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Dell has recently launched Dell’s premium high-end ultraportable Dell Adamo XPS Laptopthat is one of the thinnest laptop in the world which is slim, thin, lightweight, and sports a 13-inch form factor with excellent build quality.

A welcome addition to Samsung P80 Premium line of laptop, the Samsung P480 laptop is powered by Intel Core i5 processor and provide a range of connectivity, security, durability and design-based computing options for professionals in the office and while on the road.

The Wipro WLG-7710 Celeron Laptop is powered by 1.73 GHz Intel Celeron Processor M725 with Mobile Intel 915GML Express Chipset Mainboard, offering 1-MB L2 Cache, 533 MHz FSB, and it features 512-MB PC2700 DDR2 SDRAM (2-GB Maximum), 80-GB 5400 rpm SATA hard drive and 24X DVD/CD-RW Combo Optical Drive.

The Wipro WLG-7710 Celeron laptop computer features 14.1-inch (35.8 cm) WXGA Widescreen TFT Display powered by integrated integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA 950 with DVMT 3.0 and up to 64-MB shared video memory offering maximum screen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels.

Wipro WLG-7710 Celeron Laptop computer comes with Linux with limited functionality operating system software preinstalled and all device drivers are provided on a CD. Microsoft Windows XP Basic / Professional edition or Windows Vista can be purchased at extra cost.

A welcome addition to the VAIO family, the new Sony VAIO W Series eco-friendly netBook features a reprocessed plastic chassis comprised of approximately 23 percent recycled CDs. It also comes in a stylish reusable carrying-case made from recycled PET bottles—no wasted cardboard packaging.

The Sony VAIO W Series Netbook (aks mini notebook)  is ideal for anyone who wants casual computing, web browsing and social networking at their fingertips and delivers the essential laptop experience—email, instant messaging, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter—in a size so small you can take it anywhere.

Fujitsu has recently announces the launch of of the Fujitsu LifeBook LH520 laptop that is powered by the energy efficient AMD Athlon II Dual-Core Processor and features the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 discrete graphics, one of the first graphic cards to support DirectX 11.

The Fujitsu LifeBook LH520 puts the latest processing and robust video power, as well as formidable multitasking of all your favourite applications into user’s hands. Sweetening the deal further is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 graphics which supports the revolutionary DirectX 11, to deliver high quality HD movies and gaming.

The alternative app store for Android is now live—however muchApple doesn't like others using the term "app store,"—where US Android owners can download the new Angry Birds Rio game for free, along with 3,799 other apps. It's been years wandering the desert, but Android users finally have an app oasis of their own.

Amazon's got all the big developers names on there, including Gameloft, Glu Mobile and Rovio, offering up apps either for free or a few dollars and cents. Don't want to waste valuable money on an app that turns out to be... well, rubbish? No problemo says Amazon, who will let you "Test Drive" an app for 30 minutes—within a browser. If you like what you see, you can download and pay for it with one click if you have your payment details already on file with Amazon. They'll also be offering one paid app for free every day for the foreseeable future.

As expected, Amazon's using its web store recommendation algorithm to suggest similar apps for download. You know when you buy a camera on Amazon, and they instantly suggest a camera case or photography book? Same thing. Recommendations are of the "people who bought X also bought Y" variety, which means that, just a few hours into the store's existence, you'll mostly see staples like Evernote and Kindle. As Amazon gains traction in the app biz, though, the recs will become more and more targeted. At its most helpful, the service may even show free (or cheaper) apps that do the same thing as the one you were about to pony up for.

A federal magistrate judge ordered Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief  Executive Officer Steve Jobs to answer questions in an antitrust dispute alleging the company operated a music-downloading monopoly.

Lawyers for consumers who filed the 2005 complaint won permission to conduct limited questioning of Jobs, under an order issued yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Howard R. Lloyd in San Jose, California. The deposition can’t exceed two hours and the only topic allowed is changes Apple made to its software in October 2004 that rendered digital music files engineered by RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK) inoperable with Apple’s iPod music player.

Google Inc.’s Android software boosted its share of tablet computers almost 10-fold in the fourth quarter, narrowing the lead of Apple Inc.’s iPad, market researcher Strategy Analyticssaid.

Android devices captured 22 percent of global tablet shipments in the three months to Dec. 31, up from 2.3 percent in the preceding quarter, the Boston-based researcher said in a statement today. The iPad accounted for 75 percent of shipments in the period, down from about 95 percent, it said.

Apple’s iPad, which has sold more than 14.8 million units worldwide since its introduction in April, faces intensifying competition from Android tablets made by Samsung Electronics Co., Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and Acer Inc. Google gives away Android for free to boost revenue from services such as mobile advertising and expand the market for its search engine.

Ulysse Nardin, one of the Big 3 of watchmaking, is unveiling the world's most expensive Android phone at the Baselworld watch show.

It was announced over a year ago, but this will be the first showing of a working model.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers, according to new data from comScore.

Rumors suggest that Apple may release the iOS 4.3 update around 1 p.m. ET today,

Warner Bros. has begun delivering movies through Facebook, enabling U.S. users to watch titles on the platform for $3.

If you were trying to solicit donations for earthquake victims in Japan, what approach would you take? Take a look at how technology rivals Microsoft and Apple decided to handle this delicate situation.

First up, Microsoft. The company tweeted a plea on its Bing search engine Twitter account, offering to donate up to $100,000 for earthquake victims, but under one condition: that users would retweet the message, which would result in Microsoft increasing its donations by one dollar per retweet:

How much can technology change in a year? Take a close look at the iPad 2, and you have your answer. It’s thinner, faster, and it costs the same. That’s progress.

When you have extended physical contact with a product, the way you feel about it is more important than the way you think. That’s where the iPad 2 excels, but there’s nothing magical about it – it’s well made, powerful, and gives you choices of where, when and how you’ll compute that you’ve never had before. Apple has made an already-good device even better.

With millions of iPhones and wifi enabled iPod Touch’s, and over 100 million applications sold, Madison Avenue is playing close attention to Apple’s success. Who wouldn’t? But the MadMen in New York are seeing opportunities, not applications. They are seeing how incorporating advertising into social networking applications like “Loopt” can turn those millions of iPhones into 21st century bill boards. And they’re betting the farm on it.

According to recent studies by the research firm Informa Telecoms & Media, the mobile market is on a nearly $2 Billion dollar pace for 2008, and promise to grown to an estimated $12 BILLION in mobile ad revenue by 2013. That’s a lot of ads. But how will it work?

The idea is that with smartphones that are GPS enabled, software can pop up targeted ads into social networking sites which seek to find where all your friends are. It can also be embedded into such applications as Google Maps through cell phone internet browsers. Users can see an add for a nearby restaurant, for instance, tap for directions and go directly there.

And other applications like Pandora Radio are getting into the game with major clients such as Best Buy, Beck’s and Jaguar. And using a subsidizing scheme where ads will support making more applications for free, it could be the key to reaching that 12 billion dollar ad ceiling.

But the real question is, do users want their iPhones to harass them with digital advertising pollution?
Frankly, I just want a phone that makes phone calls.

Now, we do know that the iPhone has somewhat turned into a pretty decent gaming platform, and has had its fair share of hits along the way. When it comes to racing games, however, the experience of tilting your phone either way to steer your car isn’t a really fun experience, so here is a peripheral that might just help you out.

The iPhone 4 Steering Wheel with Speakers that retails for $22.20 is here to save the day – this lightweight peripheral is meant specially for the iPhone 4, where it offers high quality audio regardless of whether you’re gaming or listening to music. All you need to do is connect your iPhone to the steering wheel’s adapter, affix that to the middle of the wheel, and you’re good to go. If only the iPhone 4 will somewhat remain on a horizontal plain no matter which way you turn the steering wheel – now that’d be uber cool

Guest author David Harfield is the editor for iphoneappcafe.com where he writes about the latest and the best apps and accessories.

Some people may think that their iPhone is the coolest gadget that they could possibly own. Well, that is until they see this list of gadgets that are specially designed to make the iPhone even cooler! These accessories will transform your regular iPhone into the most fun, funky gadget on the planet, so read on!

Monster’s Tron Light Disc Audio Dock

Scientists and engineers are looking for innovative ways to accelerate applications and shorten computational cycles. Dell is helping them by strengthening its portfolio of PowerEdge servers, storage expansion platforms and integrated solutions designed to meet the demands of the most compute intensive environments in education, government and industry, including the energy, financial services and life sciences sectors.

The new your - the third generation. Dell will surprise you with the hard-Core-i, the new aluminum case of your as well as for the 13.3-inch screen. To find out how does this compare to other laptops in its class, you must not do isread our detailed review.

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HTC Flyer
Instead of making another (yawn) black tablet, HTC’s tablet is made from aluminium with white accents, which it instantly stand out while remaining unmistakebly HTC.  It feels very solid in the hand and certainly is a premium product, although it's manageable 415g . The multitouch 7-inch screen has a resolution of 1024x600.

Another black tablet. Sure it's nice looking, but stylistucally hard   from 10-inch rivals. At 425g there's a mere 10g  between this and the Flyer. The 7-inch screen has a 1024x600 resolution and multitouch support, during our time with the Playbook at CES it felt very responsive.

HTC Flyer
Surprisingly HTC has decided to launch the Flyer on Android 2.4, instead of Honeycomb, although an update is coming soon. But instead of using Android's UI it will be running a new version of HTC Sense, which has been optimised for tablets, promising 3D graphics. It looks good, but until we get a chance to try it, we'll opt for the Playbook.

BlackBerry Playbook 
Last year RIM brought QNX and has used its technology to power a brand new OS. Open applications appear in a carousel in the centre of the screen, these are live, so update automatically. Flick up to close them and swipe left to swap between. Underneath, are five categories: All, Internet, Media, Blackberry and Games, click each one and relevant icons appear underneath. Swipe up from the bottom at any point to return to the main menu. It is exceptionally intuitive and different to anything we've seen.

HTC Flyer
Surprisingly the Flyer runs a 1.5Ghz single processor, with 1GH RAM, instead of dual core. OK, HTC seems to be targetting more business users than gamer (although you'll get an OnLive app) and for day-to-day tasks there isn't a great difference between single and dual cores, but, every other new tablet has dual cores.

Blackberry PlaybookRIM has equipped the Playbook with a dual core processor and 1Gb RAM. During out time with the device it felt exceptionally quick, effortlessly letting us swap between 3D games, Video and we browser. Impressive.

HTC Flyer
The Flyer has 32GB internal memory, expandable via a MicroSD slot. Elsewhere there's Bluetooth 3.0 and N WiFi. It launches with 3G and WiFi, with a WiFi only version coming later.

BlackBerry Playbook 
Released initially in a WiFi version, with a 3G version coming later. In the meantime Blackberry users can use their handsets as a modem. It comes initially with 16GB internal storage and a microSD slot, although larger capacities may be available.

Best tablets 7-inches: Conclusion

In terms of processor power,  the Flyer lags behind the Playbook, it also loses marks for not launching with Honeycomb.Although it does have a unique selling point in the form of HTC Scribe and we love its design and build. In contrast tThe Playbook isn't going to win any design innnovation awards, but having used it, we were really impressed by it's power and usability.  The unique OS is what sets the Playbook apart from the pack and could prove a winner.  But this all depends on on crucial factor - price, both tablets need to remain competitive, and be well under £500 to compete with the iPad.

HTC Flyer launch date: Q2, link: HTC

Blackberry Playbook launch date: TBC, link: RIM

BlackBerry PlayBook release date just a month after the iPad 2?\

With tech's big names clamouring to get the second generation of tablets into the shops post-MWC, RIM are reportedly gearing up for the launch of their own tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, in a bid to steal some lucrative market share from Jobs and Co.

According to an exclusive news post, the good people over at BGR.com claim that they have been "told by multiple sources that RIM's first tablet will be launching on April 10th", which puts the release date of BlackBerry's own claim to tablet fame just a month after that of the iPad 2 in the States.


We went hands-on with the Berry PlayBook back at CES in January, and came over all funny for its slick interface and feather-light 408g weight. However, since January a lot of the features we were so excited about on the PlayBook have become the tablet norm in the wake of MWC. An iPad competitor it may have been back in January, but is the PlayBook turning up to late to the party? Let us know what you think, as always, via e-mail or on the T3 Twitter feed.

Really, this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to netbooks, UMPCs, subnotebooks or shameless Eee knock-offs - call them what you will - but these are big dogs, setting the benchmarks against which all others should be compared.

How do they compare each other though? Spec war armies, ASSEMBLE!

Acer Aspire One - Intel Atom N270, 1.6GHz

Asus Eee PC 901 - Intel Atom N270, 1.6GHz

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - Intel Atom N270, 1.6GHz

HP Mini-note - VIA C7-M, 1.2 GHz

MSI Wind - Intel Atom N270, 1.6GHz

LG X110 - Intel Atom N270, 1.6GHz

Aspire One - 512MB (1GB optional) DDR2 533 MHz

Eee PC 901 - 1GB DDR2

Mini 9 - 512MB or 1GB

Mini-note - 1GB or 2GB (Vista) DDR2 667MHz

Wind - 1GB DDR2

X110 - 1GB

Aspire One - 8.9", 1024 x 600 pixels

Eee PC 901 - 8.9", 1024 x 600 pixels

Mini 9 - 8.9", 1024 x 600 pixels

Mini-note - 8.9", 1280 x 800 pixels

Wind - 10.1", 1024 x 600 pixels

X110 - 8.9", 1024 x 600 pixels

Aspire One - 0.99kg (NAND flash model with 3-cell battery), 1.26kg (HDD + 6-cell)

Eee PC 901 - 1.1kg

Mini 9 - 1.04kg

Mini-note - 1.27kg

Wind - 1.15kg (3-cell), 1.3kg (6-cell)

X110 - 1.19kg

Aspire One - 802.11b/g, LAN, GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA

Eee PC 901 - 802.11b/g/n, LAN, Bluetooth

Mini 9 - 802.11b/g, LAN, Bluetooth (optional)

Mini-note - 802.11b/g, LAN, Bluetooth, 56K Modem

Wind - 802.11b/g, LAN, Bluetooth

X110 - 802.11b/g, LAN, 3G HSDPA optional, GPS optional

Aspire One - NAND Flash (8GB) or HDD (120GB)

Eee PC 901 - SSD (12GB or 20GB)

Mini 9 - SSD (up to 16GB)

Mini-note - HDD (120GB)

Wind - HDD (80GB)

X110 - HDD (80GB or 120GB)

Aspire One - Linpus Linux, Windows XP Home

Eee PC 901 - GNU Linux, Windows XP Home

Mini 9 - Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP Home

Mini-note - SUSE Linux, Windows Vista Business

Wind - SUSE Linux, Windows XP Home

X110 - Windows XP Home

Aspire One - Brown, White, Pink, Blue

Eee PC 901 - Black, White, Pinky-red - with petals or something.

Mini 9 - Black, White

Mini-note - Sort of grey

Wind - Black, White, Pink, White with love hearts

X110 - Black, White, Pink

Aspire One - 3-cell (3 hours), 6-cell (6-7 hours)

Eee PC 901 - 6-cell (7-8 hours depending on OS)

Mini 9 - 4-cell (unknown)

Mini-note - 3-cell (2.25 hours), 6-cell (4 hours)

Wind - 3-Cell (3 hours), 6-cell (5.5 hours)

X110 - Unknown

Which one will you get?