface, WinMo 6.5 promises better browsing capabilities and easy access to services such as Windows Live, Bing, Mobile Office Communicator and Microsoft Online Services such as Exchange and Sharepoint. Continue reading this post »

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Nokia N97 Mini dated for 23 October

Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:16 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received 2 Comments ».

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We knew it would be coming this month, but now with Nokia has ‘fessed up as to when we can expect to see the Nokia N97 Mini in the shops.

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the smaller handset, Nokia has confirmed via its Flagship Store Twitter feed that we’ll be able to pick it up from 23 October. Continue reading this post »

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TomTom Start announced for motorists on a budget

Posted on October 7, 2009, 1:06 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

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TomTom has launched a new sat nav that drops a few of the more advanced TomTom features in exchange for a lower price tag. With a simplified menu, the TomTom Start is aimed at motorists just looking for a bit of a hand getting from A to B as quickly as possible. This means you’ll get the TomTom IQ Routes which will judge the fastest way to get to your destination, while Map Share will allow users to share map corrections so you never get stuck up the wrong street. Continue reading this post »

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HTC HD2 confirmed – coming this month

Posted on October 7, 2009, 12:59 pm, by Abhijit Kamal and received No Comments ».

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So we knew it was coming, and now the HTC HD2 has been officially outed and confirmed to go on sale later this month.

Although it packs Windows Mobile 6.5, the HD2 benefits from the rather lovely HTC Sense skin we’ve seen on the Android-loving Hero, bringing multi-touch to the a Windows Mobile phone for the first time. Continue reading this post »

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