London, Mar 12: Apple has launched a tiny iPod that shouts out song titles.

The face-lifted Shuffle, which is half the size of the current version, is believed to be the world’s smallest music device.

However, owning to the toy’s smallness, there is no room for a screen.

The device reads out loud the names of 1,000 songs and artists stored on it, letting listeners choose their tracks.

The device, which costs 59 pounds, has its control buttons on the earphone cord.

According to Fortune magazine's Friday reports, Hearst Corp intends launching a wireless electronic reader with a large-format screen this year - the proposed device would be big enough to meet the outlining and advertising requirements of newspapers and magazines.

The e-reader, meant for viewing the newspapers and magazines of the publisher, indicates a kind of experimentation that can be considered crucial for hitting upon a business model to contend in the age of the content-free Internet.

London, February 14: Danish toy company Lego is all set to launch a mobile phone, if online reports are to be believed.

Leaked on the Internet, the reports suggest that the slim cellular phone has a plastic casing made up of colourful lego bricks, which the user can change according to their mood.

When a user wishes to change the number keypad from blue to green, he/she can do so just by clicking a new piece of Lego, as if the user were constructing a Lego building.

Latest confirmation which has come from one Web site's count is that now iPhone and iPod touch users, who are searching to download software from Apple's App Store now have nearly 20,000 programs to choose from.

The news has come from Apptism, an iPhone app activity aggregator, which also says that the on Tuesday, the 20,000th iPhone app was added to the store.

Nikon today made announcement regarding its AF-S DX 35mm f1.8 G lens, which is basically a “fast-fifty” for DX shooters and a fast aperture prime lens with a DX equivalent focal length of 52mm. Thus it replaces the classic 50mm focal length, long a standard in photography for having a field of vision similar to the human eye.
 

The GPS device-maker Garmin and the PC components-maker Asus have teamed up to manufacture co-branded smartphones; and they intend bringing the so-manufactured devices at "attractive" prices to the US market!