Archive for April, 2008

Nokia New Phone Release

The world’s number one phone maker will unveiled their three new phone models on Monday, targeting a highly competitive market for average price phones.

Nokia said, released of the new phones for shipment, Nokia 3600 Slide, the Nokia 6600 Slide and the Nokia 6600 Fold would start on the third quarter of this year. It would cost around for 175 euros to 275 euros, excluding subsidies and taxes.

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Saudi blogger freed?

Fouad Farhan, a Saudi blogger was detained without a case for more than 4 months after posting his pro reform opinions. He was jailed last December after organizing an online campaign and over 10 men arrested since February 2007 for being suspected on financing militant groups.

Ahmed al-Omran, who published the news on his website (saudijeans dot org) said, “I spoke to him and he’s in good spirits. He said he was treated really well. It was surprising. After blocking his website, I thought his detention would go on longer. It’s good news.”

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Sony to buy Gracenote for $260 million

Sony Corporation, America, will buy Gracenote Inc, a digital media company for $260 million excluding other consideration.

Both companies are expecting the deal to be closed by May. Gracenote, provides a software that allows compact discs to gather related information from the Internet will soon become a fully owned of affiliate of Sony.

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New IBM Computers for Big Data Center

IBM (International Business Machines) Corp is getting ready to unveil a new kind of computer for big data hubs using Web 2.0 companies.

IBM’s iDataPlex line is open for sale next month and is dedicated for companies that uses vertical racks and with dozens of servers who are based on Intel microprocessors. The new product is targeting less than 1,000 customers worldwide.

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Twitter hiccups through a semi-outage

Posted by Jonathan Skillings

The Twitter community may not be paying much heed to your posts this weekend, but it’s not your fault.

The company behind the messaging service and Web 2.0 darling acknowledged late Saturday that some back-end changes had been failing to show tweets from a number of people. A post on the Twitter site from a person identified as “goldtoe, Official Rep,” had this to say:

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