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Motorola Milestone XT720 and Backflip released in India

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a global leader in mobile telecommunications Indian subsidiary, Motorola India Private Limited, today introduced MILESTONE XT720 and the Blackflip, set to become the first Android 2.1-powered phones for India.

Opera 10.60 came with WebM support

Opera Software released final version of Opera browser 10.60 for Windows, Linux, Mac platforms with several new features, more user security and enhanced stability. This release comes with Javascript engine 50% faster than 10.50 version along with advanced Web standards such as HTML5 and WebM video is now included. Opera 10.60 also adds built-in AVG malware protection.

Seagate pre-loads FreeAgent Go HDDs with Paramount movies

Segate, hard drive manufacturer teams up with the Paramount Digital Entertainment in order to roll out in the US 500GB FreeAgent Go 2.5-inch portable HDD pre-loaded with 21 Paramount movies. In 21 movies the StarTek (2009 version) is free to view and other 20 movies included requiring the purchase from http://seagate.paramountshop.com of a license key that costs between $9.99 and $14.99. The whole DVD-quality film collection takes up 50GB of space so you'll still have enough bytes for other storage needs.

Adobe CS5 is here

Adobe, today introduced its newest Creative Suite - CS5. The suites comes in five editions - CS5 Design Standard, CS5 Design Premium, CS5 Master Collection, CS5 Web Premium and CS5 Production Premium. The pricing for preordered bundles ranges from $1,899 (or $599 if upgrading) for CS5 Design Premium to US$2,599 (or $899 if upgrading) for the CS5 Master Collection.

ASUS Released 8-core, 12-core AMD Opteron supported G34 Board.

Asus has already released its first Magny-Cours-ready motherboard which supports new 8- and 12-core Opteron 6100 processors. The motherboard featuring the AMD G34 socket with an AMD SR5690/SP5100 chipset as well as the board has eight (4-channel) DDR3 memory slots per CPU, ASUS unique PIKE upgrade kit, and ASUS ASMB4-iKVM module for remote management. total 6 PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E slots, 14 SATA ports, three Ethernet connectors, and a D-Sub output.

Google Nexus One smartphone launched.

Google has officially introduced the Nexus One smartphone made by HTC running brand new Android 2.1. This measures 119 (H) x 59.8 (W) x 11.5 (D) mm, weights 130 grams, and boasts a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor QSD 8250, 512MB of flash memory and 512MB of RAM, a 3.7-inch (800x480) AMOLED screen, plus a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash

Nexus One comes with 3.5mm headphone jack, and a multicolored LED under the trackball. There are also two mics, one on the bottom and one on the back, for the purpose of noise cancellation, and can be custom engraved with two lines of text at the time of order.

Intel's 48 core single-chip cloud computer one of co-creator is Intel Banglore(INDIA).

Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, This chip is 10 to 20 times the processing power of today's most popular Intel Core-branded processors. It also includes a high-speed on-chip network along with new power management techniques allow all 48 cores to operate extremely energy efficiently at as low as 25 watts, or at 125 watts at maximum performance.

Copper Ridge motherboard running the 48-core processor

World's Fastest Graphics Card, Dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 Launched

AMD has launched the ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, the fastest card graphic card ever seen.It uses two 5800 series chipsets on the same card to provide the best performance possible.

The 2GB dual-GPU card is the first to support Microsoft DirectX 11 and also supports up to three displays at once for a 7680x1600 maximum resolution with high over clocking potential.

This beat is capable of delivering nearly 5 teraflops of raw processing power and mind blowing 10 teraflops in CrossfireX setup.

It consumes as little as 42w in idle mode.thanks to its 40-nanometer manufacturing process.This card is tagged $599 in international market.

NVIDIA Replaces Entry level Graphics

NVIDIA just announced their newest Graphics card the NVIDIA GeForce 310 an entry level graphics processor that replaces the users standard integrated graphics card.

The GeForce 310 can be used as a low-end graphics solution, to enhance photo and video editing, watch HD movies, play mainstream 3D games, and a complete Windows 7 support.The 310 is a PCI-Express 2.0 card, which supports OpenGL 3.0 and Microsoft DirectX 10.1, has a 64-bit memory interface, 16 CUDA cores and a memory bandwidth of 8Gbps.The card has 16 processing cores, the GPU core is clocked at 589MHz, it comes with 512 MB DDR2 (500MHz, 64-bit) and supports Nvidia's PureVideo and CUDA technologies, Microsoft DirectX 10.1 as well as OpenGL 3.1.It is equipped with DVI, VGA and DisplayPort connectors, supports HDMI Via dongle (DVI-HDMI or DP-HDMI) and also has a internal Audio Input for HDMI.

Finally Every PC needs good graphics,that's what NVIDIA says.

Opera Mobile 10 beta for Nokia smartphones Available.

Opera Software released the beta build of upcoming Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia symbian based smartphones. It features Opera Turbo server-side compression technology as it in Opera mini 5 and Opera 10. Opera claiming this version is twice faster in speed as compared to its predecessor. With new interface includes tabs, Speed Dial and finally it is free.

Nero 9 Reloaded with Windows 7 Support

Nero AG introduced updated version of Nero 9 digital media suite with the name Nero 9 Reloaded having the few tweaks, bug fixes and Windows 7 support. This version ensures the users archive the HD videos without a burner.

Nokia Announced X6 with Comes with Music and X3 in series 40

Nokia Today Announced the Nokia X6 and X3 phones. Nokia X6 features 3.2-inch touchscreen optimised for photos and videos. 32GB of storage with chubby 0.55-inch thick form factor. 35 hours of music playback, Nokia X6 is a Comes with Music device, 5 megapixel camera, dual LED flash, TV-out, video editing, online sharing, Nokia Music store, full web browser and Flash Lite support too. ?

Windows Mobile 6.5 based mobile phones debut on October 6th

Microsoft, today announced that the mobile phones featuring Windows Mobile 6.5 will be available from October 6th. The new mobile operating system features a new user interface, Windows Marketplace (an app store), a backup service called Microsoft My Phone, photos, video, contacts, etc to the web, and more. they'll also feature Office Mobile.?

PCI Express 3.0 Details showed up

The PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group), PCI spec controller group, announced the transfer rate for the upcoming PCI-Express 3.0 specification, expected to debut by the end of 2009 or early 2010. According to information, current specifications exist in the version 0.7, whereas series products with the support of new interface will appear not earlier than 2011. PCIe 3.0 will have transfer rate of 8GT/s, compared to PCIe 2.0's 5GT/s. GT stands for GigaTransfers per second, and differs from the standard unit of measurement due to PCI-Express encoding system. The encoding system is 8bit or 10bit.PCI Express 3.0 uses the same connector and is backward compatible with PCIe 2.0.

Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Talk out of beta

Gmail, When first released in 2004, like other softwares it came with the Beta tag. But it holds the Beta tag five years after launch.? Finally the Google thought to remove its well know beta tag for Google apps means not only gmail beta tag but also removed for Google Docs, calendar and Talk.

iPhone 3G~S Specs Revealed

T-Mobile has posted some technical specs about the iPhone 3G S.

Apple has flatly refused to tell anyone just what chips lie inside the iPhone 3G S but T-Mobile of Netherlands has released the hardware specs..

Kingston ahead to grab consumer SSD market

Kingston Technology has announced the release of its new? SSDNow V series solid state drives (SSDs). Kingston SSD target mass production for consumers who are seeking Value for Money(VFM) without compromising on performance.

These SSDs bundle..

Penguin USB drive

A new Penguin Flash drives has been introduced into the market.Standing only 2.2 inches tall,the WWF Penguin USB Drive is shorter than a car key. Its available in 2/4/8/16GB capacities.This little fellow's up for order right now for $12.95 to $42.95.

Gigabyte's Fashion Gadget,The GM-M7800S Wireless Mouse

GIGABYTE has announced a Mouse that comes with Swarovski crystals and two-tone-stitched leather.
The GM-M7800S;plated in 18K gold and is built of high quality leather.

This mouse is equipped with a nano 2.4GHz wireless receiver offers maximum data transfer rates of...

EVGA Launches Innovative Products in Computex 2009

EVGA launches Innovative products in Computex 2009 which seems to be revolutionary and attractive too.
The line of products include EVGA UV Plus+, EVGA 780i SLI FTW and the special one EVGA InterView.

Gigabyte launches new series of motherboards.

Gigabyte brings the new X58 series of motherboards from the extreme to mid-range UD4 motherboard series.The GA-EX58A-Extreme and GA-EX58A-UD5 is featured with Gigabyte's new 24-phase power delivery system.These series has new features such as the new DES2 technology, four Marvell 6Gb/s SATA ports, dual LAN with auto-switching ports, and improved memory performance apart from regular features.Apart from these it has also launched 785G based GA-MA785GPM-UD2H and upcoming P55 platform based entry level GA-EP55-UD3R and mid-range GA-EP55-UD4P user, to the enthusiast GA-EP55-UD5.
Gigabyte also displayed a wide variety of Netbooks, Ultra Thin Notebooks, PC cases,input devices, video cards and....

AMD announces two 45nm desktop CPUs

AMD has announced two new 45nm dual-core desktop CPUs, the Athlon X2 250 and Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition.AMD is also planning to launch a DirectX 11 compatible GPU series for Windows 7.

Tecus launches new NAS devices.

Thecus,the manufacturer of network solutions,launches various NAS devices in Computex 2009,Taipei.Thecus comes with lots of features and innovative functions.

These can be used as an iTunes server, photo web server or as a media server making it a central hub for all digital content besides acting as advanced NAS solution; at its best.

AMD Delivers the World's First 1 GHz GPU With Radeon HD 4890 Air Cooled

"Nine years after launching the world?s first 1 GHz CPU, AMD is again first to break the gigahertz barrier with the factory overclocked, air-cooled ATI Radeon? HD 4890 GPU ?"

AMD announced the world's first 1GHz graphics processor (without third-party / overclocking) with the ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU with air cooling. When HD 4890 is released it is the 850MHz clock version. Power color released 950MHz core clock speed version. What ever we are seeing the 1GHz versions are overclocked verions of Standard 850MHz core clock speed.

Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download now

The Windows 7 RC1 is now available officially for public through Microsoft's Customer Preview program. The RC will be available at least through July 2009 and the number of product keys are not limited, so you have plenty of time. The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. So you have a year time to purchase the windows 7 original copy.

Windows 7 RC is available to Microsoft OEM partners now for Public on may 5th

As per the information by microsoft partners Program site, Microsoft next generation Windows 7 Release Candidate is available to Technet and MSDN Subscribers now. It will be available to public on may 5, 2009. But accroding to arstechnica, The build is not yet available to Technet and MSDN subscribers.?

Intel Westmere (32nm) Samples Shipped Already to its Partners

As We know Intel already Demonstrated the working 32nm processor. And now intel speedup the process of getting out the Westmere 32nm processor.

Now Its time for the Intel P55 (LGA-1156 Socket) Motherboards.

Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Biostar and Jetway companies are showing their upcoming P55 motherboards in CeBIT.Asus is showing off two, the P7U and P7U Pro,?MSI board came with the name G7P55-DC and?G9P55-DC,?Gigabyte model is GA-IBP,?The Biostar board to be called TPower I55 and?The Jetway is with HI05-LF.

Intel Demonstrates First Working 32nm-based processor

10th, Feb 2009 San Francisco, Intel corp, World's largest semiconductor company demonstrated the first working 32nm processor. Intel Corporation discussed new milestones for 32nm manufacturing and progress toward future products.

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summary of the roadmap

Windows 7 Beta Download Deadline Extended

Microsoft Corp. extended the download deadline of the windows 7 beta till Feb 12th as the demand for downloading the preview is more.
? ?"Because enthusiasm continues to be so high for the Windows 7 Beta and we don't want anyone to miss out we will keep the Beta downloads open through February 10th.

Fedora 10 Released.

Finally the Fedora Project, today announced the release of Fedora 10 with latest free and open source software. Fedora 10 features? Plymouth, the new graphical boot system speeds up the boot process by utilising the features in new kernel. Fedora 10 includes the OpenOffice.org 3.0 and GNOME 2.24.1, Wireless connection sharing enables ad hoc network sharing, local and remote connections Virtualization storage is simplified

12+ MPix with Sony new Exmor CMOS on mobile phones

In recent years the mobile phones are getting high quality products and features in recent years. Sony pushed the camera MPix above the 12 by announcing the 12.25 megapixel Exmor CMOS which will be available in near future mobile phones. The 12.25 also comes with a new 1/2.5 lens module, the U060. Sony also announced the 5.15 and 8.11. In addition, the design of mobile phone itself smaller and thinner to improve its own built-in camera will be required to further miniaturization is growing

OpenOffice 3.0 Finally Released.

????????? Finally the most awaiting openoffice.org 3.0 is released? with new enhanced features OpenOffice.org is a free cross-platform office application suite. OpenOffice.org 3.0 has major enhancements and usability features. OpenOffice.org 3.0 version includes some new features like support for OpenDocument Format? 1.2 (ODF 1.2).? Because of heavy demand on openoffice.org, server is facing problems.

Madriva 2009 Released

Mandriva 2009 has been released on 9th,October 2008. The Mandriva 2009 comes with redesigned installer and new KDE 4.1 as default desktop. The 2009 version includes kernel 2.6.27, X.Org 7.3, GNOME 2.24, KDE 4.1.2 (and 3.5.10 in / contrib), Mozilla Firefox 3 and Open Office 3.0.

Asus P6T Deluxe: Asus showed the first board with X58 chipset.

The high-end P6T Deluxe is shown by Asus that it will be the first X58 motherboard in the market. It is confirmed by asus to announce X58 motherboard with SLI support very soon, not P6T Deluxe, ROG motherboard perhaps.

More USB 3.0 details emerged.

Everybody knows that intel is working on USB 3.0 specification and it released it recently. When USB 2.0 emerged it increased the bandwidth of USB 1.1 from 12Mbps to 480Mbps. But this time the USB 3.0 is upping the bandwidth to 10x making it to 4.8Gbps. The maximumpc is duggup some details about the specifications that is what we are going to discuss.

Nehalem and It's Successors

Nehalem, Intel new architecture is not yet officially launched, But we got information about it's successors, on which intel is working on. The new CPU therefore follow the pattern of development "Tick-Tock", i.e; a new architecture every two years (Tock), followed by a die shrink (Tick). In exclusivity, here are the code names of future generations of processors, and until 2012.

Calpella - New Intel's Nehalem-based laptop platform

Intel working on next generation notebook platform codenamed as "Calpella", since it's apparently what Intel is calling its next laptop platform. In addition to b/g/n WiFi it also supports WiMAX.

Hitachi shows perpendicular recording density to 610Gb / square inch is possible

Hitachi, Ltd. is working on perpendicular recording technology and made improvements to it. Finally on 31st, July 2008, Announced that the maximum storage density possible is 610 Gb/square inch. This is far better than current technique. It leads 2.5x times HDD capacities that are currently available. May be Tera era actually here. We would be talking about only Tera HDDs in the near future.

Microsoft's Midori -- a future without Windows

Microsoft seems to be preparing for that day with an incubation project code-named Midori, which seeks to create a componentized, non-Windows OS that will take advantage of technologies not available when Windows first was conceived, according to published reports.

Although Microsoft won't comment publicly on what Midori is, the company has confirmed that it exists. Several reports-- the most comprehensive to date published on Tuesday by Software Development Times-- have gone much further than that.

KDE 4.1 Released.

To day i.e; 29th, July 2008, The KDE community released the KDE 4.1.0. This is second release in KDE 4 series. It has so may improvements over Previous release or KDE 4.0 like integration of the Personal Information Management suite with KMail, KOrganiser, Akregator, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the newsgroup reader and many more components integrated into the Kontact shell. Furthermore, the new desktop shell Plasma, introduced in KDE 4.0

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