Archive for January, 2009

Study Reveals Too Much Facebook Can Make Teenage Girls Depressed

Researchers from Stony Brook University have declared that excessive co-rumination–perhaps you would refer to it as “chatting with your friends about your problems”–by text, e-mail and on social-networking sites leaves impressionable teenage girls more prone to anxiety and depression.

“There is a wealth of communication technology available to teens today that allows them to talk over [...]

American won’t Enjoy the Philips’ 56-inch Cinema 21:9 HDTV

American cannot enjoy the Philips’ 56-inch cinema 21:9 HDTV. Phillips has announced that they won’t ever be sold in America. It’s much unexpected news for Americans. Still this is not clear that what reasons behind this. But The American who love Philips will away from this. Although Philips farmed out its Blu-ray/DVD and TV operations [...]

India’s $10 (Rs 500) Laptop Coming on February 3rd

Get ready for India’s $10 laptop which is set for its first unveiling on February 3rd. It’s not quite $10, $20 actually, but that’s far better than the $100 some people were estimating. It’s also better than the $200 per OLPC XO deal that Negroponte wanted to reportedly charge the Indian government more than 2 [...]

Nikon’s D3x DSLR Looks Decent

Nikon’s D3x DSLR is a 24.5 megapixel camera armored with UPS trucks. We kind of like this new addition to the Nikon’s camera arsenal. Many of the photographers love Nikon for it’s good features. What do you have to say about this one?

Travelzoo Buys Domain Fly.com For $1.8 Million

Travelzoo, a publicly traded travel site launched in 1998, has announced today that it has purchased the domain “Fly.com” for $1.8 million.
According to Travelzoo’s announcement, Fly.com will be the home of “a new information web site to be launched in February”.
A visit to the site itself offers a slightly less vague description:
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PCs and Laptops will be More Powerful with Samsung’s 4Gb Chip & 32GB DDR3 Memory Modules

Samsung’s 4GB(bit, not Byte) chip is now preparing for 32 GB DDR3 Memory Modules for PCs and laptops. The world’s first 4GB DDR3 DRAM PC memory chip based on relatively frugal 50-nm processes. There are few things will be notable towards this
1. The new chip will consume 40% less power than previous DD3 memory modules.
2. The chip [...]

Now Acer Admits to Make 10-inch Aspire One netbooks with Both Linux, SSD Technology

Now it has been confirmed that Acer is now going to offer both Linux and SSD options on its new 10-inch Aspire One netbook. As we have said our previous post about Acer’s 10-inch Aspire netbook. Now you will not able to get either option right out of the gate. It is expected that the [...]

Video Showcase: Philips’ 56-inch Cinema 21:9 HDTV

Philips’ ground breaking Cinema 21:9 HDTV looks so curious when it launched a fort night ago that we actually questioned its authenticity. Pocket-lint was lucky enough to be on-hand for its unveiling in London, and it hosted up a nice video showing off the 56-inch beast in action. It has a Spring release date and [...]

Ready For Review: Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green

As we had promised to come with review of the Western Digital’s 2TB Caviar Green HDD here is the feedback of customers and experts. Hardware awesome have had a chance to take the 3.5-inch drive for a spin. If talk about the performance, some thing is good and something is undesirable. Let us [...]

Experts: ‘Obama Worm’ is Probably a Student’s Prank

A new Internet worm that displays an image of President Obama is likely a prank by a student, several security experts speculated on Thursday.
Walling Data, a distributor of AVG security software, said the worm it discovered on computers at an Illinois grade school spreads via external devices like USB drives and network shares. Once a [...]