The largest tech retailer of United States, Best Buy plan to start the pre-Black Friday sale in its nationwide stores and on its online website. The company announced yesterday it is started new promotion called  “Shop Early, Save Big” which is for customer who prefer to buy before the Black Friday or Thanksgiving 2010 eve.

The tech retailer claims to offer  deep discounts in the pre-Thanksgiving 2010 or Black Friday deals. The official statement released by the company list many products in the discounted rate including AMD V-Series Processor based Best Buy eMachine for $279.99, Samsung Blu-ray player for $119.99. Best Buy also gives $100 off on HTC Droid Incredible. The phone, which is being sold for $199.99 at other retailer, will be available for $99.

Verizon iPhone is one of the over reporting stories on the internet and however it is not a reason to tune out investors.  According to Strategy analytics, Apple could double its sales of iPhone in some markets around the world. In France, for instances, iPhone is now offered at three carriers  which result in market share jumped from 3% to 11% between first and third quarters.

Apple had 23.8% of the US market in the first three quarters of 2010.  At the same time, it is hard to say whether France strategy will work in US given Verizon has more retail contracts customers than the iPhone’s exclusive U.S carriers.  However, Apple may increase its US market share to 35% if company offers its iPhone with Verizon, according to Canalys estimations.

As Canalys’s most recent estimate puts the U.S. market in 2011 at 85 million units, a 35% share would be nearly 30 million sales. That is 144% above the firm’s projection for Apple’s 2010 sales.

According to various media reports, Apple is planning to bring its Verizon iPhone by the start of 2011 and possible iPhone 5 will be launched in middle of 2011.

By Susan Angel

Powermat has lanched the second-generation of its popular charging device. Unlike the first-generation, powermat charging solution now supports many latest smartphones including iPhone 4, HTC EVO 4G, HTC HD2, Motorola DROID X,  BlackBerry Curve, Nokia N97 and others. Apart from the support of major smartphones, new powermat is not thicker than the previous version. According to reports 2nd-generation powermat is only 1.6mm think.

The company has also come up with Powermat Portable 2X Rechargable Mat. The 2X version can charge two different devices at the same time. The solution is good if there are multiple powermat supported devices including Droid X, HTC EVO 4G or iPhone 4 in the household.

The device is available at many retailers including in U.S. including Best Buy. Best Buy charges $79.99 for 2x Powermat with Powercube.

By Angie Onkst

Some may be thinking that comparing HP Slate 500 with Apple MacBook Air is just like comparing Apples and Oranges. However, there are many similarities in two different computers. First of all, both HP Slate 500 and Apple MacBook Air are designed to attract business users therefore both devices are competing with each other.

Another common thing in two devices is that both are powered by Desktop Operating System. Even though HP Slates 500 comes in the category of tablet computer but it is powered by Windows 7 with desktop OS. Similarly MacBook Air is powered by Mac OS X which also the desktop operating system.

Last but now least, both HP Slate 500 and MacBook Air are designed to be considered as the replacement of Netbook computer. The category of Netbook computers was one of most lucrative in the shopping season of 2009.

By Mario Sanchez
It looks funny but so far HP has never officially announced the existence of HP slate despite after several images were leaked and several videos were appeared on YouTube . But all become clear that after Steve Ballmer had demonstrated a prototype of it during his keynote speech at CES earlier this year but HP remained quite in its corner. Like Apple, HP is learning a lesson to create a hype of product to keep secret of its new development.

Though the device is linked as a contender to iPad, the HP 500 is being sold to target corporate customers. However, it does not prevent any person to buy this new device. You can go on HP website and buy it with your credit card. The price is set at $799 for the tablet.

For many of you who do not remember the specification of the tablet, here are the features you can get with this tablet. It has touch screen of 8.9 inches with resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and has an intel Atom X 540 processors with 1.86 GHZ. It also comes with 2GB RAM, Flash memory with 64 GB capacity, 3 mega pixel camera and three USB ports and it runs with Window 7 professional.

If you missed the live broadcast of Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event and want to see the launch of latest Apple products then we have good news for you. Apple has made the event video available for everyone to watch on its website.

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, launched 11 inch and 13 inch MacBook Air in the event. The company also announced Mac OS X Lion as next version of the Mac operating system.  Steve Jobs also unveiled the iLife ’11 suite in the event.

In addition to the latest event, user can also watch other event including the iPod Touch 4G and iPhone 4 launch on the website.

Verizon has confirmed that it is working to fix the issue which Motorola Droid X users came across after they installed the Android 2.2 on the device.

Not all Droid X users reported the problems with Froyo update however few found the issues in the Android Messaging App. According to the reports, both outgoing and incoming messages were affected by the problem.

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London, Sep 21: Boeing is developing a solar-powered unmanned aircraft that will remain aloft for five years.

The SolarEagle is designed to soar in the upper atmosphere for years on end, feeding surveillance and intelligence information to the ground.

The US military has given Boeing a $89 million contract to develop a SolarEagle demonstrator vehicle which will make its first flight in 2014.

During testing, the SolarEagle demonstrator will remain in the upper atmosphere for 30 days, harvesting solar energy during the day that will be stored in fuel cells and used to provide power through the night, reports the Daily Mail.

The aircraft will have highly efficient electric motors and propellers and a 400-foot wing for increased solar power and aerodynamic performance.

“SolarEagle is a uniquely configured, large unmanned aircraft designed to eventually remain on station at stratospheric altitudes for at least five years,” said Pat O’Neil, Boeing Phantom Works program manager.

“That’s a daunting task, but Boeing has a highly reliable solar-electric design that will meet the challenge in order to perform persistent communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions from altitudes above 60,000 feet.”
(IANS)

When Verizon released Motorola Droid X in July, it promised to the potential buyers of the phone that the smart-phone will get the latest version of Google Mobile OS. Motorola Droid X comes with Android 2.1 which is the old version of the OS. The promised Android 2.2 Froyo push to the device is still awaited by Droid X owners.

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The world’s biggest chipmaker, Intel, is set to shake up the PC market with its new chipset, code-named Sandy Bridge.

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