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Sony will sell its shares in the LCD panel joint-venture S-LCD to partner Samsung, the two companies have announced, in a deal worth $940m, as the Japanese firm struggles to coax profit out of its TV line. S-LCD Corporation had been established in 2004 by Sony and Samsung, with this new deal – that will leave S-LCD a wholly owned Samsung subsidiary – expected to close by the end of January 2012. Sony will continue to source displays for some of its TVs from S-LCD. “This transaction will enable [Sony] to monetize its shares in S-LCD and aims to secure a flexible and steady supply of LCD panels from Samsung, based on market prices and without the responsibility and costs of operating a manufacturing facility” the Japanese company says. As for Samsung, it “anticipates heightened flexibility, speed and efficiency in both panel production and business operations.” The deal is another step in Sony’s attempts to bring its large-format LCD business into profit, the TV division proving to b

RIM has been hit with another trademark-related lawsuit. The company has already surrendered its efforts in using BBX for its QNX-based BlackBerry 10 platform, but this time around the target is its use of BBM for its BlackBerry Messenger service. A non-profit business intelligence company called BBM (Bureau of Broadcast Management) Canada is bringing the case against RIM. The company has been in business since 1944, gathering TV and radio metrics for advertising and its CEO Jim MacLeod had previously approached RIM, offering to rebrand if RIM would cover the cost. Negotiations fell through and BBM Canada filed its suit on August 12 with the initial hearing scheduled for January 11. McLeod says “we want our name back.” The BBM name wasn’t adopted by RIM until over a year ago when its BlackBerry Messenger app became a focus of its marketing efforts. In response to the lawsuit, RIM has issued the following statement: “Since its launch in July 2005, BlackBerry Messenger has become

Sony recently posted some good news for Tablet S and Tablet P owners, confirming that the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will indeed be rolling out to both devices. The news was posted in Sony UK’s community forums, but the company hasn’t confirmed yet when this update will arrive. Both devices feature unique form factors with the Tablet S being a 10-inch device that resembles a folded back magazine while the Tablet P sports a smaller more pocketable clam shell design. Both devices come with a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, Android 3.2 Honeycomb. We’ve heard very little about the two devices since launch, but it’s good to see that Sony is still supporting both slates and that its custom interface hasn’t inhibited a platform upgrade like it has for Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab.

Google’s Android may be leading the US smartphone market, but when it comes to mobile online shopping, Apple’s iOS dominates. According to a study by retail analysis firm RichRelevance, 92 percent of mobile online sales in 2011 came from iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad. The study looked at 3.4 billion shopping sessions between April and December 2011, during which iOS mobile online shopping grew from 88 percent to 92 percent of the market. The average order value of purchases made from iOS devices was also higher than those made on other platforms, averaging $123 in December versus $101 on Android and $87 on desktops. “The numbers across our retailing partners sites demonstrate just how powerful the iOS platform is enabling mobile web shopping and, while still below 5 percent in total conversion, mobile traffic’s doubling in eight months is a trend we only see accelerating,” said Rich Relevance CEO David Selinger.

Despite reported WiFi signal problems with the ASUS Transformer Prime tablet, ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih is optimistic about his company’s tablet shipments for next year. He expects that ASUS will ship three to six million tablets in 2012, a major boost up from the estimated 1.8 million units in 2011. Shih believes that the ASUS Transformer Prime tablet will be especially popular with consumers because of its unique physical keyboard hardware. The detachable keyboard design is patent pending and the company plans to continue optimizing the technology. Furthermore, ASUS plans to introduce new Transformer tablets next year that run the Windows 8 platform. Shih believes that with Windows 8, tablets will be able to address both consumers’ “data consumption” and “data creation” needs.

With all attention turned to the Galaxy Nexus in these last weeks of the year, one should not fail to consider that there is an alternative for those of you out there in No Verizon Land, and it goes by the name of Galaxy S II. This device is a suite of devices, for those of you that haven’t heard of it, and we’ve reviewed every single one of them (or pretty darn near) here on SlashGear. What you’re about to dive into is an exploration of this family of devices courtesy of hands-on videos from our review team, everything from the original to the one with the longest name in Android history to the time Chris Davies did a video in a rally car. This is no ordinary phone, and your money is best spent here. The situation we’re talking about here is if you’re suddenly, as Jean-Ralphio says, flush with cash, and you don’t want to roll with Verizon for one reason or another to pick up the new king of Samsung devices, the Galaxy Nexus. You’ve got another option here, and it’s a doozie: the Gal

There’s nothing quite like a flashmob these days, ladies and gentlemen, and when it comes to massive displays of unequivicle awesomeness, there’s no better way to display it than with a bunch of lightsabers: thus the combination has been made to celebrate the start of the multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic. This particular flash mob took place at night in Times Square in New York, and you simply must watch the majority of the video to get the full effect. How people standing still while epic music plays can have such an effect, I’ll never know. You’re about to see one whole heck of a lot of movie-quality Old Republic warriors standing around in the center of one of the busiest walkable intersections on earth, and that’s not the best part. After the heros and villains come out, there’s also a hoard of fans of the genre participating in the fun as well. So many blue and red lightsabers you won’t know what to do with yourself! You can join the fun online now after w

Song: Saans Albeli Movie: Aarakshan Starcast: Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone.prateik babbar

Song: Roshanee Movie: Aarakshan Starcast: Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone.prateik babbar

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Song : Gabru Album : Gabroo Singer : Jelly Music Label : T-Series

'The King is Back' This Don is surely elusive,elegant & can drool you with his looks & charisma. Be ready to catch him in theater near you on December 23, 2011. "Mujhko Pehchaanlo Main Hoon Don" song is sung by illustrious singer K.K. Song~ Mujhko Pehchaanlo Main Hoon Don Movie~ Don 2 Starcast~ ShahRukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Boman Irani, Om Puri, Kunal Kapoor Singer~ K.K Music Label~ T-Series

Song~ Aashiq Banaya Aapne Artist~ Emraan Hashmi, Tanushree Dutta Singer ~Himesh Reshammiya, Shreya Ghoshal Movie~ Aashiq Banaya Aapne Music Label~ T-Series Watch this ultimate love song from movie Aashiq Banaya Aapne, this song was a rage when it got released and still it is the most loved song among youth to express their love.

This month we bore witness to Motorola’s newest wave of Android tablets, that being both the DROID XYBOARD 10.1 and the DROID XYBOARD 8.2, both of them great candidates for replacing your now-aging XOOM tablet if you bought in to the Android tablet game earlier this year, and fabulous places for those new to Android to jump in on this game for a high quality experience – now have a look at all of our hands-on videos here in one post, as well as our final judgement on whether or not you should pick one up. We’ve got hands-on videos of both models of what’s also known as the XOOM 2 here as well as glances at the accessories you can pick up from Verizon as well. Let them be judged!

When it comes to Android device releases, nothing is more exciting than a Nexus smartphone or tablet, except when it comes to the Samsung line of Galaxy S devices of course – and today we’ve got what very well may be the next generation: the Samsung Galaxy S III in leaked press images and details. The story goes like this: Concept Phones, a blog that specializes in conceptual renderings of devices, has intercepted a couple of images and some details sent in from a fellow by the name of Ivan Ilchenko who reported them appearing on Samsung’s “official” page on a Russian social network by the name of Vkontakte. If you’ve got all that, good, because here’s the confusing part: the device may well be the first smartphone to be dual-booting Android and Bada OS right out of the box. This device is being called the Samsung GT-I9500 Universal, and its details are rather incredulous. While the renderings appear really quite crisp and certainly in line with what we’ve seen from Samsung lately, s

Oh hell yea, this may be the most awesome bit of death machine engineering in history of things sure to kill or maim. What you are looking at here is a 250hp, Ferrari-powered quad with slicks all around. This little beast is called the Lazareth Wazuma V8F. The beastie gets a 3.0L Ferrari V8 engine hiding underneath that thin bodywork. The power from that V8 hits the street through a 6-speed transmission that comes out of a BMW M3. The brakes to stop the thing once you are up to ludicrous speed are a set of 12.8-inch Brembo brakes all around. The quad weighs in at 1,433 pounds and with the power on tab, it is sure to destroy some underpants. The contraption will set you back right at $261,000, but man it looks good. I wonder if it is even street legal. You might wonder how it is that a 3.0L Ferrari V8 is only putting down 250hp, that is about what the V8 of the same displacement offered in some Ferrari cars like the Mondial back in the day.

I like products that look really old, but have modern insides. Yamaha has a new amplifier for musicians that look like something out of the 50′s to me. The amps come in two versions including the THR5 pictured and the THR10. These are small amps reports Wired looking like the head unit of a stack. I’ve got so little music talent in me I have no idea what size that would be. The amps are aimed for use off the stage for practicing apparently and both have stereo sound. The circuitry inside models tubes for warm sound and the have VCM effects. The effects mimic five different amp types along with various pedal effects, and the THR10 has a tuner built-in. The devices will run off either AA batteries of or AC power. There is no indication of how much these will cost, but they aren’t going to be cheap. Both of the models will launch in January. I wonder if we will see them at CES.

The Kia Ray may well be the ugliest EV I have seen in a long time. It’s boxy and square and makes the Prius look good if you ask me. Aside from the questionable looks of the car, it has some interesting features that make it stand out among the EV crowd. The coolest feature is the optional fast charge system that would charge the battery cells in only 25 minutes. The boxy EV has a range of 84 miles, which will obviously depend on the driving conditions. Without that fast charge option, you will need six hours to charge the battery using 220V. The electric motor is a 50kW unit powering the front wheels. The beast will rocket from 0-62mph in 15.9 seconds. The EV Ray has 123 lb-ft of torque, which as is common with electric cars is more torque than the 1.0L combustion engine powered flavor offers. Kia plans to build 2,500 of these little EVs. The catch is that they are all slated for government use in Korea so you won’t be able to get one.

It has been a while since we talked about the Vesta asteroid and the NASA Dawn spacecraft that went into orbit around the asteroid. The last time we mentioned the Dawn was back in July when Dawn first started to orbit Vesta. NASA has now offered up some of the best photos of the surface of Vesta that have ever been seen. Dawn has been inching closer to Vesta since July when it showed up at the asteroid and the spacecraft is now at a distance of only 130 miles from the giant asteroid. NASA calls that position the low-altitude mapping orbit. That orbit was reached on December 12 and images started showing up at mission control on December 13. The new orbit has returned photos taken with the framing camera that have three times the resolution of the previous position Dawn orbited in. NASA says that the best resolution of the camera is about 75-feet. That will provide images that can resolve grooves, small craters, and surface textures. After Dawn wraps up the Vesta mission it, will he

If you placed an order for any holiday gifts via Best Buy online that you haven’t received yet, you need to check on them quickly. Best Buy has announced that it will not be able to fill all orders made as far back as November before Christmas. Some of the popular products that were ordered online are not able to be filled at this time. The bad part is that Best Buy is offering no indications of what products are no longer in stock, or how many orders have been affected. Best Buy did something similar when it cancelled orders for the BlackBerry Playbook tablet in late November. Apparently, it learned nothing. Considering we are only two days from Christmas the odds of people with orders cancelled at this late date finding the product they want elsewhere is not good. Analysts point out that the surge in online shopping this year has been huge with some parts of the country experiencing bad weather that sent people to their computers rather than malls. Analyst R.J. Hottovy from Morni

If you have applied the update to the Xbox 360 dashboard recently you may have found that you can’t get online anymore. Kotaku reports that the update has prevented some users from getting back online for playing games. Microsoft is promising to resolve the issue as soon as possible. The issue is apparently not very widespread. The reason the affected consoles are unable to get back online is that the people affected can’t sign into their profiles. The inability to sign into profiles means that the affected can’t get online to play their favorite multiplayer games and they can’t get access to some of the content they purchased online either. Apparently, the update is also not that great for people that watch a lot of streaming video using the console. I am sure that people not able to get online with their console are hoping that it’s resolved today. I would bet many gamers will have at least one game under the Christmas tree this weekend and it would suck to not be able to play if

Of all the parts inside the notebooks and other computers that we all use every day, one of the most expensive components is the CPU. As processors come down in price, the PC as a whole gets cheaper. Intel has announced that it will be cutting the price on some Sandy Bridge CPUs. Intel notified its partners of the price cuts that will be made on the Core i3 and Core i5 series parts. The price cuts may be a way of helping to keep demand up as the Intel Ivy Bridge follow up gets ready to launch next year. DigiTimes cites sources at major notebook firms claiming that the processor prices are set to drop 10-15%. Prices on notebooks using the parts have been going down already with Asus and Acer reducing prices on the Core i5-2430 notebooks to around $659 and Core i3 version are selling for significantly less than that. The sources that tip the price cut on the processors also claim that the prices of first gen Core i5 Ultrabooks are also set to fall to the $799 to $899 range in January

When it comes to using your voice to dictate your content to a computer rather than typing, there are a bunch of apps out there already. Dragon Naturally Speaking is one such voice instead of typing software package. A company called Avatron has invented a new app for the iPhone that harnesses Siri to enter text. The app is called Air Dictate and Avatron developed some sort of method to harness Siri’s voice capturing abilities to transfer the text that Siri pieces together from your speech over to a Mac. The Mac computer needs to be on OS X 10.6.8 or higher and running the Mac portion of the Air Dictate Receiver App. Once all the software is set up, you can then just talk to Siri for email, Word, Pages and all the other software that needs text input. I can see this being an interesting way to perform dictation for those that already have the iPhone and want to use it rather than a microphone.

AT&T recently took a $4 billion beating at the hands of federal regulators when its plan to purchase T-Mobile in part to get the wireless spectrum to build out its network more fully failed. The result was a $3 billion cash payment to T-Mobile’s parent company for the deal failing along with a bunch of stock. Word came yesterday that the FCC had approved another deal that AT&T had cooking. AT&T’s bid to purchase $1.9 billion worth of airwave licenses from Qualcomm has now been approved as of late Thursday night. This is good news that should make AT&T feel a bit better after the rough few months the company had has. The new spectrum licenses will help AT&T to ease its congested network with the number of smartphone and tablet data users on the rise. There were conditions imposed on the deal that have to do with data roaming and interference reports The Hill. The FCC approved the deal 3-1 with the sole person not for the plan being Michael Copps. He said that he