Samsung Challenges Intel For Chip Leadership

It appears as if the chip industry had a much better 2010 than 2009, as the global semiconductor business is estimated to have gained about $70 billion in sales last year.

 Gartner reports that global chip sales surged to $299.4 billion.

"The industrywide upturn was due to the combination of pent-up demand that had built in the wake of the worldwide economic recession, and rebuilding of semiconductor inventories that were significantly depleted during the recession and early recovery," said Peter Middleton, principal analyst at Gartner.

Asus: Yes, We're Planning an Oak Trail Tablet

After all this talk of the Tegra 2-powered Transformer, Asus is also working on an Intel-based tablet.

In the height of the netbook craze, it seemed Nvidia’s Tegra chipset couldn’t catch a break. Compared to the ubiquitous Atom processor, Tegra was in only a small percentage of devices. Fast forward a year or so and things have changed completely. We saw numerous Tegra 2 devices at CES, tablets and smartphones alike, and it seems there’s a new one launched every week.

Bill Gates Didn't Understand Gmail

What do you have in your email that's not email?

Google's Gmail is one of the very best in free webmail services. Originally thought to be an Fool's Day joke when it was announced on April 1, 2004 with its 1 GB of free storage (massive for email at the time), Gmail today has grown its storage quota for its free accounts to nearly 8 GB.

H2O Force-Field Keeps Your Fruit Fresh

Fruit bowl concept keeps your fruit fresh via water powered force-field.
If you thought force-fields were a reality reserved for futuristic sci-fi flicks and television series, think again. Here's a real life application of a water-powered force-field to keep your fruits fresh and delicious. Okay maybe it is just an idea that hasn't come to fruition yet, but this is probably the most beautiful fruit bowl idea out there.

Asus O!Play Mini HD player [Preview]

You bought an HDTV, but chances are you were disappointed because your local cable channels or DVDs just didn’t look as spectacular as the videos they were playing at the display centers. Or maybe you are just tired of the video quality of the content that you watch on your TV.
What you need is a HD media player. Until now, most good media players from reputable companies were around the Rs. 10,000 mark. But that has just changed. Because the Asus O!Play mini HD media player just rolled out.
Price:
Priced at a extremely reasonable Rs. 5,700, (may vary according to your location). Its one of the (if not THE cheapest) HD devices to be unveiled. Its simple and barebones, without the additional features on the expensive models that you don’t use anyway.