Singapore bans a video game for sex scene
2007-11-16 03:36:00
The Strait Times reports that "Mass Effect," a game from Microsoft has been banned in Singapore
because of a scene
where a human woman and an alien woman kiss and caress each other.Mass Effect is a highly anticipated space adventure game and Singapore is the only country to ban it. Other titles also banned in Singapore include Sony's God of War II for nudity and "The Darkness," for religiously offensive material and gruesome violence.In October, Singapore's parliament decided to keep a ban on sex between men, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the city-state should keep its conservative values and not allow special rights for homosexuals.Source: Reuters
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N82 Unboxing
2007-11-16 01:45:00
Found this on a Greek site called Pestaola. Apart from the bad background music and the incomprehensible language, the guy on the vid actually shows the ritual of unboxing at a pretty good levelClick Here if you understand Greek.Source: Engadget Mobile & Pestaola
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The Chosen One
2007-11-25 21:06:00
Beware of what you create and never play with sticks on your computer!Source: Gary Farnam's Corner
Playstation 3 officially debuts in India
2007-11-25 07:58:00
Playstation 3, one of the three leading next-gen gaming consoles available all over the world, has now been officially launched in India
during the PlayStation Experience event on November 24, 2007.It was unveiled by Atindriya Bose, Sony Entertainment's Country Manager, at Taj Land's End, Mumbai, where the PlayStation Experience is currently hosted.Also announced are the Playstation Portable Slim and Lite, Sony's portable gaming devices, which also tout video-out facility. The PS3 40 GB version will be priced at Rs. 24,990/- and the PSPs will be priced at approximately Rs. 10000/-.As I posted earlier, PlayStation Experience is an event currently held in Mumbai by Sony to promote their gaming devices.Source: ZDNetIndia
BSNL to launch Triple Play Services in India
2007-11-25 07:46:00
BSNL, the leading telecom and broadband service in India
, has revealed its plans for Triple
Play services in India by January 2008. With Triple Play, you can enjoy a landline, a broadband connection, and IPTV, all on a single cable. A general definition of IPTV is television content that, instead of being delivered through traditional broadcast and cable formats, is received by the viewer through the technologies used for computer networks."We are looking for a manufacturer or supplier who can supply set-top boxes to us at a reasonable price. However, if a consumer wants to install his own set-top box, he can do so and we will charge rental of Rs. 200 per month for the cable TV service. If we provide the box, there will be an additional monthly rental of Rs. 100. We hope to start the service by January next year," said Sunil Parihar, Principal General Manager, Lucknow Circle, BSNL.Existing BSNL customers can also convert to Triple Play from their landline/broadband services.Source:
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Instacoll Unveils Live Documents
2007-11-23 22:43:00
Instacoll, cofounded by Sabeer Bhatia, creator of Hotmail, Sumanth Raghavendra, and Kaushal Cavale, has launched a hybrid online-offline office suite similar to Microsoft Office on November 22, 2007.Live Documents
will be free initially until it decides on the pricing for enterprises; it will be free for individuals. The cost of the application for the company might be as little as $50 per year or $10 per month, according to Bhatia. This is similar to Google Documents, which is also free for individuals.It will include the usual applications for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. An optional desktop client takes care of offline access to documents.Sumanth Raghavendra, CEO, Instacoll, said, “The launch of Live Documents will fill all the gaps that Microsoft has not been able to fill, especially in the online category. With its software and services approach, users can access this via a hosted model, on premises servers or use a plug and play appliance.”You may reme
Get ready for a fuel-cell car in India
2007-11-23 21:45:00
Tata Motors, who recently revealed their plans for an inexpensive plastic car, has gone one step ahead and announced their plans for a hydrogen car. This is in collaboration with ISRO, India
's space agency.According to Madhavan Nair, ISRO Chairman, the hydrogen car is scheduled for a 2008 completion and mass production of the car is to be determined. If it does pan out, this could easily be the answer to the rising pollution levels and cheaper fuel solutions.Other countries like the US, Netherlands, Germany, and Japan have already
announced their plans for a fuel-cell car and this is India's first foray into the field.This car will have engine as it will be completely electricity-driven, and hydrogen and atmospheric oxygen will be combined in the fuel cell to produce electricity that will propel the car. The car will also have hydrogen storage and regulatory control systems, Nair added.Sources: Engadget & Rediff
Mobile Phone Rates
2007-11-22 21:38:00
These are the mobile phone rates in Mumbai, India, as of November 10, 2007. All rates are in Indian Rupees with bill and warranty. Nokia 1110 - 1345 1110i - 1345 1112 - 1579 1200 - 1440 1600 - 1775 2310 - Rs.2399 2610 - Rs.3000 2626 - Rs.2774 2630 - Rs.4449 2760 - Rs.3964 3110 classic - 5.6k 3230 - Rs.6800 3250 - Rs.14000 5070 - Rs.3712 5140i - Rs.6200 5200 - 5.5k 5300 XpressMusic - 6.8k5310 Xpress Music-11.5k5500 - 7.2k5610 Xpress Music-18k5700 XpressMusic - 10.9k6020 - Rs.3714 6030 - 2497 6060 - Rs.4300 6070 - 4k 6080 - Rs.4119 6085 - 4593 6101 - Rs.7500 6111 - Rs.102506120 Classic- 10.1k (w/o bill) 6125 - Rs.10500 6151 - Rs.9200 6233 - 8.1k6233M - 9744 6270 - Rs.13100 6280 - Rs.13000 6300 - Rs.8649 6630 - Rs.12000 6680 - Rs.12500 6681 - Rs.9500 6708 - Rs.16500 7500 Prism - Rs.9449 7610 - 6635 8800 - Rs.35000 9300 - Rs.21000 9300i - Rs.16974 9500 - Rs.21500
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Get live traffic info on your mobile
2007-11-21 09:50:00
Bangalore Transport Information System is a really cool innovative idea developed by MapUnity in collaboration with Airtel and Bangalore City.MapUnity is a company developing geographic information systems and services for governance and public affairs who has partnered with the Bangalore City Police and Airtel Karnataka, the city's largest mobile operator, to provide a comprehensive urban traffic
information system for Bangalore City.BTIS helps you plan find your way through Bangalore using the shortest route, the least congested area avoiding traffic jams. You can know real-time traffic conditions on your phone by either calling or messaging BTIS. You can even know the auto fare for the distance you are going to travel.Traffic and planning info can be obtained by using MapUnity's wap site if you have a GPRS-enabled phone (www.btis.in/gprs.htm), by sending a message (BTIS ROUTE to 52225 if your on Airtel), or by calling an Airtel number (98450 27222).Lastly, if you are frequent trav
Get your game face on, Zapak Games are coming
2007-11-21 03:34:00
Starting November 23rd through December 14th 2007, every Friday, you will have the opportunity to fight it out on the Zapak GamepleX Championship with stakes as high as 3 lakh rupees.The games will be held at Zapak GamepleXes across the country in Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Pune. Every Friday, players can try their hand at Counter Strike 1.6, FIFA, and Flat Out 2 with prize money of up to Rs. 10000 every week for CS 1.6 and 3000 for FIFA and Flat Out 2 in every city.Registration fees are Rs. 250 per team for CounterStrike (you get your own team) and Rs. 50 for FIFA and Flat Out 2.Check the Zapak Blog for the addresses and more details.So all you FPSers and Racers out there in Bangalore, get your butts up to Frazer Town, cos you don't want to miss this for nothing!Sources: TechTree & The Zapak Blog
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ASUS looses two PDA phones in India
2007-11-30 23:35:00
ASUS finally enters the India
n cell phone market with two PDA phones, the P526 and M530w. These phones will be distributed by India Digital Lifestyle Distributors, Pvt. Ltd. to the mobile phone retailers across the country, although they will initially be available in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai.The P526 touts an average 2-megapixel camera, 128 MB of internal memory, SiRF Star III chipset GPS, USB support, expandable memory, Bluetooth, and a 65K-color touchscreen TFT of 2.6 inches. All of these play good on the Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional. Sadly missing are WiFi and 3G (even EDGE would have been good). It is currently priced at Rs. 16,990.On the other hand, the M530w features a full QWERTY keyboard, 2-megapixel camera, EDGE, 3G, 802.11 b/g WiFi, 256 MB flash onboard memory with miniSD expansion, working on Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard Edition with a smaller 65k color 2.4 inch TFT display. It comes in two colors of black and white. The M530w is currently pric
All Episodes of South Park Online. Cost: Free!
2007-11-30 23:12:00
South Park fans rejoice, you get to watch every South Park episode ever to be made online starting next year and the best part is, it's all free! This is the second time Viacom is putting up shows online, the first being The Daily Show.Source: Gizmodo
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iPhone, does everything
2007-11-30 22:57:00
If you are in desperate need of instant sideburns or in the market for a handgrenade, this is it! Source: MetaCafe
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Vista Service Pack 1 in December?
2007-11-30 21:51:00
As Microsoft is prepping an SP3 for Windows XP, the SP1 for Vista
is apparently going to be released to selected testers in the first week of December
. The SP1 beta 17051 is out already to testers but it's not yet clear that that's the one to be released. The SP1 supposedly adds a speed boost and enhances third-party application compatibility but nothing that you would really notice on your day-to-day experience. But when an operating system boosts its predecessor's sales and holds a place in Top Ten 10 Terrible Tech Products, you gotta start thinking, huh?Source: Engadget
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Mobile Money Transfer, Now Possible on Airtel
2007-11-30 00:35:00
Bharti Mobile
in collaboration with Western Union will start rolling out Mobile Money
Transfer, an innovative effort to facilitate money transfer on a mobile phone.This service will enable NRIs to send money across to their folks on the subcontinent easily and securely.Airtel
is also said to be developing a new technology enabling customers to use their mobile phones to shop at retail outlets. This service will most likely be started by the next year.Source: TechTree
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Assassin's Creed Gameplay Video
2007-11-27 23:31:00
Despite all the bad or average reviews Assassin
's Creed
has been getting, it is one awesome game with great graphics and a pretty good story line. The video below more than sums up why it is the most anticipated game of 2007. Oh, and also because of Jade Raymond :DSource: YouTube
Tutorial: How to make a key with just a popsicle
2007-11-26 23:42:00
Paper, glue, scissors, pencil, a ruler, and a used ice-cream stick is all you need to create a duplicate of your key. This works only on keys with holes, not notches.Sources: Gizmodo & Instructables
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Star NX788, stores your bluetooth headset
2007-11-26 22:21:00
If you are one of those who keep losing their bluetooth headsets, here's one phone which will help you prevent that. The new Star NX788 mobile phone has a secret compartment in it which stores
keeps your bluetooth headset safe if you are not using it.This Chinese cellphone is manufactured by a company called Naxing. The Star NX788 also boasts GSM dual-SIM functionality, a 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.6 inch touchscreen display, Bluetooth (of course!), A2DP support, Chinese handwriting input, and a microSD expansion slot.It is priced at $190 (approx. 7500/-) and is currently available in Hong Kong.Source: GearFuse
First Sideshow Notebooks unleashed in India!
2007-12-08 03:58:00
Sideshow finally makes an appearance on the India
n notebook scene in the form of R200, produced by LG as part of their XNote series. The R200 was already launched in Korea in October 2007.For the uninitiated, Sideshow is a nifty technology introduced through Vista by Microsoft which enables quick access to email, photos, music, etc. without having to boot up the notebook or even flip the top open. This is in the form of a 2.6-inch display on the R200.Basic config starts with a 12.1-inch LCD, 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of memory, 128MB of ATI HD2400 graphics, 802.11a/g/n, and 160GB of disk space with a price tag of around Rs. 79,900/-Source: TechGadgets
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Life's pains, a bird with a ringtone addiction!
2007-12-08 02:17:00
Meet "Billy," a blue-fronted Amazonian parrot with a penchant for ringtones, yes, you read it right, ringtones. His current favorites are the Nokia theme, Lou Bega’s Mambo Number 5, BBC Match of the Day tune, Soul Limbo by Booker T, MGs, and Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry. Billy has the knack of copying any ringtone that's currently on Stuart McNae's phone and belting them out whenever Stuart is out of the room. “He waits for me to leave the room before he does it. I’ll rush downstairs to find it’s Billy,” says Stuart. Stuart McNae is a bus firm worker in Huddersfield, West Yorkers, in England and says that every time he changes the ringtone, Billy just copies it.Source: Spluch
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ASUS ups EN8800GT to 1GB
2007-12-08 02:00:00
Let's accept the fact that 8800GT 512MB was a killer card, better than the more expensive 320MB 8800GTS cards. ASUS now ups the ante cramming another 512 megabytes on to the EN8800 GT. Now, get ready for more DirectX 10 fun at great resolutions. Other welcome additions include a new Glaciator fan/heatsink hybrid, which will drop the running temperature by another 7 degrees Celsius. Also included is an overclocking app to cater for your overclocking impulses.You can watch these cards come out by the end of this year. The price is not revealed yet but expect it to be a bit more than the 512MB version, which is currently priced at around 16000/-Source: Gizmodo
Walkthrough Video of Windows Mobile 6.1
2007-12-07 23:10:00
Windows Mobile
6 devices in their Standard and Professional editions have started trickling into India and are slowly gaining ground over other device platforms like Symbian, Palm, Blackberry, etc. Be that as it may, here is a video of Windows Mobile
6.1 in action. Additions include the long-awaited threaded SMS feature (which was solved by Nokia's Conversation app on Symbian incidentally), a new Vista-esque theme, a better Internet Explorer, and copy/paste function.Click here to watch the videoSource: Boy Genius Report & Engadget
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Crysis: Review & Contest
2007-12-07 22:17:00
Stunning is just another word that could describe Crysis
and if you are one of the thousands of gamers out there pining for it and cursing at your PC for not being powerful enough to play it, Tech2 is giving you a chance to do just that and win a NVIDIA 8800 GTS in the process! Just read the great review of Crysis at Tech2 and unravel the code hidden in the review. Once you crack it, you will have to mail the answer to cj@tech2.com and be the lucky one! Oh, and it's gonna be a Mumbai affair only but if you can afford to travel to Mumbai, give it a go.Speaking about Crysis, Tech2's Nikhil Singh says, "It’s just a shame that we cannot play the game at its full potential yet, since they released it a whole hardware generation too early." He gives it a well-deserved 4.5 star rating.Crysis is the latest FPS PC game from Crytek, the people who created Far Cry, another great game that I enjoyed very much, and is released Electronic Arts. It is hailed as one of the greatest shooters ever m
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HTC Touch Dual comes to India
2007-12-06 21:33:00
After HTC Touch, it is now the turn of HTC Touch Dual to finally make it to the subcontinent.“The HTC Touch Dual expands the HTC Touch product family and integrates 3.5G connectivity and a sliding keyboard into a slim and stylish design. This combination provides customers with the most uncompromising and intuitive touch experience available on a phone,” said Jack Tong, Vice President of HTC Asia.“The HTC Touch has not only changed the way people interact with their phones but it has redefined what touch means on a consumer device. HTC is committed to bringing advanced levels of technology to consumers with continuous innovation. The HTC Touch Dual is the next step forward,” Tong added.We have got an impressive spec sheet here with 3.5G (Yay! Yeah, like we can use it anytime sooner here in India
) with HSDPA, a 2.6-inch 65k color TFT display with TouchFLO finger swipe navigation, handwriting recognition, a just-enough 400 MHz Qualcomm MSM7200 processor, an average 2-mpx camera,
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F250, Samsung's new music slider
2007-12-06 03:33:00
Samsung has added one more to its line of music phones available with the F250, at a relatively inexpensive price.The new F250 has a sleek mirror finish exterior and sports a 1.3-mpx cam, USB 2.0 connectivity, Bluetooth, microSD expansion up to 2GB with 20MB internal memory, FM Radio and a 2-inch 65k color TFT display, all weighing in at just 96 g. It also plays nice with EDGE being a 2.5G device.It is expected to priced at around 180 to 200 Euros (approx. Rs. 10000 to 12000) and to be released early next year or this year end.Source: UnwiredView
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Lenovo to market Rs. 8000 computers in India
2007-12-05 22:47:00
Lenovo, the fourth largest personal computer manufacturer in the world, is planning to launch "internet-enabled" devices in India
after a positive response in China for similar devices. Consumers might have to fork over roughly about $200 or Rs. 8000. The Chinese company is also planning to export notebooks manufactured at its Biddi Plant in Himachal Pradesh.The exact launch date is still a mystery though, but is expected to be after an initial launch in China.Source: TechGadgets
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, computers
Mobile Secretary, helps you organize
2007-12-05 22:16:00
Mobile Secretary
is one of many applications shown at Nokia World 2007 convention, currently held at Amsterdam, Netherlands, and consists of a 3D character acting as your virtual secretary. It is available as of now in China and InterGrafx, the Chinese firm behind the application, is looking to roll this out across Europe."It's very fun," says InterGrafx's Charles Chiang. "Your secretary handles things like SMS and incoming calls. You can choose different types of secretary from our server side, you can fire them and download a new one, or train them to be smarter. And you can even take a photo of someone, and put their picture on the avatar."Might be a while before this hits Indian shores.Source: BoyGenius
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, organize
Get $1 iPhones in Canada, Ho Ho Ho!
2007-12-05 22:10:00
The Christmas season seems to usher in some ubercheap tech and here is an example.Source: Engadget & iPhoneWorld
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Objectionable
2007-12-05 11:02:00
The All India Council for Suppression of Objectionable Material has released a new book titled "The Comprehensive Digest of Objectionable Material."People cutting across party, religious, caste lines hailed it as India's greatest celebration of its secular tradition. There has recently been wide criticism by members within the council that the idea of objectionable has not been comprehensively dealt with. This book is to counter that criticism. It contains a comprehensive list, their definitions and illustrations, about what is and can be termed objectionable. It makes no distinction and has dealt with all the objections raised by every member of the society. Priced at Rs. 10,000, the book may be considered on the expensive side. But the council members held that the price was reasonable. If we consider the alternative of protests, broken windowpanes, relocation to secret hideouts, and of course withdrawal of objectionable material, this would be considered a far less cumbersom
Live Documents, aping Office 2007?
2007-12-05 04:28:00
Hmm.....Smells like a lawsuit is brewing here. Screenshots taken by Digital Inspiration of Sabeer Bhatia's newest baby, Live Documents
, look like a stunning reproduction of Microsoft's Office 2007 complete with the layout, ribbon interface, and also the color schemes utilized, although the question remains whether these screenshots are real.Digital Inspiration is impressed by it though, saying, “The Live Documents interface and feature set looks way ahead of competition from existing online Office suites. And as we have already seen with Buzzword or Picnik, Flex-based browser apps are always a pleasure to work with because once the app gets loaded in the browser, the response is extremely good.”Hope Bhatia doesn't have to pay back what he got from Microsoft selling Hotmail!Source: TechCrunch
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