Unless you have looked at the link above this morning it is a totally new site and their idea is something rather different.

You provide a head and shoulders photo of your child (boy or girl from say two to ten) and then their head is Photoshopped into one of a range of personalised high gloss books. You should also provide Bookadoo their name and a few other facts; I will find out next week exactly what.

A very young child will recognise their image long before they can read the story can be read to them by a parent. Slightly older they can be a princess or a super hero but the basic facts and the photo idea is the same into a different scenario.

I intend to try this service and when I have the resulting book I will tell you just how good or bad the whole process works, so look for a full review in the next few weeks.

http://www.bookadoo.com/uk/

A host of television and radio stations has announced the title ‘International Children’s Day of Broadcasting 2010’ for the first time in Malaysia.  Children had been encouraged at the earliest opportunity to read the news including sports, host programmes or voice their views, it has been suggested by organizers a media conference at Wisma UN.

The theme for 2010 is ‘All Rights, All Children’ as the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) marks its 20th Anniversary.  AI Fm, Era Fm, BERNAMA Radio 24 with other radio stations has been participated at the event.

Farah Harith, BERNAMA Radio 24 producer and CSR chief said “This is our second CSR programme after the Chinese New Year programme and it gives an opportunity to children to know about the broadcasting fraternity and learn how a radio station functions."

She further added "Be sure to tune in to the children with our participating announcers Reza and Dina (Era Fm), Jack Lim (My Fm), Jin (hitz Fm) and Revathy (THR Raaga) on March 6 and 7."  Unicef said in a statement the children will be able to learn the responsibility and will become an active citizens.

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released last year, it brought some harsh criticism from some quarters - including a particularly stinging attack from the Labour MP for Leicester East, Keith Vaz.

So you would think that when invited to partake in a Westminster e-forum debate on games with industry figures and other MPs that Mr Vaz, who has a history of moaning about the content of games being too violent for kids (despite the fact that violent games receive an 18 certificate - therefore no children should be playing them anyway), would be very keen to air his views. But you would be wrong......

At the last minute, Mr Vaz let organisers know that "he couldn't make it". Thankfully, the rest of the panel, including Keith Ramsdale from EA, Richard Wilson from Tiga, Ian Livingstone from Eidos (who was Vaz's last minute replacement) and MPs Tom Watson and Ed Vaizey were all on hand to take him to task.

MCV reported that Ian Livingstone ripped into Mr Vaz, mockingly reciting some of his rabble-rousing buzzwords; "Games are evil, games are terrible, games are turning children into killers" and so on, while Ed Vaizey, in reference to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's recent outburst on games, said Mr Vaz should change his name to "Keith Chavaz".

Joking aside, this situation typifies the soap-box politics of today; too many MPs talking in moral panic-inducing soundbites to win votes from their constituents about things they know little of or have little interest in. Want to know what sort of a guy Keith Vaz is? Take a look at our past article from November after the MP had been spouting off about Modern Warfare 2.

Dialing access numbers are increasingly getting popular nowadays in the United Kingdom.  Making international calls through dialing access numbers have been used by all.

Cheap international calls can be made worldwide using these easy dialing numbers.  Calls to India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and many more countries from the UK are made simple with dialing access number.

But how does this access dialing number work and how can you use these numbers in your dial?

Let’s discuss it with some effective information on this system.  Cheap calls to India can be made in your local calling rate only by dialing access number.  It works easier than VoIP.

The procedure to call is just quick easy and cheap. Follow below steps to call to India landline or mobile phone from UK:

* Dial the access number 0844 590 9503, wait for the tone.

* Dial country code including "00" + phone number.

* You are connected with best wishes.

As your call will be linked via a local access number, you can take the pleasure of calling with local calling rates for your country.

Start using cheap international calls for all your international calls if you want to save some money on your regular phone bills.

The mobile phone manufacturer has announced a wide range of expansions which has kept straight forward for owners of the Nokia N900 handset from nowadays.

Customers may want to consider sell mobile phone to receive more money for their used mobile phone in order to make an upgrade.

N900 works seamlessly with new updates of Ovi Maps, changes in route calculation, and improvement in search performance which gives the quickest available route when you can make a move from A to B.

Full support with the combination of characters Italian, English and German will also be provided by means of virtual keyboard layouts.

As it turns out N900, it has been declared the most famous product of the year 2009.

The phone utilizes GSM frequency and is now fully compatible with all 3 networks of SIM cards as a small number of cards had formerly showed to be problematic.

Nokia has newly discovered that its Ovi Store is now exists for users of its Nokia N900 phone, allowing them to take the benefit of a range of games and apps.

Customers across the world can begin to take advantage of the updates within the next 24 hours.

We all know what a Gadget is and how it makes our life simple, or rather complex :)

We come across various forms of Gadgets like Electronic gadgets, Programmable gadgets & Application gadgets daily. So I am here to talk about them, share my inputs, review them etc.

No - not the celebrity type - the twinkling kind!

We've reviewed many cameras here on GadgetSpeak but this one is a little different from those. Aimed at the amateur astronomer Imaging Source have launched a range of low-noise astronomy cameras using CCD sensors from Sony.The family includes sensors with resolutions of 640x480, 1024x768 and 1280x960 pixels and with either colour or monochrome capture options.

Each is equipped with a gigabit Ethernet interface allowing large quantities of live image data to be transferred quickly to a computer.

The cameras are controlled by PC software provided with the product that allow capture of single or multi-sequence images. The use of Ethernet for communication allows a highly affordable remote interface to the camera. The bottom of the camera has a standard tripod mount while the front lens nose-piece is threaded for a C/CS mount.

You can think of these cameras as top of the range web-cams especially designed to attach to your telescope and aimed at the amateur astronomer that wants to capture their observations for later analysis.

In Europe the cameras are available from Imagine Source on the URL below. Prices start at €440 for a 640x480 mono device. If distance isn't a problem then the family does include less expensive Firewire and USB interfaces, although with the latter bandwidth will be limited.

http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/products/

I think this clip has been around for a while, but it's the first time I've seen it and I just had to post it here. The clip shows one of our local Posties, Mike Izzard, putting a smile on the face of colleagues at the St Albans sorting office. Mike delivers mail in the Welwyn Garden City area (UK), where GadgetSpeak is based - and we do like to promote local talent!

Apart from improving morale at his local office (and lets face it the post office needs a bit of a morale boast at the moment) Mike has been selling copies of the DVD for £1 with the proceeds going to the RSPCA. He's raised over £600 so far and the YouTube video has been viewed over 3500 times.

Absolutely brilliant!

Here's the link to the YouTube page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYZCz9L-_-0

You may have read my recent blog about Bletchley Park and it's importance to the history of the gadgets we've all come to love. This wonderful icon of computing history is in very real danger of being lost to future generations. The plight of this monument to a secret war of wits has caught the imagination of a diverse team of intrepid volunteers - both individuals and organisations - from many sectors of society both in the UK and abroad.

Here's your chance to help and have a very enjoyable day out!

As part of this fund raising initiative one organisation, the ACCU, will be holding a one day fund raising conference at Bletchley Park : "Security: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" on the 7th November. All the proceeds from this informative and unmissable day will go to the Bletchley Park Trust.

The day will include talks by experts in the history of Bletchley, code breaking and cryptography.

In his talk entitled How the Germans gave away their "unbreakable" codes Tony Sale will describe how human operator errors enabled code breakers to decipher vital German messages.

Simon Singh, author, journalist and TV producer presents a talk entitled Cracking the Cipher Challenge. Simon published "The Code Book" containing ten encrypted messages and a £10,000 prize for the first person to crack all of them. Simon will discuss how he constructed the Cipher Challenge and how the winners eventually cracked those codes, using this as a framework to introduce a brief history of cryptography. Simon will also demonstrate a genuine Second World War Enigma cipher machine!

Phil Zimmermann came to fame as author of the PGP e-mail encryption package which, despite three years of government persecution, became the most widely used e-mail encryption software in the world. Phil will discuss his latest project "ZRTP" - bringing encryption to Voice over IP systems (VoIP) and will also touch upon the issue of living in a surveillance society.

As well as these stimulating talks held in the elegant Victorian Bletchley Park Mansion the day will also include a guided tour of the entire Bletchley Park site and will include coffee breaks and lunch. The day will start at 8:30am in the morning with the first talk provisionally scheduled to start at 9:30am. The day will finish with an opportunity to chat with both the speakers and other members of the audience, finally wrapping up at around 8pm.

Bletchley Park is very easy to get to being just across the road from Bletchley Park railway station which is on the line from London Euston through Milton Keynes and up to Birmingham.

The entire day costs only £95 (or if you're a member of the ACCU £85) which for anyone with an interest in the history of computing and cryptography is excellent value. And of course you will be helping to ensure the future Bletchley Park!

There are more details on the Bletchley Park web-site and you can buy tickets online from their shop.

Yesterday saw the launch of Windows Phone - Microsoft's answer to the growing popularity of the iPhone and of up-and-coming open source phone operating systems like Google's Android, Symbian and Palm's WebOS. In reality and despite the hype this is not a new system from Microsoft but rather the latest upgrade to Windows Mobile - now at version 6.5.

Accompanying that launch is news from HTC of new handsets and upgrades to their existing range of Windows Mobile based phones. The HTC HD2 is new. A bright 4.3" touch screen providing access to the latest in Windows mobile software and a 1GHz 'Snapdragon' mobile processor from Qualcomm aims to provide the power necessary to avoid a sluggish experience.

The HTC Touch2, Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2 will in future ship with this software and upgrades may be available for existing customers.

Apple can be given a lot of credit for expanding the popularity of 'smart phones' - phones that can run a myriad of applications more generally associated with computers than phones - with their iPhone product. Until that time such devices had been primarily used for business and carried a hefty price tag. Apple can't of course take all the credit - improved technology has driven down the cost of cramming the necessary processing power into a small form factor at an acceptable price.

Attacking the market for a mobile business tool saw Microsoft offer Windows Mobile. It carried Windows compatibility as a hallmark and was aimed at keeping corporate IT departments happy - not end users! In the early days it was slow and never really gained the popularity Microsoft would have liked with those end users.

With the iPhone the market has changed and smart phones now have a consumer mass-market appeal and Microsoft wants a slice of that pie and hence yesterdays major Microsoft Phone launch. A multi-million dollar global marketing campaign to spread the word. Technically what they have launched is Microsoft Mobile 6.5 - the latest release of their existing software packaged to be something new. The news really is the push for volume. Deals with Toshiba, Samsung, LG and HTC will lead to a claimed 30 new devices equipped with Microsoft software by the end of the year. Some of these, like the HTC models, will be simply upgrades of existing Windows based phones. Others will be new.

Learning from Apple once more Microsoft hope to join the bandwagon for downloadable applications, a significant revenue stream for their fashionable competitor. Microsoft Marketplace takes on Apple's App Store. To compete though Microsoft has to attract developers - Apple already has over 80,000 applications. To attract those developers Microsoft needs the volume. Chicken and egg?

What's not in question is Microsoft's desire to take a slice of this market. They've competed before in new markets against stiff competition - just look at the XBox. Can they do it in the mobile market? We'll just have to wait and see!