Archive for June, 2010

Huawei shows off new S7 e-tablet PC

Telecommunications vendor Huawei took the covers off a huge range of new products for Australia this morning, including the much-anticipated S7 tablet PC. This seven-inch tablet PC features a 768MHz Qualcomm SnapDragon (ARM Cortex A8) processor with 256MB of memory and storage, expandable to 32GB via microSD flash card. The screen comes with 800×480-pixel resolution [...]

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Sony launches new Alpha 390 DSLR camera

Japanese electronics giant Sony has announced the release of its latest budget digital SLR camera. The new Alpha-390 features a 14.2-megapixel CCD image sensor inside a new compact, lightweight body the company is aiming towards first-time DSLR buyers. The camera comes with a 2.7-inch variable-angle LCD panel on the back. Sony has implemented its SteadyShot [...]

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Google wins copyright battle against Viacom

US search giant Google today scored a major victory in its on-going legal battle with media company Viacom with the US federal court deciding the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) protected its YouTube site from copyright violation. In his ruling, which appears set to be appealed by Viacom, district court judge Louis Stanton agreed with [...]

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Google Chrome reaches stable status for Linux and Mac OS X

Search giant Google has released the first stable version of its Chrome 5 web browser. At the same time, the company has brought the Linux and Mac OS X versions out of beta to release the first stable versions for these operating systems. Chrome 5 is said to offer as much as 35% more speed [...]

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White iPhone 4s delay until late July

In a brief statement today, Apple announced that not all things were going according to plan in the production of its white iPhone 4 smartphone. The company said that producing the anticipated white versio of its fourth-generation smartphone was proving “more challenging to manufacture than expected”. As a result, the company has been forced to [...]

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