Philips has made announcement about the launching of Xenium X710 dual SIM phone in the Russian market.

The Xenium X710 dual SIM phone has dimensions of 113.6 x 49.1 x 16.9 mm. Also the weight of this phone is just 114 grams.

With 2.4 inch TFT display screen, the newly launched phone can produce 262 thousand colors.

This new phone from Philips has got an internal memory of 20 MB. Its memory can also be expanded up to 8 giga bytes (GB) through microSD card.

Moreover, the phone is compatible with tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks.

A unique and never seen before phone has been launched by Phenom communications, which you can wear on your wrist like a watch and that is why it is called a watch phone. The Phnom watch phone is basically an unlocked GSM phone and has MP4 player and an MP3 player, a video and digital camera and a compact cool watch.

Prison sentences have been issued by the Chinese government for what was believed to be the largest and most profitable software piracy operation in the world.

Prison terms to each of the eleven men were issued by the Courts in Shenzhen, China, who were thought to be masterminding the counterfeit ring. It has been learnt that the operation was based out of southern China with distribution to five continents and 36 countries.

Enough hearts to keep the ubiquitous online encyclopedia running for another fiscal year – and then some, have been melted by a personal plea for cash by Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales.

It was recently announced by the Wikimedia foundation that it has risen over $6.2m since launching a fund-raising campaign in early November. With more than 125,000 donors contributing worldwide, the website exceeded its goal of approximately $6m to fund operations through June 30, 2009.

It is disheartening to know that since the software giant Microsoft is considering a plan for substantial redundancies to combat the economic downturn, the company’s 3,000 employees in the UK face an uncertain 2009.

It has been learnt that at least 10 per cent and possibly as much as 17 per cent of its global workforce could be cut in what would be the first mass lay-offs in the company's 32-year history. Worldwide, nearly 15,000 jobs could be under threat.

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