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HP shows of Wall of Touch- Touch without dirtying the wall

We all love the feeling that comes with touching a screen to make it work. That is on of the reasons that touch devices have come so far. But don’ we all hate the smudges and fingerprints that we leave on the device? HP seems to have heard your woes, for it has launched HP “Wall-Of-Touch.” We were a bit surprised to hear of this technology after CES 2010. HP skipped that reputed platform and recently unveiled their Wall-Of-touch to the Wall Street Journal. Though this technology...

MSI launches a slew of notebooks starting at Rs. 19,000; including Core i7 ones

Micro Star International (MSI) has come out with the a range of laptops for 2010. It consists of 14 new models across various categories with prices starting at Rs 19,000 to over a lac. MSI is the first brand to announce the launch of Core-family based notebooks in India. Their gaming series - MSI GT640 & GT740, starting at Rs. 88,000/- are equipped with Core i7 processors and discrete graphics from NVIDIA – the Geforce GTS 250 M along with other bells & whistles that come at this...

Windows Mobile 7 platform, Microsoft’s last hope, to be unveiled during Mobile World Congress?

The Mobile World Congress is fast approaching and all the mobile phone giants are gearing up to display their products in this popular event. All companies, be it hardware or software ones, are working hard to have a successful event. This event is, maybe, much more important to Microsoft. If rumors are to be believed, Microsoft is coming up with its own phone- The Zune Phone. This phone has been making the rounds of many popular tech websites and blogs by the name of ‘Pink’  phone....

Disappointments of 2009

As another year comes to an end it’s time to conduct our Game of the Year ceremony in which we honor the best of the best. But before we reminisce about the games that impressed our socks off, let’s take a look at some of the stuff that ended up disappointing us. Brutal Legend Brutal Legend was going to be the perfect game. By mixing heavy metal, free roaming and Jack Black, Tim Schaefer was gonna give us the game of the century. Unfortunately the game while entertaining to a...

Game of The Year 2009: Action

And the nominees are: Assassin’s Creed II Improving on every aspect that made Assassin’s Creed repetitive and boring, Assassin’s Creed II was a blast from start to finish. Even though the story was a tad convoluted, Ubisoft threw in tons of varied gameplay in there to make sure we never got bored. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Naughty Dog’s labor of love was a surreal action game that managed to traverse the thin line between gameplay and interactive cut-scenes moving...