Catch Up Monday: Psystar Defeated, Crunchpad Revisited, Cool ION Case Modded And More

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It’s the start of the week again and a lot has happened in tech world while your recharged your batteries through the weekend. Get to the other side and start catching up.

Software:

Apple To Psystar: Get Your OWN Super-Advanced OS

Apple is judged to be in the right in their case against Psystar. Psystar was selling non-Apple computers with OS X installed on them, which clearly violates Apple’s EULA. But the full scope of the legal war is not cleared yet. [read]

Google OS Coming Soon?

New rumors suggest that Google’s Chrome OS is coming to us sometime this month and not next year. It will likely be a public beta for Google’s usual extended testing. [read]

Windows 7 Gets Hacked For Keyless Activation

Here we go – Windows 7 has been hacked again! This time it works by completely bypassing the activation DLL and suppressing all the popup reminders. No, I don’t think it will last long either. [read]

Apple Fixes Video Snag In the New 27 iMacs

A video error that was plaguing the new 27” iMacs has been fixed by Apple. It was apparently caused by AirPort. [read]

iPhone Gets ARGH: Augmented Reality Ghost Hunting

Want to go ghost hunting? Try it on your iPhone. [read]

DJay Gets Its Own Controller

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The popular Djay app for the Mac-owning bedroom DJs now has its own dedicated controller called Spin. It is made by renowned Dj gear manufacturer Vestax and is modeled after their successful line of VCI-100 and VCI-300 professional DJ MIDI controllers for other, professional DJ-ing software. [read]

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Phones:

Nokia’s N900 Has Been Released, Now On Pre-order

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Nokia has released their much-anticipated smartphone – the N900. It runs on the Maemo5 OS and is Nokia’s best bet against the iPhone. So far, I see a great smartphone but nothing close to being an iPhone-killer. For more details and my opinion, visit gHacks.net.

Samsung’s Galaxy Spica i5700 Android Phone Finally Official

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A follow up to Samsung’s Galaxy, running on the Android OS has been rumored for a long time. And lo – it is finally here. Codenamed the i5700, real name the Galaxy Spica. [read]

ZiiLABS To Demo Zii Android Smartphone In December

Creative’s sub-concern ZiiLABS has promised to demo a new Android Smartphone this December. It will likely run the ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor that they were showing off recently. [read]

XPERIA X10 Gets UK Launch Date

Sony Ericsson’s UK website says that the XPERIA X10 Android phone will be landing in the UK sometime in February. That has got to be the most specific time frame we have heard till date. Last we heard it was the ‘first half of 2010’. [read]

Droid Has Been Selling Pretty Well

Motorola’s Droid, being sold by Verizon, has been selling pretty well it seems. Some reports put it at having sold over 250,000 units in the initial week that just went by. [read]

VIA Making XP/Android Phone

Chip-maker VIA joins the ranks of Acer and others and ventures into making a smartphone. This one will run Windows XP and Android. So now we have Viewsonic, VIA and that other company called ITG making Windows XP smartphones. [read]

Dell’s Smartphone To Start Off With China And Brazil

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Dell will begin selling its first ever smartphone in China and Brazil. The company will be selling the Mini 3 touchscreen phone in these countries. [read]

Nokia E72 Begins To Ship (Finally)

After a long wait, Nokia has finally decided to start shipping the E72 in the US. The new smartphone improves over the wildly successful E71 smarpthone. But in the face of the iPhone and Android phones like the Droid, it is likely to pale. [read]

Windows Mobiles Slides Further Down

Microsoft has lost even more mobile market share this quarter, making it probably the biggest loser of the season.  Down to about 7% from about 11% of the total. [read]

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Portables:

NVIDIA’s Tegra Will Power next-Gen Nintendo DS

According to sources at DigitalFoundry, the next Nintendo DS will run on NVIDIA’s Tegra chip. Given Tegra’s graphics power, this could get interesting. [read]

Want An MP4 Player With A 4.3” 720p Screen? Japan Has One

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Hallods from Japan treats you to the first real HD PMP that has a 4inch screen displaying a 720p resolution. Now that’s nice! And it crunches quite a few video formats too. [read]

Crunchpad Tablet Is NOT Dead, Yet

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According to Micheal Arrington, father of the Crunchpad – the affordable crowd sourced slate, the Crunchpad is doing pretty well and all the high price rumors are completely untrue. [read]

Atom N450 (Pineview) Netbooks Spied On FCC

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Lenovo’s new Pineview netbooks have been spotted on the FCC, which means next-gen Atom netbooks are heading for us right now. We are very likely to see them in the next two months. [read]

Mobinova’s Beam Smartbook Spied On FCC

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Remember the Beam from Mobinnova? Well, it is has just popped up on the FCC. So it is likely to launch really soon. [read]

New 12.1” MSI Notebook Emerges, Silently

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There is a new netbook on the block and it is called the L2100. It is from MSI and for some reason the company has not made any announcements about it. [read]

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Misc:

The Core i7 iMac Benchmarks Quite Well

Apple has been applauded for its decision to make quad-core iMacs and now that the benchmarks are coming in – people are even more happy about it. It is quite a performer [read]

Fabulous NVIDIA ION Case Mod

NVIDIA was running an ION case modding contest and now they have finally found a winner. It was won by Bill Owen of Mnpctech.com and it looks really, really cool! [read]

Cooler Master’s Sizzling New Chassis

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Cooler Master, a well-respected name in the pc community, has made a new AMD version of its popular HAF 932 chassis. Available in blood red, this is one cool tower to have! [read]

AMD Phenom Overclocked To Cross 7GHz!

An AMD Phenom II chip was overclocked to achieve a speed of 7.08GHz! Yes there were overheating issues, which is why they had to use liquid Helium! Talk about getting serious about it. This is a world record by the way. [read]

Your Data Engraved In Stone, Lasts A 1000 Years

A new company claims to have made a new form of DVD that is made out of a synthetic stone that will last you a 1000 years and will never get scratched or destroyed. [read]

Toshiba Launches Chair Into Edge Of Space

The newest Toshiba Ad for their new REGZA LED TV, the one that features local dimming and other enhancements.

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