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Why has Nokia sold its mobile TV unit to Wipro Technologies? (Analysis)

The multinational communications corporation based in Espoo, Finland – Nokia Corporation has sold its enterprise mobile TV unit to the Bangalore, Karnataka based Wipro Technologies to focus on consumer software solutions.

Offering reason for why enterprise mobile TV unit has been sold to Wipro, Nokia said, "We wanted to focus on the consumer side of things rather than on the business-to-business side.”

It is little surprising that Nokia has sold its mobile TV unit to Wipro at the time when Mobile TV and on-demand video are growing in popularity among mobile phone users. They are increasingly becoming popular because they provide a slew of entertaining features.

Lenovo gearing up for ThinkPad netbook for business customers

Lenovo gearing up for ThinkPad netbook for business customersScoring slew of acclaims and applauses for its IdeaPad netbooks, Lenovo is now gearing up for ThinkPad-branded netbook. The Australian magazine APC has reported that Lenovo is planning to develop ThinkPad netbook for business customers.

Action-filled Terminator Salvation games for Twitter and iPhone

Terminator Salvation games for Twitter and iPhoneThe users of social networking and micro-blogging service, Twitter can now be the part of the Resistance Army to joint the human resistance against the machines through first-ever game created for the social networking platform, Terminator Salvation Twitter game from Sony Pictures Releasing International.

Scientist Tweets using only his mind!

Washington, Apr 25 : Taking a revolutionary step towards modern communication technologies, a doctoral student posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter - only by thinking about it.

Adam Wilson's message-"using EEG to send tweet"- just 23 characters long, demonstrated a natural, manageable way in which "locked-in" patients can couple brain-computer interface technologies with modern communication tools.

Wilson, from University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student, is among a growing group of researchers worldwide who aim to perfect a communication system for users whose bodies do not work, but whose brains function normally.

Google releases O3D to fetch accelerated 3D graphics to browsers

The software developers from Google Labs have brought out new software called O3D to fetch accelerated 3D graphics to browsers. The software developers have defined “O3D” as "a new, shader-based, low-level graphics API for creating interactive 3D applications in a web browser”.

According to the developers, the idea of browser plug-in software O3D is "to build an API that runs on multiple operating systems and browsers, performs well in JavaScript, and offers the capabilities developers need to create a diverse set of rich applications." The browser plug-in software, O3D is compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome that works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Nepal Telecom to start mobile phone service in Mount Everest region

Nepal Telecom to start mobile phone service in Mount Everest region Kathmandu - Nepal's largest mobile phone service provider Nepal Telecom Saturday announced plans to start services in the Mount Everest region enabling climbers to make phone calls from the top of the world's highest peak. The plans to install mobile phone service in the Everest region are to connect the last few isolated areas in Nepal with the rest of the country and the world.

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