Nokia claims patent dispute hampers 3G uptake

Nokia's ongoing patent battle with Qualcomm may work against the uptake of 'third-generation' mobile technology, believes the mobile phone giant. Nokia is putting its focus for 3G mobile phones on higher-end models, chief technology officer Tero Ojanpera said, despite moves by smaller rivals to lower device costs for the high-speed wireless service. The company, which makes more than one in three of the mobile phones sold globally, is mired in a legal dispute over patents with US mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm after part of a major cross-licensing agreement expired last month. ...more

PC Pro review update: Acer TravelMate 800

PC Pro review: Acer TravelMate 800 In our recent review of the Acer TravelMate 800 we stated that the price was £1,299, which was based on the information given at the time of going to press. However, it has now emerged that the price was actually for the 1.3GHz version, and the price of the 1. ...more

Google Book Search reaches out to the classics

Searchers can now read full copies of free, downloadable (PDF) versions of some of the world's greatest books on Google Book Search. Google has found that one of the advantages of having many of the world's greatest writers on the service is that they are less likely to sue. These include Newton's Principia, thankfully not in the original Latin, that laid the foundations of modern physics, Dante's Inferno (in the original Renaissance Italian) and the works of Shakespeare. ...more

Easing traffic flow on the Internet

With the ever-growing use of the Internet, its infrastructure has an increasing load to bear. It's the easing of traffic among Internet backbone providers that's the target of InterNap Network Services. They have developed a setup that bypasses the peering process among backbone carries by scanning the Net for optimal routes. ...more

VIA brands new chip line

VIA Technologies has unveiled the official brand names of the new family of x86 compatible processors based around its forthcoming `Esther` core. To no-one's real surprise, the names turn out to be the C7 series. Based on the C5J Esther core, the VIA C7 processor will target low power desktop PCs and consumer electronics items such as video recorders whilst the VIA C7-M processor will aim for the notebook and Tablet PCs. ...more