a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, the number one worldwide brand of LCD monitors, announced today the addition of their first 3D monitor to its award winning product line. The Samsung 2233RZ, which is compatible with Nvidia’s® new GeForce 3D® Vision™ graphics card, will be available for purchase in April 2009 and carries an MSRP of $399.

“More users are enjoying higher performance games and movies using high-performance graphic boards,” said R.A Atanus, Vice President of Product Marketing at Samsung Electronics’ Information Technology Division. “As entertainment content becomes more available, the need for hardware technology to maintain increasing volumes of software content becomes more important. Combining this new 3D technology with Samsung’s LCD monitor creates an optimal viewing tool – for uses ranging from teaching and using 3D modeling to playing the latest video games.”

All you tech lovers can now look forward to something new. A Bangalore based start-up LACS, has come up with an affordable smart gadget called Magnum to take on Apple's iPhone. The device is internet and GPS enabled.

The Magnum has a 4.3-inch resistive touch screen and is available in as many as five colours. The phone has features such as in-built GPS navigation, music, video, browsing, and games among other things. It also allows users to sync their mobile phone via Bluetooth with the Magnum, allowing syncing of music and other media with the Magnum. You can also back up your phone contacts via this sync. It's priced at Rs. 8,888 plus taxes.

The Magnum runs on a 500MHz processor and on old Windows CE 6.1 operating system. When asked why LACS decided to use such an old OS and not opt for newer solutions, Mr. Jain said, “Technologies sound good on paper. Android is a great operating system no doubt, but since it is free to use, there is no guarantee of support. I don't want to be in a position where my customer has to suffer because of any backend issues. So at this point in time we decided to go ahead with Win CE which is a more stable system. Once assured that Android or any other OS is stable and I can provide the necessary support later on, we will go ahead and implement it in our devices.”