Though the rumors have been around for quite a long time now, but it has been made official now that the gaming major Electronic Arts has acquired PopCap Games for an astounding $750 million. The official takeover of EA on PopCap Games will take place in August, but both the companies have agreed on it and the deal is already done. PopCap Games is a prominent game developer, and is known for several games that the company has developed for iPad, iPhone and Facebook, formats. Some of the popular games developed by the company include the likes of the bejeweled series and Plant vs. Zombies. The press release from both the company reported, John Riccitiello, the EA CEO saying “The combination of EA and PopCap is a compelling coming together”. “The superb studio  [...]

eReaders and Tablets seems to be the order of the day for the modern electronic manufacturers, and after Apple and Amazon, one another major name entering the Tablet is of search engine giant Google. It’s learned that internet major Google will be debuting into the eReader market next week, when the very first such device will enter the market. The device will run on Google eBooks platform and will be offered on sale at Target. The iriver Story HD will be having a price tag of $139.99, which is the same price as of the Nook Simple Touch Reader and the Kindle. According to a post from Google, the eReader will go on sale on July 17. The new eReader from Google will be having a black-and-grey screen just like the one that we’ve seen in Kindle, and will be having a QWERTY keyboard. The eReader will have access to more than 3 million free eBooks from

Rumors have been claiming a music service of Facebook, and now in reference to those rumors a product known as “Vibes” has been found in the code of Facebook. Facebook recently launched their video chat service powered by Skype. In order to get started with that program for video chat, users will have to download and install a program on the desktop. Our team of engineers were keen on what the service wants us to download and install, and hence they decided to have a thorough look at what they were installing and how does it interrelate with Skype, and in the process of doing that, we looked into the code of the desktop app. After going through the app we found that the installer supports more than one application. The first one was “Peep,” which is associated with the video chat client and the other one being “Vibes,” which it seems  [...]

Electronic world is heating up with the war of supremacy. We recently saw the launch of Google social networking service Google+, which is set to rival the social networking giant Facebook, and to compete with some of the unique features of Google+, Facebook launched their Video Chat service powered by Skye a few days back. After Google and Facebook it looks like the war of next-gen gaming consoles is heating up. And in that sequence, we’ve heard that Sony is all set to launch their Playstation 4 for 2012, says reports. More interestingly, it is supposed that Sony PlayStation 4 will be having body movement controls as one of their key features. It should be known that body movement controls is something that Microsoft already has forged with their Kinect. If rumors are to be believed, which we think should be considering their trueness in the past, the production  [...]

No one knows the destiny of the iPhone 5 and how will it turn out to be, but Apple is intending to sell lots and lots of it. If the latest reports from Wall Street journal is believed, Apple is informing their users that they plan to sell 25 million "iPhone 5" by the end of 2011. The report comes from unnamed sources at Apple’s suppliers. The journal also reported that Taiwan’s Hon Hai, assembles Apple's products, and they also are the biggest contract manufacturer of electronics. The parts required for assembling gadgets comes form other companies and different parts of Asia to Hon Hai, and if reports are to be believed people from those companies are the ones who unveiled certain details about the next iPhone, which as for now is dubbed "iPhone 5."

The Sony HDR-CX700V is the high-end camcorder from Sony, and we won’t be deceitful if we say that the camcorder is loaded. In addition to having the capacity of capturing 1920 = 1980 HD video @ 60p, the Sony HDR-CX700V also comes with a 16GB of gigantic internal flash memory and in case you want some additional storage the camera also comes with a SD Memory card slot/Memory Stick Duo. Some other highlights for the camera includes the likes of a Sony G-series 10x optical lens having maximum wide angle of 26.3mm and an additional en suite GPS receiver to geo-tag your HD footage. As for the low-light photos the Sony HDR-CX700V comes loaded with a backside-illuminated sensor and a huge, 1/2.88 in CMOS sensor which places the circuitry on the back of the chip for preventing it from stopping the incoming light.

Call is a coincidence or a well planned business move, but the truth is that its hardly been a couple of week that Google+ came into existence (with a blast), and here we are reporting that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg  has an “Awesome” secret up his sleeves. So what’s the “Awesome” announcement that Facebook will be making this Wednesday? This is what we were thinking, while making our Google+ profiles. The announcement from the Social Network giant Facebook came on Friday, which was a few days after the new social networking platform from search giant Google was rolled out. In their invitation to the event which will be held at their Palo Alto, California, headquarters, Facebook didn’t disclose any details of the announcement. But, we did hear Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO promising on Wednesday that they will be launching something “Awesome.” Mark Zuckerberg was  [...]

Apple has launched the Gold Version of their Mac OS X Lion for their developers, prior to the official launch of the OS. The launch of the Gold Master version of the Max OS X Lion signifies that the OS soon will be entering the market officially. According to some of the unnamed but reliable sources, we came to hear that the OS officially will be entering the market by 6th of July or 14th of July. If you are confused by the name of “Gold Master” or are not acquainted with the nomenclature of Apple, then let us tell you that its just another name Apple uses to call the final drafts of the products that are ready-to-be launch in the market. In their annual WWDC this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs handed the mic over to Apple VP, Phil Schiller who displayed  [...]

Not many of the luxury watch makers or even luxury accessory makers have been seen entering the technology world flooded with iPhone, iPad Universe and Mac, the most recent that we remember is the iPhone case from De Bethune. And now here we have more crossover news, the luxury watch maker TAG Heuer is venturing into the smartphone market with their all new $6,750 Android Smartphone. It nice to see that the handset is based on Android 2.2, which is a variant of Google’s platform which has been in to existence for couple of generations now. But what differentiates this Android smartphone from the other smartphones in the market is the fact that you can get this Android 2.2 device with titanium or a steel 18 carat rose gold completed case, and you even can get it accented with rubber;  [...]

The latest iteration of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 which is 4G-capable now has been made available for preorder. Customers are looking to get the 4G enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 could visit the website of Verizon and can place their preorders for the 16 GB or 32 GB models of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for $529.99 and $629.99, correspondingly. But in order to get the tablet at that price customer will have to enter a two year contract with Verizon. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is an Android Honeycomb-based tablet and comes with a dual-core 1GHz processor and 10.1 in display. The tablet comes with a front and rear facing camera and hence allows the users to snap photos and have video chats. At present Samsung offers a Wi-Fi only variant of the tablet and for the 16GB and 32GB versions of the Wi-Fi only tablet customers will have to pay $499.99 and $599.99, correspondingly. Though the tablet is now available for preorder, we just feel that Verizon’s preorder  [...]