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The Taiwanese based maker of netbooks, Asus is developing a new notebook that utilizes a smartphone as a 3G dongle for connectivity. It seems that the Taiwanese maker is making headlines all way along as this netbook restricts the user to make use of specific range of models which are supposedly be lacking in features and may end up being priced uncompetitively, claims the manufacturer.

Google came up with its latest proclamation, hinting the release of its Google Voice application for students. The declaration that was made whilst the launch, claimed that users will be registered with the .edu domain, that, Google will send to interested students and allow them to join the services of the same, as taken from the Google Voice Blog.

Facebook has proclaimed that it wants to simplify the security settings, following the circulating controversies that take care of the users' privacy. The Vice-President of Facebook, Eliot Schrage stated that the company is putting in efforts to protect the privacy data and make the settings simpler for users to access, as reported to The Financial Times.

Google has fallen under the scanner from the European privacy regulators for its Street View project. This axing was enforced when Google disclosed that since 2006, it had been collecting private data about wireless networks which was required for the photo database for the Street View project.

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has given out its new offering -HTC Wildfire. Wildfire is a lookalike of HTC Desire, difference being its appearance which is stockier and smaller. The Wildfire sports 81mm screen that has 320 x 240 pixels. It is powered by 528MHz Qualcomm processor- MSM ranged, WiFi, GPS, HSDPA, Android 2.1 with HTC's Sense UI.

CEO of one the most reputed firms, Apple, Steve Jobs has recently vented out his dismay due to iPad through an e-mail.

The event that sparked off was led by an e-mail from Gawker's editor Ryan Tate, in which Tate expressed his disbelief that Apple called the tablet device as a "revolution", and criticized other companies for banning the usage of Flash in the so called 'revolutionary' device and instantly marked a mail to the CEO.

Jobs stated that this promotion was in lieu of interest of its users who restricted the usage of programs that either, slowed down the device, drained its battery or promoted pornography.