It’s raining music for ears which are always wired into an iPod or a walkman phone! Yesterday, the much awaited Walkman Series of Sony Ericsson was announced. The series includes 3 mobile phones W902, W302 and W595. The phones can play wide variety of music files and come with other multimedia functions as well- camera, internet access and connectivity options. These will be on shelves in the last lag of this year. The company’s previous model (W800) is already a hit among music fans.

Here are the features of each phone one-by-one:

Sony Ericsson W302:-
• 2 Megapixel camera with 2.5x zoom.
• 3D games, Java and Video viewing.
• Bluetooth connectivity, USB support and Memory Stick Micro.
• 20MB of internal memory.
• Available in Midnight Black and Sparkling White.

SE W902 phone:-
• 5 Megapixel auto focus camera with up to 16x digital zoom.
• Includes cool stuff like Picture blogging, Video blogging, Video recording & Photo feeds.
• Shake control and SensMe features +nt.
• Allows access to Google Maps and enables Geo tagging of photos as well!
• Available in Volcanic Black, Wine Red and Earth Green.

SE W595 (slider style) phone:-
• 3.2 Megapixel camera.
• Bluetooth stereo.
• FM radio.
• Shake control and SensMe.
• 40MB of internal memory (supports for Memory Stick Micro also +nt.)
• Available in Active Blue, Lava Black, Cosmopolitan White & Jungle Grey

All the three models are too tempting but their price will be a defining factor as well (which is yet to be announced!).

Via: techshout

Blogosphere never falls short of controversies and commotions. The latest of the latter variety being over ‘fair use of content’ by the ever growing community of bloggers. Every thing was going smooth until the old and worthy AP raised an eyebrow over its content being used by any Tom , Dick and Harry on the internet. Linking to AP news stories or quotes, now becomes objectionable to the powers-that-be in this (non-profit) cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the US. The latest victim being Drudge Retort! One eye brow raised lead to many voices raised on net in the previous days.

Accordingly, Associated Press decided to be a pussyfooter and is now set to define guidelines, that will determine which and how much news to be uplifted and used by the bloggers. It surely seems to be in the mood of curtailing favours to the bloggers family on the pretext of the violation of the‘fair use’ doctrine. This move reminds me of the bedtime children story where a cold-hearted giant (AP here) shuns the use of his beautiful garden, as a playground by the chirpy kids!!!(we bloggers).Personally, I find this decision rather barbaric and not in tune with today’s time of free knowledge shairing and pooling.

Coming back to the ‘fair use’ doctrine, which allows small bits of copyrighted work to be harmlessly used as excerpts, forms the essence of blogging. With this thing is mind and healthy intentions any one can quote portions from articles written by journalists and experts and discuss them at length in his/her blog. Normally, its considered a safe practice because of its ubiquity. The question arises, why then AP got so-called ‘offended’ when the so-called ‘offender’ took pains to link to it? From what I can make out, the poor blogger only had intentions to provide trustworthy source to the readers (hence the linking to AP ensued). But one thing is clear, the oldtimer has gained good amount of bad publicity over internet following its sue-game. The stage is set on fire and it would be interesting to follow, what comes next from both the sides of the fence (read internet-the interface between news gatherers and news viewers). As of now, it seems Associated Press is certainly not glad to be associated with the common blogger!

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The arena of Blogging was never burning such bright…thanks to the blogger’s bug whose current victims are Bollywood biggies like Amir khan, Big B and RGV to name a few. To join the bandwagon is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Her recent post is in reply to a rather dry comment on Ram Gopal Verma’s latest Sarkar Raj starring the Bachchan clan sans mother-in-law. Her blog is almost an immediate retaliation not only to the reader’s comment (a question on a particular scene of the film) but also to Ramu’s cheeky reply on the same!

While her doing so reflects the essence of an Indian Bahu (daughter-in-law) to stand by her spouse’s family in times good and bad on the one hand. On the other however, it also reflects the intolerance among the Bollywood celebrities to handle harmless criticism. I appreciate RGV’s stand to take it lightly but it seems the Bachchan clan is now too fussy about their celluloid characters as well (apart from their on-screen appearances’ so to say).

On a deeper note of course, one can’t blame the actor for getting fond of the roles he/she plays and Ash’s recent move reflects the human psyche of protecting the one whom we are fond of from world’s gaze (read critical comments in this case).

The lady’s move has started an exciting trend and we readers are eagerly waiting to see more of such stuff to juice up our virtual world. After all, who doesn’t enjoy watching two people in argument?

Via BroadBandIndiatimes