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 Nokia Corp unveiled its touch screen mobile phone on Thursday. The new smart phone challenges Apple Inc's iPhone. Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic model will be released in the fourth quarter. |
 Mozilla Corporation has released an update for Firefox that patches a password glitch. Last week's Web browser upgrade disabled the password features on Web sites. Google Chrome took market share from Internet Explorer and Firefox during the month of September. |
 Advanced Micro Devices Inc on Tuesday said its first 45-nanometer processors are in production. AMD plans to ship them to store shelves before the end of the year. The new AMD processor is code named Shanghai. |
 Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced two new graphics cards on Tuesday. AMD introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 video cards. |
 Apple Inc is selling unlocked 3G iPhones in China for a price. The 8 GB smart phone model retails for $698 and the 16 GB mobile cell phone device sells for $798 in Hong Kong. Consumers say that the company is breaking its own policy for unlocked mobile phones. |
 Apple Inc has released its latest iPhone firmware to developers for testing. The new firmware also includes the latest build for the iPhone SDK. Steve Jobs noted that the release was two weeks late. |
 Mozilla Corp has issued a patch for the Firefox Web browser. The patch addresses 11 vulnerabilities in version 3. More than half of them are labeled critical. Firefox addressed a click-hijacking vulnerability that was first reported in Internet Explorer. |
 Google Inc launched a new program that will pay as much as $10 million for fresh ideas to help the world. Project 10^100 is part of the company's 10th anniversary campaign. The Internet search giant said the public and a panel of judges will choose up to give winning ideas. |
 MySpace Music and four major labels will launch a new digital music download service on Thursday. The social network Web site will compete against Apple Inc iTunes. The new music service is offering free and unlimited audio streaming and DRM-free MP3 downloads. |
 Microsoft will release Windows 7 to attendees at next month's Professional Developers Conference. The operating system will be delivered onto a 160 GB external USB hard drive. There is still no official word when Beta 1 of Windows 7 will be shipped. |
 Intel Corp and Oracle Corp announced that they're teaming up to offer cloud computing for corporate businesses. The collaboration effort will help to improve efficiency and network security for pushing programs into virtual clouds. A new XEON processor will also be available to provide a 17 percent performance increase. |
 Skyfire Labs Inc said a beta version of its mobile Web browser is now available to the public. Skyfire is made for Windows Mobile devices which competes with rival Internet Explorer. The browser features a Super Bar tab which is similar to the Mozilla Firefox desktop browser. |
 Music groups agree to a new streaming music royalty agreement with publishers. The groups include the Recording Industry Association of America, the Digital Media Association, the National Music Publishers' Association, the Nashville Songwriters Association International and the Songwriters Guild of America. |
 T-Mobile USA Inc unveiled its first mobile cell phone to run on Android. Google Inc released the mobile operating system to run on smart phones. The G1 is made by HTC Corp which has a touch screen and slide-out keyboard. |
 IBM Corp on Tuesday announced a new policy that may lead to ending its participation in the International Organization for Standardization. The business company is frustrated by what it considers poor decision making in the ISO. |
 Yahoo Inc and Google Inc are in a proposed deal that protesters say violates antitrust issues. The exclusive deal between the two search engine giants will offer shared AdSense revenues among the two companies. The WFA says that the alliance make it difficult for other companies to compete. |
 Adobe Systems Inc releases Creative Suite 4. CS4 expands to print, Web, mobile, film and video production. The release includes significant new versions of Photoshop and InDesign. |
 SanDisk Corp has partnered with record companies to launch a new music format called slotMusic. The new format will be used to distribute MP3 music onto flash memory cards. The new microSD cards can also be used for mobile cell phones. |
 Yahoo Inc not only lost to Google on search engine market share, but also lost on advertising. Financial experts still do not understand why the company didn't sell to Microsoft. Company stock dropped 5 percent on Friday. |
 Google Inc will debut Android through mobile carrier T-Mobile in New York on Tuesday. Phone maker HTC compares the new smartphone to Apple Inc's iPhone. Features include a touch screen, slide-out keyword, trackball, built-in GPS and Google's new Chrome Web browser. |
 Comcast Corp will use network software to manage its Web traffic during congestion periods. The new software will identify which customers are using the greatest amounts of bandwidth. The system will then decrease their bandwidth to provide more for other customers until network congestion eases. |
 Apple Inc has issued a recall on iPhone 3G power adapters. Smartphone users who received the tiny USB adapter should stop using it. The company will exchange it for a new redesigned model. |
 Yahoo is beta testing a new home page for its users. The upcoming layout contains a new user interface which contains more features and better connectivity. |
 Sarah Palin's e-mail account was hacked this week. The hacker gained access to Palin's Yahoo account by confirming personal information. The Republican vice presidential candidate also uses Yahoo e-mail accounts to conduct state business. |
 AMD has launched a new computer campaign to rival Intel. Advanced Micro Devices says it is re-branding itself as Fusion to offer better user experience. |
 Google Picasa turns computer file names into Web friendly face recognition. Picasa Web Albums is Google's online photo-sharing service. The service is capable at learning in an effort to provide accuracy. |
 Tesla will build its new electric car plant in San Jose, California. The zero emission factory will add 1,000 jobs. The factory will produce a five passenger car powered by a lithium-ion battery pack. |
 Google Android will debut on its first cell phone next week. T-Mobile will showcase its new smartphone based on the open platform. The platform is widely expected to broaden. |
 The new stylish HTC Touch HD offers users stunning clarity. The mobile cell phone is perfect for multimedia fans. The smartphone includes a 5 megapixel auto focus camera. |
 Intel unveiled seven new processors for the Xeon 7400 series. The new chips have up to 16 MB shared L3 cache. The giant chip maker said the 7400 series will increase performance by 50 percent. |
