HP has unveiled two more laptops in the Envy series which was launched in late last year.The Envy 14 weighs 5.25 pounds, is 1.1 inches thick, and it also offers the flexibility of choosing from Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors.

The 14.5-inch 16:9 display has a resolution of 1,600×900 pixels, and has Intel graphics with an ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 and also supports switchable graphics. It also features a backlit keyboard, a feature which was missing in its older versions. It is priced at 999 dollars.

The Envy 17 is 1.5 inches thick and weighs slightly heavier than you would expect at 7.5 pounds. One has the choice of Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors.

It also comes with ATI Mobility Radeon 5850 graphics. Two display options are available: basic and Full HD. The basic offers 17.3-inch 16:9 display with a 1,600×900-pixel resolution and full HD 17.3-inch 16:9 display with a resolution of 1,920×1,080 pixels. The HP Envy 17 will be available starting May 19, and the HP Envy 14, starting June 27.

Google has officially announced that it will start selling e-books in June or July 2010. Google’s manager for strategic-partner development, Chris Palma made this official  announcement at a Book Industry Study Group-sponsored panel entitled “The Book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing in the Cloud?”

Despite the fact that there was a talk about Google’s vision for dispensing books online in the past, this is the first time that Google has made it official by declaring a date to jump into the e-book fray. Google Editions, as this new service is called, will permit users to access wide range of books from different sites using multiple devices. This feature will make Google Editions to stand out from its competitors like and Barnes & Noble, Apple and Amazon. The users can buy digital copies of the book which they find through the book- search service. Though Google has not disclosed any information about the price or the publishers who will be a part of it, it is expected that Google Editions will have 500,000 titles.

Asus has unveiled Eee Keyboard PC, a fully-functional PC masked within a graceful and trendy keyboard. The EeeKeyboard PC works with any monitor, HDTV, projector or a full-fledged PC. It is powered by Intel Atom N270 processor and 945GSE/ICH7-M chipset.

It is equipped with a 5 inch multi-touch display which has a resolution of 800×480 pixels, Broadcom 70010/70012 video decoder , 1GB DDR2 RAM and 16GB or 32GB of SSD. It’s UWB (Ultra-wideband) Wireless Display connectivity facilitates it to stream HD 720p videos. Asus EeeKeyboard PC also features Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, HDMI out, Bluetooth V2.1, single Microphone, 2x speakers, USB 2.0 ports, VGA connector, Antenna (WAN + Ultra-wideband), Windows XP Home. It has a battery life of 4 hours. The dimensions are 145×425×10~24.4mm and it weighs 1.1 kg and is offered in sliver color.

Google has acquired Toronto based hottest software startup BumpTop which has lead the way in 3D interface technology for Mac and Windows PCs.

BumpTop was set up just three years ago and it has been the market leader in developing a touch screen software that allows the use of multiple fingers at the same time n a multi touch screen. The software was named ‘desktop workspace’ and apart from helping to organize photos, documents, videos, etc intuitively this software also helped in dragging the items, zooming in and out of the pictures and playing with the photos in the desktop. The acquisition was done for between $30 and $45 million, though both the sides did not disclose any information. Now, BumpTop will not be able to sell their software independently after May 7.

A statement on its website said, “Today, we have a big announcement to make: we’re excited to announce that we’ve been acquired by Google! This means that BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be available for sale. Additionally, no updates to the products are planned.” This was fifth such acquisition by the search engine giant in a path and it is very much on its track to take on Apple.

T-Mobile has announced its latest creation, myTouch 3G Slide an Android powered phone. It features a QWERTY keyboard whish is properly designed with comfortably spaced keys.

It is equipped with a 3.4-inch multitouch display whereas its predecessor were equipped with a 3.2 inch display. A source says that it features a 600 MHz ARM processor, 512MB on-board storage, 8GB MicroSD card, 5MP auto focus camera along with a LED flash and a 512 MB RAM. It is powered by the latest Android 2.1. The most striking feature of the phone is the Genius button. By pressing the Genius Button on the phone you can search the Web and maps, compose and send messages, use voice commands to make calls. Not only that, the phone will read out the messages aloud for you and you can also dictate the response. Really cool, Isn’t it?

Canon Vixia HF M31 is almost the same as the previous year’s Canon HF20 except that there have been few updates like the slick menu redesign and the new touchscreen interface.

Though the camcorder captures decent quality videos under bright light it fails to deliver a reasonable performance under low light. It has an internal flash memory of 32 GB and the video recording can be done using different settings that are available. The HF M31 has the same 15x optical zoom and same-size CMOS sensor as HF20. The colour accuracy is poor when compared to some of its previous models and the noise levels are also quite high in bright light. It is priced at 799 dollars.

Motorola and Palm shares almost the same story except that Motorola was able to survive and Palm wasn’t. Both Motorola and Palm were initial trendsetters in mobile phones but they were struggling to keep up with the competition in the market but then Motorola took off and Palm continued its downfall before it was bought by HP. The reason, to be put in a single word, is Android.

There was a brilliant article in New York Times and this is what it says The reason for the different outcomes, in a word, may be Android, Google’s operating system for mobile devices. “Motorola did quite well by jumping on Android’s bandwagon,” said Roger Entner, a mobile analyst with Nielsen. “Whereas Palm went the route of having their own operating system and launching that with Sprint, right against the iPhone.” Motorola’s co-chief executive Sanjay Jha reaffirms it saying “When we started this turnaround, we had six mobile operating systems and 23 platforms. We were able to reduce that to one and it allowed all of our creative energies on one platform.” Though the number of applications for Android is around 38000 and that of iPhone is around 185000, Android phone traffic has outpaced that of iPhone’s recently in US. Also the number of applications for Android is growing at a considerable pace.

There are a lot of speculations about whether HTML5 is ready for use and with Steve Jobs directive that to render web pages and Rich Internet Applications web developer use HTML5 in place of Adobe has actually made HTML5’s availability for use an urgent one.

Google developer, Mark Pilgrim has reaffirmed what Jobs has said about the readiness of HTML 5. At the WWW2010 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina Pilgrim said that “Depending on who you ask, HTML5 is already ready, or it won’t be ready until 2022. The answer is both, depending on what your definition of ‘ready’ is.” He also said that major browsers like Opera, Chrome, Safari, Firefox all support HTML5 to varying degrees and in the mobile OS the iPhone and Android also support many HTML5 features.

T mobile has announced that it would be providing carrier services to yet another smart ‎phone, this time it is a Samsung product.

Samsung’s behold II is a beautiful creation, with ‎a great AMOLED display, the device measures 4.6 x 2.2 x 0.5 inches and weighs around ‎‎4 ounces roughly. The device sports a superior camera unit and has excellent video/photo ‎capture capabilities. The device is very sleek, light weight and has a neat brown and ‎black façade. Overall a good design, a stunning display unit, though you would be put off ‎by the price of the phone – it costs round about 250 dollars

With the iPad making huge waves in the market, HP seems to be pulling out a rabbit out ‎of its magic hat, with the announcement of its tablet, the HP Slate.

The company ‎announced this gizmo in the CES earlier this year, but with its specifications and good ‎looks, the device will certainly match the iPad and one can expect it to give stiff ‎competition to Apple’s flagship product. The device has an 8.9 inch touchscreen display ‎unit, runs on windows 7 for one and has support for hardware accelerated flash video ‎playback. It also has HDMI support, 32 to 64 GB of memory, USB support. Powered by ‎the Atom, with a 1GB RAM, it offers a lot of features including a 3 megapixel forward ‎facing camera.‎