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At this year’s Gamescom, Microsoft announced the first wave of what they promise is only a small portion of games that will be available for download when Windows Phone 7 devices launch this holiday. Earlier today in Manhattan, we got a chance to sit down with Kevin Unangst, Sr. Director of PC and mobile gaming at the Redmond giant.

We played a bit of PressPlay’s Max and the Magic Marker, Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst, PopCap’s Bejeweled LIVE and a few others. The most notable being Crackdown which taps into Bing Maps and allows you to defend any real-life point on a map, which means you can defend your very own home against Freaks. Wondering if Max and his magic marker will be coming to XBL? Perhaps. The inclusion of Max for WP7 could herald a sea of change for the Xbox platform. It also goes to show how serious Microsoft is about its revamped mobile platform. Microsoft promises to add more Xbox Live titles each week after launch. Oh, and Halo: Waypoint will be coming, as well.

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BUFFALO Technolpgy’s USB 2.0 Hard Drive HD- CXTU2 series can take care of all your storage needs in one go. Featuring an integrated hardware AES 256 – bit encryption chip, the series also provides optional full-disk encryption for protection against unauthorised access and includes the Buffalo Tools suite designed to enhance PC performance. The series also ensures up to 165 percent faster transfer speed with the Turbo PC software. Plus its eco manager for windows PCs regulates power usage, conserving energy and batter consuption. Prices for the series start at Rs 13,500 for the 1TB model and go up to Rs 27,000 for the 2TB version.

IF THE action from South Africa isn’t enough for you, here’s a collection of the best football  iPhone apps to keep you busy off the field.

FIFA WORLD CUP: Captain your team and play for glory with the official World Cup game from EA Sports. With 105 international teams and every stadium in the tournament faithfully recreated, you can enjoy all the action and aimospher from the most populer sporting event in the world.$6.99

FOOTBALL MANAGER HANDHELD 2010:These apps let you make key managerial decisions, buy and sell players and lead your squad to galory in 11 countries. Squad management, custum tactics and formation, team and individual player instruction and ‘matchview’ that lets you watch all the action from above make this app special. $11.99

X2  FOOTBALL 2010: The app returns for the world cup season with better graphics and an all-new ‘Dream Team’ mode.Floating analogue control make this game easy to pick up and play. $6.99

PENALTY SOCCER:This game brings you a brand new experience with 3D graphics and a real sense of presence. And this app is free.

DON’T think twice before tacking your walkman along for a football match in the rain this monsoon. Sony India’s new Walkman W and B series is water resistant and washable and and ideal for active sports. The tiny can even be cleaned under running water. Like their predecessors, this series too feature a unique wire-fre, ergonomic design for comfortable fit and convinient music playback while exercising. In addition, the W series is equipped with a unique music navigation interface for quick music browsing. But the NWZ-W250 and the NWZ-B150 feature the quick Charge function which allows the walkman to play up to 90 minutes of music with a short 3 minutes charging time. The NWZ-W250 costs Rs 4,990 while the NWZ –B150 can be yours for Rs 2,890

THE 2010 Word Cup will truly usher in 3D viewing with FIFA partnering with Sony to deliver three-dimensional footage of the matches. FIFA secretary general Jarome Valcke thinks this will propel football fans into a whole new viewing dimention and also mark the dawn of a new era in the sports broadcasting. Sir Howard Stringer, chairman, CEO and president of Sony Corporation, says 3D viewers around the world will feel as if they are inside the stadia, waching the games in person. Samsung is also promising a third dimension, with their 3D TVs across LEDs, LCDs and Plasma platforms.

IF YOU are planning to tap in on the 3G boom india is likely to witness in the coming months,Samsang’s Star Nano 3G (S3370)could be your cheapest option Designed aesthetically with a compact and curvilinear design, a large 2.6” touchscreen and a four – page menu , the phone has advanced connectivity with 384kbps DL/UL (3G ready), pop Up SNS and fast multimedia downloads. The Touchwiz 2.0 plus in the phone ensures seamless navigation, homescreen widgets, gesture control and an interesting Ul. The Star Nano also gives users one-touch access to social networking sites and instant chat messenger facilities. The Samsang Star Nano 3Gis priced at Rs 7,320.

OUR cellphones have become love objects. We take them everywhere and stare at them constantly. We panic when they are lost and grieve when they die. We even clothe them.

About 55 million people worldwide use iPhones, an impressive number, to be sure. But there are billions of feature-phone users worldwide, and they will make the move up to smartphones as the cost of both the phones and the service drops. (And it will. The cost of delivering bits drops about 50 percent with every generation of network technology.

Apple needs to stay ahead of Android phones, but an Android phone doesn’t have to be as good as an Apple phone to entice new customers, Mr. Gurley says. “It only needs to be dramatically better than the current feature phone. Which it is.”

Apple’s iOS 4

In his keynote address, Steve Jobs chose to highlight a select few of the iOS’s new features, including multitasking, iBooks, advertising and file management. But there wasn’t enough time to cover all the upgrades and improvements. Some of iOS 4’s features that slipped under the radar include app gifting, wireless keyboard support and many others.

We first learned about iOS 4 back in April. At that point, we knew multitasking would be coming to the iPhone “in a way that doesn’t hinder performance or battery life.” Today, Jobs confirmed and demonstrated services such as Pandora and navigation running in the background while other apps were also running in the foreground.

IPhone 4

Now, users can organize their iPhone apps into separate folders for better organization and easy access. iOS 4 will be able to manage up to 2160 applications on a device. Folders will feature the familiar drag-and-drop functionality that Apple device users know and love.

Email on the iPhone is also getting a major overhaul in iOS 4. You’ll be able to view messages from all your accounts in a single, integrated inbox. Messages will be threaded, and you’ll be able to open attachments using third-party apps, as well.

Apple made some significant announcements for multimedia functionality, too. iOS 4 will support custom playlist creation for iTunes, tap-to-focus video, 5x zoom for camera functions, and a Photos feature called “Faces and Places,” which allows users to sort and view photos based on where they were taken and who appears in them.

Finally, applications can now be gifted to friends and family, the background wallpaper on your home screen can be easily changed, a spell-checker has been built into Mail and other apps, and Blue-tooth enabled wireless keyboards will now play nicely with the operating system.