Nokia has come up with its new N85 multimedia phone collection for the Indian consumers. Nokia N85 is a dual slider phone which promises to give its buyers a whole new package that one looks for in a ‘smart phone’.  

Devinder Kishore, the Director- Marketing of Nokia India said, “The Nokia N85 was created to be more than the sum of its parts, offering a complete mobile entertainment package. Combined with landscape gaming and dedicated gaming keys for additional comfort, the Nokia N85 breaks the boundaries of mobile gameplay,”

Apple has come up with its new Macbooks, a consumer notebook family which was already launched a week ago in the U.S. The product offers seven models in three categories, all of them being made from a new mechanical design using ‘unibody’ ultra light aluminium chasis making it the lightest and thinnest from its counterparts.

The three categories are MacBook, MacBookPro and MacBook Air where the 13.3 inch Mac books are priced at Rs. 96,500 and Rs. 79,700, the 15.4 inches MacBook Pro will cost the consumers around Rs. 1.20 lakh to Rs. 1.45 lakh. The Pro machine is laden with a ‘stepney’ graphics chip from NVIDIA giving it a high rendering and editing speeds for the professionals in visual computing.

Washington - USB flash drives are hot - and the demand continues to grow. Consumers are snapping up flash drives at a rate of almost 40 million per quarter, according to Santa Clara Consulting Group, and manufacturers big and small - from specialist companies like Lexar to giant electronics behemoths like Toshiba - are getting in on the market.

San Francisco - An unidentified 18-year-old was the author of an internet posting that sent Apple shares tumbling earlier this month with a false report that company co-founder Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack, Bloomberg News reported Friday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into the report to discover whether it was motivated by investors hoping to drive down the company's stock and make a profit by short- selling it.

Washington, October : A team of Indian-origin researchers in Penn State''s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) says that small hospitals in rural areas can provide patients with the benefits of modern equipment and technology by sharing an IT infrastructure with larger hospitals in the same geographic area.

Assistant Professor Madhu Reddy, Associate Professor Sandeep Purao, and graduate student Mary Kelly conducted interviews with administrators at a regional hospital and three small, rural hospitals in central Pennsylvania.

The researchers said that the three smaller hospitals relied on the regional hospital to manage such things as software, laboratory information, and technical support.

San Francisco - Microsoft on Thursday reported first-quarter results that exceeded analysts' expectations, with profits up 2 per cent to 4.37 billion dollars.

Sales rose 9.4 percent to 15.1 billion dollars in the quarter that ended September 30, the company said in a statement, spurred by the demand for Office programmes and the Xbox video game console.

The world's largest software maker said sales for the full fiscal year, ending June 30, 2009, would be between 64.9 billion dollars to 66.4 billion dollars.