Author: Amarnath Natarajan

Blackberry smartphones come under a new attack targeting their SMS feature according to security firm Trend Micro. The ZeuS Trojan, identified as BBOS_ZITMO.B, removes itself from the list of applications to be able to stay undetected rather than displaying any GUI. Once it is installed ZeuS sends you a confirmation message App Installed OK, to…

For: Design, Nice keyboard, Good and Solid Battery LifeAgainst: Mediocre display, Camera, Not a global phone, Windows Phone 7 still behind the competition with iOS and AndroidThe HTC announced its first Windows Phone 7 devices, the HTC Arrive is finally available from Sprint, is the first Windows 7 Phone available on a CDMA network. Its…

Googles answer to Amazons cloud music player, it takes Android based Music apps. The Tech From 10 website leaks out the Android Music app, they got it as a message received from a insider that developer version of Android Music is on, which allowed them to download Android3.0 and try it out on themselves. But…

Now Nokia E7 is available in Amazon for the price of $649, features QWERTY keypad, Email setup, Touchscreen, GPS, 8MP camera and many more. Its somewhat cheaper than the pre-order price $679 and its available now on $649 in Amazon. This buys a 4-inch 640*360 AMOLED display and camera is EDoF with dual LED flash,…

Nokia is fighting back now to get back well in the competitive World. The handset manufacturer has increasingly feeling the heat that the growing mobile market players have been fanning towards it. Nokia is in the midst of planning to aggressively with its new launches. This year they planned to launch 40 new models in…

Panasonic will launch the worlds largest Rewritable Blu-Ray Disk this month. The BD-RE XL Blu-Ray disk will have a capacity of 100 GB and costs around US $118 a piece. These Blu-Ray Disks will be available on April 15 in Japan. This new Blu-Ray disk is already supported by the BD players from Pioneer and…

Chris Walsh, a developer of ChevronWP7 jailbreak for Windows Phone 7 has released a hack that lets you bypass Microsoft and carriers to download WP7 updates on your own. According to him this tool is created, to address issues that raised during the recent Windows Phone 7 Update caused in Samsung smartphones.

Google Nexus S, which has been applauded for its up-to-date hardware with NFC (Near Field Computing) chip for mobile payments, is getting released for Sprint with compatibility for Sprints 4G WiMAX network. Google Nexus S 4G will be shipping for sprint from April 6 2011. This high-end Google Experience smartphone will feature ‘Gingerbread 2.3.3 and…

You dont need to carry H.264 live streaming encoder to capture more life moments, here comes the solution. In NAB show 2011, the Minicaster is capable of encoding and delivering a number of streams while recording at the same time, those settings can also be tweaked directly on the unit. The company recommends using it…

Rogers has now started accepting pre-orders for both the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Arc each of which will run you $99.99 on a 3 year contract and there is no indication of off-contract pricing yet. The current offer will end on May 2nd, which is the possible indication of the actual release date, or…

HTC havent told much about the Flyer tablet in MWC, they said its not to choose the OS for the tablet because it didnt have the time to customize it with its sense User Interface. Its finally came to the matter again, it replied to a question in Twitter by saying that it will be…

Sonys streaming subscription service, Music Unlimited, is headed to both the PlayStation and Next Generation Portable and Sony Erricssons Xperia Play. Sony Network Entertainment VP Shawn Layden, who spread the news readily, confirms that the service would be activated on the Play Station Portable in a matter of weeks. Android phones including the infamous PlayStation…

Amazon wants you to think it does not care about licensing the music that it will let you store in the cloud. The Wall Street Journal cites a pair of anonymous sources who says Amazon wont confirm such a thing. They say Amazon may move to the system that compares users uploaded songs with a…

Asus has introduced its new Eee Pad Transformer Tablet with a full size mobile docking station that allows the device to be used as a notebook. The tablet runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb update with new Asus MyWave User Interface on top on it. A 1GHz Nvidia Tegra2 Processor has 10.1-inch touchscreen display, dual cameras and…

Yet another low cost Android tablet seems to be HCLs. The HCL ME tablet, an Android 2.2 Froyo tablet, expected at a starting price of Rs.14,990 according to the reports in Hindu Business Line. It is the same manufacturer bagged to provide the 1 lakh units of Rs.1,500 or $35 for the university students.

Google announced that it will delay the distribution on Android Honeycomb, its newest source code, for the foreseeable future. Designed to run on tablets, the Honeycomb Operating System is already powering Motorolas Xoom tablet and is expected to appear in other devices too. But Google, said Honeycomb is not yet ready for the public release…

You can now get use of Motorola Droidphone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The latest release of Android 2.3 builds for Droid X and Droid 2 from My Droid World makes it happen for Motorola Droidphones. Droids life got all the details, including videos and complete instructions for your device and downloading the Android OS. Gingerbread…

Amazon pushed its own music streaming service, which is conveniently streamed in Amazon Cloud Player. Existing customers can upload 5 GB of their MP3 streaming on cloud space, can be upgraded to 20 GB free by purchasing any MP3 album from them, and additional plans $20 per year and start streaming on your computers and…