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Nokia To Sell Phones With Skype Software

Skype and Nokia announced a partnership yesterday in Barcelona.

Some of Nokia’s higher end models, starting with their flagship, N97, will start shipping with an integrated Skype installation from the third quarter of this year.

Skype will be part of the address book on N97, displaying which contacts are online and providing instant-messaging with them.

Bill Gates Donates $13.5 Million To Get The Third World Mobile Banking

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GSMA have teamed up to help people in developing countries to carry out mobile banking from their non-smartphones.

The foundation has already donated $12.5 million with a goal to supply 20 milli0n unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012.

The danger of being unbanked is that your home could get robbed anytime and all your family’s life savings lost forever.

Windows 7 Ends Up On Torrent Sites - Leaked By Microsoft!?

A beta version of Windows 7 (Build 7000 of Ultimate) has been spreading around shady torrent sites like wildfire and it looks like Microsoft has deliberately leaked it into the hands of pirates…

BREAKING: How To Fix The 30GB Zune Bug

Thousands of Zune 30 users are shaking their heads in bewilderment at the sight of their Zunes, frozen in the loading stage and completely unusable. The problem started at 12:00, a day before the big ‘09 changeover.

HP’s New Laptops Last 3x Longer

Hewlett- Packard’s new laptops that are to be launched in the beginning of the next year will be using a new type of battery, “Enviro,” that lasts up to 3 times longer than a normal one.

Enviro batteries can also withstand up to 1000 recharges without losing its full functionality , whereas normal batteries can only bear 300 recharges.

And you can also recharge the new batteries to 80% in just half an hour, which is also great.

Well done, HP!

Major Security Flaw Threatens Internet Explorer Users

Internet Explorer users are advised to switch to another browser until a major security flaw is fixed.

Discovered last week, this flaw lets criminals gather passwords and other sensitive data from the victims’ computers when they visit an infected website.

Microsoft releases somewhat surprising first iPhone application

Microsoft has now joined the long list of iPhone developers, and the first app in line is Seadragon, a photo viewing assistant that has been available for desktop users for some time already. The aim of Seadragon is to let you view REALLY big images (gigapixel size) without the phone slowing down too much.

Microsoft To Launch Its Own Retro Clothing Line

In the final, desperate struggle to get a good public image again, Microsoft has released their own, retro, clothing line. I’m A PC failed. Gates-Seinfield failed, miserably. Let’s see if this little trick will join the previous ones in PR heaven…