Nokia unveils new smartphone range

Nokia has unveiled a new range of mobile phones which major on the ability to capture and transmit pictures and video on the move. In addition, the new Nokia N93 (pictured, right), Nokia N73 (pictured, left) and Nokia N72 are the first Nokia N series devices to support direct connections to Yahoo!'s popular Flickr picture sharing service. According to Nokia, the new feature will allow the phone owners to transfer full size photos to Flickr directly from the image gallery application on the N series device. ...more

Motorola's Zander predicts Apple phone

The CEO of Motorola has claimed that it is only a matter of time before Apple makes its own smart phone. 'We know they are going to build a smart phone,' Ed Zander said at the Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference. Zander's surprising claim came after he had been widely quoted after apparently slamming Apple's iPod nano. ...more

HP saves $3bn a year early

Hewlett Packard is on target to make cost-cutting savings of $3bn, a year ahead of schedule. At a Securities Analyst meeting, yesterday, CEO Carly Fiorina said that the company had already achieved savings of $2.4bn, due to cost-cutting measures emloyed in the merger with Compaq. ...more

Maximum hard disk speed found

Scientists have discovered the maximum speed that data can be written to a conventional hard disk. Drives store data as a sequence of magnetic polarities on their surface. The BBC reports that researcher at Stanford University in the US found that they could generate pulses too quick to register a change to the coating. ...more

JavaScript flaw returns to threaten Internet Explorer

Microsoft is warning customers that it knows of malicious software being used to exploit a security hole in Internet Explorer, which is as yet unpatched. Stephen Toulouse from Microsoft's Security Response Center posted on the company blog that 'I wanted to go ahead and let you know some breaking information. We've been made aware that there has been some malicious software exploiting the recently publicly disclosed Internet Explorer vulnerability . ...more