Author: Tarandeep Kaur

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Apple Introduces iLife ’09

Apple® today introduced iLife® ’09, which features major upgrades to iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand®, and includes iDVD® and an updated version of iWeb™. iPhoto ’09 builds on the ability to automatically organize photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as breakthrough new ways to easily organize and manage your photos. iMovie ’09 expands on the revolutionary super fast movie creation introduced in iMovie ’08 by adding the depth users want through powerful easy-to-use new features such as the incredible new Precision Editor, video stabilization, advanced drag and drop, and animated travel maps.

Apple.com/ilife/

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Songs DRM-free on Apple iTunes very soon!

Beginning today, all four major music labels—Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thousands of independent labels, are now offering their music in iTunes Plus, Apple’s DRM-free format with higher-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings. iTunes customers can also choose to download their favorite songs from the world’s largest music catalog directly onto their iPhone 3G over their 3G network just as they do with Wi-Fi today, for the same price as downloading to their computer

Distributing DRM-free music is the way to go. With DRM-free music, the trouble of copying music to non-DRM compatible hardware is a big plus. There is one more great news. Most of the songs on iTunes are now priced at $0.69 rather than $1.29.

But, wait! What about the songs that are already in not DRM-free? For that, the Apple is charging a modest 30 cents per song or 30% of the album price. This means that you will still end up paying a lot in the end to make your existing music collection DRM-free.

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ASUS P565 unboxed or shall I say "World's fastest PDA-phone unboxed"

I received the ASUS P565 yesterday and I could not wait for a single second to rip open the box. Here are few pictures that I took of the box and have given brief information about what is there in the box.

..and here is what you get in the box

  • ASUS P565
  • AC adapter
  • A really sleek leather case
  • Battery (1300mAh)
  • Getting started CD and Bonus CD
  • mini-USB cable
  • Wired headset

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The red hot Exper Style Netbook of Turkey

NO, this is not sport car. It’s the Exper Style Netbook. It looks incredibly great in the red hot color . Although the specifications of the Exper Style Netbook are not very different from the netbooks that are currently available in the market, it’s style is enough to give you the feel of owning a red ferrari. Although the price of it is not ferrari-ish. It is priced for ~$470 in Turkey.

The red hot Exper Style Netbook of Turkey

Features:-

8.9-inch display
1GB RAM
Windowx XP
Intel Atom Processor
SSD storage
Webcam

Remember the sports ASUS EEE 1000H that we posted few days back? Well, it looks like folks at Exper Style took some inspiration from that guy and painted their own netbook in red. Yellow Corvette versus Red Ferrari anyone?

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It is official – UIQ is history now

Software Company, UIQ which was jointly owned by Sony Ericsson and Motorola has filed in the court of Sweden for bankruptcy. The company’s official say that there is no market and no consumer for the UIQ platform. For those who don’t know about UIQ, it is the mobile OS that powered the Sony Ericsson’s Pxxx series so far, which includes P800, P900, P910, P990 and P1i. It also powered the Motorola A1000.

Last year, with the announcement by Sony Ericsson to use Windows Mobile for their Smartphone range, it was a clear signal that the Sony Ericsson has lost faith in the UIQ platform. To add salt to the wound, Motorola too left the poor UIQ all alone in the game by switching to Android.

It is a known fact that the UIQ had been cutting staff from the past 6 months. Right now, the company is down to just 200 employees. Living and surviving in a competitive phone market is not an easy job. The UIQ, without the support from Sony Ericsson and Nokia, was left crippled to face the likes of iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian. The employees of the UIQ are blaming the poor management for the bankruptcy, which is actually not true considering the fact that we saw very less or no development in the UIQ field.

UIQ website

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Pocket Player 4.0 released by Conduits

Conduits Technologies, Inc., announced today the release of Pocket Player 4.0, an alternative media player for Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC and Smartphone. Pocket Player aims to satisfy consumers who demand more from a dynamic media player on a mobile device, and recently won Best Audio at the 2008 Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards for its Pocket PC and Smartphone editions.

Pocket Player 4.0 introduces AAC and M4A playback and podcast subscriptions, as well as enhanced MP3 support and other improvements. Pocket Player 4.0 is fully compatible with all Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6, and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. Continue reading “Pocket Player 4.0 released by Conduits”

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ThinkPad W700ds officially announced!

Remember the ThinkPad W700ds, which we mentioned about 2 weeks back? Well, during the CES 2009, they have officially announced the W700ds. The ThinkPad W700ds gives users prime screen real-estate as the first mobile workstation in the industry with two screens. Lenovo is calling it as the ultimate mobile workstation.

“The ThinkPad W700ds dual screen mobile workstation challenged our international development team to engineer a notebook to fit the way workstation users work – in the office and on the road,” said Mark Cohen, vice president, Notebook Business Unit, Lenovo. “Bringing this level of innovation to the most extreme PC users required continually balancing size and functionality with keeping the PC cool and quiet. This mobile workstation is the result of where Lenovo innovation and performance intersect.”

Only time will tell, if the users really like the dual-screen concept. While this laptop workstation would be overkill for an average Joe, it will be actually be appreciated by those who desire the extra real-estate while working on documents. One thing to note is that the secondary display acts as a secondary monitor. This means that you cannot use a third monitor to extend the display, if the second monitor is in use.

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ezGear Announces New ezSpace Wall Mount UFO

ezGear, a leading manufacturer of innovative electronic accessories announces the extension of their top selling ezSpace UFO space saving surge protectors with the introduction of the ezSpace Wall Mount UFO. Created in the shape of the iconic round “UFO” the ezSpace UFO is a 6 outlet plug expander with built in 1050 Joule surge protection that provides space for a large plug or transformer on each outlet.

The new ezSpace Wall Mount UFO, the 6th product in the ezSpace product family, is our smallest and most cost effective model to date.  The ezSpace Wall Mount UFO plugs directly into the power outlet on your wall and provides the same 6 outlets standard on our other models.  The ezSpace Wall Mount UFO includes a LED indicator and a reset button on the front.  The middle of the ezSpace UFO houses a screw to secure the ezSpace Wall Mount to the outlet, so it will stay in place, even with multiple large transformers plugged in.  Like all other ezSpace models, the ezSpace wall mount UFO on ezGear’s patent pending technology.

The ezSpace Wall Mount UFO will be available in Q2/2009.  For more information please visit www.ezgear.com/UFO/ezSpace_WallMount.html

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MSI X-Slim 320 – MSI’s answer to Apple Macbook Air

MSI is all set to introduce a 13.4-inch notebook, which runs Intel Atom processor. The display has an aspect ratio of 16:9 and weighs a modest 1.3kg. It is incredibly thin too having a depth of just 1.98cm. X-Slim 320 originally comes with a 4-cell battery inside it’s box, but there is also a 8-cell battery which can give you nearly 10 hours of battery life.

MSI X-Slim 320 - MSI's answer to Apple Macbook Air

It also comes with 3 USB ports,  RJ-45 port and card reader. With the rumored price of around $999, this clearly makes it more “bang for a buck” than the Apple’s Macbook Air, which also looks very similar to X-Slim 320 by MSI.

Coming back to the use of Intel Atom processor in MSI X-Slim 320, does this make it a netbook? I guess we will soon have to change the main definition of netbook to one of the following soon:

Any device bigger than 7″ that runs a full Desktop OS and is capable of accessing the Internet

or

Any device that runs Intel Atom processor

I admit the last definition is pretty vague considering the fact that the HP also has plans to use Atom processor in one of their upcoming Notebooks. Netbooks were origianally meant to act like those cheap mini-laptops that offered full desktop OS and could quickly connect us to the Internet. But now, as the Atom is now being used in bigger devices, should them also be considered as netbook?

What are you thoughts?

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Lenovos S10 now offers something more – SocialNetworking application and Multitouch

Almost a month ago, we gave you a brief overview of the Lenovo S10. Lenovo today has unveiled a new version of it’s IdeaPad S10 netbook. Although, there is no major variation in hardware, but the software has something new to offer. It is now coming preloaded with a social networking application called LenovoSocial. Also, there is a new application called Quick Start, which gives the user a list of his frequenty used applications. The trackpad driver also has been updated and it now supports multi-touch.

This new S10 will be available at a price tag of $349.

Visit LenovoSocial