Nokia, the Finnish firm is a household name in mobile phones in India. Its touch screen phone is the latest but late entry into the phase of such phones. But the company has a history of coming late to the market with innovations yet ends up successful. The main competitors now are Apple’s iPhone and Android. 

Carolina Milanesi, an analyst said to Reuters” The Phone is extremely important ........We have been waiting for the market leader to respond to Apple’s iPhone for a year and a half now. There is a lot of pressure on Nokia”.

Monday saw the unveiling of the first 16 GB microSD and memory stick micro mobile memory cards of by Nasdaq listed SanDisk Corporation; world’s largest supplier of flash memory products. 

The ones who want to purchase these cards will have to shell out Rs 4999 and can avail it from retail chains like Hot Spot and Croma Stores’ 

Recently, the pictures of new MobileSafari for the iPhone OS 2.2 leaked creating a buzz in the mobile industry. The pictures somewhat revealed there have been changes brought by Apple, like removing the magnifying glass and refresh buttons from the top. 

Los Angeles  - Chip manufacturer AMD aims to challenge rival Intel by launching its Shanghai processor by the end of the year.

The company has learned its lesson and there won't be any of the start-up problems of the kind that afflicted the company's latest Barcelona processor, AMD manager Pat Patla told the CNET media company.

AMD, the world's second biggest chipmaker after Intel, lately suffered billion dollar losses and replaced its top management.

Oslo - Microsoft said Tuesday its main development centre for search engine technology was to be based in Norway.

Chief executive Steve Ballmer made the announcement after a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

In the short-term, Microsoft was to hire 50 developers and researchers, Stoltenberg said.

Microsoft currently has some 300 employees in Norway, mainly employed by FastSearch & Transfer that the US-based giant acquired earlier this year.

London, September 30 : Scientists have shown that it’s possible to make oil rigs or other ocean structures invisible to tsunami waves, with the help of an ‘invisibility cloak’.

Invisibility cloaks that are able to steer light around two dimensional objects have become reality in the last few years.

According to a report in New Scientist, the first real-world application of the theories that made them possible could be in hiding vulnerable coastlines and offshore platforms from destructive tsunamis.