Microsoft has announced its first application for the Google Android platform.
The Tag application, which lets users scan barcodes and then visit online retailers to purchase the goods, has finally been added to Android Market.
While it seems similar to Google’s own barcode scanner app, Tag also turns the barcodes into coupons to get money off at [...]

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Acer has announced it is to return to the wonderfully small world of pico projectors, with the K11.
Announced this week at CeBit, the K11 on paper sounds like a pico on steroids. It has double the light power of the K10– at 200 ANSI Lumens – and also packs a punch when it comes to memory [...]

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Nokia and Skype have announced that they will be offering VOIP calls for all owners of Symbian-enabled Finnish phones.
The service will work over 3G, Wi-Fi and apparently even EDGE and GPRS, which would be impressive given the limited amount of data speed offered by the latter.
Skype for Symbian will run on any Nokia smartphone using [...]

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Nvidia has launched its next-gen Ion chip, intended to bring HD gaming graphics to netbooks and nettop PCs.
Officially announced at CeBIT this week, Nvidia is firmly targeting the small-form computer market with the second-generation of the Ion.
“The netbook market has exploded in the last few years. 40 million units will go through the market this [...]

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The first batch of Apple iPads may not hit shops until April, with a ‘manufacturing bottleneck’ being blamed for the possible delay.
The news was relayed by Peter Misek, an analyst at Canaccord Adams, who believes that we won’t see any iPads in March.
Launch will be delayed
“An unspecified production problem at the iPad’s manufacturer, Hon Hai Precision, [...]

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Microsoft has been demonstrating the first official hardware prototype of an LG-manufactured Windows Phone 7 Series handset which is due for commercial release later in 2010.
Windows Phone 7 Series was the big news to come out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month, and a Microsoft rep pulled out this first concept handset [...]

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Nokia has admitted that the N97 has been something of a disappointment since its release last June, and that the company made mistakes.
Speaking to All About Symbian,Anssi Vanjoki, EVP of Markets at Nokia said the company realised the issues and has learnt lessons from the experience.
While pointing to decent margins made in terms of sales and profit [...]

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Review
The motion control and voice recognition system has been much debated since its unveiling at E3 last year but what’s the reality of the user experience as it nears launch? Is it really a game-changer or just another gimmick?
Certainly after just a few minutes playtime with the system, its potential becomes apparent. Project Natal isn’t [...]

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The compact camera game is changing. More and more camera companies are upping their game when it comes to megapixel power and innovative features but still compacts seem to be lacking in one area – lenses.
Samsung is looking to change this, with the launch of the Samsung EX1.

This compact camera comes with one of the best [...]

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Yahoo is planning to integrate Twitter into all its sites, meaning users can read and write Tweets without having to leave the portal.
The move is designed to use the popularity of the micro-blogging site to increase Yahoo’s appeal to users. Yahoo already has a similar deal in place with Facebook, positioning itself to be a [...]

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