Nokia goes Safari for smartphone browser

Along with its new 'N' series handsets, Nokia has also unveiled a Web browser for its smartphone software, the S60 platform. The new browser is intended to provide smartphone users with a better Web experience when browsing full Web pages on the Internet. For example, it offers a 'Mini Map', which provides a semi-transparent zoomed-out view of a web page that enables users to quickly orient themselves on a small screen The new Web browser for the S60 platform is built around the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple's Safari Web Kit, an open source full Web rendering engine for mobile devices. ...more

Firefox 0.9 released

The Mozilla Organisation has released the latest version of its standalone Web browser. Firefox now includes: easier migration, importing data like favourites, history, settings, cookies and passwords from Internet Explorer and settings from Mozilla 1.x, Netscape and Opera; automatic updating; a new online help system; and new tools for managing both extensions and themes. ...more

Intel narrows revenue forecast

Intel has revised its revenue expectations for the first quarter to somewhere between $8.0 and $8.2bn. ...more

IBM makes play with chip stacks

IBM claims it will be able to make microchips faster and more energy efficient by stacking components on top of each other, a breakthrough that shortens the distance an electrical signal needs to travel. The technique works by drilling tiny holes through a wafer of silicon and filling them with metal. Components such as memory can then be stacked on top of the main part of the chip, eliminating the need for wires stretching out to the sides. ...more

U2 album may get early iTunes release

The appearance of U2's next album on file sharing networks, two weeks before its official release date, are fuelling rumours that they band may fulfill its promise to release the album early through the iTunes Music Store. Pirated copies of How to Dismantle and Atom Bomb were expected to surface after a rough mix of the record 'disappeared' from a studio in France. At the time lead singer Bono told the Daily Telegraph that if the album appeared on the Internet, 'It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention fucking up our holidays. ...more