General Electric Company on Monday announced a major breakthrough in the development of next generation optical storage technology. According to an official press release, the researchers at GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the company, have successfully demonstrated a threshold micro-holographic storage material that can support 500 gigabytes of storage capacity, that is too in a standard DVD-size Read more »

AMD on Wednesday launched the ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor, the newest addition to the award-winning ATI RadeonTM HD 4000 series. The ATI Radeon HD 4770 is the World’s First Desktop Graphics Card that utilized idustry-leading 40nm process technology.

The new card features third-generation hardware support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games like Battleforge, HAWX, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky and Stormrise, Read more »

Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Tuesday launched ProBook, a brand new range of affordable business laptops. According to HP, the HP ProBook series merge business functionality with sophisticated design and will captivate small and medium business users.

The standard series (s-series) of the new HP ProBook models incorporate a mercury-free design, and features high-definition LED backlit displays. It is available in three sizes: Read more »

Samsung Electronics on Monday launched the i7500, it’s first Android-powered mobile phone. With this Samsung became the first major handset vendor to use Google’s mobile operating system, Android.

The Samsung i7500 features a slim and compact design with mere 11.9mm thickness. It’s large and vivid 3.2-inch AMOLED display ensures the brilliant representation of multimedia content and enjoyable full touch mobile experience. Read more »

T-Mobile USA sold 1 million G1 Android phones in first two quarters. T-Mobile, the fourth largest wireless network in US, started selling the G1 Smartphone on October 22, 2008. So, It took them 6 months to achieve this milestone. With 1 million customers G1 is now the dominant 3G device on T-Mobile’s network.

Manufactured by HTC, G1 has a 3.2-inch touch Read more »

Ever heard of File Extension PRC? Do you know what exactly a .PRC file is? If you have a personal digital assistant (PDA), chances are more that you are familiar with this file extension. But, like many other file extensions, PRC is associated with a number of programs. So, if you are handling a .prc file for the first time, Read more »

Yahoo! is shutting down GeoCities, it’s free web-hosting service. Yahoo said about it’s plan to shut down GeoCities on Thursday. Though no fixed date announced, Yahoo mentioned on it’s website that the service will be shut down later this year. More details about closing GeoCities and how users can save their data will be provided this summer.

GeoCities was founded by Read more »

Apple’s App Store reaches 1 billion downloads milestone. This is really a great achievement for a store which is just nine months old. According to an official press release, the 1 billionth application was downloaded from the App Store on April 23, 2009 at approximately 16:50 EST.

On Friday, Apple revealed the name of the person who downloaded the one billionth Read more »