Just a month away from the actual release, Amazon US is now taking up preorders for Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus accessory. It goes for $19.99 apiece which is a tad expensive if you’re buying it along with a game. The MotionPlus accessory when attached helps Wii to get a 1:1 gaming response resulting in better […]
Archives for May 2009
Blackberry Curve topples iPhone in NPD’s smartphone ranking
Thanks to Verizon-RIM’s BOGOF promotion, Blackberry Curve has zoomed past Apple’s iPhone. The report released by NPD Group makes Curve the undisputed king in the US smartphone market for Q1 2009. RIM managed to snag a good 15 percent of the smartphone market while Apple and Palm lost 10 percent of it. The top […]
Microsoft Windows 7 Public RC goes live
UPDATE: Direct Download Links added below. Its May 5 and as promised Microsoft has released the public RC version of Windows 7. Users can jump on the download link below to get their copy which will be valid till June 1, 2010. However, Microsoft will start crippling your OS experience by automatic bi-hourly shutdowns […]
Complete Myst on iPhone in less than 5 minutes
You’re not too demanding if you expect endless hours of fun for a huge $5.99 game. But what if I say the game lasts less than 5 minutes? Of course, this happens only if you take the shortcut but if solving puzzles is your forte or want to kill your time, the game does […]
Larger 11.6-inch Eee PC to launch this month
Acer already has its 11.6-inch netbook in the market and now according to Digitimes, its Taiwanese counterpart, Asus will also jump in the bandwagon with an 11.6-inch Eee PC netbook. Jerry Shen, President, Asus didn’t have much to say about the larger sized Eee PC but claimed that 30 percent of this year’s shipment […]
Nokia Point & Find app does what it says
A new application has been announced at the Nokia’s Beta Labs website. The app goes by the name Point & Find and it literally does that – point the phone’s camera on any object in the real world and you get the information on the same on the phone’s screen. Here’s an example – […]
Live Pictures of Blackberry Curve 8520 aka Gemini
Crackberry has managed to get hold off a few pics of the unannounced Blackberry Curve 8520. The Curve 8520 is codenamed as Gemini and as with the Gemini we have seen in the past, this one bears a different model number as well as the look. One of the distinct features of the device […]
Acer Aspire One 751 gets some official pictures, price
Acer’s Aspire One 751 has finally got few official pictures as well as a price to its name. Taiwanese shopping portal, PCHome is selling the 11.6-inch netbook for TW$21600 which comes to around US$654. That’s steep of course, considering the Intel Atom Z520 processor, 1GB RAM and 160GB. However, we are looking here at […]
iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 jailbroken
Just as Apple is committed to release fortnightly updates of its iPhone OS, the hackers are also doing their bit of work to provide the goodness of jailbreak on every beta update. Apple released the fourth beta release last week and hackers have already pwned the update. Users wanting to jailbreak the device can […]
730MB Myst game arrives on the App Store
I’ll confess I have never played Myst. But going through the Wikipedia page and learning how successful it was in its times, I thought to give it a try until I knew its download size. Heck, it’s a 727MB download and needs 1.5GB during installation (around 750MB is freed after the installation). So what […]