Altek launches T8680 - 12 megapixel camera

Altek releases a new 12 megapixel model, T8680 by august 2009. It has got 3x optical zoom, detects a persons face, detects when he/she smile. It also provides blue tooth facility with A2DP along with USB ports. Provides touch screen facility and FM radio too. The battery, 1020mAh, once fully charged stays active for 4 hours when in use continuously and 50 hours in standby mode. Weight is around 135g and measures 13.5x52x16.6mm in dimensions.
The total cost comes around us $440 in China where it will be launched initially.

Eco - friendly mobile - Samsung Reclaim

The Samsung company has released its new eco-friendly mobile. Nearly 70% of the components made by recycling. Out of which 40% is made from corn based plastic called "bioplastic". It includes all the basic features like QWERTY keypad, camera with 2 megapixel clarity, blue tooth facility and provides 32GB (at max) microSD card. Provides a 512 MB card by default. Headset is of 3.5mm jack.
The cost of this mobile ranges in between $80 - $50 only.

The enhanced version of Sony PRS300 - PRS600

This model prs - 600 comes with a 6" wide screen ( prs - 300 had 5" ) and comes with memory slots. MS PRO Duo card (SD card) is supported. This model also features touchscreen allowing the user to turn pages with fingers. Supports expandable memory and Oxford dictionary also. The total price comes somewhere around $300.

Sony releases PRS - 300

The second mobile manufacturer giant sony has released two new e-book readers. One of them is PRS-300 Reader pocket coming around $100 t0 $200 (not sure about the total cost including the taxes) . The main feature is this one is a 5" but the minus point is that this one is not touch screen and doesnot come with a card slot. Moreover u can connect to a computer or a laptop only via USB and not through a wireless mode. This model can store 350 e-books at a minimum. You can charge fully and can use continuously for 10 - 15 days.

Steven Spielberg to remake "Harvey"

The film will be produced by Spielberg and Don Gregory, with Elizabeth Gabler and Carla Hacken overseeing the project for Fox 2000, which acquired the rights to the original play in 2008.

“I am very happy to be working again with my friend Tom Rothman who shepherded us through ‘Minority Report,’ and with Elizabeth and Carla, who I’m looking forward to collaborating with,” said Spielberg. “DreamWorks has experienced a creative and profitable relationship with Twentieth Century Fox in the past, and I look forward to renewing that time together.”

“Don Gregory entrusted us with these precious rights, Beth Gabler and Carla Hacken developed an exceptional screenplay and Jim and I had the easy part: Deciding to go first, before anyone else, to a filmmaker who combines the mastery of craft, tone, wit and insight that ‘Harvey’ embodies,” said Rothman. “Steven Spielberg is film’s greatest humanist. And we feel blessed as Elwood himself to be collaborating with him, Stacey, and everyone at DreamWorks.”

Harvey is the story of an amiable eccentric, Elwood P. Dowd, and his friendship with a six and a half feet tall invisible rabbit and how this affects every member of his family and his community. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944, and played on Broadway for 1,775 performances between 1944 and 1949. It later was adapted for the 1950 Universal film that starred Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hull.

Added Stacey Snider: “This is a story relevant for all times, perhaps more so than ever before. We are so pleased to be able, with Fox, to be bringing this to today’s audiences.”

Casting and pre-production will begin immediately with cameras turning right after the first of the year as a joint venture between the two studios.

D3000 digital camera released by Nikon

Nikon has announced to launch its two digital SLRs D3000 and the D300s in the market. The D3000 would be available at a price tag of $600, at the same time, D300s would be available for $1800.

The D3000 comes with a wider range of ISO settings, now 100 to 1600; a larger LCD screen (3-inches, to the D40-generations 2.5-inches); an 11-point autofocus system (same as in the D90 and D5000); and a 3-frames-per-second burst mode (up from 2.5-frames-per-second).

At the same time, the D300s shares many of the characteristics of its predecessor: Both have a 12.3-megapixel CMOS sensor and 51-point autofocus system. The shape and size are similar, too.

It comes with Nikon’s original Scene Recognition System, utilizing 1,005-pixel RGB sensor, delivers more accurate autofocus, auto exposure, i-TTL flash control and auto white balance.

iPhone Flaws Exposed - Patch up Released

Apple releasing a security patch, "Apple is set to release a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone, the UK network operator 02 has said. Experts revealed on Thursday that modified SMS messages could result in iPhones being disconnected from the network or hijacked altogether. Phones incorporating the Windows Mobile and Google Android operating systems are also vulnerable, they said. An O2 spokesperson said the patch would be available Saturday through iTunes."