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Sony’s Bravia Internet Video Link has got the Slacker Personal Radio and Howcast Media as its content providers, the company launched the services today.

“Internet content is expanding faster than ever and Sony is bringing it straight to BRAVIA televisions,” said Randy Waynick, senior vice president of Sony Electronics’ Home Products Division. “Slacker and Howcast are great examples of new types of entertainment that are bridging the gap from an Internet experience to entertainment shared in the living room.”

Thanks to Slacker Personal Radio, Bravia Internet Video Link will now get millions of licensed songs and more than 100 individually programmed genre music stations. With Howcast, there will be a host of how-to videos in the content offered to Sony’s Bravia Internet Video Link users.

Also, Slacker has a library of CD-quality music from all genres and eras for music lovers Read the rest of this story >>

Ignition Entertainment Ltd., the publisher and developer of The King of Fighter XII today announced that the game will be hitting the markets in 2009.

The video game will be released for both North America and Europe next year; however no specific date has been announced.

The great arcade game 3-on-3 fighter game has gone under a complete make over with all the sprites been dropped and replaced with new 2D high definition, high resolution sprites. All it will be sporting a detailed 2D backgrounds which has been drawn 100 percent by hand, says Ignition.

“Dreams never die!” said Ajay Chadha, President of Ignition Entertainment. “I’ve been a huge The King of Fighters fan since 1994 when the game first debuted and I know original fans will be as excited as I am about this groundbreaking installment of this very popular series. And just as importantly, The King of Fighters XII should Read the rest of this story >>

Yes, you read that right, Google has brought a great opportunity to access some timeless classic masterpieces from LIFE photographers, photographs which were not made public earlier.

Be it the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination or the Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s, you will get it all from the LIFE photographs by photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen.

This is a step by Google to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, says the company.

The collection will include the newly digitized images which will also include photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE. These works date back to 1750s!

Apparently, online 20 percent of the collection has been made online till date, and now here it is – a collection of as many as 10 million photos.

So now if you want visual history lessons, a Read the rest of this story >>

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix has been launched on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. The news is that the game is one of the first games that have got the “Branded Destination Experience” on the New Xbox Experience, announced Capcom and Microsoft.

Branded Destination Experience allows the display of the entire story, information of the game to the Xbox gamers, as seen in the picture. The image released by the company also shows that the game will be releasing for the Xbox 360 players.

The game comes with all new content, latest trailers, and accessible downloadable content including picture packs and Basic and Premium themes.

“With 1080p high-definition art and graphics, and the ultimate user feature set, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is the perfect game to compliment the New Xbox Experience,” said Christian Svensson, VP of Strategic Planning and Business Development at Capcom Entertainment Read the rest of this story >>

Criterion has announced some really cool addition to the Burnout Paradise DLC Pack.

The Toy Cars pack will include in it nine posh automobiles which include the Carson GT Concept P12, the Krieger Racing WTR, Hunter Takedown 4×4 and Hunter Manhattan amongst the others. You will love these especially when you will get to know that these cars are free additions to the pack!

Criterion made quite a few revelations this year providing range goodies with the title. One of these happens to be the Burnout Paradise Party, which is an offline party-game mode. It features an eight player mode that will also be made available next year. However, this offering will come with a price tag and not for free!

Burnout Paradise was released on January 11, this year for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Motorola has announced the spanking latest phone – Moto VE66 with widget support and CrystalTalk Technology.

The Moto VE66 is a good looking slider phone which also comes with some really essential features like an Wi-Fi connectivity, MP3 player with USB 2.0 for high-speed data transfer via PC, MP3 player-like navigation, integrated FM radio with RDS.

Also one can carry Internet activities with ease on this phone as it provides access to real-time information like weather, sports scores, stock tickers, flight information, social media and news headlines with pre-loaded and downloadable widgets. Moto VE66 happens to be the first phone from Motorola with widget integration.

Apart from all this, it also brings an array of other features like FastScroll one-touch navigation wheel, a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, LED flash, image stabilizer, red eye reduction functions, true-to-life colour with automatic colour saturation and Read the rest of this story >>

eSYS Information Technologies has introduced the all new Mainstream Desktop PC in India.

Mainstream Desktop is based on Intel’s E5200 dual core processor for enhanced performance with low power consumption. This ensures worriless day-to-day computing activities like listening to digital music, watching videos, playing games, editing digital photography and improved responsiveness with office applications.

The Intel processor used in the desktop is the first in the family of Dual Core CPUs with 2MB L2 cache size and with a clock speed of 2.5GHz at 800MHz of FSB speed.

“eSys is amongst the first few companies to introduce Intel E5200 Dual Core Processor based desktops in India as the end-users expect much more from their PCs than just being a productivity tool. Be it music, games or videos, they want the processor to be a consistent performer across a myriad range of applications,” said Vakul Bhatnagar, COO-Branded Read the rest of this story >>

Sify Technologies has launched its new mail service from the Sifymail – the “World In Your Inbox” (WIYI).

WIYI offers 7 GB of mailbox capacity, faster downloads, and boasts of being more than a mail service with ‘best spam filters’ and 99 percent uptime facility.

Also it is providing an innovative new facility of personalizing inbox to its users for them to make their mail box virtually their home page also with the help of various applications offered by Sify.

Venkata Rao Mallineni, Head-Portals & Consumer Marketing, Sify Technologies Limited, said, “With internet applications and tools evolving rapidly, we felt the need to add value to Sify users by providing a one stop platform for all their Internet needs. The new Sifymail WIYI is a perfect blend of email and applications that will not just enhance the user’s experience with us, but benefit them functionally. For the first time ever, all this functionality is Read the rest of this story >>

Transcend, one of the most trusted flash memory products, has launched in India the all-new P6 USB card reader in India.

The flash-inspired memory stick Pro-HG duo-compatible card reader is compact and portable and boasts of high read/write speeds.

When combined with a memory Stick Pro-HG card, P6 offers data transfer speed of 30 MB/s and 18MB/s of read and write respectively. It easy-to-use and just requires to be ‘plug-and-played’.

P6 is a multi-use card reader and extends supports to most types of currently popular memory cards that include Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, Memory Stick Micro (M2), microSD, and microSDHC.

Other specifications of P6 card reader include – LED to indicate card insertion and data traffic, full compliancy with hi-speed USB 2.0 specifications, weight of 13g, no external power or battery requirement and Read the rest of this story >>

Virgin Mobile has made another addition to its portfolio of youth oriented ultra-affordable mobiles in India.

The latest from the company is vKewl which comes with video recording capability as its highlight at cool price of Rs. 3,499.

vKewl comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera that holds the ability of video recording, an MP3 player, FM radio, MMS, speakers and headsets.

It carries lifetime incoming validity and a prepaid connection.

“Mobile phone is a lifestyle device for youth and has become an extension of their personality and entertainment requirements. Keeping this in mind, we have now made facilities such as video recording and 1.3 mega pixel camera more affordable for youth so that they can capture and share impromptu moments spent with their friends and family without hurting their pockets,” said M A Madhusudan, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Mobile India.

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