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An Apple board member has revealed that Steve Jobs had dreamed of creating an iCar before his sad demise in October last year after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer.Speaking at a Fast Company conference, Mickey Drexler stated that the car industry is a tragedy in America and Steve's dream was to design an iCar which would give the automotive industry the shake-up it required.

Two Nokia engineers decided to hammer a nail onto the Lumia 900’s display. After some pounding, the screen continues to work properly. In the second test, the handset’s display is used to pound a nail into a piece of wood. The Nokia Lumia 900 uses the Corning Gorilla Glass, an alkali-aluminosilicate material designed to be damage-resistant, lightweight and thin. Experts said that it is about thirty times harder than plastic and comparable in strength to sapphire.

Apple’s next iPhone, the heavily-speculated iPhone 5 will be released later this year. The million-dollar question is WHEN? While some rumors point toward an October release, others indicate a late-August to early-September launch date. So here are the Liquidmetal iPhone 5 concept designs from Jon Fawcett, one of the designers behind the Une Bobine.

Micromax recently launched the AISHA A50 Ninja. Introducing wallet friendly A50 superphone Ninja at Rs 4,999 with a unique voice control feature called Aisha (The Indian counterpart of the iPhone Siri), Micromax is leveraging the countrywide feature phone distribution to take Smart Phone to the masses. In succession to A85, A75, A73 and A78, Micromax intensifies its Superfone portfolio by introducing A50 and thus offering handsets ranging from Rs. 4,999 to Rs. 12,500.

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) website owned by the Karnataka State Government on Friday morning were in for a surprise. They found that the website ( www.bbmp.gov.in ) had been hacked. The BBMP officials, who were flummoxed by the unexpected turn of events, immediately set about trying to restore it.

Samsung Electronics, recently announced the launch of its new, more interactive and intuitive Smart TV models - its flagship LED ES8000 and ES7500 series and the Plasma E8000 series in the Indian market. Smart Interaction technology provides Smart TV users with a new, more natural and intuitive option for controlling and interacting with the TV

.  Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S3, at an event in Earls Court, London The Galaxy S3 specs are also in and now we officially know about most of its features and performance specs. The ones that really got me going are the lovely 4.8 inch display and the introduction of S-Voice and S-Beam. As one of the most anticipated devices of the year, this device is the first to come with a Exynos 4 Quad processor. It also has Android 4.0, a 4.8-inch 720p Super AMOLED display, 1 GB of RAM, and it is only 8.6 mm thick.