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Sony Ericsson will be bringing their famous ‘Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light’ game to Xperia Play. This is the latest version of the ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider’ game. The title ‘Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light’ is quite similar to classic Tomb Raider game. It is made by Crystal Dynamics and is published by Square Enix of PC, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, and PlayStation Network as part of Tomb Raider series for the digital downloads. This game is optimized[...] Read full story »

When the Apple iPad first game, no one in their wildest dreams thought it would become such a huge gaming platform. There are games available in all shapes and sizes for the Apple tablet. There are a ton of apps available for the iPad and users are now spoilt for choice. iPad games are more expensive than their iPhone counterparts but there still some games that are available for free. There are some caveats associated with the free games – they come with ads or the in-app purchases. Here are my top free iPad games[...] Read full story »

Nokia recently released the Nokia N9, a MeeGo based smartphone which recently started shipping to the European markets. This might be the only MeeGo based smartphone you’d ever see. This mobile OS is now getting replaced by Tizen, a new platform. Tizen is open source platform from Intel and Samsung and it is hosted by Linux Foundation which will support multiple devices like smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, Netbooks, and in-the-vehicle infotainment gadgets. There will be HTML5 inside along with other new Web standards.[...] Read full story »

Amazon recently unveiled the Amazon Silk, their Web browser which lives on both cloud and tablet. This browser will be there on Amazon Fire Tablet (give link of the tablet here) and it promises to cut down on request and load times dramatically by splitting workload between Amazon’s EC2 and the tablet. This cloud computing infusion is the secret behind the quick page loading on the Silk browser. Silk also comes with predictive technology inside. There is machine learning utlized for detecting the user behaviour[...] Read full story »

Mozilla have released the latest version of Firefox, Firefox 7 for Android OS. This new iteration is the same as that on the PC platform. There are some unique additions here like Firefox Sync, which lets mobile browser on Android share history and bookmarks. You can even see the tabs from a synced PC. Social media too is an important for the new version of the browser. Long pressing a button will let users post content on the different social networking sites like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook. Read full story »

Video Lan Client or VLC player is the world’s most widely used media player and this software now comes to Android OS. We have been hearing that Android will get the VLC player since last year. VLC developers also said early this year that they will be making an Android version of the player. This isn’t the final version though; it is in the alpha version and it is made by an independent developer. It[...] Read full story »

Newspapers have become a part of our everyday lives and living without them has become simply impossible. We are also finding it increasingly difficult to find time to read them due to our everyday chores. A lot of developers have realised this and are making apps for delivering newspapers on tablets and mobiles so that people can read them on the move. One such app is World Newspapers which gives you access to more than six thousand Websites, magazines, and newspapers. A really good part about it is that there is[...] Read full story »

Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo users who have got the Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update will get Google Talk along with video chat capabilities. This update has a lot of enhancements inside like 3D Sweet Panorama in the Camera Mode, better Facebook integration and Swipe to Type. This new update will be available most probably through a desktop based software manager too. Noteworthy here is that this update isn’t available all over the globe. People were expecting Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update to come to Xperia[...] Read full story »

People just can’t get enough of classics; there are revamped versions coming back from time to time and here is a good example of this – Lode Runner game has been brought back from the grave by Tozai Corp. in Japan. Tozai Corp. has collaborated with Sony Ericsson for bringing the game back on Sony Ericsson Xperia Play under the name of Lode Runner X. This game has been improved with better graphics and playing experience. The Lode Runner has been presented by Tozai in a new way. The developers have also put in[...] Read full story »

Adobe will be releasing Flash Player 11 and Air 3 along with new features for making cross-platform entertainment more prominent. Both these software versions will be bringing 3D games and premium video streaming based apps to desktop and mobile platforms. Through the new versions, Adobe is promising to bring better Web mobile experience and they also want to make the best of their current generation hardware – tablets and smartphones. Pre-release versions of AIR 3 and Adobe Flash Player 11 will bring the hardware[...] Read full story »