Facebook groups have been formed to oppose the site’s newly designed interface. According to PC World magazine there are over 2.7 million supporters in some of these groups. The groups are planning on boycotting the social network website during the weekend of Oct. 18 and Oct. 19 just to show how much they hate the new design.

According to a comment posted on the website the lovers of the new design has started a group called “We actually LOVE the new Facebook design” with over 23k members already. According to Loopy Gadgets (:0) facebook presently has approximately 100 million active users so a 2.7 million boycott won’t do much good.

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It seems as if Sandisk is going for the title of Storage Giants. Since lately they are upgrading a lot of their storage devices. Sometime last week they launched the world’s first 16GB microSD HC card and at the same time they announced the upgrade of their Compact Flash Cards.

The New Compact Flash cards offers increased storage and faster read/write speed. The Extreme III Compact Flash card is now available in 32GB storage capacity with a speed of 30MB/s. The Extreme IV comes with 16GB of storage and a speed of 45 MB/s. Read full press release after the break..

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The all new 2009 Audi S3 Sportback is available to order from October 1st, however UK deliveries don’t start till mid-december. You have the choice of the three-door style or the more practical Sportback five-door hatch.

The S3 Sportback features a high-pressure 2.0-liter turbo engine with 265-horsepower and 258 lb-ft of torque, which gives you a 0 to 62mph in 5.5 seconds plus four wheel drive, Heated and Silk Nappa leather-upholstered sports seats, Xenon Plus head lamps with LED strip. Read the full press release after the break.

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Fancy restaurants will get even more fancy when the EPOS-lite start digitize the menus. The EPOS- lite is a design concept for a tablet that will take your order and also serves as a wireless payment device. It is a low maintenance product that can be charged same place on your table top using a wireless charging option, (must be some new technology.)

Stephen Allport, the designer who came up with this concept, I guess he was tired of the same old order and payment ritual. Plus the fact that the person billing your card is unknown to you.

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Apple gave its nano a face lift, hence Nano Chromatic. Its not as short as the previous version, 3.6 inches (90.7 mm) in height, 1.5 inches (38.7 mm) in width and weighs only 36.8 grams. Its available in 9 different colors. According to Apple the Nano Chromatic is the world’s largest small screen (makes sense?) to me it does. It has high-resolution 2-inch (diagonal) liquid crystal LCD display with blue-white LED backlight and adjustable contrast plus 320-by-240-pixel resolution that gives you 204 pixels per inch.

The Nano Chromatic supports basically the same audio formats AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, and AIFF. The nano chromatic is available in 8GB or 16GB storage capacity. The 8GB can store up to 2000 songs and the 16GB gives you the capability to store approximately 4000 songs. Get the 8GB from apple online store for $149 and the 16GB for $199.

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Asus will be launching its Eee 900a Notebook gold version soon. Although it is said to be the gold version, the notebook will not be made of gold, only painted gold.

Everything remains the same, the specs are the same as the original Eee 900a Notbook.

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Sandisk has launches the world’s first 16GB microSD HC Card (HC meaning Higher Capacity). Now you can look out for new handsets having a lot of storage for media.

And a note for you, only the newest handsets will support HC cards. So before you going looking for the 16GB microSD make sure you have a capable handset. For example if your handset supports a 8GB HC card it should be able to support the 16GB. Newer type handsets are BlackBerry Bold and the Samsung Omnia.

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Wires are becoming a bit of a bother, they tangle, they trip you and worst that could happen they short. I think Logitech was thinking the same way when they came up with the Z-500 Wireless Notebook Speakers. In this era of technology we are presently living as you can see wireless phones, internet, console controllers and a lot more.

The Logitech Z-500 Wireless Notebook Speakers weighs 485grams and with dimensions of 27.5 x 3 x 7cm. It features an integrated bluetooth (Logitech logo and a small green LED circle to indicate connection), a mini-USB charging cable and a nice black carrying case as seen in the above photo. One more photo after the break.

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