The Sony VAIO P seems to be a very popular device to be cloned, as evident by the latest culprit known as the BYD ODM. that netbook comes in a silver metal chassis, where it has a 10″ display with 16:10 aspect ratio, a larger keyboard, a tiny touchpad, a webcam on the top left hand corner, cramming in an Intel Atom Z530 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, an 1.8″ hard drive, a SIM card slot and a couple of USB ports. Strangely ample, the battery takes the route of some Apple products by being unremovable. No view on availability, but it ought to retail for somewhere in the region of $300.

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Beating Google at anything is good news for any company, but dethroning Google as the most visited site in the US is certainly a feat that any company would trumpet. Who was the culprit? Well, it should be no surprise to anyone to take in that it’s Facebook. According to industry tracker Hitwise, Facebook enjoyed a healthy 185 percent increase in visits, while Google only got a 9 percent increase. That being said, the tracker did not include Google property sites such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps. It looks like Google has many challenges ahead of it, what with Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Microsoft all looking to dethrone the search engine giant on the Web.

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Sometimes we tend to take tech for granted and forget that there is always a potential for stuff to muck up, as in the case of that Dell Mini 9 which popped, hissed and sizzled, and filled a users room with smoke. Aside from the laptop being damaged, it seems that the owner’s wooden flooring was damaged too. The culprit was apparently the battery pack (which shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise). Dell was fairly quick to reply to that situation, sending by an upgraded laptop to the user and taking the melted machine for inspection, though there wasn’t any mention of compensation for the floor. Have you ever had an electronic gadget turn into a fire hazard for you before? Let us know via the comments section.

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The boffins at GE are currently working on a new batch of wearable RFID sensors that are smart abundant to detect airborne chemical agents. No concept on how they’re going to commercialize that though, but that’s a good problem to have (and solve down the road). Apparently, the final product can be part of a badge and worn on clothing, being fully capable of detecting chemical agents in the air even when they’re at ultra-trace concentrations. Could that help observant ordinary folks to the presence of anthrax or other toxic gasses during a terrorist attack? Might be a tad too late thereupon, but at least it will be able to pinpoint who was the culprit that let out a silent fart in the elevator. [Press Release]

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