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Asustek’s low cost Eee PC has went on sale in Taiwan, though not at the price that I was expecting. A lot of people maybe dissapointed after reading the announcement since Asus Eee PC now starts at $299 and goes as high as $399 depending on the configuration which is a hundred dollar higher than the previously announced starting price of $199.

The lowest configuration of the Eee PC is dubbed Eee PC 2G Surf and has 256MB RAM, 2GB SSD, small battery and no camera. For power users the Asus Eee PC 8G is anyway the only choice. $399 is not that bad for a 7 inch notebook with 1GB RAM, 8GB SSD, webcam and 3.5h battery life.

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Google has announced that the free online storage for Gmail will increase gradually in the next days. As of October 23th, users will get 4321MB of storage, and from January 4th next year, will see 6283MB of storage.

This is Google’s answer to Microsoft’s 5GB for Windows Live Hotmail service and Yahoo’s “unlimited” storage offer. After that users will receive 3.3MB every day, which is apparently 10 times larger than the current rate of growth.

A good news indeed though not all users can fully utilize the storage space like myself who only managed to use 7 percent or 245MB on my Gmail account.

Anybody here who uses 50 percent of their Gmail storage?

IBM’s new Lotus Symphony office suite is now available as a public beta. It can do much of what an expensive Standard edition of Microsoft Office does, only at a much better price: It’s FREE.

The suite is consist of three applications — a word processor (Lotus Symphony Documents), a spreadsheet (Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets), and a presentation creator (Lotus Symphony Presentations). Symphony supports both Windows (XP, Vista, 2000) and Linux operating systems. Each application can open and save in a variety of file formats, including Office (2003/XP/97; not 2007) and ODF (Open Document Format), as well as save files as PDFs.

Now, if you wonder how it matches with Microsoft’s Office and another free productivity application like Open Office, head over to the link below.

Download: Symphony office suite (free)

It’s one of those things that you don’t see everyday. Introducing… Symantec’s Norton Power Ranger that will kick some PC virus a**. Here’s a jaw dropping clip.

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