Gameloft to Develop 15 Game Titles for iPhone

Gameloft, developer and publisher of games for mobile phones, has confirmed that it will develop over 15 mobile games built on Apple's iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK).Though the SDK was recently released, games will only be available to purchase once the App Store, featuring third party applications that can be downloaded to users' device via WiFi or EDGE, launches in June 2008.
"The iPhone gaming environment opens a new era in mobile gaming and is exactly what we've been waiting for", said Michel Guillemot, President of Gameloft. "The Apple iPhone has changed the way consumers perceive and interact with their mobile phones, and the release of the SDK is a tremendous opportunity for Gameloft to apply its creative and innovative approach to mobile gaming," said Guillemot. "Due to our investment in creating one of the most advanced and creative development studios to date, we are ideally positioned today to seamlessly integrate new opportunities and quickly produce games that are as evolutionary as they are enjoyable."
Gameloft has already worked with Apple developing mobile games that are uniquely adapted to the iPod. It reportedly sells over 200,000 games per day throughout 80 countries and creates games for mobile handsets equipped with Java, Brew or Symbian technology.Source

33 Million New WWWs in 2007

"There were 33 million more domain names added to the Internet in 2007 as compared to 2006, with a total of 153 million domain names added in 2007," according to a new 'Domain Name Industry' report released by VeriSign. The highest growth was garnered by .com, followed by .de (Germany), then .net and .cn (China). Fifth spot was shared between .uk (United Kingdom) and .org, with .info and .eu (the European Union), .biz and .mobi appearing further down the list of the most registered domain names. Between .com and .net alone, there were more than 80.4 million domain name registrations by the end of 2007. The year also saw over 58 million CCTLD (country code Top Level Domain Names) registrations. As per a VeriSign statement, the company processed more than 33 billion domain name system (DNS) queries per day during the last quarter of 2007. So with such explosive growth, are we in danger of running out of names some day?
The VeriSign report (http://www.verisign.com/static/043379.pdf) estimates that new allocations of IPv4 addresses will run out in less than five years. However, we would do fine by adopting Internet Protocol version 6, it says.
Waxing eloquent about the benefits of adopting IPv6, the report reads: "IPv6 is a network layer protocol designed as the successor for IPv4, the current version of Internet Protocol used on the Internet today. IPv6 corrects some of the shortcomings of IPv4, and adds several new features that facilitate innovation and scaling of the Internet."
"One of the main changes that IPv6 enables is a larger address space that provides for greater flexibility in assigning addresses. Thus the adoption of IPv6 supports growth of the Internet in developing markets and the introduction of new Internet services. As a point of reference, IPv4 can support 4 billion addresses while IPv6 can support 3.4 1038 unique addresses which is approximately 5 1028 addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today."Source

SE Launches C702, C902 at WTA Bangalore

Sony Ericsson, the title sponsor of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, today unveiled two additions to its Cyber-shot range with the Sony Ericsson C702 and C902. The new handsets were unveiled by tennis sensations Anastasia Rodionova (4th seed), Yaroslava Shevdova and Patty Schnyder, who are currently in town participating in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's Bangalore Open.The C702 is splash and dust resistant, moreover, it also integrates GPS with a range of location-based imaging services to add a new dimension to taking and managing your photos.
The C902 comes with a slide-out lens cover and sports a 5.0 megapixel camera with Face Detection and Auto Focus. It also comes with eight dedicated illuminated camera touch keys.
Sudhin Mathur, General Manager, Sony Ericsson India said, "This is our third consecutive year of participation in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Bangalore, and we are excited to have Anastasia Rodionova, Yaroslava Shevdova and Patty Schnyder with us to unveil these new Cyber-shot phones here in India today. The C702 and C902 both place ease-of-use and best-in-class picture quality at the heart of their design. Yet both appeal to different audiences. One is engineered to let you take more pictures in more places and the other is designed to look as stunning as the pictures it takes."
The C702 and C902 Cyber-shot phones are UMTS/HSDPA 2100 and GSM/ EDGE/GPRS phones. The C902 which will be available in two colors - Swift Black or Luscious Red, while the C702 is available in Speed Black or Cyan Blue. Both handsets will be launched in the second quarter of 2008.Source

Most Admired Global Company: Apple

Apple Computer, the maker of iPhone, iPod and Macs, has topped 20 most admired global companies in a list prepared by Fortune magazine.PepsiCo, headed by India-born Indra Nooyi, at 13th position is more admired than archrival Coca-Cola at 19th spot, according to the list published in the latest edition of the US business magazine, famed for its authoritative Fortune 500 lists of US and global corporations ranked on gross revenue.Apple in the most admired list is followed at second place by General Electric, the diversified industrial conglomerate, while Japanese auto major Toyota occupies the third place.Legendary investor Warren Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, is the fourth most admired company.Others in the top 10 include courier firm FedEx at sixth place, Johnson & Johnson, known for its baby products at seventh place, luxury car maker BMW at ninth place and software giant Microsoft at tenth place.Aircraft maker Boeing is way down at 16th, the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart at 17th and Japanese automaker Honda Motor at 18th.Fortune said it surveyed over 600 companies in 65 industries for the list. It partnered with global management consulting firm Hay Group for the study. Over 3,500 businesspeople were asked to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry.The companies were ranked on the basis of eight attributes - innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment and quality of products/services.In Fortune's list of America's most admired companies, Apple is again at the top, followed by Berkshire and GE at second and third place respectively. Pepsi figures but not in the top 20, for whom the rankings have been given.Adobe Systems, a software company led by Indian American Shantanu Narayen, has also made it to the club, but way down among the 317 companies listed.Source

Digital Photo Frame Webcam from WinWin

Every once in a while, someone makes a great gadget by simply taking a lot of other great gadgets and puts them all together like wet bits of clay. Today’s example would be the Digital Photo Frame Webcam from WinWin Industry, a Hong Kong Company.

As you can see, someone in the WinWin industry has created a win-win situation by combining what looks to be an alarm clock, digital picture frame, and webcam all in one unit.

We’ll start with the webcam. When attached to the PC, your friends and loved ones can see you. As for the 1.5 inch digital frame, that’s so you can see your friends and loved ones, even if they are just still shots.

The photo viewer has 8MB worth of memory, which is capable of storing up to 70 pictures. You can use it to make some slideshows, and the whole thing is detachable from the base so you can carry the viewer around in your pocket if you like. According to the features, it uses two built-in rechargeable batteries for operation.Source

Telescope lens for the iPhone

The iPhone is a a fantastically cool phone but it’s photography capabilities are not exactly bleeding edge (paper cut sharp at best), could the iPhone Cellphone Telescope-Snap be the answer.

This iPhone telescope is made to help you extend your iPhone viewing distand, capture the excitement of instant moment far from you conveniently.

Incorporate a new design to allow ray effectively avoid the contortion of image, and makes the super wide angle, the larger luminous flux, the higher visual acuteness, good for color reduction, which makes the high quality of photography.

It doesn’t add anything to the aesthetics of your phone but it does overcome one of it’s shortcomings but do you really want to ruin the image of the coolest phone with a snap-on?Source

Mooon Concept Phone

Mobile phone manufacturers just love to pack their newest models of smartphones with all sorts of cool features. This concept Mooon (not a spelling error) smartphone has at least one unique feature that could easily become a new standard.

As you can see by the illustration to the left, the Mooon has a Bluetooth headset that can be detached from the phone’s body and then attached to your ear. This means the user can use a Bluetooth earpiece and not have to purchase one separately. I am assuming that the earpiece is calibrated to the Mooon phone straight from the box, so the user won’t have to go through the whole calibration rigmarole.

Oh, did I mention that the front of the phone is a touchscreen? Then again, it’s not like we haven’t seen that before, like on the iPhone and its many imitators.Source

Sega Toys i-Spin

It has been a while since I had the urge to yell “Sega” like those old Sega Genesis ads from the early nineties. However, seeing this i-Spin (pronounced Ice-pin) from Sega Toys was just enough to make me yell it out all over again.

Basically, the i-Spin is a dancing speaker robot that has the ability to move around on the dance floor and wiggle its ears to the beat of the ambient music. This takes me back to the time of the “Boppin’ flowers” that would move to the beat of whatever music you played near them.

The i-Spin can also do more than dance to the background music, but it can connect to an MP3 player such as the iPod. Why else do you think there is a little “i” at the beginning of its name? Basically, you attach the music, and the little Dogbert wannabe gets its groove on.Source

The Mindwire V5

Sure, your games are thrilling and all, but they don't exactly cause actual pain, do they? Well, that's all going to change thanks to the two twisted dreamers who started the company Mindwire, and their electroshock feedback device, the V5. That's right, next time you get fragged in Unreal, sacked in Madden, or robbed in GTA -- you get shocked in real life. Just the sadistic thrill you've been after, right? The device works by splitting your controller input to the "brain" of the V5 and your console, then sends electric jolts via electrode pads on your skin. Right now the company has a model tested and working with the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PCs, though they appear to be making preparations for current gen consoles in the next iteration of the device. If you're content with the choices at hand, this self-torture can be yours for £99.99 (or around $201). Check the totally awesome video after the break to see the V5 in action.Source

MSI Wind PC

It seems that the Asus EEE Pc has created a whole slew of tiny laptops that are looking to capitalize off its popularity.The latest comes from MSI, dubbed the Wind. Available in 8 and 10 inch flavors, and powered by Intel Atom processors running at 1ghz and 1.6ghz, the MSI Wind costs between 299 and 599 euros. While the high end model puts it in the price range of more full-sized notebooks, 299 euros is very much a cheap computer and a direct price competitoragainst the EEE pc.Source

The initial specifications are as follows;

1024 x 768 display

Intel Atom CPU at 1.0 or 1.6GHZ

2.5″ HDD or SSD

1GB RAM