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Nokia N96 Mobile Reviews

Nokia N96 General Specification

Status: Coming soon. Exp. release 2008, Q3
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 (30 votes cast)
Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced: 2008, February

Nokia N96 Size

Dimension: 103 x 55 x 18 mm, 92 cc
Weight: 125 g

Nokia N96 Display

Type: TFT, 16M colors
Size: 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches

Nokia N96 Ringtones

Type: Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3
Customization: Download
Vibration: Yes

Nokia N96 Memory

Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocal
Call records: Detailed, max 30 days
Card slot: microSD (TransFlash)
- 16 GB internal memory
- 128MB RAM, 256MB system memory

Nokia N96 Data Specification

GPRS: Class 32, 107 / 64.2 kbps
Edge: Class 32, 296 kbps; DTM Class 11, 177 kbps
3G: HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLan: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port: Yes

Nokia N96 Mobile Features

Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS reader
OS: Symbian OS, S60 rel. 3.2
Games: Downloadable
Colors: Black
Other Features
- 3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 2100
- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS function
- DVB-H TV broadcast receiver
- Dual slide design
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
- 3.5 mm audio output jack
- TV out
- Stereo FM Radio with RDS
- Organizer
- Office document viewer
- T9
- Push to talk
- Voice dial/memo
- Built-in handsfree

Nokia N96 Battery

Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 950 mAh (BL-5F)
Standby: Up to 220 hr

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Nokia E75 gets Leaked in Pictures looks Great

Nokia E75 might be the latest QWERTY Touchscreen phone from Nokia

The pictures were leaked today by DailyMobile

The phone has the metal / steel back cover like the E71 with a 2.4 inch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, QWERTY Keyboard, Dual keypads, HDSPA, and WiFi

If you are currently using a Nokia E71 and E51 separately then these pictures might seem interesting to you

It seems like a E51 with a QWERTY keypad ..

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New hybrid nanostructures detect nanoscale magnetism

A key challenge of nanotechnology research is investigating how different materials behave at lengths of merely one-billionth of a meter. When shrunk to such tiny sizes, many everyday materials exhibit interesting and potentially beneficial new properties.

Pictured is a rendering depicting cobalt nanoclusters embedded in multi-walled carbon nanotubes. - Image credit: Saikat Talapatra/Caterina Soldano

Magnetic behavior is one such phenomenon that can change significantly depending on the size of the material. However, the sheer challenge of observing the magnetic properties of nanoscale material has impeded further study of the topic.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new method for detecting the magnetic behaviors of nanomaterials. They created a new process for growing a single multi-walled carbon nanotube that is embedded with cobalt nanostructures. The cobalt clusters measure from 1 nanometer to 10 nanometers.

After a series of experiments, the research team has concluded that the electrical conductance of carbon nanotubes is sensitive enough to detect and be affected by trace amounts of magnetic activity, such as those present in the embedded cobalt nanostructures. It is believed to be the first instance of demonstrating the detection of magnetic fields of such small magnets using an individual carbon nanotube.

Results of the study were reported in the paper "Detection of Nanoscale Magnetic Activity Using a Single Carbon Nanotube" recently published by Nano Letters.

"Since the cobalt clusters in our system are embedded inside the nanotube rather than on the surface, they do not cause electron scattering and thus do not seem to impact the attractive conductive properties of the host carbon nanotube," said Swastik Kar, research assistant professor in Rensselaer's Department of Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy, who led the project. "From a fundamental point of view, these hybrid nanostructures belong to a new class of magnetic materials."

"These novel hybrid nanostructures open up new avenues of research in fundamental and applied physics, and pave the way for increased functionality in carbon nanotube electronics utilizing the magnetic degree of freedom that could give rise to important spintronics applications," said Saroj Nayak, an associate professor in Rensselaer's Department of Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, who also contributed to the project.

Potential applications for such a material include new generations of nanoscale conductance sensors, along with new advances in digital storage devices, spintronics, and selective drug delivery components.

Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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'Stress tests' probe nanoscale strains in materials

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated their ability to measure relatively low levels of stress or strain in regions of a semiconductor device as small as 10 nanometers across. Their recent results* not only will impact the design of future generations of integrated circuits but also lay to rest a long-standing disagreement in results between two different methods for measuring stress in semiconductors.

Confocal Raman microscopy image of stress in a silicon crystal caused by indentation with a 20-micrometer-long wedge. The image does not show the silicon but rather the magnitude of stress in the crystal, with compressive stress around the wedge going up from the base line. Vampiric red 'fangs' reveal tensile stress associated with cracking at the ends of the indentation. - Stranick, NIST

Mechanical stress and strain in semiconductors and other devices is caused by atoms in the crystal lattice being compressed or stretched out of their preferred positions, a complex-and not always harmful-phenomenon. Stress in the underlying structure of light-emitting diodes and lasers can shift output colors and lower the device's lifetime. Stress in microelectromechanical systems can lead to fracture and buckling that also truncates their lifespan. On the other hand, stress is deliberately built into state-of-the-art microcircuits because properly applied it can increase the speed of transistors without making any other changes to the design. "Stress engineering has allowed the semiconductor industry to increase the performance of devices well beyond what was expected with the current materials set," said NIST research physicist Robert Cook, "thus avoiding the significant engineering problems and expense associated with changing materials."

Both the good and the bad stresses need to be measured, however, if they're to be controlled by device designers. As the component size of microcircuits has become smaller and smaller, this has become more difficult-particularly since two different and widely used methods of stress measurement have been returning disparate results. One, electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD), deduces underlying stress by observing the patterns of electrons scattered back from the crystal planes. The other, confocal Raman microscopy (CRM), measures minute shifts in the frequency of photons that interact with the atomic bonds in the crystal-shifts that change depending on the amount of stress on the bond. The NIST team used customized, highly sensitive versions of both instruments in a series of comparison measurements to resolve the discrepancies.

The key issue, they found, was depth of penetration of the two techniques. Electron beams sample only the top 20 or 30 nanometers of the material, Cook explained, while the laser-generated photons used in CRM might penetrate as deep as a micrometer or more. The NIST researchers found that by varying the wavelength of the Raman photons and positioning the focus of the microscope they could select the depth of the features measured by the Raman technique-and when the CRM was tuned for the topmost layers of the crystal, the results were in close agreement with EBSD measurements.

The NIST instruments also demonstrate the potential for using the two techniques in combination to make reliable, nanoscale measurements of stress in silicon, which enables device developers to optimize materials and processes. EBSD, although confined to near-surface stress, can make measurements with resolutions as small as 10 nanometers. CRM resolution is about 10 times coarser, but it can return depth profiles of stress.

Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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'The photon force is with us': Harnessing light to drive nanomachines

Science fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun's light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill even the oversized sails that have been tried. Now a team led by researchers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science has shown that the force of light indeed can be harnessed to drive machines - when the process is scaled to nano-proportions.

Photonic circuit in which optical force is harnessed to drive nanomechanics (inset) - Tang/Yale

Their work opens the door to a new class of semiconductor devices that are operated by the force of light. They envision a future where this process powers quantum information processing and sensing devices, as well as telecommunications that run at ultra-high speed and consume little power.

The research, appearing in the November 27 issue of Nature, demonstrates a marriage of two emerging fields of research - nanophotonics and nanomechanics. - which makes possible the extreme miniaturization of optics and mechanics on a silicon chip.

The energy of light has been harnessed and used in many ways. The "force" of light is different - it is a push or a pull action that causes something to move.

"While the force of light is far too weak for us to feel in everyday life, we have found that it can be harnessed and used at the nanoscale," said team leader Hong Tang, assistant professor at Yale. "Our work demonstrates the advantage of using nano-objects as "targets" for the force of light - using devices that are a billion-billion times smaller than a space sail, and that match the size of today's typical transistors."

Until now light has only been used to maneuver single tiny objects with a focused laser beam - a technique called "optical tweezers." Postdoctoral scientist and lead author, Mo Li noted, "Instead of moving particles with light, now we integrate everything on a chip and move a semiconductor device."

"When researchers talk about optical forces, they are generally referring to the radiation pressure light applies in the direction of the flow of light," said Tang. "The new force we have investigated actually kicks out to the side of that light flow."

While this new optical force was predicted by several theories, the proof required state-of-the-art nanophotonics to confine light with ultra-high intensity within nanoscale photonic wires. The researchers showed that when the concentrated light was guided through a nanoscale mechanical device, significant light force could be generated - enough, in fact, to operate nanoscale machinery on a silicon chip.

The light force was routed in much the same way electronic wires are laid out on today's large scale integrated circuits. Because light intensity is much higher when it is guided at the nanoscale, they were able to exploit the force. "We calculate that the illumination we harness is a million times stronger than direct sunlight," adds Wolfram Pernice, a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow with Tang.

"We create hundreds of devices on a single chip, and all of them work," says Tang, who attributes this success to a great optical I/O device design provided by their collaborators at the University of Washington.

It took more than 60 years to progress from the first transistors to the speed and power of today's computers. Creating devices that run solely on light rather than electronics will now begin a similar process of development, according to the authors.

"While this development has brought us a new device concept and a giant step forward in speed, the next developments will be in improving the mechanical aspects of the system. But," says Tang, "the photon force is with us."

Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by the Yale University

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Nanocoatings boost industrial energy efficiency

Friction is the bane of any machine. When moving parts are subject to friction, it takes more energy to move them, the machine doesn't operate as efficiently, and the parts have a tendency to wear out over time.

A photograph of an AlMgB14 coating on a steel substrate. The substrate is the mottled structure on the left-hand side of the photo and the coating is the thin, darker strip running along the edge of the steel. (The blemishes on the steel are carbide inclusions) The coating has a thickness of approximately 2 to 3 microns (about one ten thousandths of an inch). - Credit: US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory

But if you could manufacture parts that had tough, "slippery" surfaces, there'd be less friction, requiring less input energy and the parts would last longer. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames Laboratory are collaborating with other research labs, universities, and industrial partners to develop just such a coating.

"If you consider a pump, like a water pump or a hydraulic pump, it has a turbine that moves the fluid," said Bruce Cook, an Ames Laboratory scientist and co-principal investigator on the four-year, $3 million project. "When the rotor spins, there's friction generated at the contacting surface between the vanes and the housing, or stator. This friction translates into additional torque needed to operate the pump, particularly at start-up. In addition, the friction results in a degradation of the surfaces, which reduces efficiency and the life of the pump. It takes extra energy to get the pump started, and you can't run it at its optimum (higher speed) efficiency because it would wear out more quickly."

Applying a coating to the blades that would reduce friction and increase wear resistance could have a significant effect in boosting the efficiency of pumps, which are used in all kinds of industrial and commercial applications. According to Cook, government calculations show that a modest increase in pump efficiency resulting from use of these nanocoatings could reduce U.S. industrial energy usage by 31 trillion BTUs annually by 2030, or a savings of $179 million a year.

The coating Cook is investigating is a boron-aluminum-magnesium ceramic alloy he discovered with fellow Ames Laboratory researcher and Iowa State University professor of Materials Science and Engineering Alan Russell about eight years ago. Nicknamed BAM, the material exhibited exceptional hardness, and the research has expanded to include titanium-diboride alloys as well.

In many applications it is far more cost effective to apply the wear-resistant materials as a coating than to manufacture an entire part out of the ceramic. Fortunately, the BAM material is amenable to application as a hard, wear-resistant coating. Working with ISU materials scientist Alan Constant, the team is using a technique called pulsed laser deposition to deposit a thin layer of the alloy on hydraulic pump vanes and tungsten carbide cutting tools. Cook is working with Eaton Corporation, a leading manufacturer of fluid power equipment, using another, more commercial-scale technique known as magnetron sputtering to lay down a wear-resistant coating.

Pumps aren't the only applications for the boride nanocoatings. The group is also working with Greenleaf Corporation, a leading industrial cutting tool maker, to put a longer lasting coating on cutting tools. If a tool cuts with reduced friction, less applied force is needed, which directly translates to a reduction in the energy required for the machining operation.

To test the coatings, the project team includes Peter J. Blau and Jun Qu at one of the nation's leading friction and wear research facilities at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, or ORNL, in Tennessee. Initial tests show a decrease in friction relative to an uncoated surface of at least an order of magnitude with the AlMgB14-based coating. In preliminary tests, the coating also appears to outperform other coatings such as diamond-like carbon and TiB2.

In a separate, but somewhat related project, Cook is working with researchers from ORNL, Missouri University of Science and Technology, the University of Alberta, and private companies to develop coatings in high-pressure water jet cutting tools and severe service valves where parts are subject to abrasives and other extreme conditions.

"This is a great example of developing advanced materials with a direct correlation to saving energy," Cook said. "Though the original discovery wasn't by design, we've done a great deal of basic research in trying to figure out the molecular structure of these materials, what gives them these properties and how we can use this information to develop other, similar materials."

Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by the DOE/Ames Laboratory

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Sony Unveils New X Series Touchscreen Music Player

Sony has unveiled a new addition to their Walkman series of Audio and Video players. The new X Series Walkman player comes with a lot of nice features like Touchscreen, WiFi and Noise Cancellation. With these features it might well become a worthy competitor against iPod Touch.

The new music player has a 3 inch 432 X 240 pixel OLED display. It claims to provide a better color and contrast than iPod Touch. The player supports MP3, WMA, AAC, WMV, MPEG-4, and AVC for video. The music player has comes with Digital Noise Cancellation which allows the headphone to block out any ambient noise. It has a Digital Sound Enhancement Engine which provides a better sound quality. WiFi is also present so you can also use it to access the web, download youtube videos and podcasts with the inbuilt Web Browser.

It sure looks like an impressive gadget. The pricing and availability is not yet announced.

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Obama inauguration to stream online in Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft's Silverlight will be used for online streaming of Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony on the inaugural committee's official site, the company announced this morning. It's a high-profile win for Microsoft. Given the intense interest in the inauguration, it's likely to result in greater adoption of the company's interactive technology.

Of course, the real coup would have been getting Obama's Zune incorporated into the ceremony somehow.

Microsoft executives including Steve Ballmer made personal contributions to the inaugural committee, as we've noted in the past. Silverlight will also be used to stream the online video of a Baltimore event on Saturday, leading up to the inauguration.

As noted in the Microsoft news release, it's not the first time Silverlight has shown up on the political scene. The technology, which competes with Adobe Flash, also was used to stream events from the Democratic National Convention in August.

But it hasn't been all about victories lately for the Microsoft technology. Major League Baseball announced in November that it will be dumping Silverlight in favor of Flash for online streaming of the upcoming baseball season.

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Microsoft faces long slog against Google -- despite latest deals

Recent deals struck by Microsoft Corp. seem to strengthen the company’s position against Google in the internet search market, but the full effect may not be evident for months or even years.

Microsoft's challenge was highlighted again today by the latest U.S. search data from comScore Networks, which showed the company's overall share of the market remaining stagnant at around 8 percent.

Under the agreements, consumer PCs from Dell and Hewlett-Packard will soon start shipping with Microsoft’s Live Search engine as the default setting. People who make queries from built-in browser toolbars and search fields on those computers will go through Microsoft’s search site — unless they change the default or navigate to another engine.

Microsoft announced its Live Search deal with Dell at the Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 7, following up on a similar agreement with HP last year. The two companies are the largest PC makers, by far. Combined, HP and Dell represent more than half of U.S. personal computer shipments and a third of worldwide shipments, according to data from the IDC research firm.

Those are big numbers when compared with Microsoft’s relatively small slice of the search market. The numbers released by comScore today show the company holding steady at 8.3 percent of the market, compared with 63.5 percent for Google and 23.5 percent for Yahoo.

Microsoft last week also announced a new search deal with Verizon on cell phones. Previously it made search agreements with Sun Microsystems and Facebook.

Microsoft’s HP and Dell deals are “a pretty good coup,” said analyst Roger Kay, president of the Endpoint Technologies Associates consulting firm in Wayland, Mass. “If you look at it, they captured the top U.S. vendors, by a lot.”

However, it will take time for the effects to filter into the market.

That’s because the number of PCs sold each quarter pales in comparison to the number already in use. About 80 million PCs were shipped worldwide in the third quarter, according to IDC, but analysts estimate 1 billion PCs are in use globally.

The terms of Microsoft’s HP and Dell deals also leave out a large chunk of the market, corporate PC users, focusing instead on new computers for consumers.

The HP deal, which took effect this month, makes Live Search the default on all HP consumer PCs shipped in the United States and Canada. Microsoft’s Dell agreement calls for the PC maker to install Live Search on “a majority” of its new consumer and small-business personal computers starting next month.

All told, the Dell and HP deals could help Microsoft boost market share slightly in the United States after a year, perhaps by 2 or 3 percentage points, analyst Kay estimated.

The key issue is whether people will be content to use Live Search after it’s pre-installed. Such deals with PC makers are based on the theory that many PC users won’t change the default settings, or don’t know how. But it’s also easy for users to just type Google’s address into the browser if they don’t like what they get.

Many people will try the pre-installed Live Search at least once, especially if they’re accustomed to searching from the field built into the browser, said Matt Rosoff, industry analyst at the Kirkland-based Directions on Microsoft research firm. However, even under that default scenario, Microsoft will have limited time to persuade those people to make the switch permanently.

“The results have to be as good as Google,” Rosoff said.

Microsoft says the relevance of its search results now matches Google, citing studies to back its assertion. But in the end, it’s a subjective issue, and Google’s rising share of the market means that people are still using its engine far more than others.

In the end, the quickest way for Microsoft to boost its market share would be to partner with or acquire Yahoo’s search business. Microsoft is no longer seeking to acquire Yahoo, but the Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s selection of former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its new chief executive this week could set the stage for a search deal.

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10 Reasons why Far Cry 2 is the worst game ever

Have you played it yet?

Far Cry 2 was set to be the epic game of the year, competing against the likes of Fallout 3, Dead Space and GTA 4.

The developers promised an open diverse 50km big world filled with beautiful scenery, open landscapes, African wildlife. Right!

1) Now how does one map that's 50km in size have jungles, a freaking desert and a mud terrain? And its not as if they are joined seamlessly, but rather you jump suddenly into a jungle from a sun baked desert.

2)Wheres the wildlife? There's only a couple of zebras every 10 hours, and if you even hit one at 1 kmph they instantly fall dead on the floor.

3) The game textures are not pleasing to the eye, far from it! The characters look pathetic and likewise for their voices. Every single AI will do the same stuff - you walk into somebody in town they will push you. The voices of the characters are horrendously bland, I gritted my teeth in anger everytime someone said ' meeeeew take out that convoy'.

4) Now the graphics - every outpost looks almost identical, the grass looks smashed and all the safehouses have the same interior. Copy paste job is what it looks like. The jungles, well lets not go there, the sun baked terrain has no atmosphere whatsoever. The lighting at night makes the game look awful, like the was game made 4 years ago.

5) Ok lets discuss fire - yes it spreads, yes it looks stunning, and the developer said it grows over time. Well when did grass grow back after half a game day? Is that realistic? NO!

6) The story is a bag of turd. The gameplay is irritating and frustratingly tedious - lets do a mission destroy that convoy unlock these guns ok? Allright nice new guns new mission destroy convoy new guns ok? Getting a bit repetitive? Yay new guns do this mission unlock more ok? Then destroy convoy ok? But this is getting lame, so lets do some story missions - assassinate him ok? Oh 'phone call' go meet with 'Bob' for alternative. Ah nice alternatives mission objective, ok assassinate retard. Done that let Bob die be done with mission. Next mission - assassinate blah bleh!!!

And then every mission you get phone call with alternative to meet some retard half way across the map which you have to drive to in a car which sounds like a lawn mower and goes about 1 mile an hour even though the speedo says it going 100km an hour. Why should there be the same alternative in every mission?

7) Dont even get me started on vehicles - one has to drive this a bad looking mobile for several miles that sounds like a hair dryer. At least give us some nice muscle roaring car sounds and decent damage to the car, instead of the hood flying 20ft in the air and smoke coming out the bonnet. Why the heck would a car blow up unless you shot the gas tank? How does using a wrench repair bullet shots to an engine?

8) 'Kill the jackal the bastard that armed both sides' - who thought up this pre school idea? It is NOT good enough to base an entire game on! A two year could come up with a better idea that that.

9) Why are both fractions in the same town if they are at war? And surely if you were doing a mission for both the factions, they would be pissed with you and would try and kill you. Even if you do missions for one faction they would still shoot at you.

10) You cant even go prone? Were they too lazy to do the animations of the guns when prone? And why does the guy's arm look like a freaking baguette when holding a gun? Also while swimming since when do you bend your wrist back that far? The worst animation of swimming i have ever seen in a game.

Bonus) FC2 has the worst A.I. ever - you hide in a bush, fire one round, boom, they instantly know where you are even from miles away. But you can stand in front of someone for 2 minutes, and they will never know. After 5 whole minutes suddenly they see you and start shooting at you. Also hows does someone in a T shirt withstand an entire clip from the AK 47 at close range to the chest?

Just ten points seem too less for such a bad game, but you can add your own reasons in the comments.

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Virtual Sex becomes a Reality

Doesn't get more perverted than this

Geeks and those without a girlfriend can rejoice that the latest NASA technology might mean you never have to try.

Next door to the CES show there is the annual Adult Entertainment Expo, famous mostly for porn stars and hacks trying to get a sex angle on the flaccid CES next door.

But at this show Brett Drysdale was showing off a rocket-shaped RealTouch device which he says was "developed and tested by a former NASA engineer". He must have had fun.

The gear contains belts, lubrication jets, heating elements and other gadgetry programmed to give men, who probably have never had the pleasure before the feeling of sex.

Apparently you can slip anything you like into it and it feels like a woman except for the fact that it connects to your computer with a USB cable and synchronises with a porn movie.

Drysdale said that you watch the action on a screen and a signal is sent to the box to simulate what is happening. Of course there is an online RealTouch theatre you can plug into which costs a buck a minute.

That will be your biggest cost as the RealTouch gear only sets you back $150. Still it is cheaper and less embarrassing than hiring an escort, unless it is found by your mum of course.

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Carol Bartz is the new CEO of Yahoo!

Will rescue company from certain Doom

Yahoo has named Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive - Ms Bartz, 60, is a well-respected industry figure who led business software maker Autodesk for 14 years before becoming its chairman in 2006.

Her appointment follows a search for a replacement for the internet portal's co-founder Jerry Yang. His departure followed lengthy criticism of his stewardship of the company, which has coincided with its share price collapsing to about $12.

He angered investors by turning down a $47.5bn takeover offer from Microsoft last May - worth $33 a share. Microsoft did however come back and offer to buy the search part of Yahoo, but a deal was never struck. Many observers expect that this deal will eventually go through, with a new chief executive at the Yahoo helm.

Before joining Autodesk, Ms Bartz spent nine years at Sun Microsystems, rising to become the second most senior executive behind the then-CEO, Scott McNealy. She has been named in Fortune magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and featured on Barron's list of the World's 30 Most Respected CEOs.

And observers say that her track record suggest that she was likely to build on Yahoo's strengths.

"She is able to see the essence of things because she doesn't spend a lot of time worrying about how people are going to feel," said Nilofer Merchant, a former Autodesk manager, now chief executive of technology consultant Rubicon.

"She is driven by doing the best thing for the business."

During Bartz's leadership, Autodesk's share price rose by an annual average of nearly 20% - something which analysts say will hearten Yahoo investors who have seen the value of shares slide dramatically.

In November last year, Mr Yang surprised the industry when he said that Microsoft should still buy Yahoo. "I don't think it's a bad idea at all, at the right price whatever that price is. We're willing to sell the company," he told the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

The declaration came hours after Google had pulled out of an internet advertising deal with Yahoo amid increasing scrutiny from the US Department of Justice.

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic in Pics

The stunning new Nokia touchscreen 5800 XpressMusic phone has arrived in India!

And here's the barnburning news - Nokia 5800 is priced at Rs 21,800 (almost Rs 9,000 less than 8GB iPhone and Rs 14,000 less than 16 GB iPhone).

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Sony loses $1 Billion, PS3 price drops

Gamers Rejoice

Reuters reports that Sony Corp "will likely" have an operating loss of approximately $1.1 billion this year, its first in 14 years.

According to the wire service, some global economic slump that's going on right now has caused inventory for the company to stack up in all its divisions and prices to fall.

It was already expected that Sony would be cutting thousands of jobs and closing manufacturing plants, but an analyst quoted in the report believes the company will now "further accelerate its restructuring."

There's no word on how the PS3 and PSP divisions of the company will be affected. The silver lining in this for consumers is that the PS3 is rumored to receive another price drop in the next few months.

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The 2TB Hard Disk Arrives

Enough room for you?

We all know the hard drives will always get larger and larger, but even then, it takes hitting a new milestone for the progress that has been made in data storage to really sink in.

One such milestone will be made later week, as Western Digital releases a massive-humongous, two terabyte hard drive. That's right, 2TB -- which should be enough to satisfy anyone's storage demands for at least a little while.

The drive is the Caviar Green 2000GB WD20EADS, with 32MB of cache, a 8.9ms seek time, and ability to run either at 7200, or 5400, RPM.

According to Fudzilla, the hard drive might sell around $225-$250, and should be in stores fairly quickly. This beast should arrive in India by March and would cost about Rs 14,000. That's rather expensive, but 2TB won't come for cheap...at least for the first six months.

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