Game4u presents FIFA Street Corporate Championship

Game4u presents FIFA Street Corporate Championship, “Rule the street within your breakout zones”. Starting 13th April, Game4u will organize an Intra Company Tournament across major corporate venues in Mumbai and Delhi looking for the “Best Player” that can demonstrate their finest skills and moves in FIFA Street and win exciting freebies.

FIFA Street by Electronic Arts (EA) is the most authentic street soccer game ever created and replicates the way the game is played by street soccer players all over the world. You can play with and against the stars of the most popular clubs in the world - or real-life street players - and compete at more than 35 locations around the globe.

Feel the heat on the street and strut your skills

Sports are the most popular genre in videogames and FIFA Street brings the unique style of street football right to your fingertips. The fun is all set to begin in Mumbai from tomorrow at Intelenet (Malad), Vodafone (Andheri) and Deloitte (Powai) from 12 noon onwards. After completing a basic registration process, each player will be given a time of 180 seconds to prove their mettle in the game and score the maximum number of goals. Top three players from each corporate will receive exciting goodies and freebies from Game4u.

So, take a break from the mundane work schedule and prove that there is a real Lionel Messi within you!

Siri now speaks in Hindi

Siri started out speaking English only at launch and with iOS 5.1, Japanese support was rolled out. Late 2012 will bring Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Korean to Siri. Now however, Siri can talk to you in Hindi. This discovery was made by Kunal Kaul, who set up Siri to respond to questions in Hindi by setting up a proxy server. According to Mobigyaan, he says that Siri on his iPhone connects with his Google API server to respond to questions. Kaul has even shot a video and posted on YouTube with his results showing how Siri responds in Hindi. The interesting thing is, he asks Siri questions in English and the personal assistant responds in Hindi, so it seems Siri cannot understand Hindi, it can only translate a response from English to Hindi before it answers your question. However, Siri's reponse is also transcribed to Hindi in the Devnagiri script, so it makes for a cool visual where the question is written out in English and the response is in Hindi. Kunal says that there is still a lot of work he is doing to fully flesh out Siri in Hindi. Siri currently supports four languages; English (in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia), French (in France) and German (in Germany) and Japanese (in Japan). The iPhone 4S was available in Japan in October and it made sense to follow up that launch with Siri in the native language. Hindi hasn't made the list of planned languages, yet. It would also be interesting if eventually Siri adds more regional language support, like Tamil and Bengali. Facebook mobile, in the mean time, has been made available in 8 Indian languages, Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali and Marathi, and of course, Hindi. The iPhone itself does not support Hindi as a language, yet, but a Hindi keyboard is available in the international keyboards part of the phone. If Kaul manages to find a way to open up Siri in Hindi to the rest of us, be sure to watch out for some more "Fun with Siri" and "That's what she said" type videos. Click here to see how much fun we had with Siri, albeit in plain English. Would you want your mobile personal assistant to speak your native language? Which other languages would you like it to speak? Let us know in the comments section below.

Portronics launches new HD media player – The Limebox

Portronics has announced the launch of its new multimedia device, the Limebox. This new device aims at being a small entertainment powerhouse for your living room by merging the way you surf the Internet and watch TV. By using a wireless keyboard or mouse you can start surfing the web, download apps from the Android Play store, play games, watch YouTube videos, make video calls, view word, Excel, PPTs all on your TV. This device can also be used as a media player for your TV to watch downloaded movies at 1080p. It can be integrated on the best screen in your home – the TV. Portronics Limebox is powered by Google Android and it allows you to view videos, surf the Web and download apps from Android Play store. 

The Limebox

Setting up the Limebox is pretty easy. All you need to do is plug the power cord into the wall and connect Limebox to the widescreen TV using an HDMI cable or RGB cable. It connects to the Ethernet cable. Limebox delivers improved browsing to your home television and is powered by Adobe Flash (version 10.1). The interface has been redesigned to fit into the HDTV in full screen. Naturally, Limebox supports Flash video, so watching flash content on the device is possible. 

Limebox doesn't just bring the Web to the TV with Google; it also gives an easy and quick way to navigate the Web, thanks to its compatibility with full-sized wireless keyboard and mouse (not included). Users can also connect their pen drive or any SD card and view all their photos, videos, text on their TV. Few popular games like Angry birds, Fruit Ninja, etc. are the part of the hardware, already.

Connectivity options

Here’s what the spec sheet for the Limebox looks like:

• Processor - Android 2.3, 1.2 GHz Rockchip Processor
• RAM - DDR3 512 MB
• NAND Flash - 4GB 
• Wi-Fi - 802.11 b/g/n
• USB HOST Host USB Port
• External card reader - SD card, 3 in 1 card reader
• HDMI1.3 - 1080 p
• Flash 10.1 - Supported
• Video - MP4, MOV, AVI, DVD, VIDEO, ASF, WMV, MKV, RM, RMVB, TS, TP, DAT, MPG, MPEG, VOB
• Audio - MPEG-1Layer 3, WMA, WMA por, MPEG-1/2 Layer 1/2, ADPCM, AAC, OGG Vorbis, Dolby, Digital ACS, RA-COOK, FLAC, DTS, DTS HD
• Video Call - Supported
• DLNA - Supported
• Wireless keyboard/mouse - Supported

Priced at a market price of Rs.8,499, the Portronics Limebox is available across the country.