In recent years of computing technology we’ve seen the usage of multiple monitor desktop computers by various it professionals especially by those who are working in the field of design or sometimes is researching about something. For the rest of the world, it seems to be quite useless. And this time it’s not the desktop; computer manufacturers have always wanted to present something new to the users to keep the computer industry interesting, up and running.

A notebook with two displays will sound fascinating but in reality it has already been rejected by the tech savvy people because of it’s being disadvantaged of having a bulky weight and poor battery life experience. So, the primary concern of portablity is significantly questioned.

May be the lighter and more energy efficient versions of notebook having two displays will be able to meet the expectation of the users.

The popular social networking website Facebook has confirmed the recent rumors about their servers being attacked by the hackers. Security has become a very important issue for any website that contains personal data on their servers and databases. The micro-blogging platform twitter has also been attacked by hackers recently, even though twitter doesn’t contain much data except email addresses.

Although we are concerned that the facebook developers are continuously working to make and keep the services more secure it is still a question that how safe are the data with a site. Since facebook provides an API for the developers, the hackers are also trying to take the advantage of the application programming interface.

However, although the data safety is questioned, we rely on the developers and hope that security measures will be better over time.

September this year, Nokia announced that Nokia is going to acquire OZ which is a consumer communications company headquartered in Montreal, Canada and is the leading consumer mobile messaging solution provider delivering access to popular im and email services on consumer mobile devices. With this acquisition, Nokia has gone another step towards its addition of services to its consumers.

This merging will enable consumers to easily connect and communicate using their favorite Internet communities with OZ’s innovative technology help Nokia’s growing consumer messaging market.

So, what the users do get from this takeover? Faster access to leading instant messaging and email services are just a promise that include AOL®, Gmail, ICQ®, Windows Live(TM) Hotmail, Windows Live(TM) Messenger and Yahoo!®. OZ’s solutions havemore than 5.5 million users around the globe.

Nokia’s existing platform of Series 40 and S60 devices will be just enhanced with the expertise of OZ’s technology that nokia will surely enhance in the coming days.

The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter 2008. After the closing, OZ will become part of Nokia’s Services & Software operative unit. Consumers hope that they will be just benefited with the acquisition of OZ by Nokia.

Sense is already implemented in mobile devices to recognize shakes and get various information like counting your footstep or determine the speed of your bicycle. Touch screen are also not too recent invention while many devices already incorporate the touch technology to provide user a better user interface. Some PDA’s like Sony Ericsson’s P990i or O²’s or Palms. But for a smartphone it’s.

The waiting is over. On October the 2nd this year Nokia Announced their cross generation mobile platform S60 5th Edition that will let you touch the screen of your cellphone to perform all actions on your favourite S60 V5 platform. Recently, s60 platform has been made open source and now introduction of the s60 V5’s advanced set of features will definitely secure the s60 platform to a higher position in the mobile market and put it’s competitors behind the race. This will enable new innovations and consumers will have better experiences from their devices.

According to Nokia, “With S60 5th Edition, the user interface is extended by the introduction of touch and with full support for tactile feedback. Enhanced display resolution support and a new Widescreen mode further compliments the touch UI and enables engaging visual experiences. Also, for the first time, the platform includes a framework for the use of advanced sensor technology. This all allows S60 device manufacturers to create innovative new device concepts for a wider range of user segments, while preserving the rich capabilities of the existing software platform.”

The first of the device, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is designed for music lovers. So, what comes with the Touches? As S60 web browser is the 2nd best (PC World) mobile web browser after iPhone’s Safari, it continues to support the use of internet technologies and with it’s web browsing capabilites, it may lead the mobile internet world with desktop-quality browsing with Adobe Flash Lite 3; scrolling web pages and interacting directly with Web content has become easier by touching with a finger or the use of keys or stylus.

Sensors will enable the consumers to take the advantages to a integrated sensing feature that will lead to more exciting application expereinces. With an integrated multimedia experience of image and video editing makes it simple simple to edit pics and vids directly on a the device.

Still there are loads of features that are integrated and more SDK’s are there for the developers to add more to the platform.

Please visit www.s60.com for more information about the s60 Platform and Nokia’s website for information about 5800 XpressMusic

Earlier this month Opera has announced to work with NVIDIA to enhance the mobile web experience. Though from the first glance it appears that it will help the mobile web browser performance but it is surely going to improve the overall performance of the device.

Primarily, the combination is expected to come with NVIDIA Tegra chip based devices with Windows Mobile and Windows CE operating systems. Opera Software is going to offer the full desktop Web-browsing experience with JavaScript, accelerated vector and video content. While seamless internet connectivity is critical to any mobile device now-a-days, the combination of Opera 9.5 and NVIDIA Tegra is surely going to bring some changes to the total mobile internet market.

The Tegra family of computer-on-chip solutions that comes with a high-performance ARM CPUs that accelerates media is also with an integrated GeForce® GPUs. When collaborate with Opera’s browser will be providing consumers with rich media and for web, in-page video playback.

NVIDIA Tegra hardware Devices powered by Opera browser powered is expected to be available to consumers in 2009; yet no fixed date has been scheduled.

Good News for the Gamers on the Go. Nokia, the developer of the N-Gage platform for the gamers has jointly announced with Capcom that the classic game Resident Evil Degeneration is scheduled to be released by the end of this year. Capcom is one of the industry leaders in gaming has agreed to provide the game to be optimized for N-Gage in multiple play modes and multiple mission types. The graphic is expected to be 3D quality. It seems that Nokia is to confirm to the consumers about the unique capabilities of the N-Gage platform

Both Nokia and Capcom’s mobile gaming division are really thrilled about the deal to bring such a good game to the N-Gage platform and let the gamers extensive gaming experiences from the limited mobile resources.

However, though N-Gage was limited to a number of handsets earlier, now N-Gage is a mobile games service available in compatible Nokia Nseries and other S60 3rd Edition devices.

HTC has announced thier latest HTC TOUCH HD, the smart computer with a Large, 3.8 inch wide-screen VGA touch display of 480 x 800 resolution which is designed to perform the extensive multimedia display with its Qualcomm® MSM7201a™ 528 MHz processor and 288 MB RAM. For the lovers of multimedia, there is a standard 3.5mm audio jack to reach the music fans and a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera to enhance the photography.

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Not only multimedia is the target of HTC’s TOUCH HD. Taking over the handheld internet market is always HTC’s part of the big dream and the handset the unveiled, comes with a desktop-class broadband browsing in a Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:850/900/1800/1900MHz, WCDMA/HSPA:900/2100MHz and/or HSDPA 7.2 Mbps network capabilities.

Being one of the global leader in mobile computing, HTC attempts to combine a high performance device with a stylish design to make it both a design and innovation. The graphic comes with stunning clarity, the colours are very vibrant. According to HTC, they have tried to implement the best of mobile computing to reach the users who love to watch TV in a widescreen mode or browse the internet at the speed without compromising the performance.

The HTC Touch HD is scheduled to be available in the European market through major carriers in Q4 2008. And their promise to let the world know their innovation would follow shortly.

HTC HD at a glance:
Size: 115 x 62.8 x 12 mm
Weight: 146.4 grams/5.164 oz with battery
Connectivity: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:850/900/1800/1900
MHzWCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
Software/Operating system: HTC TouchFLO 3D with Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Display: 3.8 inch Wide Screen VGA screen (480 x 800 WVGA) 288 MB RAM
Camera: 5.0 megapixel with auto focus – Second Camera: VGA
Internal memory: 512 MB flash; 288 MB RAM
Memory card: microSD™ memory card (SDHC™ capable)
WLAN: 802.11b/g
Bluetooth®: 2.0 with EDR
GPS: GPS/AGPS
Interface: HTC ExtUSB™ (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
Battery: 1350 mAh
Talk time*: WCDMA: Up to 390 minutes / GSM: Up to 310 minutes
Standby time*: WCDMA: Up to 450 hours / GSM: Up to 390 hours
Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM7201a™ 528 MHz

*conditions apply

Lets see how big the dream comes out to be. We still have to wait to see the full.

Nokia has always been promoting DVD-quality videography that started earlier with the NSeries devices like N91 and later releases of some other handsets. It is experimental to produce broadcast video programs with handheld devices and no other company has yet take the significant step like Nokia.

Mike Hodgkinson, a writer and video director from Hollywood has shot ‘up’ the new music video “Surfing at 32ºF” by Eskimohunter, which is a Los Angeles based band formed in 2002. Once again Nokia promotes their smartphones a show of portable and feature-rich multimedia computers.

“Surfing at 32ºF,” the second video directed and shot by Hodgkinson using Nokia Nseries devices. Basically three handsets are used in the video; Nokia N93, Nokia N93i and Nokia N95 all of which are equipped with Carl-Zeiss Optics and many other video capabilities. The director complements that they have shoot videos from 100 meters away or even from under the water. That sounds interesting.

This kind of projects really encourages new directors because they can do with which they already have with them. Thanks Nokia for such initiatives and should do more the kind so that everybody get to know the potentials of their devices.

To view the new “Surfing at 32ºF” music video and the creative “Behind the Scenes – Making of Surfing at 32ºF by Mike Hodgkinson” please visit Hodgkinson’s blog here.

Source: Nokia

Nokia Media Network is one of the largest mobile network around the world that reaches a huge, more than 100 million consumers with high-quality mobile sites. On Nokia’s upward march of soaring high in it’s fame, they have announced to expand the Nokia Media Network with some more publishers from Europe.

Nokia’s media network, which already works with a number of popular publishers like Reuters and Cosmopolitan has merged with Agence France-Presse – France, RTL Mobile – Germany, Cuatro – Spain, Grupo Prisa _ publisher of El País – Spain, Unidad Editorial _ publisher of El Mundo – Spain, CNET – UK, Telegraph Media Group – UK, Trinity Mirror – UK, International Herald Tribune – pan-European to reach more and more consumers of Nokia devices and Services

Nokia’s global mobile advertising service has already proved worthy of it and soon they should suppress the others in the industry with their giant leaps. It is the consumers that will be reached with more information and consumers will be able to gain more from the network.

Palm has recently released a minor software update for its latest Treo 800w that is expected to fix a couple of problems with the device’s use.

According to Palm, some of the users have complained about battery charging which happens with a fully dischared battery which is left not to use for a couple of days. In this case the battery would not charge. Some others have told about using external usb devices. They complained that the device can’t recognize the external USB accessories.

These problems are expected to be solved with the software update. But Palm has recommended the update to all users.