Nokia cutting 1700 jobs

Reuters - Nokia Oyj will slash 1,700 jobs globally over the coming few months because of falling demand, the world's top cellphone maker said on Tuesday.

"Back then there were 26 web servers. Now there are 10 to the power 11 pages, that's a many as the neurones in your brain," said Berners-Lee, who still has an active hand in the web's development.

The World Wide Web (WWW) on Friday marked its 20th anniversary and its founders admitted there were bits of the phenomenon they do not like: advertising and "snooping."

The creation of the web by British computer software genius Tim Berners-Lee and other scientists at the European particle physics laboratory (CERN) paved the way for the Internet explosion which has changed our daily lives.

Berners-Lee and former colleagues such as Robert Cailliau, who originally set up the system to allow thousands of scientists around the world to swap, view and comment on their research, regardless of the distance or computer system, took part in commemorations on Friday at the laboratory.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090313/tc_afp/internetmediaitanniversary

Phone banking service launched in Africa, Mideast

Now MTN is planning to offer a fully-fledged bank account on mobile phones called MTN MobileMoney which will allow users to pay for purchases or check balances. A credit card will be optional.

South African mobile phone operator MTN on Monday said it was launching a banking service on mobile phones in 21 African and Middle East countries where access to traditional banks is poor.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090316/tc_afp/safricamideastbankingtelecommobilephone

NZealand court serves papers through Facebook

A New Zealand judge Monday approved the serving of court documents through the social networking website Facebook on a man being sued over his business dealings.

Largest phone

The largest cell phone !
It's not just a dumb nice looking shell.. it is a working phone!

The guy there sent a text message from there as a proof!

Smallest music player, new apple ipod shuffle

Cute and nice !

But since the control is done by some switches attached to the headphones, that means, you have to stick with those headphones only!

Well, I have an old generation ipod nano. If they have not improved the headphones much, I would say the headphones sucked!

3D UI