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Nokia Confirms New C-series Phones

Nokia C6 Becomes Official With WiFi & Bluetooth, Release Date Yet to Be Announced
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

Nokia’s heavily-rumored C-series new mobile phones have not only been confirmed by the Finnish manufacturer, they’ve also cleared the FCC as Nokia RM-612, meaning that we’re looking at an imminent release in the US. After finding out from Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president of markets at Nokia, just how bad [...]

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Neonode zForce Pad Multitouch Touchscreen Platform

zForce Pad Suited for Low-Cost Tablet PCs, MIDs & ‘iPad-Like’ Products
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

The Swedish company Neonode, who are behind products such as the Neonode N2 and the zBook (a budget touchscreen eBook reader) have announced their new zForce Pad touchscreen platform which is aimed specifically at ‘companies who develop and sell touch screen based mobile internet and computer devices such as tablet-PCs [...]

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HP MediaSmart EX470 & EX480 Server 3.0 Update Confirmed

EX470 & EX480 Update Available Next Week - Will Cost You
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

HP have confirmed that owners of their MediaSmart EX470 and MediaSmart EX480 servers can upgrade their servers to their new 3.0 software as is already available for the MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 servers, but, sure to annoy those looking to upgrade, the new 3.0 software will cost you.

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Vodafone UK Mocks O2 for Being the Fastest Web Browsing Operator

O2 Study Puts Vodafone as Best UK Network
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

Long time enemies for who’s the best British carrier for the latest smartphones, Vodafone has a new reason to mock O2 as they’ve been named the fastest operator in the UK for accessing the web. While O2 won first place when it comes to music download, a series of independent [...]

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Nokia N97 User Experience Was a "Tremendous Disappointment"

Senior Nokia Exec Acknowledges N97 Failures, Low Experience Quality
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

Although Nokia’s N97 was a real success in terms of sales, it looks like the Finnish mobile manufacturer is not quite happy with the response they got from the consumers actually using the handset. In a recent interview with the folks from Mobile Industry review (duly credite below), Anssi Vanjoki, [...]

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Google Confirms YouTube IE6 Browser Support to Cease

Google’s IE6 Onslaught Continues, IE6 Users to Upgrade by March 12 or Loose New Features
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

Back at the beginning of February we advised you that Google would be dropping its support of IE6 concerning its Web Apps, including Google Docs, and now, unsurprisingly, Google are starting to remind YouTube users using IE6 that they are set to drop support of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser.

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Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S Awards Edition Heading to Geneva

Maserati to Debut Quattroporte Awards Edition at the Geneva Motor Show
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

Although the auto industry has taken quite a hit last year, in 2010 things look much better and by the looks of it, the Motor Show in Geneva next month is going to be amazing for all car enthusiasts. Among those to surprise visitors with more appealing models, Maserati have [...]

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SanDisk G3 SSDs Hit US & Europe

SanDisk G3 60GB & 120GB SSDs Boast ExtremeFFSTM Technology, Windows 7 TRIM Support
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

Following on from offering you a heads up concerning the release of their new 64GB Ultra SDXC memory card yesterday SanDisk once again makes the pages of TFTS thanks to the release of their new SSD range, known as the SanDisk G3 SSD series.

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LG X200 & X140 Netbooks Announced Ahead of CeBIT

LG X200 & X140 Netbooks Surfacing in Korea with N450 CPUs
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

LG is trying to get some media attention by announcing new models ahead of the CeBIT tradeshow in Hanover (Germany) which kicks in next week. If yesterday we found out that the 11.6-inch LG T280 ultraportable has been officially announced for the ultralight XNOTE lineup, today we’re hearing that they’re [...]

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LaCie d2, d2big & d5big Network Storage Systems Updated

LaCie Upgrade CPUs, Offer Widget Based UIs & Add USB Connectivity to D-Series Devices
By on Wednesday, 24. February 2010

LaCie have confirmed that they have acted to update their D-Series network storage systems – specifically taking in the LaCie d2 Network 2 Professional Storage Server, the LaCie 2big Network 2 Professional 2-Bay RAID Server and the LaCie 5big 5-Bay RAID NAS.

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