Cricket in your pocket

What is it? Cricinfo has launched a mobile widget—or (as it is referred to), a mobicast, especially geared towards the Apple iPhone.

The cricket website (which is owned by ESPN) has tied up with Plusmo, a California-based company, that designs information widgets for mobile phones.

What does it do? Widgets are downloadable chunks of information codes present in many websites, especially download-based ones.

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Once you’ve downloaded and installed a Cricinfo widget on your iPhone, all the information on it, like ball-by-ball commentary, scorecards, etc., will get automatically uploaded.

Is it available only on the iPhone? No. Basically any smart phone with a web browser, like Symbian phones, BlackBerry devices, Windows Mobile phones, PDAs and Palm Treos can avail of this technology.

How much does it cost? Like all other widgets, you can download one onto your phone for free.

Anything else? Of course, the iPhone isn’t available in India yet. However, once it is launched, you’ll be able to avail of this service.

— Bibek Bhattacharya