The makers of the $100 laptop and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) have unveiled a new slimline tablet PC, the XO -3. The new tablet PC which is proposed to be released sometime in 2012, will be retailing for a price less than $100 and will be aimed at connecting children around the world. The company had earlier scrapped all plans of developing the XO 2 which was a foldable notebook kind of device.

Here’s some interesting news for football fans. The regulation authority of the world’s most famous sport has decided to film the World cup 2010 to be held at South Africa is 3D. FIFA has announced that it will shoot around 25 of the matches with 3D cameras. Thought they haven’t said any plans about telecasting the matches in 3D, the governing committee has said that they have shelved the idea for now and will decide on it in the upcoming months.

The finest, the most powerful and the most expensive Mac, has got a speed boost by Apple last week. This upgrade was needed from long. Along with speed there are also new storage options available for both Mac pro and Xserve.
On ordering Quad Mac pro now you can get Quad Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor. You will be amazed to know the outstanding features of this new CPU; it has an 8MB of fully shared cache, a turbo booster for speed up to 3.6 GHz and an integrated memory controller.
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When I logged to Facebook on Thursday night, I saw a page asking me to update the Facebook privacy settings. Facebook has recently updated the privacy settings on all the accounts. Now the user has more privacy options to select from. This may be welcomed by many users at first site, but it has both positive and negative sides.

Google is always on a path to offer something new and better to its customer. The latest addition in this list is the brand new Gboard launched by Google on this Friday. At just $19.9 it can be a handy tool.
Packed with 19 colored shortcut keys to Gmail it can reduce your hand movements on laptop. This new gadget needs a USB port only for its working. There are keys like; starring messages, starting search and jumping between messages. This cool gadget was actually not created by Google but by a film producer Charlie Mason.

After the first worm attack in iPhones earlier this month, engineers at security company F-Secure have unearthed what they claim to be a harmful worm that affects iPhone users. The earlier worm was considered harmless as it just replaced wallpapers of users with the one of a popstar. The new virus was mainly targeted at people in the Netherlands who used the online banking facility of the Dutch bank, ING. The worm extracts sensitive banking information from people by taking them to a bank lookalike site.

Asus is once again in news with its, new T91MT. This is supposed to be a revolutionary upgrade by Asus. T91MT, the second generation of T91 Eee PC net book has multi-touch display. So T91Mt will be the first net book in the world with multi-touch display.

E-matic has released a new version of the top selling E4 series. The E4 is an 8 GB touch-screen MP3 Player with a 5MP built-in Digital Camera and video recording capabilities. It also contains an FM Tuner/Recorder, Webcam capability, TV-Out, and is available in six colours.

Google has shown off the very first builds of Chrome OS (or Chromium OS as the open source version is called). It is really a developer preview and Google aren’t planning on releasing the final version for another year. Here are 5 things you really need to know…

Sony Ericsson, one of the world leaders in manufacturing mobile phones has recently launched the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 that runs on Google’s mobile operating system, Android. The Xperia X10 is the first Android phone from Sony Ericsson and it will be available in markets in the first half of 2010. The phone features an eight megapixel camera, GPS and comes with a touch screen. Users can download applications from the Android market of Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow service.