The demands of the digital nomad are expected to drive laptop sales to over one billion in the next five years. The prediction by Dell came as it unveiled 10 new laptop models aimed at this emerging working class. The new Latitude line boasts as much as 19 hours of battery life for the always connected 21st century worker.  The laptops include seven Latitude business laptops and three Dell Precision workstation laptops which Mr Clarke, Dell’s representative,  described as “performance leaders and something the tech community will absolutely die for”.

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The new iPhone 3G is all set to hit the market for just $199. Since its launch, the price has been depreciating. According to a preliminary analysis by iSuppli Corp., the new Apple iPhone 3G materials and manufacturing cost is $173. The initial retail price of the phone announced by Steve Jobs will be $199. iSuppli has performed a breakdown of the costs using insights from its analysis staff to develop estimates of iPhone content, suppliers, and costs. “The new iPhone is significantly less expensive to produce than the first-generation product, despite major improvements in the product’s functionality and unique usability, due to the addition of 3G communications,” said Dr. Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst for iSuppli.

In India, Vodafone and Airtel are already taking pre-orders to cash on the hype but the real thing is India doesn’t yet have a 3G network and so it will just be a phone to flaunt about in India.

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I mentioned my favourite browser Firefox 3 in my recent post and it seems the open source browser from Mozilla is on its way into the Guiness World Records. Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has claimed that over 8 million copies of the software were downloaded on Download Day.

The company stated early that their goal was to surpass the initial release of Firefox 2, at 1.6 million downloads in 24 hours, and hit 5 million downloads. The goal of the marketing campaign is to set a Guinness World Record for most downloaded software in a single day. A few days have passed and, barring the server downtime that plagued users for a few hours, the results look promising for Mozilla’s world record attempt. According to the official Mozilla blog, Firefox 3 easily cruised past 5 million user downloads. “We exceeded 8 million downloads in our 24 hour period,” the blog states. Downloads were tracked from 11:16am PDT on June 17th to 11:16am PDT on the following day.

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Still in its beta stage, Google introduced some nifty features in Gmail via its testing bed - Gmail Labs. From useful mouse gestures[I love this feature], superstars, quicklinks, random signatures to the old snakey game [Yes, you can play a game in Gmail too!], they are more of useful tweaks which help you personalize Gmail.

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