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Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro Android Mobile
Sep 1st
Good
Well designed overall
Extremely comfortable QWERTY keypad
Goof image quality from the camera
Plenty of useful features
Good audio form player and on calls
Review: Logitech N700 Lapdesk Speaker
Sep 1st
Good
Very comfortable cushion, great ergonomics
Quiet cooling feature
The speakers are very good replacements for inbuilt laptop ones
Review: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0
Sep 1st
Good
Tethered shoot support
Improved noise reduction
Watermarking support
Publish photos to Flickr
Review: LG GT540 Optimus Android Mobile Phone
Sep 1st
LG is gearing up to launch the first of their Optimus range of Android powered handsets in India. Here’s a 
sneak preview of the LG Optimus GT540. A detailed review can’t be done just as yet because we were testing a prototype that was still riddled with bugs.
Review: Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 Laptop
Sep 1st
Good
Excellent multimedia experience
Good looks
Attractive price
Electronic Arts Brings ‘Madden’ to Facebook
Sep 1st
Electronic Arts is bringing its popular Madden football game to Facebook. Madden NFL Superstars launches as a free application Tuesday. The game lets players create fantasy teams featuring more than 1,500 current NFL players from this year’s team rosters. The fantasy teams compete with one another on Facebook. Or, they can play against fantasy versions of the season’s actual NFL teams.
Electronic Arts Inc. plans to make money from the game by letting players pay nominal amounts of money for better players and other game content. Those microtransactions are expected to add up, though the majority of players are expected to play the game without paying a dime.
NFL Superstars, which comes a week before the football season kicks off, follows EA’s FIFA Superstars soccer game for Facebook. That game has about 4 million players. EA Sports President Peter Moore said the idea is to bring Madden to a broader audience beyond the fans of the console version, which sells about 5 million to 6 million units each year and can be complicated to play.
NFL Superstars was created by EA Sports and Playfish, the social game company EA bought last year for $ 275 million.
Sony to Challenge Apple With Music, Video Service
Sep 1st
Sony Corp will launch a new music and video download service linking a range of its devices, in a challenge to Apple Inc’s dominant position in the market, the Financial Times said on Wednesday. The announcement is set to be made at the IFA technology show in Berlin on Wednesday, the paper said, coinciding with a scheduled media event by Apple the same day in the United States. The service will work across various internet-connected devices, such as Walkman music players, Vaio computers, Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players and Sony Ericsson mobile phones but will not be available to consumers until next year, the paper said. Sony’s Welsh-born president, Howard Stringer, has struggled to develop hit products and services that take advantage of the conglomerate’s rich portfolio of music and film.
The company launched a video-on-demand service in the United States, dubbed Qriocity, this year. But Sony has so far failed to gain ground on Apple in the download market. Apple is expected to unveil a revamped iPod at its media event on Wednesday, although speculation is also simmering it will make an announcement about its own TV project, Apple TV. A spokeswoman for Sony declined to comment.
Amazon Trying to Create Web-based TV Service
Sep 1st
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc is trying to create a service that gives paying subscribers unlimited access to some television shows and movies over the Internet, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Seattle-based retailer has proposed a Web-based subscription service to several major media companies including General Electric Co’s NBC Universal, Time Warner Inc and Viacom Inc, the newspaper said, citing people with knowledge of the proposal. Amazon did not return calls seeking comment. CBS, Viacom Time Warner and NBC Universal declined to comment.
The news comes as more companies try to boost their online TV businesses. The new service would look to take on companies like Netflix Inc that allow paid subscribers to stream TV shows and rent movies. “CBS had talked to Amazon but there is no impending deal,” a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Viacom had also met with Amazon, another source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Journal reported that in at least one version of Amazon’s proposal, subscriptions could be bundled with its existing Amazon Prime service immediately giving the service a large number of built-in subscribers. Prime is a service that offers members free two-day shipping on most Amazon purchases for $79 a year.
Touchscreen Edge 800 from Garmin: A GPS for Cyclists
Sep 1st
Garmin International Inc.announced the touchscreen Edge 800 for cyclists who want accuracy and simplicity 
when tracking their statistics and location for racing and recreation. Edge 800 combines aspects of the industry-leading Edge 500 and Edge 705 while adding a touchscreen interface. It also features new mapping options such as Garmin’s BaseCamp route planning and BirdsEye Satellite Imagery. Edge 800 will debut at Interbike (Booth 2631) and Eurobike (Booth A5-201), where it won the Eurobike Award for electronic components.
Edge 800 is smaller and sleeker than the Edge 705, yet features a larger 2.6” display with a simple touchscreen interface. Cyclists can view Team Garmin’s featured rides – or download, analyze and share rides of their own – at Garmin Connect, the free-to-join online community of more than 30 million activities from around the world. Garmin Connect displays metrics such as time, distance, speed, elevation and heart rate through charts and a variety of map representations, including street, satellite, topographic, and elevation maps. Garmin Connect users can search for activities in their area and try them by uploading the data to Edge 800, which will guide the way.
Using information directly from GPS satellites, Edge 800 tracks speed, distance, time, GPS position, elevation, calories burned, climb and descent. For even more real-time data on display, Edge 800 syncs wirelessly through ANT+ technology with compatible third-party power meters as well as Garmin heart rate monitors and speed/cadence sensors. For extra-precise climb and descent data, Edge 800 incorporates a barometric altimeter to pinpoint changes in elevation.
On the trails, using a separate TOPO U.S. 24K DVD or microSD card brings you the highest level of topographic detail available, with maps comparable to 1:24,000 scale USGS maps, featuring terrain contours, topo elevations, summits, routable roads and trails, parks, coastlines, rivers, lakes and geographical points. In town, optional City Navigator mapping provides detailed street maps, millions of preloaded points of interest and onscreen turn-by-turn directions to your destination.
Check Your Heartbeat With Your iPhone
Sep 1st
A man named Peter Bentley has developed an application called iStethoscope which monitors your heartbeat via sensors in the phone. This free application has been averaging at 500 downloads a day since it launched last week. There’s also a pro version for 59 pence which removes ads, adds an email function and includes a hints and tips section.
The official blurb for the app in the App Store, states iStethoscope “turns your iPhone into a stethoscope, allowing you to listen to your heartbeat and see your heart waveform, or listen to other quiet sounds around you” and that the device is “used by cardiologists for research on heart disease as described in the Journal of Medical Devices”.
