London, Sep 28 : Video games giant Sony is pushing ‘Sackboy’ as their defining mascot for the Noughties — and he’s British.

The Japanese computer giants, who are pumping millions into the character, reckon every kid in the world will want their own virtual one in the next few months. 

Tiny firm Media Molecule, which operates with just 25 staff in Guildford, Surrey, created Sackboy. 

“It’s fair to say that Nintendo has got Super Mario and Sega had Sonic. It’s about time Sony got their own iconic mascot — Sackboy will be that character,” The Sun quoted Sony PlayStation’s Jonathan Fargher, as saying.

By the end of December, Indian markets will see the arrival of Google Android-power phone designed by HTC, about which almost everyone is eagerly waiting for.

The Taiwan-based cellphone major, presently is in talks with leading service provider in India, informs one the business daily. There is an exclusive partnership of the company with service provider Airtel to sell phones and it further announced that it has no hassles in selling the phone through independent retail channels. However, the business model is still under deliberation.

Just recently Samsung Omina had embellished the family of Touchscreen Phones, and now only a few days after, Samsung has come out with a similar set with 8 megapixel camera.

A secret announcement has been made by Samsung about the successor of the Samsung i8510 INNOV8's, that is the M8800 called as Pixon, with the code name of Brensson. This new edition is a touch screen phone, which will be in direct competition with the LG KC910 Renoir, that also has a camera of 8 mega-pixel.

A recent study that comes from Scotland claims that children who play video game on regular basis might have a good chance to better their concentration, behavior and math attainment.

Students in around 32 schools were studied by the researchers with Learning and Teaching Scotland through the help of the Brain Training from Dr Kawashima game on the Nintendo DS every day. 

Last year, a pilot study was held in Dundee, and the present LTS study served as a follow up to find out if the results were simulated on a wider term.

Hamburg - Laptop buyers should pay special attention to the amount of RAM installed in the computer. Two gigabytes (GB) is the rock-bottom threshold, recommends Hamburg-based Computerbild magazine, as that is enough to work with Windows Vista.

Those who must satisfy "memory hungry" applications like photo editors are best advised to go for a model with 3 GB of RAM. The magazine tested eight current laptops costing around 500 dollars each.