Nokia’s most advanced multimedia device N96, which has already made its debut in India and UK, has now been introduced in the US market.

The Nokia N96, which sports a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED Flash, offers a memory size of 16GB, which can be increased to 24GB with an optional microSD card, permitting users to store hours of media and entertainment on the go.

Apple’s retail operation increased two-fold during the existing year (2008).

According to Apple’s recent 10-k annual filing released Wednesday, the company presently has 32,000 people on a full-time basis. The figure was up from 21,600 as compared to the corresponding period of last year.

The report also said that around 16,000 of those people work in company’s retail group, which currently has 247 stores.

Apple, in last year's annual report, announced that it had around 8,000 people working in the retail unit, which comprised 197 stores.

Recently, it was announced by AT&T that they would introduce data caps for its internet customers. 

The company plans to begin capping users of its slowest at 768 kilobits per second DSL service at 20Gb per month. As the speed of the plan increases up to 150 gigabytes per month at the 10 megabits-per-second level, the limit would increase too. 

In an FCC filing, the company said, "AT&T plans to initiate a broadband Internet access usage trial in Reno, Nevada beginning in November."

An array of about 40 solutions were released today by IBM, taking off from the global concern of skyrocketing data volumes, the perennial lack of physical storage spaces and being sensitive about carbon footprints. These solutions will aim at tackling this data overflow using technologies, which are 'disruptive' in nature. 

IBM brought into the light the IBM XIV system, which is a highly scalable disk storage system optimized to handle content from Web 2.0 applications to traditional applications such as financial services. 

San Francisco - Google has officially called off its proposed advertising alliance with Yahoo following antitrust opposition from the US Justice Department, the companies said Wednesday.

The move was seen as a setback to both companies, but especially to the ailing Yahoo, which had hoped to book as much as 450 million dollars per year in added operating income by running Google's more lucrative ads next to its own search results.

Vilnius - Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus described Russia's plans to deploy missiles in its Kaliningrad enclave as "beyond comprehension" Wednesday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said earlier in the day that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in its Baltic Sea enclave, which borders Lithuania, in answer to US plans to site a missile defence system in Eastern Europe.