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Official ICC World Cup 2011 videogame unveiled

February 7, 2011 1 Nimish

With less than a fortnight to go for cricket’s most prestigious tournament, the 2011 ICC World Cup, Zapak Games has released the official videogame for the tournament. Titled Cricket Power, the game has been made exclusively for the PC (we…

Android

The PS phone is official – Sony E shows off Xperia Play in Super Bowl ad!

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

We have been hearing rumours about its existence for weeks and even expressed our cynicism about it, but we – and the world – got official confirmation of the existence of a PlayStation phone. And it could not have come…

Android

Olive to launch first Indian HSPA+ smartphone – do we smell Gingerbread?

February 4, 2011 2 Nimish

We have received an invite from the folks at Olive Telecom, asking us to “witness the launch of the first Indian HSPA+ smartphone” in Delhi on February 9. First, let us get the jargon out of the way and clarify…

Accessories

AT&T announces pre-order for Moto Atrix, laptop dock costs as much as an iPad

February 3, 2011 0 Nimish

Arguably the most talked-about phone at the recent CES 2011 event, the Motorola Atrix 4G, now has a price tag. AT&T has announced in a press release that the phone will be available on pre-order from February 13, and will…

Apple

Big games- Bioshock, CoD 4, Borderlands – start arriving at the Mac App Store

February 2, 2011 0 Nimish

It has been a trend that has passed relatively unnoticed, but the past few days have seen some significant gaming titles arrive on the Mac App Store. Among the worthies who have been arriving there are Bioshock, Borderland, LEGO Harry…

Android

Now anyone can create an Android app – just use AppsGeyser

January 31, 2011 0 Nimish

Creating apps for Android just got a whole lot easier, thanks to an online service called AppsGeyser. You do not need to do any coding whatsoever, just enter some information in an online form, and you can have an Android…

Apple

Indian software Boom wins Best of Show award at Macworld 2011

January 30, 2011 0 Nimish

It seems to have been an “Apple Weekend” for India. While the fact that the iPad was launched in the country made most headlines, Indian company Global Delight wowed Mac fans by winning a Best of Show Award at the…

Android

Skyfire, Facebook for Android updated

January 29, 2011 0 Nimish

The last couple of days have been busy for Android users with two of the most popular applications on the Android market, the Skyfire browser and the official Facebook app for Android getting updates. While both seem minor rather than…

Apple

MSI launches WindPad 100w, a Windows 7 tablet for Rs 34,500

January 29, 2011 0 Nimish

The iPad might have grabbed the headlines in most of the Indian tech media, but it is by no means the only tablet to hit Indian stores over the weekend. Also, released in the Indian market today is the MSI…

Gaming

Sony unveils PSP successor, the NGP, with OLED touchscreen, dual cameras, back trackpad, 3G!

January 27, 2011 3 Nimish

Even, as India works itself into an iPad frenzy, there’s more stunning news coming in from overseas – Sony has announced the successor of the PSP. No, it is not called the PSP2, but a rather dull Next Generation Portable…

Apple

iPad arrives in India – prices, BSNL 3G data plans revealed

January 27, 2011 7 Nimish

All right, so we were wrong in our claim that there was no way that the iPad could arrive in India by January 28. Although we have received no official notification, Apple’s India site and the BSNL site have gone…

Samsung

The second Wave cometh – Samsung Wave II released in India for Rs 20,990

January 27, 2011 0 Nimish

We had been seeing it in the market for a few days and now we have official confirmation – Samsung has released the successor of the highly successful Wave handset in the Indian market. The Wave II does not have…

eReaders & Tablets

It’s official – Samsung Galaxy Tab now for Rs 29,299!

January 23, 2011 2 Nimish

When Samsung had launched the Galaxy Tab in India a few months ago, we had loved the device but, had felt that at Rs 38,000, it was way overpriced. However, that price had been coming down, and some retailers like…

Apple

Toshiba pokes fun at iPad on its tablet site!

January 23, 2011 0 Nimish

The tablet wars are well and truly on and the latest verbal salvo in these (after the mauling handed out to Android by Tim Cook) has been fired by the folks at Toshiba. Just head over to the new…

Apple

Review: Bubble Ball (iOS)

January 22, 2011 0 Nimish

The past couple of days have seen the media buzzing about Bubble Ball, the game made by fourteen-year-old Robert Nay that has knocked Angry Birds Seasons off the top of the free apps charts of the App Store. We decided…

Gaming

Nintendo 3DS coming on March 27 – 3D gaming without glasses for $249

January 19, 2011 0 Nimish

So, after a relative no-show at CES 2011, Nintendo has finally told the world when its next portable gaming console will be hitting the shelves (in the US, at least). According to a release that we have just received, the…

netbook

A 1.4 kg Vaio for Rs 26,990? Sony releases the YB series

January 19, 2011 0 Nimish

They may be among the most stylish notebooks, but one thing that most people tend to associate with Sony’s Vaio series of notebooks are relatively stiff price tags. Well, that might be set to change with Sony taking the wrappers…

Gaming

Final Fantasy XIII gets silly name sequel – Final Fantasy XIII-2!

January 18, 2011 0 Nimish

At long last the folks at Square Enix have announced the sequel to the six million copy selling Final Fantasy XIII RPG. And in terms of lame gaming nomenclature, this has got to take first prize. No, it is not…

Featured

OG Interview: Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India

January 18, 2011 1 Nimish

After being in the news for coming out with some amazing smartphones over the past few years, HTC had a relatively quiet holiday season in India, with no major releases. However, the company seems to be back in the swing…

Nokia

Has Nokia pulled the plug on Ovi Music Unlimited?

January 17, 2011 0 Nimish

Nokia might have been having a relatively rough time in the smartphone market (it remains the leader, though), but one thing that really worked in its favour was the Ovi Music Unlimited service. It lets users download an unlimited number…

Apple

Devil May Cry coming to iPhone, iPod touch

January 12, 2011 1 Nimish

The Sony PSP brigade and Nintendo DS fan club might disagree, but the iPhone and iPod touch are rapidly turning into full-fledged mobile gaming platforms, thanks to the rash of games available on the iTunes App Store. And the latest…

First look

Fable 3: Limited Collector’s Edition, A Brief Review

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

All right, we know what you are going to say – “Why would anyone go all the way and unbox a videogame when all the thrill is actually in slipping it into a console and playing it?” Well, our rationale…

Apple

The Mac App Store is live! More than a thousand apps to start off

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

It was not launched at Vegas during CES, but could prove to be a much bigger game changer than all the products launched with a lot of razmatazz out there. We are talking of Apple’s Mac App Store, which has…

CES

Die, graphics cards? Intel releases graphics-stacked second generation of Core processors

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

Even as the crowds flock to Vegas to check out CES, Intel has delivered a whammy of sorts at Mumbai by taking the veil off the second generation of its Core processor family. While there has been the usual talk of better performance, battery life and efficiency, the most spectacular change has…

Android

Sony Ericsson shows the Xperia Arc, with Bravia Engine display, Android 2.3

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

CES has seen some remarkable products so far, and Sony Ericsson has joined the party with one of the most spectacular smartphones we have seen so far. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc was revealed as the “first of a new generation of Xperia smartphones…

Android

Motorola adds two more to Android smartphone stable – Droid Bionic & Cliq 2

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

The XOOM tablet and the Atrix (with its laptop dock) might have grabbed all the headlines, but Motorola has not ignored its Android range of smartphones at CES. The company which has been riding high on Android since the high-profile launch of…

Android

Motorola unleashes “the world’s most powerful smartphone,” the Atrix, complete with laptop dock

January 6, 2011 1 Nimish

This might be CES and the air might be thick with hype but still, words like “the world’s most powerful smartphone” should not be used lightly. Well, Motorola has used them to describe its Atrix handset, which not only packs in some seriously impressive specs but has actually grabbed the limelight at the event for…

CES

Motorola shows off XOOM tablet

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

We had been talking about it for ages and now it has been spotted officially. Motorola has shown off the XOOM tablet, the first tablet with a dual core processor and running Android 3.0 at CES. It comes with a 10.1…

Google

Now, Pune residents can get bus travel info on Google Maps

January 3, 2011 1 Nimish

Pune has become the second city in India, after Bangalore, to get information about its bus service listed on Google Maps as part of the Google Transit project. In simple terms, what this means is that when residents of Pune need…

HTC

HTC fires second Windows Phone 7 salvo, launches Mozart in India

January 3, 2011 0 Nimish

After a period of relative inactivity, HTC seems to have stepped into device release overdrive. Within days of the launch of the HTC HD7 in India, the first Windows Phone 7 device to be seen in the country (notwithstanding no…

News

Now you can loan books on the Kindle

December 30, 2010 0 Nimish

Well, Amazon has gone ahead and implemented it. Kindle users in the US (and hopefully, soon in other countries) will now be able to lend books on their Kindle to other users. And the best part is that the receivers need not…

Android

Official Ashes mobile game released even as England win!

December 29, 2010 0 Nimish

It definitely is a day for mobile cricket games, given the fact that we discovered that Stick Cricket had made its way to the App Store earlier today. In terms of timing, though, this would match the half-hearted slash by an Aussie tailender. With the…

Apple

Stick Cricket comes to the iPhone, and it’s free!

December 29, 2010 3 Nimish

The prayers of millions of iPhone cricket gamers seem to have been finally heard. One of the most popular cricket games on the Internet and on cellphones, Stick Cricket (also marketed on some handsets as Ian Botham Stick Cricket) has…

Android

Our six favourite sub-Rs 15,000 Android smartphones

December 26, 2010 12 Nimish

Following our podcast about affordable Android smartphones a few days ago, we have been deluged with queries about which are the best Android smartphones in the Indian market for less than Rs 15,000. While we did voice some of our…

Android

EA brings holiday discounts to Android too – four games for $0.99 each

December 24, 2010 0 Nimish

Their decision to reduce the price of several of their iPhone/iPod touch games to $ 0.99 sent gamers into ecstasies (we are still busy downloading!). And now EA has brought the same scheme to the Android Market. Mind you, as…

Tech Industry News

Our top ten sub-dollar iPhone games hit list

December 24, 2010 0 Nimish

Thanks to the Holiday season, it has been raining discounts with just about every major game developer offering games at lower than usual rates. We have been royally spoilt for choice this time around with the likes of EA, Glu and Gameloft offering some terrific games…

Entertainment

Call of Duty: Black Ops tops $1 billion in sales in just six weeks!

December 22, 2010 1 Nimish

In a staggering achievement, Call of Duty: Black Ops has topped the one billion dollar sales mark in a mere six weeks of being in the market. These figures have been revealed in a press release from the game’s publishers…

Apple

Hallelujah! Gameloft too cuts iPad/iPhone game prices for Christmas

December 20, 2010 0 Nimish

Gamers on the iPhone and iPad can seldom have had a better Christmas. After EA reduced the price of several of its titles for the two platforms to 99 cents to celebrate Christmas, its great rival Gameloft has followed suit, albeit on a smaller level. The company has slashed the…

News

Samsung Wave 2 lands in India for Rs 18,999, with updated Bada OS but minus super AMOLED screen

December 19, 2010 4 Nimish

Samsung has released the successor of its first Bada OS flagship device in India. The Samsung S8530 or the Wave 2 has not been launched with the fanfare that preceded the original Wave. In fact, we have not even received a press release about it, and discovered…

Apple

Five reason why Apple’s Mac App Store could be revolutionary

December 19, 2010 1 Nimish

Apple has announced that it will be launching an App Store for its Mac computers on January 6, and as usual, debate and discussion have already started about whether it will be a hit or a failure. We have had our share…

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