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EXPECTATIONS There are quite a few reasons to expect good music from Force . First and foremost Vipul Shah has a good track record when it comes to music -  Action Replayy, Namastey London, Waqt  and  Aankhen  are a testimony of that. Also,  Force  is a remake of Tamil hit  Kakka Kakka which again had superb music. Moreover, composer Harris Jayaraj's music of  Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein  is played even a decade after it was heard first. With Javed Akhtar joining as a lyricist, you do have good expectations from the soundtrack here. MUSIC It's a terrific start for  Force  with ' Khwabon Khwabon ' with the opening track. A redone version of the same number which had become hugely popular in  Kakka Kakka  as well, this one carries a stronger punch to it with Kay Kay and Suchitra coming together well to create the kind of sound that has an international appeal to it. A love song that could as well find itself in a dance floor zone, ' Khwabon Khwabon ' is just

This week at Samsung’s Galaxy S II announcement event in New York City, Vice President of Samsung’s Consumer & Enterprise Services Gavin Kim spoke briefly with SlashGear on a couple of rather relevant subjects: Samsung’s future with webOS (or lack thereof) and the future of the Galaxy S II in the USA. Having a keen sense of what the press and the public might have a wild heyday with as far as official statements go, Kim refrained from making any breaking fact drops or, as I might call it, Electropolitical gaffes. Instead Kim reinforced our already strong faith in the Samsung Telecommunications brand by noting that it was the market that decided where Samsung would make its next set of moves. While there were certainly no mentions of the HP / Palm / soon to be anyone’s game mobile operating system webOS in the main set of presentations at the Android-centric Samsung Galaxy S II event this week, the press attending the event certainly had the very recently and suddenly newsworthy OS

In most markets it competes in, Apple easily defeats all others. In the mobile space, for example, the company’s iPhone 4 and iPad 2, are easily besting all others in total sales, due mainly to their strong features. However, there is one space that Apple is lagging far behind: the living room. Currently, the company is trying to cement itself in the living room with the help of the Apple TV, a set-top box that, for years, has been called a hobby by Apple itself. [Image credit: Takayuki Nakagawa] Last year, Apple unveiled a new version of the Apple TV that it said, shed the hobby tag. That device, which features a small, black design, offers only streaming. So, if folks want to watch a Netflix film, they’ll need to stream it. The same can be said for music, photo viewing, and the other features the device offers. While the Apple TV initially caught on with consumers, it has lost some of its market appeal as devices elsewhere in the industry have stolen attention away. Now, not even App

HP apparently intends to split the webOS Global Business Unit into two, pushing the webOS software side over to the Office of Strategy and Technology while the ex-Palm hardware arm stays a part of the Personal Systems Group. The division, leaked by two internal HP emails passed to PreCentral, will leave HP free to license off webOS to other companies without the competition of the same group developing devices with it. Alternatively, it could be a simpler way for HP to close the door on its webOS hardware altogether. “Earlier this month, I told you about our difficult but necessary decision to discontinue the development of our webOS hardware devices” PSG EVP Todd Bradley said in his email to staff. “However, the webOS platform that powers these devices continues to demonstrate its ability to improve how our customers look up information, access entertainment and stay connected on the go.” In a second memo from Shane Robison, EVP, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer of the Office of

Samsung has pulled all Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablets from its IFA 2011 stand, as well as removing or covering any mention of the Honeycomb based tablet, in what appears to be further fall-out from the ongoing legal battle between the company and Apple. ”Samsung has removed the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from our stand at IFA,” Samsung Europe spokesperson Brendon Gore told SlashGear. “We cannot make any further comment as we have not received an official statement from the court.” However, Gore was at pains to point out that the decision to yank the Galaxy Tab 7.7 – which Samsung announced with great fanfare only on Thursday – was made voluntarily, rather than at the court’s behest. Where previously the slate had on show across two demo tables, now all branding has been replaced or removed and the slots filled with the Galaxy Note and Wave 3. Meanwhile, several members of the Samsung team were apparently measuring the now-covered Tab 7.7 wall poster, presumably either to replace it for the remainder of IF

Samsung has yet to officially announce Galaxy Note release dates, leading to some confusion yesterday, but the company’s execs were at least able to give SlashGear a window. When we met with Samsung earlier today to get a more in-depth fondle with some of the Note’s more interesting features, they told us that it’s expected to arrive in Q1 2011 in the UK (and presumably Europe). US availability, meanwhile, will follow “later than that” though they couldn’t say exactly how much later. Given we’ve only just seen a US launch for the Samsung Galaxy S II, despite it having gone on sale in Europe in late April, it’s certainly imaginable that North American carriers could drag their heels out for several months. Samsung Galaxy Note hands-on: No word on pricing at this stage, though we’re expecting it to carry a premium over the GSII. It’ll arrive alongside various accessories, like a Bluetooth keyboard, vehicle dock and a flip-cover that may reassure some dedicated paper-notebook users.

Toshiba may have made the most noise about its new Camileo Clip, X200 and X400 camcorders for IFA 2011, but the company slipped another rare beast into its booth. The Calimeo 3D model packs double the lenses into its palm-friendly chassis, recording Full HD 1920 x 1080 footage and allowing users to preview the 3D effect with a glasses-free autostereoscopic LCD display. The lenses are f3.2 and there’s 5-megapixel still capture alongside the Full HD video recording. An LED flash light is mounted underneath the lens array, too, there’s an optical zoom, and recording is supported in either 2D or 3D, as you’d expect. Storage is via SD card, and while there’s no touchscreen there’s a reasonably straightforward little joystick on the back which falls neatly under your thumb. No word on pricing or availability at this stage.