India's 3G Spectrum Policy Allows Foreign Bids

From PC World: The Indian government on Friday announced its guidelines for auction of 3G (third generation) spectrum in the country, allowing foreign bidders with experience in offering 3G mobile services to participate.

The government is allotting spectrum in the 2.1GHz band for 3G...

Acer Revises Down Aspire One Netbook Shipment Target

From PC World: Component supply problems and software development delays caused Acer to delay the launch of its Aspire one netbook by a month, leading it to revise down its shipment target for this year.

The world's third-largest PC vendor now expects to ship 5 million to 6 million...

Nokia Cuts Phone Prices

From PC World: Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, cut prices of many of its phones by up to 10 percent in late July, with the steepest cuts in music and media phones, according to market data and industry sources.

The price cuts from the Finnish manufacturer, which controls 40...

'Scrabulous' gets a nip-tuck, returns as 'Wordscraper'

From CNET News.com: In the high school cafeteria of Facebook apps, Scrabulous is like that girl who gets in trouble for showing too much skin, only to throw on a hoodie and be let back into the principal's good graces. Sort of. The game has effectively returned, but with a redesigned...

LG Blu-ray box to get streaming video from Netflix

From CNET News.com: Netflix fans will soon have another new option for watching movies.

On Thursday, the company made famous by sending DVDs to consumers via snail mail announced, in conjunction with LG Electronics, the imminent availability of a Blu-ray disc player that will also...

Hitachi Unveils New CinemaStar Hard Drives

From DailyTech: Hitachi announced a pair of new hard drives today in its CinemaStar family. The new drives include the CinemaStar 7K1000.B and the CinemaStar 5K320. Both of the CinemaStar drives are aimed at use inside digital video recorders (DVRs).

The CinemaStar 7K1000.B ranges in...

Intel working on third generation of Classmate PCs

From InfoWorld: Intel will announce details of the next generation of Classmate PCs soon, with new hardware and software that will make the laptops more user-friendly, the company said Wednesday.

Intel declined to provide specific details on the updated hardware and software features...

Apple's iPhone 3G: All Cracked Up

From DailyTech: Apple's 3G iPhone was met with much fanfare when it launched earlier this month. The new phone brought 3G download speeds, GPS hardware, and a new iTunes App Store among other things. The popularity of the iPhone brand along with the buzz created by Apple generated...

Look out iPod, here comes Dell...again

From CNET News.com: The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Dell for the last few months has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September. The story (which will surely serve as a nice trial balloon for Dell's marketers) says the music player...
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