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The good: Attractive design; fast camera; Nokia Drive for free turn-by-turn navigation. The bad: Camera quality not great; lacks Internet sharing (for now); non-removable battery. The bottom line: Nokia's first Windows Phone is not drastically different from its competitors' offerings, but gets a slight edge thanks to an attractive design. Review: The Nokia Lumia 800 is the Finland-based company's first smartphone based on Microsoft's mobile operating system (OS). It has just gone on sale in Europe andwill be available shortly in Asia with an estim

The good: The Samsung Focus S has a gorgeous, large touch screen; a good 8-megapixel camera; a front-facing 1.3 -megapixel camera; and HSPA+ speeds. The bad: Thin and less than 4 ounces in weight, the phone lacks durability. The bottom line: Bolstered by a brilliant display and strong hardware specs, the Samsung Focus S is arguably the best Windows Phone ever released. The Windows Phone OS has arrived on a number of good handsets, but none of the manufacturers has yet been able to produce a killer Windows

The good: The HTC Wildfire S is a beautifully built Android 2.3 handset with a decent 5-megapixel camera and lots of additional software features. The bad: Without compatibility for MetroPCS' LTE network, the Wildfire S is stuck at slow-as-slugs 2. 5G speeds. Its small size makes it trickier to maneuver the Web. The bottom line: Despite its small stature, the HTC Wildfire S is well-crafted and easy on the eye. Unfortunately, a slow data network holds it back.

The above entry-level compact camera segment is by far one of the most populated segments, as far as cameras in general are concerned. Brands cater to this audience by offering relatively affordable cameras that boast of neat features, such as high megapixel sensor, HD video recording, etc, all in a stylish design. Earlier this year, Sony launched a range of cameras from their W series. One of the cameras launched was the Cyber-shot DSC-W570, which features 720p video recording, 16 megapixel sensor, 5x zoom and various other features. Here is a closer look at this compact camera. Design and Build Quality The size of the W570 is the feature, which appealed to us the most. It is merely the length of a business card and can fit easily in any pocket or purse. The depth of the camera measures at 19.1mm making it really thin as well. Apart from its compact form factor, it is extremely stylish, too. The lens located at the front flushes against the body ensuring that it retains its slim profi...

Today google blog made an announcement that they launching Google Chrome Operating System ‘a natural extension of Google Chrome. According to the blog,Google Chrome OS an open source, lightweight operating system targeted at netbooks.The company trying to open-source its code later this year for netbooks.in the second half of 2010 OS will be available for consumers. They made a statement in thier blog that the key aspects of the google chrome is speed, simplicity and security.The told that they are completely redesigning underlying security architecture of the OS,so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.Google Chrome OS run on both x86 as well as ARM chips.They also mentioned that they are working with multiple OEMs so that they can bring a number of netbooks to market by next year. Google Chrome having a software architecture so simple,its runs with within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.

Sir John Sawers was appointed as head on last month to take over Secret Intelligence Service in November.The wife of new head posted pictures of her family and friends on social networking site Facebook,this information can be viewed by all.The agency popularly known as M16,emerged in recent years,but its employees are following strict secrecy rules. n what the Mail on Sunday called an "extraordinary lapse", the new spy chief's wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, posted family pictures and details of where they live and take their holidays and who their friends and relatives are. The details could be viewed by any of the many millions of Facebook users around the world, but were swiftly removed once authorities were alerted by the newspaper's enquiries. Foreign Secretary David Miliband made light of the incident. He denied there had been any security breach and gave the incoming spy chief his full support. "It's not a state secret that he wears speedo swimming trunks....

Death of Micheal Jackson's shocked the entire world and his fans.It is the end of era.Hackers and spammers are using his name and death to spread malware . Sophos encountered a mass-mailing worm that sends spam messages with the below characteristics: Subject: Remembering Michael Jackson Attached file: Michael songs and pictures.zip this is email comes from sarah@michaeljackson.com ,saying that the attached file contain secret songs of Michael Jackson and his photos. When you open the attachment,it spreads malware to your computer,whenever your computer get infected.it will be spreading the worm to the other internet users.Besides spreading via email,this malware is also capable spreading as an Autorun component on USB memory sticks (an increasingly common trend for malware as use of these devices has become more and more popular). Sophos software detects this malware as Mal/ZipMal-B and Mal/VB-AD. In 2004 a Trojan horse was spammed out which contains photographic evidence of Ja...