The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet combines internet, GPS navigation, and recorded music in a practical large screen device. The inclusion of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard enables easy and fast text entry. The large 4.13 inch by 2.47 inch WVGA touch screen displays high quality images on its 800 by 480 pixel, 65,000 color screen. The transflexive screen with its ambient light sensor provides clear pictures in bright daylight and dim conditions. The N810’s 2.83 inch height, 5.04 inch width, 0.55 inch thickness and 7.97 ounce weight is small for a …

Openmoko is a project which encompasses two related sub-projects, with the combined aim of creating a family of completely open source mobile phones. The project was founded by FIC.
The first sub-project is Openmoko Linux, an open source Linux based operating system designed for mobile phones, built using free software.
The second sub-project is the development of Openmoko phones — the hardware devices on which Openmoko Linux runs. The first device released was the Neo 1973, which will soon be joined by the Neo Freerunner some time in 2008. Unlike most other …

The new G700 and G900 phones are designed to give back time. They place personal organiser features and easy finger-touch control within familiar form factors.
Barcelona, Spain – 10th February 2008 – Sony Ericsson today launched a new generation of phone: Touchscreen organisers with a broad appeal. The G700 and G900 phones are essential tools designed to organise the lives of all those with busy schedules to juggle, both at home and at work.

The G700 is here to help you live your life to the full. This personal organiser in-your-pocket …

Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA’s Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving.
“Not all water is fit to drink,” said Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover science team who is a biologist at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, began their fifth year on Mars last month, far surpassing their prime missions of three months. Today, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of …

Kuala Lumpur, February 13, 2008 — Microsoft Corp’s Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) recently announced the official availability of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac at the Macworld Conference & Expo 2008.
Office 2008 for Mac is significantly enhanced to provide a simplified user experience that helps beginners and longtime experts alike deliver professional documents that are compatible for co-workers and friends on Macs and PCs. The suite provides the Office tools Mac users rely on, with a Mac-like approach and style. In addition to Office 2008, the Mac BU Web site, …

BARCELONA, Spain, GSMA Mobile World Congress, February 11, 2008 — QNX Software Systems today announced it will demonstrate the QNX® Aviage® family of middleware products running on Freescale’s multimedia processors at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The demonstration will showcase networked multimedia frameworks and multimedia engines in a Flash-based human machine interface (HMI), highlighting the power of combining Freescale multimedia processors with the performance and reliability of the QNX Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) and the QNX Aviage middleware family. The QNX Aviage family includes the QNX Aviage HMI …

The Nokia N95 is an absolutely jaw-dropping incredible device. It would be doing it a huge disservice to simply call it a mobile phone. What can you call a jewel of electronic wizardry which incorporates a 5 megapixel camera, satellite navigation, media player, a full suite of PDA features and, oh yes, even makes phone calls? That’s going to be a tough decision, but I believe that there is a groundswell of opinion behind the term: “Mine!”
The Nokia N95’s two way sliding format lets you go slip slidin’ away to …