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Samsung introduced its long-awaited e-book reader for the American market this week.

The Samsung eReader will have Wi-Fi onboard for downloading content. The company is considering adding 3G in later editions, says Reid Sullivan, senior vice president of audio-video and digital imaging marketing at Samsung.

Samsung eReader R60 enable users to annotate text, write notes and share this content with others. For this purpose, the E60 includes an electromagnetic resonance stylus pen. The E60 includes apps such as a journal, journal scheduler and memo for writing. You also can synch your Outlook calendar with the e-reader, which is a pretty handy trick. continue reading…

A group of Chinese consumers filed a complaint  against HP laptops, to ‘The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine’, China’s product-quality agency claiming that Hewlett-Packard Co. discriminated against them in its handling of a problem with faulty graphics components in some of its  Laptops.

According to Laweach, a non-profit website that has gathered these Chinese consumers together, some of HP’s laptop computers sold after 2007 have problems of screen splash or overheating. The website said that these problems were caused by a video card made by Nvidia, a chip manufacturer who once admitted to defects in some of its video card products.

The Chinese consumers said though HP had offered to extend the maintenance period for some types of laptop computers, this was not an effective solution for them. They said that HP was also publicly discriminating against Chinese consumers by offering them a maintenance service different from that provided to consumers in the United States.

More than 170 consumers made complaints to China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
The consumers claim that HP failed to offer them the same extended warranty that it gave to U.S. customers in response to a problem that emerged more than two years ago involving graphics chips in laptop PCs.

The Chinese consumers request compensation, a public apology and a recall of the affected computers.

The LG LX9900 3D TV will be available for sale from May. The LED backlit flat screen comes in 47 and 55 inch sizes, and can pump out 1080p images. It’s also super thin, at just 3.16cm in depth. The LG LX9900 3D TV display is astonishingly fast 400Hz and it has free view HD and Wi-Fi for a bit of home server media streaming.

The LG LX9900 3D TV will also support 3D Blu-ray player thorugh HDMI 1.4, which is just as well, since alongside the LG LX9900 3D TV, LG has launched a 3D Blu-ray player, the LG BX580, which too packs Wi-Fi, and the option to plug in an external hard drive so you can bring your own videos. continue reading…

Asus, a leading laptop manufacturer, gives serious gamers a laptop the Asus ROG G73JH – the latest Intel Core i7 processor, DirectX 11-capable ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics, and up to 8GB of DDR3 system memory. The new ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) G73JH is an exclusive gaming notebook.. Giving up the usual flash and gimmicks of a typical gaming notebook, the G73JH boasts a unique design that is inspired by a stealth fighter known as the F-117 Nighthawk.

All the heat and noise-generating components of the G73JH are well-positioned at the back of the notebook and a unique twin rear venting system is incorporated to keep the heat away from the gamer as far as possible. The design also allows palm rest to be exceptionally thin, continue reading…

Canon has recently unveiled a latest projector, the new Canon REALiS SX7 Mark II LCOS projector, which is ideal for large rooms; even in bright conditions the projector should display a clear image.

The projector has a native resolution of 1400×1050 and has 4000 lumens of light. It also features a genuine Canon 1.7x Powered Zoom/Focus Lens for ease of projector placement, DVI-I Terminal availability for a true digital connection for high quality images and video. The Canon REALiS SX7 Mark II Multimedia LCOS Projector also supports Adobe RGB and sRGB color spaces.

Another unique feature is that this projector offers an “Off and Go” system, this allows you to unplug the projector immediately after use but usually you have to let the projector cool down before switching off at the mains. Accurate release date is currently not known, but it is expected to launch in April this year for around $6,999.

Microsoft acknowledged and Symantec also confirmed that it has spotted in-the-wild attacks exploiting the critical vulnerability in IE6 and IE7. Security researchers told that the just-disclosed unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE) to launch drive-by attacks from malicious Web sites.

“This attack appears to be rather targeted at the moment, but as with other unpatched vulnerabilities in the past, this has the potential to explode now that the word is getting out. Visiting the page is enough to get infected,” said Craig Schmugar, a threat researcher at McAfee.

Attacks are launched from Web sites in a classic drive-by fashion, said Schmugar and others. “We’re still seeing just limited attacks,” said Ben Greenbaum, a senior research manager on Symantec’s security response team. “The exploit is carried out simply by visiting a Web page hosting the vulnerability. When the browser opens the page, the exploit causes the user’s computer to download and execute another piece of malware.” continue reading…

The game Final Fantasy XIII’s arrives in North America on PS3 and Xbox 360. Let’s not forget Mega Man 10 on the PS3, Yakuza 3 getting its North American and Supreme Commander 2 on Xbox 360. This week’s count: Seven for PC, five for PS3 and 360, Four for DS and Wii, one for PSP.

Final Fantasy XIII isn’t just a game you merely enjoy. You fall in love with it. It’s truly enchanting stuff, with the lead characters, Lightening, Snow, Sazh, Vanille and Hope, unwittingly caught up in an unavoidable fate and a centuries old battle between two worlds – the peaceful utopia of Cocoon and the unknown yet much feared underworld of Pulse. continue reading…

Another earthquake hits Turkey.

A 6.0- magnitude earthquake hit Elazig province of eastern Turkey early Monday. A Turkish official said eleven people died in this earthquake.

Local NTV channel quoted Selcuk Aslan, Kovancilar Town sub-governor of Elazig province, as saying that 11 villagers were killed and more than 20 others injured at Okcular Village in Kovancilar town of Elazig province.

Turkish rescue teams have been rushing to Kovancilar town, the center of the earthquake in Elazig province, according to the NTV channel report.

The powerful quake struck Basyurt region of Karakocan town of Elazig province at a depth of 5 km at 4:32 a.m. local time (0232 GMT), said a report from istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute of Turkey’s Bogazici University. continue reading…