Yash Raj Films Licensing Monday announced a multi-title tie-up with 99Games Online Pvt. Ltd. to create games around the popular Bollywood franchise, "Dhoom".

The first game in this series will be marketed along with the release of the much anticipated "Dhoom:3", which opens worldwide December 20.

"99Games Online is the perfect company to create mobile games based on 'Dhoom' franchise. The company's ability to produce high quality exciting games with true-to-life graphics will plunge players into the centre of the film's action," Rohit Sobti, vice president, YRF Licensing, said in a statement.

The launch of the "Dhoom" game will help the Indian gaming space, according to Rohith Bhat, CEO of 99Games Online.

"The 'Dhoom' franchise has set high standards of production quality and entertainment quotient and we intend to deliver the same through a series of games which will be released globally," he added.

The "Dhoom" franchise has been high on bikes, stunts and action.

YRF Licensing is charged with the licensing and merchandising of YRF's movies. In addition to a license with 99Games Online Pvt. Ltd., the "Dhoom:3" licensing program also includes toys, apparel, phone, tablet, accessories, bike autographics, helmets, paper products and cards.

"Dhoom:3" stars Aamir Khan with Katrina Kaif, Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra.


YAHOO just launched its brand new weather app for Android Smartphones with the design and features in line with the iphone version of app that was launched last year.

The app provides forecasts on top of slideshows featuring pictures of landmarks in cities chosen by the user. The photos are powered by Flickr.Yahoo weather is available on Google Play for free and it requires Android 2.3 or Higher. 

BEST FEATURES:

  1. Highly acclaimed design with beautiful photos that match you location, time of day , and current weather condition.
  2. Detailed weather information, including 10- day & 24 hour temperature forecast.
  3. Interactive Radar, satellite, heat, ans wind maps.  
  4. Severe Weather alerts.
  5. Animated Sunrise & Sunset times and wind pressure modules.
  6. Humidity sensor, UV index, and chance of precipitation.
  7. New Home screen Widget. 

WhatsApp most popular mobile messaging app now claims to have 20 million active monthly users in India out of the 300 million global users of their service.Now it is also rolling out the push-to-talk voice messaging allowing users to send and receive the voice messages.

WhatsApp is introducing the push-to-talk voice messaging in its app on all mobile ecosystem including IOS,Android,Windows Phone,BlackBerry,and even in Nokia (Symbian & Series 40).The WhatsApp used to let users send audio messages for limited duration (2mins for iphone) as an attacment.

The feature will be available within 24 hours to all users,as per WhatsApp.The competitors of WhatsApp like Wechat and Voxer offer similar voice chatting features.