Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420 Review

The ThinkPad line of laptops from Lenovo has been setting the pace for rugged notebooks right since their inception, and recently, the company has widened the series into a number of sub categories with the T, Edge, X, SL, L, W notebooks and the X series tablets. The new Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420 is more moderately priced than the other ones in the series. Let’s have a look to see if it’s worth your money. Brilliant design Design and Build Quality The Edge E420 comes in an all-black casing with a silver rim along the sides of the 14-inch screen. The customary ThinkPad logo is etched diagonally on the lid. It has a matte design and...

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Dell Streak 5 gets DISA certification

Many may have envied the Android-based, Nexus S, when it began its space shuttle journey in July and now there’s yet another feather in Android’s cap. Precisely, we are talking about the Dell Streak 5, which gets a nod from the U.S. defense military. The Android enabled Dell Streak 5 (out of commercial sale) has now earned the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) certification, revealed a post on the official Dell Community blog. Gets military approval This could possibly allow Dell Android devices to seamlessly find a place in military environments. Using the Android ecosystem, military members can command and control information...

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Angry Birds hits the 500 mln download mark

Mobile gaming firm Rovio said on Wednesday its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch. "It's more than any game ever before," Rovio's marketing chief Peter Vesterbacka told a conference in Helsinki. Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry Birds -- in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds' eggs -- has stayed at the top of the charts since it was launched for Apple's iPhone on Dec 11, 2009. Vesterbacka said the company's next aim was to reach one billion fans globally, on devices including mobile phones and computers. 500 million downloads and counting The...

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Apple acknowledges iOS 5 iPhone battery issues, fix coming soonsource:

Many iPhone users have been facing battery issues and have been resorting to forums complaining about the same once they have upgraded to iOS 5. It was believed that this issue was faced only by users who had the iPhone 4S, but it seems this problem is spread across all iPhones running the latest software upgrade. According to a report by AllThingsD, Apple has issued a statement regarding the same. Battery fix on the way In the statement to the website, an Apple spokesman has said, “A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices. We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and...

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Opera Mini 6.5 and Mobile 11.5 launched

The next major release of the Opera browser for mobile devices is out. The Opera Mini 6.5 and Opera Mobile 11.5 browser were released to the public, yesterday. The browser was launched for the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Symbian S60 devices. The new browser allows users to keep track of the data consumption and expenses. Opera claims that the new browser will allow users to save up to 90 percent of their data charges. The feature is accessible from under the Help menu, where users can see their temporary data usage and the overall data usage. More data saving The interface also allows for easy adding of favorite sites to your...

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Yahoo! unveils tablet apps to get back in the game

Yahoo! which was once a prime company for web users, has been criticized for failing to move away from the computer to the mobile phones and tablets that users are now engaging with. According to Reuters, the web company has released a slew of tablet apps to get back into the game. The company is aiming at attracting third-party publishers and advertisers. The apps unveiled include Livestand which is a multimedia newstand for tablets, which was first revealed at a Yahoo! event in February. According to ZDNet, it accumulates content from various publishers including Yahoo! itself and presents the content in a magazine like format. It...

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Recent study shows Android phone repair cost telcos billions

Fitting older versions of Google's Inc popular Android software to cheaper cellphones could send the repair costs of global telecoms operators up as much as $2 billion, a study by wireless services firm WDS showed. Costly hardware failures are more common on Android devices than on Apple Inc iPhones and Research In Motion Inc BlackBerry phones, which have strict control over the components used in their devices, WDS data showed. Cheaper Android models, costing as little as $100 to make, have helped Android emerge as the dominant platform in smartphones, attracting dozens of manufacturers ranging from Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to no-brand...

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Battlefield 3 Multiplayer tips for beginners

Kick some serious butt on the battlefield with these basic yet highly effective tips.!-- Protesters outside the Chinese Embassy in Norway demand the release.--> p.dropcap:first-letter { font:58px/40px arial; float : left; width : 1em; padding-top:6px; padding-right:5px} .dropc { font:58px/51px arial; float : left; padding:0 3px 2px 0;} Battlefield 3 has arrived in all its destructive glory and if this is your first Battlefield game, things can get a bit daunting. Don’t worry though; we got your back with this basic guide we’ve devised...

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We finally come to the bottom of the list, the sub-10K mobile phones. While these aren’t really power houses, they are feature packed enough to get the!-- Protesters outside the Chinese Embassy in Norway demand the release.--> p.dropcap:first-letter { font:58px/40px arial; float : left; width : 1em; padding-top:6px; padding-right:5px} .dropc { font:58px/51px arial; float : left; padding:0 3px 2px 0;} We finally come to the bottom of the list, the sub-10K mobile phones. While these aren’t really power houses, they are feature-packed...

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Gmail app for iOS here, with bugs

Google has finally released a native iOS app for Gmail. According to the official Gmail blog, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users will now be able to check their Gmail accounts with features like push notifications and sound alerts, search function, autocompletion of email addresses of Gmail contacts, single click picture upload, split view on the iPad for navigating your inbox, as well as reading mail simultaneously and Priority Inbox. Taking advantage of the touch features of the devices, you can pull your inbox down to refresh, swipe left or right to view labels and swiftly scroll through emails by sliding your finger. Put out and taken...

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