Last week, Nokia revealed its upcoming touchscreen N97 handset but till its release, Nokia was successful enough to hide N97 from public. But, Nokia failed to stop the leak of promotional posters of their next generation touchscreen devices.


The above image shows the upcoming full touchscreen handsets with a UI that looks absolutely different from current S60 devices. These might be S60 5th edition devices with eye catching home screens.

It looks Nokia has some big plans for touchscreen devices in 2009 because Nokia has finally recognized Apple as a major competitor.

Now, we just need an official word from Nokia whether these will be real phones or just concept devices?

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Last week, Nokia revealed their brand new N-series handset, N97 and we couldn’t have wished for anything better!

The key features include:

• Touch display (3.5″ of it) which slides and tilts to reveal a full QWERTY kepboard plus d-pad for easy navigation.
• 5 Megapixel Camera.
• Carl Zeiss integrated optics coupled with a dual LED flash.
• A massive 32GB of internal memory with MicroSD support for further memory expansion.
• Integrated Assisted GPS.
• WiFi and HSDPA.
• DVD quality video capture and 16:9 display.

The N97 is a cutting edge smartphone that includes support for their OVI service as well as the Nokia Music Store. Nokia have called the N97 “the most advanced mobile computer” and have done well to keep ahead of current mobile phone usability trends. With more and more people using their phones to browse the net, to access email accounts and share photos online we expect that the likes of the N97 will become the most demanded everyday phone. GPS has also become a standard on handsets and more and more people are expecting their phones to have integrated GPS. App developers are also aware of this and the number of cool GPS reliant applications is growing at a phenomenal rate.

Nokia have announced the expected release date for the N97 to be first half of 2009 and is expected to hold a pre-tax price tag of 550 Euros.

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Whenever people buy notebook computers, they get outdated within an year or two so Fujitsu has come up with an interesting scheme to deal with this problem.

You can buy any notebook from the Fujitsu Lifebook range and they’ll send you a brand new notebook every three years for the rest of your life free of cost.

To claim your free Fujitsu notebook, you should not lose the initial sales receipt for making the claim and if you forget to ask for an upgrade, then you are ineligible for any future laptops. The pricing for the three year warranty scheme is yet to be established.

The company is also launching another interesting scheme with its Esprimo range, offering a complete refund of the original sales price if the customer needs to send the notebook back to Fujitsu Siemens for any repairs but excludes case cracks, small numbers of dead pixels, broken keys, smashed screens, software issues, virus infections or failed batteries that are older than one year.

For more details, visit the Lifebook4life scheme website.

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Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users.

The malware, which BitDefender dubbed Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A sits in Firefox s add-ons folder, said Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender s lab. The malware runs when Firefox is started.

The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and money transfer Web sites, including Barclays, Wachovia, Bank of America, and PayPal along with two dozen or so Italian and Spanish banks. When it recognizes a Web site, it will collect logins and passwords, forwarding that information to a server in Russia.

Firefox has been continually gaining market share against main competitor Internet Explorer since its debut four years ago, which may be one reason why malware authors are looking for new avenues to infect computers, Canja said.

Users could be infected with the Trojan either from a drive-by download(when a user visits a site, if something gets downloaded from the site without his knowledge) which can infect a PC by exploiting a vulnerability in a browser, or by being duped into downloading it, Canja said.

When it runs on a PC, it registers itself in Firefox s system files as Greasemonkey, a well-known collection of scripts that add extra functionality to Web pages rendered by Firefox.

BitDefender has released the details about the malware on its website along with the removal instructions.

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A virus named “Koobface” is infiltrating Facebook’s 120 million users by using the social network’s messaging system to infect PCs, and get credit card numbers.

This is the most recent attempt of hackers looking to take advantage of users on social network sites.

“A few other viruses have tried to use Facebook in similar ways to propagate themselves,” Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said in an e-mail. He said a “very small percentage of users” had been affected by these viruses.

The way Koobface works is by sending notes to friends of someone whose PC has been infected. The messages include a subject header of, “You look just awesome in this new movie,” which directs the recipient to a website where they are asked to download what it claims is an update of Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash player.

Once the software is downloaded, the virus infiltrates their computer, which takes the user to contaminated sites when they try to use search engines.

On Wednesday, McAfee warned that its researchers had discovered that Koobface was making the rounds on Facebook.

Chris Boyd, a researcher with FaceTime Security Labs, said, Facebook requires senders of messages within the network to be members and hides users data from people who do not have accounts. Because of that, users tend to be far less suspicious of messages they receive in the network.

“People tend to let their guard down. They think you’ve got to log in with an account, so there is no way that worms and other viruses could infect them,” Boyd said.

Facebook has posted a short message on its security page acknowledging the worm's attack. The notice urged users whose accounts had already been compromised to scan their PCs for malware and then reset their passwords.

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Google has launched the much awaited service Google Friend Connect to public which allows you to grow your social network by allowing your visitors to connect to your blogs and increase your network. This service can be added to your site even if you are not technically strong by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code.

Using Friend Connect, you can become a member of any friend connected site and also interact with other members who have similar interests as yours. You can log in Friend Connect using your existing accounts of Google, Yahoo, AOL or OpenID. You can also invite friends from orkut, Gtalk and other social networks to join the community.

Visit the homepage of Friend Connect, click on ‘Set up a new site‘ link to get started.


You will be asked to enter your Site name and blog's Home URL. Next, you will be asked to download 2 files to your computer and then upload to your blog’s root folder. One is for gadget functionality(canvas.html) and the other for security features(rpc_relay.html). If you are using Blogger, these files are not required.

Once you upload the files to your root folder, you need to click on ‘Test & Finalize Setup’ to complete the whole process. Now, feel free to add different gadgets to your site by customizing the size and color of the gadgets as per your needs.

For further details, visit Friend Connect support site.

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Developed by the folks at Mesa Dynamics, Stainless is the simplest and most useful web browser you could ask for. The new web browser supports some of the features found in Google's recently-launched Chrome.

Stainless is really just a technology demo and is likely to stay that way. Some of the features of stainless Mac OS X browser can listed as
1. Multi processing browser
2. Easy tab dragging between windows
3. Single bar to search and type url
4. Private browsing mode

Stainless 0.4 has also been added with Web Inspector support, as well as a deferred plugin loading in hidden tabs. The makers of the simple web browser for Mac claim they've created it because it was “a cool way to leverage the multi-processing technology” they developed for one of their other apps – Hypercube.


Even though Stainless can be tried out by anyone owning an Intel or PPC Mac, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is required. Tiger users may see their OS supported in future versions of Stainless.

It is free to download and can be downloaded from here. Many new features of managing bookmarks and downloads will be added in the later updates!

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