Archive for November, 2009

Walmart Cyber Monday Deals on Laptops, Notebooks & Netbooks

Walmart’s Best Deals: Acer Aspire Netbook, HP & Dell Laptops Heavily Discounted
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

So far today we’ve offered you a heads up concerning Walmart’s best Cyber Monday deals on HDTVs and selected the best of their Cyber Monday deals on cameras and camcorders for you and now we turn our attention to thouse of you mlooking for that killer deal on a laptop, [...]

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Google-made Phone 'Guaranteed' By Leak

Google Sources Says Google Phone Prototype In Use On Campus, Running 'Real' Verison Of Android
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

File this one in the ‘rumor’ category. A ‘trusted source’ within Google revealed to Gizmodo that a Google Phone is coming, and they weren’t talking about a handset from Motorola or some other company running Android, a real life honest-to-goodness Google designed and manufactured mobile phone.

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Walmart Cyber Monday Camera & Video Camera Deals

Walmart Cyber Week Deals on Flip Ultra HD, Sony Cyber-shot, Nikon CoolPix, Samsung & Kodak Cameras
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

Having just offered you our selective roundup concerning Walmart’s hottest Cyber Monday deals on HDTVs we follow up with a carefully selected listing of the best Walmart Cyber Monday deals on cameras and video cameras – including a discount deal on the Flip Ultra HD video cam as well as [...]

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Phenom Dream Watch Phone Gets Official

Quad-band, Dual SIM, World Watch Phone Available for $395
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

This is neither the first nor the last watch phone we will see here on TFTS but it’s a brand new one launched by Phenom Communications. It’s also supposed to be a very hot one although it’s up to you to decide if it can top LG’s watch phone which [...]

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Nokia Sticking With Symbian

Finish Cell Phone Manufacturer Commits To Symbian, Only One New Linux-based Phone
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

Nokia, which is still the world’s #1 mobile phone manufacturer (remember, not all mobile phones are flashy smartphones that us technophiles use), is going to stick with the Symbian OS, according to a source inside Nokia. When the flagship Nokia N900 was released earlier this month running Linux-based Maemo, it started rumors [...]

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Walmart Cyber Monday HDTV Deals

Walmart HDTV Deals Low Down: Bargain Bonanza on HDTVs from Sony, Panasonic, Samsung & Sceptre
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

If you missed bagging a bargain on Black Friday – which would have seen you miss out of, for example, on a particularly impressive Best Buy laptop deal we tipped you on back on Thursday – then fear not, as we can offer you a heads up concerning a spate [...]

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Samsung Sold 50 Million Touchscreen Phones to Date

40 Million Touchscreen Handsets Sold in 2009 Alone
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

I don’t know what happened today as everyone is bragging about their business. Sure it’s the end of another month and Black Friday has just passed by, but the holiday shopping season is still underway. We’ve seen Amazon showing off its record Kindle sales for November and now it’s time [...]

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Tweetie 2.1 for Twitter App for iPhone/iPod Touch Now Available

Tweetie 2.1 App Offers Retweet, Geotagging & Lists Functionality
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

What is widely recognised as being one of the most accomplished Twitter Apps for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch, namely Tweetie, has now been updated to Tweetie 2.1 with the updated seeing the implementation of Twitter’s new retweeting feature, geotagging and Twitter lists support along with a whole [...]

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iPhone Next-Generation Spotted in the Wild?

Next-Gen iPhone Tested by Apple; Dedicated Maps Navigation App Coming Soon
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

What do you say, Apple lovers, are you ready for the next-gen iPhone rumor frenzy? It’s almost December 2009 and we have a long way to go until June 2010. That’s when Apple is expected to unveil its brand new iPhone and until then we can count on more and [...]

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iRiver Story eBook Reader Gains Release in UK

iRiver Story 6” QWERTY eBook Reader Yours For £230 from Amazon
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

What with Alex having advised you last week that the iRiver Story eBook Reader had hit the UK we can now also advise UK based readers who are looking for an alternative to Amazon’s own eBook reader, the Amazon Kindle, or offerings from other companies such as Sony, that the [...]

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