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Cooler Master is ready to launch the Excalibur 120mm case fan, adding on to its lineup of high performance case fans for enthusiasts.

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Gigabyte, well known amongst enthusiasts for its performance motherboards, is preparing the environmentally friendly Odin Plus series of power supplies for launch.

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Prolly one of the most creative marketing methods ever seen. This video you will see is some marketing for Nikon’s S1000pj, a compact camera with projector feature.

2 boys strapped with many Nikon S1000pj did a live performance in Yomuri Land, working through an incredibly awkward choreography.

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The Nokia 6760 Slide was announced in July and bears the resemblence to the Nokia Surge in US. For those looking to get this phone, the wait is over. It will be commercially available from this week.

The times, they are, as the bard quoth, a changin’ - Google Maps Navigation now provides free turn by turn voice instructions on Android-powered phones in the USA, and it’s only a matter of time before the licensing restrictions and map rollouts get sorted for real time navigation in many other countries. And all for free. But this still leaves a window of opportunity for Nokia to step in and change this landscape in an even bigger way - right now. And sell a truckload of phones in the process, worldwide. Read on for my thoughts.

UK Gaming site Pocket Gamer has delivered a well thought out and researched piece about piracy and online content. While primarily about gaming and the new rush for downloadable content, the landscape is remarkably similar to the software markets for smartphones. Looking at all angles, the final statement “…whatever excuses any of us have employed for justifying a pirated game are well and truly dead.” is one that we’d stand by here, but it covers some new ground in the world of App Stores, current estimated levels of piracy and public opinion.

Incorporating AMD Congo CPU MV40 / L335 processor, the ultra-thin MSI Wind12 U230 features 12.1-inch (1366×768) HD Ready display, ATi Radeon HD3200 graphics, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and comes preinstalled with Windows 7 operating system.

For anyone else waiting for an iSync plug-in for the Nokia N97 mini, to enable Mac syncing, note that Jim @ Worded Wonders has produced one, currently best described as in alpha status, see his blog post about it here. Comments welcome if you’ve got time to try this today. Of course, if Nokia could just put in 10 minutes effort and do an official one….

The EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked graphics card features overclocked GDDR5 memory, with twice the bandwidth of GDDR3 for blazing fast performance at a mainstream price point. With a native HDMI port on-board, the GT 240 offers the flexibility to connect both audio and video, via one cable, to any HDMI enabled monitor. Is this card right for you? Read on to find out!

ASUS has came up with the first multi-touch netbook, the Eee PC T91MT, which sports a 8.9-inch multi-touch screen that you can write or draw with your finger or stylus. Powered by Intel Atom Z520 processor, the T91MT features 1GB DDR2 memory, 32GB SSD (with 500GB ASUS Web storage) and weighs just below 1kg.