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The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is the HD-video-shooting successor to the Swedish-Japanese firm’s flagship Satio model. With an 8.1MP camera that can also record 720p HD video, it is designed to thrill YouTube-rs with its easy video upload features as well as the bundled 8GB memory card for ample storage. The touchscreen phone has been ergonomically designed to fit the contours of the hand and with social networking and multi-media features galore, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is set to give the likes of the Nokia X6 and the LG InTouch Max GW620 a run for their money.

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GAOFD site is giving away the popular Paragon Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal software for a limited period of time. Paragon Virtualization Manager Personal helps you easily migrate Windows-based computer to a virtual environment and vice versa. Key features: # Migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V) # Migrate from a virtual environment to physical (V2P) # Virtualize system from its backup image (P2V) # Migrate from one virtual environment to another (V2V) # Recover the OS startup ability after system migration to a different hardware or unsuccessful virtualization by a 3rd party tool (P2P and P2V Adjust) # Clone a partition or an entire hard disk # Exchange data between your physical environment and the virtual one, or between a virtual disk and its snapshots # Accomplish virtual drive partitioning (create, format, delete, move, resize etc.)

American speaker manufacturer Klipsch is famed for its horn speakers, due to their clarity, power, definition and, most of all, sheer size. Its legend-model, the Klipschorn, is like a triangular sideboard. But this 5.1 set of Icon speakers is more living room-friendly, and intended to marry up to modern flatscreen TVs, so adopts a kind of horns-lite approach. Available in two pretty but subtle veneer finishes, each of these medium-sized boxes features a cleverly-designed polymer assembly in its face that squirts the high frequency audio all around with a greater efficiency than any normal dome tweeter ever could. Think of them as speakers for those who want sexy, top-end performance without their room dominated by massive boxes.

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Google has officially announced Google Apps Marketplace – hoping to build an ecosystem that allows businesses that use its paid-for Google Apps services to find and purchase a wide range of cloud software tools developed by specialists. One of the key reasons behind Microsoft’s success over the years has been its flourishing ecosystem, and with Apple’s App Store revolutionising both the mobile phone market third-party software market places, it makes sense for Google to attempt to bring the two concepts closer. “We’ve found that when businesses begin to experience the benefits of cloud computing, they want more,” explains Google .

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Alright, geeks–this week’s feature Chrome extension is calling out your name.  While most net-savvy individuals can always surf on over to Google to run most any calculations they need to run (quick: 12 cups is how much of a gallon!), there’s an easier way to go about solving the answers to life’s tougher mathematical issues.  In fact, you can do it straight from your Chrome browser without having to surf on over to a secondary page.  The genius behind this functionality is a little extension called Chromey Calculator . Don’t let the cute alliteration fool you–this little wonder is akin to packing Einstein’s brain into a tiny little button next to your address bar.  Clicking on said button pulls up a little pop-up window with a simple, console-style prompt.  Type in a common equation you need solved (1+1), and the extension will spit out an answer in a running field that keeps track of the last few commands you’ve entered.  Not only does this beat the one-equation, one-answer style of Windows’ default calculator program, but Chromey Calculator also taps into the power of the Web to fuel more complex commands. For example, if you need to run some mixed unit calculations — what’s two miles plus 24 light-years — the extension can calculate out this absurd request by turning to a mix of Google and Wolfram Alpha for its answer.  Similarly, you can input common Wolfram Alpha queries for advanced mathematics if you really feel like taking Chromey Calculator to the next level.  Clicking on any result will automatically copy it to your console command area, which is perfect for running extra calculations on previously displayed answers. Will you need any other calculator program after you’ve used Chromey Calculator?  Faster than you can say Soh-cah-toa, I’ve calculated the answer to be a firm “n – o.”

MSI on Monday announced the availability of its “2010 iF Product Design Award Winning” Wind U160 netbook. This is MSI’s second netbook built around Intel’s Pine Trail platform, and taking full advantage of the new spec, the company claims you can expect up to 15 hours of run time when in MSI’s exclusive ECO mode. Everything you’d expect from a modern netbook is included, such as a 10-inch backlit LED display, Intel Atom N450 processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 6-cell battery, Bluetooth, Windows 7 Starter, and a 6-cell battery. It also comes with EasyFace facial recognition security software. Where MSI looks to separate the U160 from the spate of Pine Trail netbooks is in its physical design.

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We’ve seen increased efforts lately to push greater cell phone adoption into developing nations, and the latest to enter the fray is a low cost handset powered by commonly available AAA-sized batteries . Called the “FrvrOn,” short for “forever on,” Indian mobile phone company Oliver Telecommunications also outfitted its mobile phone with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, but has good reason for including an AAA compartment. “We have electrification all across the country but the power supply is erratic,” marketing manager Ravi Perti told AFP. “With our phone, all one needs to do is pack a few extra cells (batteries) if one is traveling in areas where one expects power supply disruptions.” Perti says, the phone can run for up to three hours on the stock lithium-ion battery, and another hour on a single AAA battery. According to government figures, there are 10,000 impoverished Indian villages with access to grid electricity.

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After the success of the HTC Hero , the Taiwanese firm is back again with the first of its duo of Android 2.1 phones, the HTC Legend. Featuring a full aluminium chassis and high-res OLED screen, as well as the latest version of Android from Google, HTC is clearly looking to jostle its way to the front of the best-selling phone queue with the HTC Legend and Desire . The HTC Legend features a sumptuous unibody aluminium chassis – taking more than a few visual cues from the MacBook range, and refining the lines of the HTC Hero to produce a sleek and very aesthetically pleasing phone.

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The Mozilla Foundation has outlined its long-term mission for developing the online web experience and user control of the internet over the next century, claiming that Firefox is just the start. Mozilla Foundation head Mitchell Baker told the Register recently that the open source group’s mission was “to build certain qualities into the human experience of the internet” and that while Firefox was “important for the immediate future” Mozilla has “barely started in user control.” According to executive director Mark Surman is leading a Mozilla project called Drumbeat , which uses a new set of independent programs in open-web technologies like HTML 5 “where students’ work is rated and scored using a peer-rating system designed to go beyond the standard Microsoft or Cisco certifications.” Humanising technology Surman outlined Drumbeat’s objectives as follows: “Clearly, the goal is to get out to a new circle of people who care about the web already but who don’t have a way to participate. “We don’t know what the market will be 100 years from now, but we do know that a dramatic increase in levels of ownership and participation in the web will be critical.” Surman wants to see university courses in HTML 5, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript and courses that promote Mozilla’s Canvas .

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External USB hard drives provide a quick and easy way to add storage space to a computer without the need to ferret around in the case, with the added bonus that they’re easy to move from one computer to another. But the inherent problem with removable storage is that it can be far more easily lost or stolen than an internal hard drive. Losing data is bad enough – especially if you’ve misplaced photos or precious documents – but its potential use if it fell into the wrong hands hardly bears thinking about. At about the size of two packs of playing cards, the DiskGenie is a portable hard drive with a difference. The slightly rubberised casing features a number pad, which you use to enter a PIN in order to access the files within

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