ESPNsoccernet is one in a large stable of sports widgets powered by Plusmo, now a part of AT&T interactive. The widget is a powerful tool that pulls in team and region news coverage, live game visualization, match commentary, team tracking, detailed fixtures, tables, and more. You get not only ESPN’s latest tournament coverage and stories, but also Premiere league and other soccer stories depending upon your choice of team settings.

I tried the app on my Nokia E63. The first step was setting the language, where I had my choice of English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

Then, I picked a region of interest from choices that included the five language countries, plus Scotland, the USA, Europe in general, and a global option. I chose England for demo purposes. If I had switched to Europe, I would have also had access to UEFA and Super Cup stories.

With England as a selection, I had a choice of Premiere League and FA Cup stories. I chose the FA Cup, and it then displayed the most recently played match.

Selection of a region determines which sets of stories will be chosen by the ESPN soccernet RSS news feed mechanism.

The icon list on the right-hand side includes my favorite teams (the star icon), schedules of selected teams (the calendar icon), articles about the teams (the newspage icon), and a change settings icon (the three dots). I clicked on the news page icon to see the list of stories, shown below.

Click on the newspage icon to have the RSS feed pull up the current stories about your team(s).

Clicking on any headline brings up the details of that story for perusing. S60 5th edition devices allow touch scrolling, while S60 3rd Edition devices use the rocker key for scrolling.

The full article can be viewed by scrolling, and related articles can be selected and accessed.

At any time, I could also switch my settings to another region or team just by clicking on the three-dot icon. I found that it was better to specify my teams very narrowly in order to sip from the fountain rather than the powerful firehose of all ESPNsoccernet coverage.

Change teams using the three-dot settings icon.

The ESPNsoccernet widget can be downloaded for free from Ovi Store. Take it with you as you enjoy coverage of the tournament this month.

Courtesy : Ovi Daily App Blog

BarCamp Kerala 8 is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on March 28^th, 2010 BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Venue

BCK 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. So far we have 55 attendees.

Sessions

So far we have 5 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions , you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

LG U8500The LG U8500 is an ultra slim 3G music phone from LG Electronics. The U8500 phone is a super slim flip phone with a thickness of only 18.2mm its so slim you can carry it in you shirt pocket and no one will even know its there. Although it’s slim the phone comes packed with many special features such as the 1.3 megapixel rotation camera which allows you to take some very clear and bright pictures with enhanced definition. The U8500 is a 3G phone which means it has video telephony and audio streaming abilities which means that you can exchange multimedia files, watch video and image files, listen to music, and even engage in video telephony which is a function that allows you to talk face to face with other people.

The phones 1.3 megapixel camera can also act as a video camera through its camcorder function that allows you to capture live moving images, and then instantly review them, you can then store the images in the phones 80MB user memory, it also has T-flash memory slot that means you can download your files to another external source or upload some files from external sources. The U8500 is basically a music phone and its no wonder why, the phone can play MP3, AAC, AAC+, Real, E-AAC+, and WMA files, with the U8500 you can even use downloaded MP3 files as ringtones on your phone.

The U8500 has a MOD key that is located on the outside of your phone this means that you can now play MP3 files and listen to your music whilst the phone is flipped closed. This is not the only special feature of the MP3 player, you can also enjoy 3D sound 40 polyphonic Midi sound, which means that you get to hear the music exactly as it sounds with out any distortions in sound quality, the phone has additional phone features such a an equalizer function that enables you to search music files faster, with added convenience and you get to hear the music with enhanced audio effect.

The U8500 is equipped with Bluetooth which means you can, by using a wireless headset answer the phone and share your various data files with your PC wirelessly via the phone as long as the pc is within 50 meters of the phone. The U8500 is easily connectable to your PC via the USB port, and if you have JAVA 2.0 installed into the U8500 then you’ll be able to enjoy various applications, such as files and games while you are mobile.

* form autocomplete, one of the most obvious missing features from the initial release

* full-page zoom, which resizes images and embedded objects too, not just text. It’s important to know the keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl – to zoom out, Ctrl + to zoom in and Ctrl 0 to go back to the normal view.

* autoscroll by middle-clicking on a page and indicating the direction

* profiles are a great way to separate Chrome’s settings in different categories: you could create a work profile with its own homepage, bookmarks and browsing history and profile for your personal projects. The great thing about Chrome is that you don’t have to close the browser to change your profile: just open a new window in a separate profile.

* support for Greasemonkey scripts (or user-scripts). To enable this experimental feature you need to right-click on Chrome’s shortcut from your desktop, select Properties and add -enable-user-scripts in the Target field. For now, you’ll need to place the scripts in c:\scripts, but the location will change in the next builds.

* other important improvements: updates to WebKit and the V8 JavaScript engine, a better implementation for SafeBrowsing (malware/phishing protection), new code for the HTTP network protocol.

How to get the new version?

1. If you don’t have Google Chrome, install it from google.com/chrome
2. Subscribe to the developer preview channel. This is required even if you’ve previously subscribed to the channel.
3. Wait until the new version is downloaded (you may force the updatie by opening the “About Google Chrome” dialog).

“The Dev channel is where ideas get tested (and sometimes fail). The Dev channel can be very unstable at times, and new features usually require some manual configuration to be enabled. Still, simply using Dev channel releases is an easy (practically zero-effort) way for anyone to help improve Google Chrome.”

With 12.2 mega pixels, the point-and-shoot digital camera bundles a large 2.7” LCD screen  with a 3x optical zoom. Packed with Samsung’s signature Smart Auto feature, the camera allows users to select one of 11 scene modes on board. Other technologies included are the Smart Album program that organizes images and enables effortless search options.

The Samsung TL100 camera also boasts of Face Detection, Smile Shot, Blink Detection and a distinct Beauty Shot technology that interesting gives imperfections on the subjects face a retouch. Even skin tones can be changed through this function. The novel digital camera also wraps in a Digital Image Stabilization (DIS) technology that aids  in blur reduction normally caused due to vibrations, hand shake or unwanted movements.

According to Tony Sorice, vice president of Sales and Marketing for Digital Imaging, at Samsung Electronics America, “The TL100 exemplifies style and simplicity. This is an attention grabbing digital camera, not only because of its brushed stainless steel body and slim profile, but because of the advanced features that it brings to the user’s fingertips, which make taking a digital photograph easier than ever.”

Sporting a maximum resolution of 800×592 (SVGA) at 20fps for video recording, the Tl100 also incorporates many in-camera editing controls that will enable users to pause and resume video recordings and Samsung’s patent  Function Description program. The latter feature is actually an instruction guide that allows for easy understanding of camera settings.

Though there is no word on the price, the Samsung TL100 is expected to be launched around spring 2009.

If the Tesla Roadster just isn’t enough for you…not fast enough, not weird enough, and not expensive enough, then you should probably start looking out for Eliica’s. Just two of these Japanese peculio-mobiles currently exist, but the Eliica team is looking to get corporate sponsorship to produce 200 of them.

And, if they get that sponsorship, you’ll be able to pick one up for the low, low price of $255,000.

Now, I know what you’re thinking…why eight wheels? Well, very simply, so it can go faster. Traditionally, more rolling resistance would be a bad thing, but not if each of the wheels has its own 60 KW electric motor.

The goal of the team building the car at Keio University is to beat the world EV speed record, currently set at 400 mph.

NEW NOKIA N 96

THE CHANGE IN TECHNOLOGY CAN BE SEEN FROM JUST THESE TWO PICTURES.THE FIRST ONE IS A VINTAGE MOBILE FROM MOTOROLA CORP.THE SECOND ONE IS A NOKIA N 96 WHICH HIT THE MARKET RECENTLY.THIS PHONE IS EQUIPPED WITH ALL NEW TECHNOLOGY.

To put Casio’s achievement into perspective, most 7-inch PMPs and UMPCs generally equipped with 800 x 480 LCDs can’t match the pixel density of Casio’s new 2-inch display. Using a proprietary Hyper Amorphous Silicon TFT (HAST) LCD, Casio achieves a 960 x 540 pixel resolution resulting in 546 pixels per inch supporting 16.8 million colors — hoozah! Although not announced, we’ll undoubtedly see these in future NTT DoCoMo superphones as soon as these displays hit mass production. 

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Osborne 1
Introduced: April 1981
Price: US $1,795
Weight: 24.5 pounds
CPU: Zilog Z80 @ 4.0 MHz
RAM: 64K RAM
Display: built-in 5″ monitor
53 X 24 text
Ports: parallel / IEEE-488
modem / serial port
Storage: dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives
OS: CP/M

Fast forward 25 years and , we ultra-portable VAIO UX Premium Micro PC. The Premium Micro will run Vista and sport a 1.3GHz Intel Core Solo U1500 processor, a 4.5-inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, a 32GB solid state disk, a Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11g, USB 2.0, Firewire, and Memory Stick Duo memory card slots, and it’s also going to have integrated Wireless WAN with EDGE connectivity. All this for around $2000.

Of course we have many other similar products from Apple,Samsung and others but the point is that in last 25 years we have achieved incredible computing power in our portable laptops.

- Rahul B Tharakan, S5 ECE

You all know LCD, liquid crystal display which is the current king of display devices. Plasma stays very near to it. LCD is cheaper and good, their black level reproductions have markedly improved, ditto their viewing angles, and their popularity makes them cheaper than Plasma. Plasmas though, are still the tech to pick if you want the absolute best visual quality.

FED – Straddling The CRT And the LCD

Field Emission Display is a self-luminescent display like CRT. Being self-lit, it offers superior brightness, contrast, viewing angle compared to an LCD. Thus FEB displays feature the picture quality of a CRT and the flat profile of an LCD or a Plasma display.

LCoS – Bringing The Chips To Play

Liquid Crystal on Silicon was a tech quickly favored and just as quickly abandoned by Intel.. It uses a silicon chip at its heart, which is why Intel was interested in the technology. Using standard chip-making processes, an LCoS embeds LCD pixel units directly on the surface of a chip. The chip itself has all the circuitry needed to operate these LCD units. The big advantage with LCoS is that the technology improves as chip fabrication improves: with a smaller chip, you can add more LCD pixels, giving better resolution.

Intel's abortive LCoS chip

Laser – May Be The Future King

A Laser TV will essentially replace the traditional light sources in rear – projection HD sets with Laser light. As such, it is not a new technology, but an evolution of a current standard. It could potentially improve the quality of LCD and DLP sets. Laser sets promise to be thinner, consume less power, improve refresh rates, and extend a TV’s life. They also promise to offer a wider range of colours – where the LCD reproduces about 50 per cent of the colour gamut visible to the human eye, a laser unit could go higher than 90 per cent colour gamut reproduction. This will make colours more ‘life-like’.

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Athul Umman

S5, CSE