Despite Google’s Android version for tablet (presumably Honeycomb which is 3.0) hasn’t been launched yet, Wall Street Journal has taken the initiative to get into the tablet form factor before its official blessing from Google. That’s because current Android 2.2 and below are not optimized for tablet devices, thus not utilizing the extra screen estate. Read more…

These days it is quite rare to hear news of viruses infecting mobile phones, but a new round of viruses has been making waves onto cellphones in China, and they do mean serious problem. According to Shanghai Daily, a so-called zombie virus disguised as an anti-virus app has infected more than one million cellphone users in the country, and it has left users’ phones vulnerable to the malicious hackers that created the virus. Virus disguised as anti-virus has been known to hit computers, but this is the first for cellphones.

They’ve naturally taken advantage of that access to not only spread the virus further, but cash in by spamming the phones with money-making links and other general annoyances — all of which has also added up to about $300,000 a day in added text message charges for the users affected. Now the funny side of the story is that, apparently authorities have managed to track down the source, or the company that’s said to have developed such program, but they’ve pleaded innocent and insists that they’re actually a victim of it as well.

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Apple’s social network for music, Ping has not made a huge hu-ha ever since Steve Jobs announced this new site, but now it might just get a new ally. Twitter is getting some rather deep Ping integration this coming round.

In short, any of your Ping activity (posts, purchases, likes, and reviews) can be auto-tweeted (not at your own will, yet), and all it takes is just by simply linking your Twitter account to your Ping account from within iTunes. Unfortunately, right now it looks like the Tweets are an all-or-nothing affair (you don’t get to choose which aspects of your Ping activity you want broadcast). The good news on the Twitter end is that Ping tweets will include album art and song previews right from the fancy new Twitter UI, along with a purchase link, of course. Well, this integration seemed like a nice one to me.

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Well, this report probably best explains why you can hardly get your hands on Dell’s baby running on Windows Phone 7. Apparently, there’s some bug on the Venue Pro, and ‘lucky’ early adopters have faced some problems with it. Users have reported to face problems connecting to secure WiFi networks, and also some of their batteries are even labelled as “engineering samplers”. Probably explained why there’s problem with these units, it’s a norm for prototypes to be buggy you know? Read more…

The Samsung NX100 was previewed during Photokina this year, and now it’s getting a review by the folks at Photography Blog. The NX100 is a younger brother of the NX10, and comes with a high-quality APS-C sensor. Some seemed to be impressed with the i-Function Lens Control of the NX100, but not everyone loves it. The review at Photography Blog stated that they’d prefer the i-Function to be on cameras that has electronic viewfinders, which obviously would not be the NX100. The lack of a built-in pop-up flash, and optical or in-body stabilisation was also a disappointment. Read more…

Well Microsoft has spent quite a big sum for advertising their Xbox Kinect and the Windows Phone 7, so it’s no surprise that Sony wants to pick a fight with them. But strangely, Sony’s choice this time seemed slightly, creepy. Dystopian vision of a kid marching through corporate monotony isn’t your typical advertisement for a game console.

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On the first look, this would never be a computer in the eyes of by passers. Look more like a luxury toaster to me. A company called Xi3 Corporation today presented the Xi3 Modular Computer, a cube-shaped computer that measures less than 4-inch per side. The Xi3 Modular Computer is powered by AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 processors, either 2000+ 1GHz or 3400e 1.8GHz or 4200+ 2.2GHz, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory and integrated graphics engine with DirectX 10 support. It has two eSATA ports and six USB 2.0 ports, and offers DVI-D dual link and DisplayPort. Oddly two of the six USB 2.0 ports are coloured in orange. This might possibly make people mistaken them as USB 3.0 ports, even though typical USB 3.0 ports are usually coloured in blue. The aluminium casing of the Xi3 Modular Computer also serves as a type of heatsink, while the flow-through design and the placement of the processors within the computer combine to help mitigate and dissipate heat inside the enclosure itself. The Xi3 Modular Computer is priced at $849. Sadly there’s no HDMI port so this wouldn’t make it into the HTPC round.

SOURCE via itechnews

Not the best looking Samsung printer around, as I’ve seen some very sleek and sexy printer with glossy black surface from Samsung. Nevertheless, Samsung India has recently released the SCX-3201, which is claimed to be the world’s smallest multi-functional printer. Measuring 388mm x 299mm x 234mm, the USB-powered monochrome printer can print, copy as well as scan giving the “best cost per page.” The monthly duty cycle of the printer is up to 5,000 pages and speed of 17 pages per minute. The SCX-3201 can print up to 1200dpi resolution and features a Print Screen button, Eco-print button to lower the print resolution and Soft Power button to lower power consumption. The Samsung SCX-3201 is priced at Rs. 8,999 or around $200.

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First timer also gets some rebates.