While no one contests the utility of computers and tremendous potential of the Internet, one can’t help getting irked at the clutter of cables around the desktop that come with them. So, any announcement of a wireless device is a relief. D-Link announced its DUB-9240 Wireless USB kit today. ...

Cellphones will never cease inspiring people to innovate. They seem to be having the ability to integrate with just about anything. As if a radio, MP3 player, camera and organizer were not enough, now comes a new concept from Microsoft that enables a cellphone to also act as a control for you PC through WiFi. In a recent patent applicati...

A sneak peak into the Intel’s 45nm Penryn processor architecture, road map of which was seen by DailyTech, reveals that the leading chip-maker is planning four new Core 2 Duo chips and one new Core 2 Extreme, likely to hit the market in the first quarter of 2008. They all operate on an 800MHz frontside bus and are capable of delivering 2.1GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz ...

Compact that they are, laptops get heated quickly and that’s a cause of concern for most users and may also affect performance in the long run. A notebook PC cooler ‘NotePal Infinite ∞’ from Cooler Master could be just the solution for such people.  The ‘NotePal Infinite ∞’ cools down multip...

Mobile computing got past a few more notches in the computing speedometer with Asus announcing the launch of T500 3.5G High Speed PC card. With 3.6Mbps data download speed, this little wonder offers unique phone communication functions for the PC or laptop. The T500 supports SIM, phone book and Outlook ...

As newspaper headlines worldwide carry distressing news about terroristism, this should sound heartening. Recently, Olympus announced the development of an “Axial symmetrical free curved surface lens”, which can reportedly gather light 360 degrees horizontally and 45 degrees vertically and focus it on a CCD without the use of other lenses. While only a ...

There's so much information on the Internet that all it takes is a simple query on the search engine to have gigabytes of knowledge loaded on to your desktop. Easy as it may seem, you get the right info only when you type in the right query. Well, in most cases you are sure of what you want to know, but what about those brain-dead moments when you just get stuck? ...

Thanks to the video games enabled, you see people playing with their cell phones rather than making calls. The idea of a cellphone as a toy seemed to have been foremost on the mind of this designer who came up with this concept phone at Parkoz Hardware. What looks like your average smartphone suddenly springs to life and moves around lik...

Losing our way and moving about directionless is a frustrating experience most of us remember going through at least once, until Google Maps came and empowered us geographically. Planning a trip or finding an address in town became less of a hassle. Now, by adding Google Mapplets to the Google Maps site, the leading search engine has made...

It all seems pretty complex, but basically if you visit a malicious website using IE and click a link, then the website owner could get Firefox to run an evil code. The mostly likely result is your machine would be turned into a zombie machine (part of a botnet). The computer security firm Secunia, who announced the flaw, said the best way to avoid the above is to avoid malicious websites. T...

This nice new website, Cellfish, allows users to send their pictures, movies, and songs from their cellphones to their Cellfish account. All you need is two things: 1) a free Cellfish account and 2) a mobile plan that let's you send email. The whole thing is free (but they offer ringtones and other stuff for a fee also) and comes with unlimited storage. They have some great tutorial videos s...

Google has been gradually filling its basket of goodies to slowly creep up on Microsoft and hopefully knock them from every computer screen in offices or homes. The online search leader confirmed agreeing to buy web security provider Postini for $625 million. The deal will help Google provide larger organizations with more web-based services similar to its Google Apps package, which includes ...

Mention Olympics and a rich haul of gold medals is what one looks forward to. That is, if one is a sportsperson. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t good at the butterfly stroke or the hammer throw, so Samsung is here to ensure that you too get your own share of the Olympic spoils. In honor of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Samsung is rolling out the P...

It goes without saying that modern computing really took off ever since storage became plentiful and cheaper. Ironically, storage devices are also held responsible for hobbling computing, as hard drive access times haven't kept pace with processor clockspeed increases. Though flash drives or solid state drives are around, they still don’t combine speed and limitless storage capacity. ...

No doubt, USB drives are incredible devices allowing us the convenience of portability, especially for busy professionals on the move. But after a point – the maximum now is 160 to 200 gb – they get power hungry and can no longer run on USB buses. All those adapters and wires make portability all the more cumbersome. Fujitsu h...

The recent leaps in TV screen resolution have yet to include features for the visually impaired. Obviously so, it being an audio/visual medium. Thanks to advancement in technology, the visually impaired can now get a better feel of a television show with Audio Description (AD). During gaps in dialog, a voice explains the visual plot points if a TV is equipped with ...

The real fun in watching a movie has always been when viewing it on a big screen. Though the booming home video market and large screen televisions have brought big cinema right into our living room, non-mainstream movies have always been hard to get. Movie downloads on the Internet gave us more choice, but with a catch – you had to watch it on your monitor, as it was legally restricted f...

Multitasking is always believed to be one of the greatest features of computers, but is it really so? When it comes to working on cross-platform applications, the handicap gets exposed. Finally, VMware seems to have found a solution with Fusion. With this virtualization tool, you can access all the applications in a second operating system without a reboot. ...

Whether it's for video conferencing or checking up on you college kids, webcams have never delivered the greatest images (although the college kids might be naturally fuzzy from the night before). Webcams are gonna be much better in terms of resolution if they choose to go the Logitech way. Logitech has struck an exclusive deal with Carl...

Down the line, cellphones got jam-packed with so many features that their basic premise as a communication device started getting lost in a host of other applications. As technical glitzes made those devices only more frustrating, one starts wishing for the good old days when gadgets were oh-so-basic and utilitarian. So, in the days of f...

Ever since external drives were introduced, storage of data no longer became an issue. Every file or clipping you downloaded from the Web had a place outside the desktop or a laptop. And that was it. Seems nobody thought of extending their utility beyond computers, until Western Digital came up with My Library Video Edition DVR Expander. ...

Tour operators and airlines may have to soon look for other viable alternatives. Who’ll want to spend mega bucks and go sightseeing when all it takes is a click of the mouse to satiate their wanderlust? Virtual tours are here. Google Street View had already given us a sneak peek into the sights in Cyberworld. But thanks to the incon...

Very soon we’ll have people complaining about having to recharge batteries frequently. Not that batteries will turn out to be substandard suddenly, it’s only that there’s going to be a greater strain on their power resources. More and more memory gigabytes of memory are getting squeezed into microSD cards. SanDisk has a...

Two-thirds of the GYM (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) already offer over 2 GB of free storage and these Moes are "testing" 500 MB. Way to be on top of the marketplace. Well, I guess if you're a Hotmail users then this is good news. Having email and storage in a single-login state definitely makes life easier. It just seems like Microsoft has that early 90s mindset of "storage is s...

The search for the perfect display technology will probably never end. Good for us videophiles, a better and a varied choice! But come what may, cathode ray tubes are going to be around for some more years. Anyway, that’s beside the point. An interesting development is, high-definition television sets are acquiring newer technologi...

Levelstar’s Icon Mobile Manager is not your typical smartphone. It has neither an alluring design or a multicolor display. But if you were to ask what’s so unique about it, it’s because the device has been designed keeping the visually challenged in mind. Isn’t it what we call ‘technology with a human touch’?  ...

Languages are ever evolving and when it comes to that, English is the most dynamic of them all. As hundreds of foreign and newly coined words are added to the lexicon every year, older and rarely used words become redundant.  Incidentally, there’s a proliferation of newer words ever since Internet usage became widespread. Die-hard purists may scorn at ne...

Think of this situation. Ever since you got that external hard disk, you’ve been loading gigabytes of music, thousands of those oh-so-memorable photos and important files and documents into it. You thank your stars for the convenience of this huge storage space and are smug in the thought that everything’s safe. Until when yo...

Trust our gadget manufacturers to come up with some fancy features and get customers hooked. After seeing every possible feature in a digicam, the latest we hear is about touchscreen menu. Not that touchscreens are new to us. They have been around in ATMs and PDAs for long and we admit, the UI experience was different. But then is it worth paying a huge premium? ...

In the days of yore, a rudimentary device called compass was the only option available to show direction to those who lost their way or for those trying to chart new paths.  Centuries later, GPS-enabled cellphones or smartphones are doing the job, and much better. If you had found the GPS application wonderful, then here’s one...

For years, nay decades, television manufacturers had an insurmountable obstacle as far as screen size was concerned. With the limitations of analog technology, they couldn’t go beyond a 29-inch screen display without compromising on picture quality. Now, thanks to digital technology and its offshoots like LCD and plasma display tech...

Did you ever lose your way and wander aimlessly through a labyrinth  till you finally found a way out? If not, thank yourself for not belonging to the tribe of the geographically challenged who are burning precious gasoline in the process.  Anyway, thankfully for them, navigation systems in automobiles have come as a boon. With a new business opportunity ...

In the good old days of grandpa, personal movie collection meant cans of 16 mm films that cost a bomb, not to mention the cumbersome set-up for every viewing occasion. And it needed a roomful of space to house the collection. Dad’s days were better. VCR had become ubiquitous by then and he had a richer collection. Watching his favo...

Cell phones are amazing devices that help you stay connected with anyone, anywhere. But this very same convenience could be a nuisance sometimes, especially if you are in the midst of a corporate meeting or in an important engagement with others. Whatever the situation, when your phone rings you need to be able to check who’s calling. And that’s when yo...

We all know how VLSI or very large scale integration had brought about a revolution in electronics. One field which it transformed drastically was computers and that’s how we are able to have our palmtops and smartphones. Televisions were a bit lagging in adopting the technology and maybe that’s why mobile TVs aren’t so...

After Yahoo! bought Flickr, everyone has sorta been waiting for this news to come. Why have two image hosting sites under one roof? If you currently have pictures in a Yahoo Photos account, there's no rush to pull them out. But it would be better to do it now while you're still thinking about it. Here are your options: 1. Move your photos: You can move your photos to a Flickr, Kodak Galler...

There’s unlimited solar energy waiting to be tapped, only that technology is limited though. As environmental concerns are being raised everyday, gadgets like Freeloader are always welcome. Freeloader is a solar-powered charging station, which means you charge your gadgets for free while at the same time being eco-friendly! You can...

Now, this is what we called multi-tasking. Not that PCs weren’t multi-tasking earlier, but this one goes a step ahead. It doubles up as an LCD TV, complete with built-in speakers. Call it innovative thinking, the tablet PC Montevallo comes with two docks – one that morphs it into a traditional laptop/tablet and the other that...

The choice in flat-panel LCD high-definition TVs got only better with Sony introducing on Wednesday nine new models in the Bravia series with advanced features. The new models all feature 1920 x 1080 full high-definition resolution, 10-bit panels. Select models will also have the Motionflow 120Hz high frame rate technology as well as x.v...

Google has confirmed acquiring PeakStream, a developer of application interfaces for massively parallel processing. This deal marks Google’s entry into the developer space for multi-core CPUs and general purpose graphics processors (GPGPUs). Google plans to use the company and its resources to better in-house development for its ser...

Not even half a year into it, Microsoft seems to be looking beyond Windows Vista. The Redmond Companies has purportedly set its sight homeward and is focusing on the Windows kitchen client. Well, it’s mere speculation at this point, with unconfirmed sources and Microsoft not forthcoming about plans to customize the Windows operatin...

SigmaTel's chips are known for providing excellent sound quality, as well as efficient battery life and have been used in many mainstream players including the 1st Gen iPod Shuffle, Samsung YP-Z5, and the Sandisk Sansa Express. Now SigmaTel has come out with its fifth generation System On Chip (SoC) known as the STMP3700, which it claims ...

Amtek has designed the U560, a UMPC small enough to be put in a pocket. A prototype of the ultra portable computer is being shown at Computex. The U560 is a unique “flip-up” style UMPC with full QWERTY keyboard. It's got an Intel 600MHz/800Mhz processor (depending on the version), a 1.3-megpaixel camera, 3600mAh battery and a...

The more the better. In a market already cluttered with digital audio players of all sizes, shapes and brands, Thomson has introduced Black Diamond. So, while there is an additional choice for customers with the digital audio player that also goes by the moniker EH308, you don't really get anything out of the ordinary with this Black Diamond. ...

Akustica has designed the first HD (High Definition) microphone that enables HD voice quality in laptop PCs and other broadband mobile devices. The company says this AKU2103 mic is the first to "guarantee compliance with the TIA-920 audio performance requirement for wideband transmission in applications such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)." ...

Without cutting any kind of corners, HP has accomplished an impressive feat by bringing out a 95 % recyclable PC, the HPrp5700. And according to HP, the computer also uses 80 % less energy than a standard desktop! HP and the Green Electronics Council announced that the HPrp5700 Business Desktop PC is the first product to meet the stringe...

Unlike conventional laptops for consumers and business customers, rugged and semi-rugged notebooks have their internal components, like the hard drive, protected in shock-resistant casings and are more resistant to dust and water. Panasonic adds another two of its laptops onto the wagon of Santa Rosa- Toughbook CF-74 a...