Ever came across an iDongle? May be not. For, iDongle has just debuted, and the promise is that it can jailbreak and activate an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch running OS 3.1.2 just by plugging it into the dock connector! The cunning piece of hacker-created hardware can jailbreak a factory fresh iPhone unit. Doesn’t that sound interesting?

The Ion has arrived. Nvidia’s much-anticipated Ion graphics processor has debuted bringing with it the capabilities to spur netbooks to take the fast lane towards unmatched performance. The new Nvidia Ion graphics processor is expected to lend more muscle to netbooks making possible 10 times the graphics performance of standard netbooks. Also, the new processor is also being credited with the capability of pushing up battery life to up to 10 hours, thanks to the presence of the Nvidia Optimus technology.

In its bid to pocket all the cheer that the eReader market is currently generating, Freescale Semiconductor is now ready with its latest i.MX508 processor. The company is behind the processors that power the Amazon Kindle and the Sony eReader. The new i.MX508 processor is being lined up as a device that would accelerate your eReader speed almost twice of what you currently experience.

Sandy Bridge is Intel’s upcoming 32-nm chip architecture platform expected to go into production in Q4 2010. The new technology is expected to replace the Nehalem and Westmere architectures. Now more and more rumors are coming out about the upcoming platform. Sandy Bridge will bring in native support for USB 3.0 SuperSpeed as well as PCI Express 3.0 which is the interface use for communication between the GPU and the other components. These new interfaces will be fully backwards compatible with existing systems.

Here’s a new date for the webOS 1.4 launch. As you may be aware, we all have been waiting for February 15 to come and give us the update. But then, the date is long gone and now come rumors of a new date. Tipsters tell us that the update could arrive on February 25.

Nvidia is all set to scale a landmark. But then, will AMD let such a thing happen effortlessly? Plans going on as anticipated has brought Nvidia on road to unveiling the much its first DirectX 11-supporting graphics cards GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470. By racing towards a launch date, it is also seen that Nvidia might have to battle resistance from AMD, which is already lining up a handful of new Cypress-based releases so that it could thwart any attempt at spoiling its play field.

USB 3.0 is the latest upgrade to the world’s most popular connectivity port. It will offer data transfer speeds of upto 5 Gbps making it more than 10 times faster than USB 2.0. And today, NEC has announced a new chipset whose bus speeds could exceed the USB 3.0 speeds over 3 times. Thats a whooping 16 Gbps!

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High speed connectivity on the go has been a dream for the layman but the T-Mobile webConnect USB modem announced at the MWC 2010 minutes ago is determined to change that. It is a device that can take complete advantage of the High Speed Packet Access network of the carrier. The 21Mbps HSPA+ USB Modem looks similar to the 3G webConnect USB adapter but in reality, it is much faster, courtesy of a 3.5G-radio that maximizes bandwidth on T-Mobile’s upcoming 21 Mbps network.

Republic of Gamers is what Asus calls its range of very high-end overclocked high-performance video cards. News has leaked about an upcoming card in the series based on the ATi Radeon HD5870 video card. The new card has been turbo charged from the default 850MHz GPU clock to 900 MHz and with double the amount of 4.9Gbps video RAM as the reference card. The card is so designed that there is still more room for overclocking it further to 1080 MHz and the memory to 5.2 Gbps.

Texas Instruments has been in the news recently with their OMAP4 development device which can be used as a base for mobile devices such as ebook readers. Their latest innovative product is an industry first – combining WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and FM into a single component – the WiLink 7.0. the WiLink series earlier had combinations of the four different radios but never before has it had all four together.