Improved Flash support
Adobe launches the pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 Now available in 64-bit, it allows applications, content and video across devices.
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Linksys WRT120N
A highly affordable wireless n router at Rs.2,850, the WRT120N offers pretty decent bandwidth for smaller homes with a maximum of 2-3 client...
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DLink 2640T
This is a superb buy for someone looking at something more powerful and suitable for a larger home higher speed with a greater number of cil...
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Linksys WRT610N
Costly (Rs.10,000), but mighty impressive, especially its transfer rates. Unlike most routers where performance drops off sharply in zone tw...
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MoserBaer MBI 6988B
A detachable power cable, swanky curved looks; it also features a USB port and card reader slot. It offers very acceptable quality in terms ...
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AOC 2434Pw (24-inch display)
The AOC 2434Pw is a very good buy for the price of Rs.14,500. At this price, it's common to see 22-inch monitors, not this full-HD monit...
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NEC MultiSync 2690WUXi
An amazing display and one that we were hard pressed to find flaw with. If any, it would be the slightly deficient contrast for movies, but ...
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AOC 2230Fm (22-inch display)
Try as the LED-blacklit V2200 Eco might, it cannot surpass the quality of the AOC 2230 Fm. Admitted this is a TN panel, so when I say "...
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AOC F19 (19-inch display)
The F19 is a very good buy for two reasons - it's very well priced at Rs.6,500 and it's a very good performer for the price. I could...
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ASUS Rampage 2 Extreme (Intel platform)
The Rampage II Extreme was one of the best boards around. It belongs to the enthusiast class of boards from ASUS called Republic of Gamers. ...
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ASUS M4A79T (AMD platform)
If you aren't willing to settle with average quality and want the best of all worlds, you have to be willing to go in for the ASUS M4A79...
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Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition
Extreme indeed. Four, hyperthreaded cores running at 3.33 GHz is enough to send this monster sky rocketing ahead of the competition. No chip...
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AMD Athlon II X2 250 (Best Buy: Up to Rs.5,000)
Finally a win for AMD, as their X2 250 proves to be excellent value for money and a much better buy than all the Intel CPUs in that price ra...
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Intel Core i5 750
A newcomer and one I was awaiting with bated breath. The Core i5 was touted to bring the goodness of performance at an affordable price and ...
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Intel Core i7 920
Intel's 920 is a renowed chip. Renowned for bringing the price of the Core i7 close to what lesser mortals can afford. Sure, Rs.14,500 i...
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Philips 32PFL5609/98
The newcomer from Philips proves a worthy buy indeed. At Rs.38,000, this 32-inch display is full-HD resolution, meaning it supports up to 10...
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Kingston HyperX 8 GB
It's known to many that there are some for high capacity. The Sandisk Ultra Cruzer Titanium 8 GB sells for Rs.1,449 and makes good sense...
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WD Caviar Blue 3200AAKS
This 320 GB hard drive is a good performer. Today, prices have dropped a lot and this drive can be bought for less than Rs.2,500. Back then,...
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WD Velociraptor
The internal hard drives segment has been totally dominated by the fastest hard drive there is - the WD Velociraptor. It's something I&#...
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Canon EOS 50D
The Canon EOS 50D was one of the most impressive DSLRs around. The EOS 50D utilises Canon's new DIGIC 4 processor and features a 15.1-me...
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Canon PowerShot SX200 IS
In the case of best performers, I like the idea of ultrazooms. With optical zoom lenses of 10 and 12x, they can shoot images of objects half...
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Zenith Z-book
The best performer of the year is undoubtedly has been the Zenith Z-book. The Z-book doesn't trail behind the other netbooks by a lot. I...
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5870
The shiny newcomer from ATis stables in all its 40nm glory walks away with the trophy. 26,000 bucks is a lot of dough to cough up on a graph...
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ZOTAC GTX 2602 and Palit GTX 26O 216 SONIC
For their price, these cards simply deliver the goods. The fact that you can buy a high-end card for under Rs.14,000 is simply amazing news ...
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Galaxy GTS 250 and Saphire Radeon HD 4850
Both these cards are equally impressive and there's a hairsbreadth between them, meaning you can choose either and not worry about makin...
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ZOTAC GeForce 9600GT Eco
ZOTAC's GeForce 9600GT Eco is a very good option priced at just over Rs.5,000. The fact that it makes do without any additional power, o...
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ZOTAC GeForce 9600GT Eco
ZOTAC's GeForce 9600GT Eco is a very good option priced at just over Rs.5,000. The fact that it makes do without any additional power, o...
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Galaxy GeForce 8400 GS
A half-height card, a price tag of Rs.1,500 based on current market prices and a set of full height and half height brackets supplied all me...
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Nokia N96 & Blackberry Curve 8900
The best of the multimedia and business worlds respectively, the Nokia N96 and Blackberry Curve 8900 are two very different beasts but in ge...
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Acer Timeline 3810T
A beautiful notebook - excellent finish and good build quality. It's slim and sleek and offers great battery life. The price is pretty e...
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HP ProBook 4410S
A suave looking, superbly well built and very well finished notebook, this one oozes style, but it's a minimalistic styling that goes we...
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Dell XPS Studio 1340
Like it's larger sibling the Studio XPS 1340 offers great components under a well designed chassis. It adds compactness as a much desire...
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Sony Vaio VGN-Z48GD
When a notebook is just 20 per cent larger than a netbook and has one of the fastest dual core processors made for notebooks, 6 GB of RAM an...
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Dell Studio XPS 1640
This is one Dell that has it all - a great display, superb performance, rock-solid build quality and Studio-grade looks. It's configurab...
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Acer Aspire 5738G
A great all rounder and one that offers a good configuration for its price. It's a well built, looks neat and has a very decent screen.
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Acer Aspire 5738Z
A very nice notebook, a decent configuration and a reasonable price. Suitable for those wanting something basic to replace their desktop.
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Dell Inspiron 545s
In performance desktops, the Dell OptiPlex 960 had a blazing fast Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, a processor very few systems came with. This mont...
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Zenith E7500
The Acer Aspire NX4440 was a decent system at its time. It had an entry-level processor that ran on a NVIDIA GeForce 8200 board. I has a com...
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Logitech Z-5500
The top performer this year was the mighty Logitech Z-5500 5.1 speakers. It is oneof the most powerful speakers, has good bassy neutral soun...
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Sony's XR100-E
Sony's XR100-E is a camcorder I've used extensively and can testify for its greatness. 80 GB of storage space, a resolution of 1080i...
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Canon PIXMA iP1980
I tested the new Canon PIXMA iP4760 this month and although it's a good performer, it's way more expensive. Sometimes, people just n...
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HP Photosmart D5468
One of the most expensive printer this year was the Canon PIXMA iP100 which was close to Rs.21,000 back then. The best performer however, wa...
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DirectX 11
Unigine, the first ever DirectX 11 benchmark launches and is available on their site - www.unigine.com
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Team Fortress 2
Valve sells Team Fortress 2 on Steam for Rs.125 ($2.5) for few hours during the Halloween weekend.
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100GB disks
Sharp Japan has developed an improved Blu-ray disk with a capacity of 75GB and 100GB.
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Blu-ray sales
Blu-ray sales in the US increased by 91 per cent in the first half of 2009 despite the global recession.
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Convert help
Apparently NSA (National Security Agency) America's premier security agency has been helping Windows 7 strengthen its security measures.
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Lenovo IdeaCentre B500
Lenovo unleashed the new Idea range of computers, with the IdeaPad laptops and the IdeaCentre desktops. The IdeaCentre B500 desktop looks li...
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Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
The race amongst dSLRs is now moved on to the low light sensitivity and video capabilities. Canon's latest entry into the Arena boasts o...
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Dell Adamo XPS
Looks like the Macbook Air has some heavy competition headed it's way, with the new desirability factor in laptops being how thin and li...
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TwitterPeek
If you are one of those people who live in the tweetosphere, and are responsible for half the trending topics, then this is definately the g...
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Motorola Aura Celestial Edition
The Motorola Aura was a deliciously expensive phone to begin with and now they are coming up with a whole bunch of even pricier variants. Th...
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Triple assault
Nokia added three handsets, the Nokia 1506, 6316, 3806 to expand its CDMA portfolio. Of these 6316 seems to be the top of line with web brow...
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Lenovo Smart
With a view to promote smartbooks, Qualcomm's new Lenovo gadget will help users combine key features from smartphones and laptops.
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Berners Lee apologises
Tim Berners Lee says he's sorry for the inconvenience of the double forward slash in web site addresses, which he now says was not reall...
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Google's big WiFi Gift
Google gave away free WiFi to many American airports as a year-end gift, but we suspect this is a win-win situation.
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Zii to get 3G
If rumours are to be believed then Creative's Zii Egg will get a 3G chip soon and transform into a smartphone running on Android.
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Dell to make cell?
The long rumoured phone called Mini 3, based on the Android OS will probably come out at the end of the year.
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Saygus VPhone
The Android-based handset is said to be able to deliver video calls at up-to 30fps on EDGE 2.5 networks and might open up the video calling ...
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MayBe not so sweet
LG's latest Chocolate Touch claims to have integrated Dolby sound. It comes with a full HTML browser and easy access to Facebook and MyS...
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Blackberry owners rejoice
Canadian company RIM opens up the Blackberry app store for India situation.
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Blackberry owners rejoice
Canadian company RIM opens up the Blackberry app store for India situation.
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Indian Cloud Services
Indian companies are joining the list of cloud service providers. TCS, Infosys and Wipro are among companies with their eyes on the cloud.
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