Technology is changing at a faster pace day-by-day, and it always bring good news for all. And especially those who are gizmo buffs benefited the most.

This time, Samsung launched its first 8 megapixel touchscreen phone, named Pixon M8800 for Indians.

The new member in Samsung’s touchscreen portfolio offers maximum image resolution of 3264x2448 with auto-focus, face-recognition, Wide Dynamic Range, Advance Shake Reduction, GPS geo-tagging support, and WSVGA and VGA video recording at 30fps.

Alcatel has introduced two entry level mobile phones including the OT-707 and the OT-800 in the market.

Targeting the low-end segment, the OT-707 is a touch screen phone and the OT-800 is a full QWERTY phone.

The phones come packed with amazing features usually spotted on higher end devices.

London, Mar 3 : Forget about using keyboard or mouse to operate your computer, for scientists have now developed a PC with a robotic neck that can be controlled only by gestures.

The music and game-playing gadget, called QB1 computer, was showcased at the Lift conference in Geneva last week.

Frederic Kaplan at the Swiss Federal Institutes in Lausanne said that conventional personal computers were too demanding, and people must generally sit to interact with one, and use both their hands and full concentration.

"Personal computers now tend to be used in casual settings, where the sitting position is actually unnatural," New Scientist magazine quoted Kaplan as saying.

With the intention to expand its ‘Guru’ line, Samsung has made announcement about the launching of six new mobile handsets in the Indian market.

The newly launched entry-level handsets include Guru 1070, Guru 1100, Guru 1125, Guru 1210, Guru 1310 and Guru 1410.

The company said that all these mobile phones are based on the same handsets that were launched during the last year (2008).

These six new Samsung Guru handsets, which will hit market in 2009, come with a variety of astounding features.

San Francisco/Taipei - Intel Corporation and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp announced Monday a deal that will allow the Asian firm to produce Intel's smallest chips for use in mobile phones, netbook computers and other devices.

The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on technology, intellectual property and other issues related to Intel's Atom chip, the US company said at its Santa Clara, California headquarters.

Intel said the move would broaden the market for the chip and speed its use in various products.

Sydney, March 2 : An Australian computer scientist has developed the world''s first shoe phone, and has even published detailed step-by-step instructions online.

According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Paul Gardner-Stephen, the inventor, insists there are practical applications of this phone, including, helping the elderly.

Gardner-Stephen, a post-doctoral fellow in bioinformatics at Adelaide''s Flinders University, made the gadget as a prop for a church camp drama presentation that had a "Get Smart" theme.

But after scouring the web and discovering that no one had created a shoe phone that was fully functional as a phone and could also be worn as a shoe, Gardner-Stephen set himself the challenge.