Super Mario Brothers for Wii revealed at E3 2009

Nintendo has announced a new Super Mario game named New Super Mario Brothers for Wii at their E3 2009 press conference. The new game is a multiplayer game and allows 4 players to play at once.There are classic trappings such as coins, warp pipes, etc. which require cooperative play. The game can be played in single player mode, or two, or three, or four. When there are four players, there is a lot more stuff in the game.There are classic trappings such as coins, warp pipes, etc. which require cooperative play. The game can be played in single player mode, or two, or three, or four. When there are four players, there is a lot more stuff in the game.You can also pickup and carry other players and switch over at any time. There is also a new item named – Propeller suit. The screen can pan out and there is a tally at the end with bonus points, ranking, coins, etc.The new game is playable at E3 2009 and is scheduled to launch during holiday 2009.

Google celebrates Tetris 25th anniversary

Google recently put a tetris puzzle as the logo in the search engine celebrating the success of the Tetris puzzle.It was lauched 25 years ago and its still popular with the games and puzzle freaks.

HTC unveiled Third Google Phone-HTC Hero

Taiwan based mobile major HTC cop has launched its new android based phone HTC Hero recently.It has a new user interface and can be used as per the need of the users.The new UI unveiled for HTC Hero is called HTC Sense, and has resulted from various experiences.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Browser named Namoroka

Mozilla started its 3.6 new Browser version and codenamed it as Namoroka.Its previous version was named Shiretoko which is expected to reach the web in the mid 2010.This project will be based on Gecko 1.9.2 with new enhancements and features.The basic interests for the new version will be:
The time taken for startup, opening a new tabs, and responsiveness with the user inferface will be improved. Common user tasks will feel more responsive and faster. It’s a good news for daily users. The new enhancements will enable Firefox 3.6 to :
1. open a new tab
2.Load a bookmarked page
3.Autocomplete a location in the awesome bar
4.Play rich media content

Firefox 3.6 will also be implementing animation and other techniques to improve perceive speed and efficiently reduce the lag time between action and feedback.

Personalization and customisation:
Firefox 3.6 will allow the user to install “light weight” themes and add-ons without requiring a restart to install the selected component.

Customized browser behaviours:
Firefox 3.6 will introduce identity management and will customize browser behaviors based on personal history like:
1.Opening a new tab
2.search related tasks
3.Form fill tasks
4.about:me personal portal

Common web application tasks
It will also allow users to accomplish common web-application tasks with the help of Taskfox. Taskfox will be part of the existing Firefox user interface, and will be localized to all locales that

Improved Download manager
Firefox 3.6 will introduce file management tasks such as deleting, moving, cut/pasting in the download manager.

iPhone 3G Arrives Today

On Wednesday, we saw the release of the iPhone 3 OS which brought an array of new features to existing iPhones and iPod touches. However, Apple will one-up themselves on Friday as AT&T and Apple stores everywhere will release the iPhone 3G S , the more powerful, video-capable generation of iPhone. Do you know what this new iPhone can do? How is it different than the iPhone 3.0 upgrade? And most of all, should you head to the nearest Apple store and get in line to grab the company’s newest gadget? We explore the answers to these questions and more in a short but comprehensive guide to the iPhone 3G S launch. The iPhone 3G S goes on sale at Apple and AT&T stores in the U.S. on Friday. Walmart and Best Buy should also have some iPhones on sale. Insanely enough, lines began to form on Thursday in some places across the country. All in all, around half a million iPhone 3Gs have been shipped to stores nationwide. The retail price of the iPhone 3G S with no contract is $599 for the 16GB version and $699 for the 32 GB model. With the AT&T subsidy however, it drops to $199 and $299 respectively. Originally the subsidy only applied to two year contracts with new customers, but as we learned on Wednesday. If you’re a hardcore fan of the iPhone, you’re probably already waiting in line. If you’re not, then you’ll have your shot at getting a phone rather soon. It may take some effort to snag one, though.

Facebook launched in Persian

In response to the events surrounding the Iranian election last week, Google and Facebook have both added the Persian language Farsi to their capabilities. The Persian version of Facebook will be available starting tonight

Facebook says the Persian version was already being developed but it decided to unveil it because of the sudden increase in activity with the Iranian elections and protests. Facebook adds the disclaimer that the translation is still in rough form.

If your browser is set to Farsi, you should automatically see the Persian version of Facebook. Facebook says that more than 400 Persian speakers submitted thousands of individual translations of the site.

AT&T Tethering

Gruber found some information that the AT&T tethering plan would cost $55 a month and suggests - but cannot confirm - that this will be in addition to the unlimited data plan already in place, potentially hitting the $85 per month for data. I, like him, find this outrageous and can only pray that this number will be more like $55 total.

On the aggregate, traffic on wireless networks is fairly low. Major carriers built out quite a bit of bandwidth - they just needed the right customers, applications, and phones to use it correctly. When I was a telecom consultant back in 1999 we were already talking about 3G but no one wanted to start up the pipe for fear of - what? I don’t know. Maybe they were afraid people would use it, downloading WAP pages willy-nilly.

Indirect verification by Twitter

It looks like Twitter has just rolled out its verified accounts. As you can seeing on Michael's personal account, there’s a “Verified Account” logo right above his name. Twitter has previously announced that it was going to do this, but did so tonight without warning.

What’s odd is that Michael never actually verified his account with anyone at Twitter. Granted, it’s obvious that it is his actual account, but it’s still a bit odd that they would verify it without, you know, verifying it. Expect to see this rolling out over more accounts over the next several days.

You Tube and its new feature

The You Tube users can now share their recently uploaded videos to Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, etc with the newly enabled feature by YouTube.This allows them to syndicate their newly uploaded content directly into their friends feeds.This feature anyhow is not new to other sites, hence it isnt really a novel feature.This feature is restricted to newly uploaded videos in order to put a stop to spam postings in YouTube

"Bing" a new search engine from Microsoft

Microsoft has launched a new search engine "Bing" recently in order to compete with marketing sector major "Google" recently.Bing search includes Map, video, image search and more which is almost similar to gogle in that way but it has a scenery in the back ground that differentiates it with other search engines."The first day of its launch was a bit dissapointing with negative comments on their high.But it has slowly emerged out as a competitor to Google search engine.Lets hope Bing stands number one among the Search engines in he future.