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The third panel at the IAMAI Digital Entertainment Conference focussed on Online Video and Gaming.  The panelists of this panel were:

Ajay Khanna - General Manager, EA Games India
Bruno Goveas - Head Marketing & Product Management, Akamai
Parminder Singh - Business Head, Technology, Google India
Ashish - CEO, Ibibo Web Pvt Ltd
Rohit Sharma - COO, Zapak Digital Entertainment [...]

It’s been a while since big-wig search engines like Yahoo, Google and MSN Live had launched their local search engines but how many times have you ever used it to find a certain eatery joint or a movie multiplex nearby? It’s both an irony and heartening to know that OnYoMo manages to quench our thirst for local search much better than any other in the market.

Well, no more. Google has come up with a Mobile Search feature that allows you to search whatever you like that might make use of knowledge regarding your current geographical location.

Blink’s product is based on the simple premise that, shopping decisions are made on the shop floor and not at home in front of the TV. Therefore, even advertising and product pitches should be made at the same time. Their shopping cart offers a lot of intuitive features to make shopping easy for shoppers while giving ample opportunities to promote sales offers for advertisers.

Google has added one more Indian Language to its localization options for its News and Blogger services. Apart from English, Tamil has now been officially added as a language to these services from Google and the third being Hindi, which was added back in May 2008.

Intel is now eying the growing market of Web 2.0 companies over the World Wide Web with new start ups coming up every single day. Most of the web-start ups are resource hungry websites that process vast amount of data and have large number of users. These companies need a strong and powerful infrastructure to back the activity that goes on through the sites. Intel is apparently trying to cash in on this factor and is aiming to power the systems that run these sites.

The mobile technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. A host of new features are being introduced into your average mobile phones. A simple mobile with a color screen, which was not possible for less that Rs. 10,000 is now made available for a mere Rs. 3000. Other features too have seen plethora of improvements in the recent years. One can find that manufacturers are trying to add more and more ‘computer’-istic features to a mobile phone.

In recent times, there has been a lot of development on the Global Positioning System (GPS) front. GPS units have not only reduced in size making them portable enough to carry around, but the prices have drastically reduced too. Most cell phones now come enabled with GPS units, allowing the user to get turn-by-turn directions to any place. This initiative by Microsoft will nothing but boost the same purpose.

Social gaming is a new genre of gaming which adds the ‘Social’ factor to the games. True, multiplayer games have been played since a long time, but there is hardly any ’social’ factor to it. Imagine sitting with your family on a Sunday afternoon, and everyone decides to game. No, not the warfare kind. The one where everyone gets to take part, collaborate with one another or simply play against each other.

It was just today that we brought you the news about Zapak launching a mobile gaming site at http://zapak.mobi. Now, we have just been told that NDTV Active, the mobile portal from NDTV now brings your mobile Java based games, courtesy of Hovr.

Zapak, the immensely popular gaming site from the house of Reliance Entertainment has just launched Zapak.mobi, a mobile gaming site for all the mobile aficionados out there.

The site, which is directly accessible via GPRS, has been optimized for mobile browsers found on most handsets in the market these days and the games have been designed [...]

While the news about Apple suing Mac hardware clone maker Psystar is still ripe, here comes another company wanting to make some cash on the same grounds. Another firm, by the name of Open Tech, is now planning to sell hardware that apparently supports all the major Operating Systems including Windows XP, Ubuntu (Linux Distro), Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard. Although the first 3 Operating Systems are open to be run on any type of PC, no matter what brand or make it is, Apple’s license forbids the installation of Mac OS X on any hardware other than Apple’s own.

The Intel research blog has always been an excellent source of information and news about what technology one expects to see a few years down the line and what ‘kind’ of processors would power the computers of the future.Today, I use a Core 2 Duo CPU which is almost 20 times faster than that. Coming from an engineering background, I have played with the 8085 and 8086 processors that are considered the great grand fathers of current processors.

Currently, India is the second largest market for ZTE products after homeland China. ZTE also claims that India is the most strategic market destination for them, outside China. It plans to further recruit more than 500 engineers in 2008. ZTE India has also revealed its Contract Revenue for the year 2007, which apparently has already crossed $800 million.The company now plans to achieve an annual turnover of $1 billion from all its operations in the country, up from the current figure of $750 million.

Amazon plans to bring out two new models of the Kindle, just in time for the holiday season in the US. According to their report, the first model will carry the same features and screen size of the current model, although in a smaller, more curvy form factor. The second model, will be bigger than the current model and will be shaped the size of a 8.5 x 11 inch paper

Experts from the Land Down Under, Australia, claim to have developed a new technology that will apparently revolutionize web-surfing for the internet users. They say that the technology is capable of making ‘web surfing’ a 100 times faster, than what it is right now.
The technology, the experts say, makes use of ‘a small scratch on a piece of glass’, to enhance the performance given by traditional fibre-optic media.