May 24, 2013

market - News


Dell “Vostro V130”-A New Notebook from Dell for Small Business

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Despite a couple of quibbles with its screen and design,  like many Dell laptops, the slim and light Dell Vostro V130 is still a top ultraportable notebook that’s great for business users. The ultra-low-voltage Core i5 CPU provides much faster performance at a better price than the previous Vostro V13 model. The branding is confusing [...]

ASUS “Eee Note EA-800” e- reader to be launched in Taiwan this week at $230

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ASUS has introduced its new e-reader with 8 inches of screen real estate and a stylus for taking notes. today the company’s announcing that it’ll be available to buy this week in its native Taiwan. Even better news is the $230 price tag (NT$6,999), which makes the Eee Note quite the affordable little device. The [...]

ITG xpPhone comes with “Windows XP embedded-Smartphone”

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In Technology Group (ITG) has been toying with the idea of a Windows XP smartphone for close to 2 years, and is finally putting their xpPhone on the market. The xpPhone brings the embedded version of Windows XP to a large, 4.8 inch 800×480 touchscreen device with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Besides the fact [...]

Skyfire 3.0 adds Facebook Social Graph to web browsing

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There are many alternative browsers to choose from in the Android Market, but Skyfire has remained one of the most popular choices (over two million users) for its ability to view movies on phones that don’t support Flash Player. I expect a lot more people will download it today, thanks to the new social features [...]

“Swype Apps” for Symbian Beta now with Support for French,German & Polish Languages

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The beta flavor of Swype for Symbian, the application the Swype team developed in collaboration with Nokia’s Beta Labs engineers, has just got enhanced with support for a wider range of languages. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen [...]

“Genuin software checker” for Windows Phone 7;complicates custom ROMs

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The first big roadblock to Windows Phone 7 modding has been found. According to Conflipper, a former Windows Mobile hacker, Windows Phone 7 devices ship with a “Genuine Software” checker which gives you the screen below if you try to access Xbox Live, Marketplace, Windows Live, or Zune from a device running an OS version [...]

Apple iPad to be subsidized by Orange and T-Mobile in Europe

France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile — who have put their British operations into a joint venture — said on Monday new purchase options in Britain would mean “more affordable prices when purchased with a data service plan.” In France, a spokeswoman for Orange said the carrier would subsidize the iPad when it starts [...]

Nokia launches New C2-01 and X2-01 featurephones

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Today Nokia unveiled a couple of new entry-level additions to its mobile phone portfolio. The Nokia C2-01 is meant to be Nokia’s cheapest 3G phone, while the Nokia X2-01 has a full QWERTY keyboard as its key selling point. “Both [phones] aim to offer maximum functionality for the lowest price possible, but with a different [...]

New Verizon FiOS Internet 150/35 Mbps Broadband service launches

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If you’re a Verizon FiOS residential broadband customer, with a need for Internet speed, listen up. Big Red has just announced a new plan that boasts some ridiculously fast, Verizon is launching 150/35 megabits per second (Mbps) Internet service – the fastest mass-market broadband service in the nation – over the company’s all-fiber-optic FiOS network. [...]

“Dell Venue Pro”- expected a wider launch

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After a long absence from the Windows Mobile market, Dell’s Venue Pro is hotly awaited by many. Unfortunately, the device has been in extremely short supply so far. A weekend update from the manufacturer said that the Dell Venue Pro is going to have a wider launch than the one it had earlier this month [...]

Cisco Launches new range of Linksys E-series wireless router

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Cisco Consumer Products, a division of Cisco, launched its new range of wireless router—Linksys E-series routers in India. The E-series routers are available in three different models—E1000,E-2000,andE3000.These routers are specially designed to suite the individual requirements of users, and can be used to connect devices including notebook, wireless printers,HDTVs and game consoles such a Wii,Playstation, [...]

Clearwire Losing its Grip on U.S Wimax

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Its two years since Clearwire launched its WiMAX network in Portland, Ore., in January 2009 and became the first major operator in the United States to offer next-generation mobile broadband services. It was the first provider of 4G wireless service in Delaware, and now it’s on shaky economic ground. Clearwire and its majority shareholder, Sprint [...]