With Nokia’s recent issues with poor sales, rumors are once again burst that the mobile giant is batting its eyelashes at other operating system with the hopes of improving its fortunes. Could it be Microkia? According to Engadget, it’s expected that Nokia will announce a new partnership at Capital Markets Day next Friday. The report strongly bruits with Nokia recently appointed CEO Stephen Elop (from Microsoft) and has clearly marching orders to take Nokia in a new, more profitable direction making Windows Phone 7 as the operating system of choice moving forward, with Google’s Android also touted as a possible alternative to in-house software such as Symbian and MeeGo. ...

Google’s Honeycomb event is happening now and they have been showing sneak peaks of it for the past few weeks. Android 3.0 Honeycomb is designed exclusively for tablets and Google has given a pretty big advancement in the user interface. The new Android Market is very similar to AppBrain, but you can purchase apps directly from the web and push them to your phone. Additional features of the Web Store: ...

Google set up a sting operation (!) in an attempt to catch Microsoft red-handed stealing their search results in Bing. Interestingly, Bing doesn’t deny this completely. The whole sting operation is amazing and it started from Danny Sullivan’s post and resulting Microsoft’s response on Bing search quality. uld ever enter into Google. These searches returned no matches on Google or Bing — or a tiny number of poor quality matches, in a few cases — before the experiment went live. With the code enabled, Google placed a honeypot page to show up at the top of each synthetic search. ...

Airtel has launched a mobile wallet service called Airtel Money which is effectively a debit card with a limit of Rs 5,000. It has launched a service in Gurgaon which enables mobile payments. The subscriber needs to deposit money in his mobile account (similar to a bank account), and can then transfer money to the shopkeeper’s ‘mwallet’ by sending an SMS. Retailers need a phone connection and card reader to process credit card payments; while in case of Airtelmoney both the customer and the shopkeeper must have Airtel connections. ...

Facebook is introducing two new measures to gripe up security – a secured connection and Social Authentication. These features are especially useful when you’re uncertain whether your network or computer is secure. A Secured Connection – Facebook currently uses HTTPS only when your password is sent, but today it is expanding its usage in order to help keep your data even more secure.You will now have the ability to experience Facebook entirely over HTTPS. You should consider enabling this option if you frequently use Facebook from public Internet access points found at coffee shops, airports, libraries or schools. You can enable this option under advanced security features from ‘Account Security’ section. ...

According to TechCrunch, a prominent Facebook fan page has been hacked, defaced and as a result closed now! Obviously, Zuckerberg didn’t actually write it. Within hours of the comment’s appearance, Zuckerberg’s fan page disappeared completely from the Facebook network. Following this Mark’s fan page hack, do you still trust Facebook with your online persona?

The future looks great on paper! Cloud is now becoming reality. You can now print from anywhere using Google Cloud Print. Google blew the lid off of Chrome OS by introducing Google Cloud Print Beta. Google Cloud Print makes printing more intuitive, accessible and useful, by allowing you to print to your printers from Google Cloud Print enabled apps on any computer or smart phone. By connecting your printer with the Google Cloud you will be able to print to your printer from any computer or smart phone, regardless of where you are. Just activate the Google Cloud Print connector in Google Chrome and your printer will automatically be available to you from Google Cloud Print enabled web and mobile apps. ...

Just when almost every Indian who ever aspired to buy the iPad officially in India had given up the hope and gone for the grey market route, at last, Apple decided to finally launch it in India. iPad will be launched in India on Jan 28th, and will be available only through Apple’s premium retailers. For those who are familiar with the iPhone, the iPad is about the size of six iPhones put together. The iPad comes in two versions. One operates solely through Wi-Fi. The other with a SIM card with data connectivity and also with Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi version of the iPad will be sold in three versions: 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. The price will vary from Rs 26,000 to Rs 37,000. The Wi-Fi that will come with a 3G SIM card will cost between Rs 33,000 and Rs 44,000, depending on the storage capacity of 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB. I am very disappointed that Apple took this long time to launch the iPad here. With the second generation iPad (iPad2 ?) launch just three months away from now, does it mean that we won’t be getting it on time as well? Something tells us the answer is “Yes”. ...

As smartphones become more and more like personal digital wallets, its common for them to contain secure things like account numbers, addresses, bank statements and in some cases passwords (never do this!). Think for a moment about the information you’ve stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch and fallen into the wrong hands. The following basic 5 steps will allow to secure your iPhone or iPod Touch from theft or fraud - ...

Big news from Google yesterday with Eric Schmidt announcing that he will be stepping down as CEO effective April 4th. Larry Page, who served as Google’s first CEO from 1998 to 2001 will take over as CEO. Schmidt will remain on as “Executive Chairman”, where he will focus on deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relations. On a lighter note, Schmidt tweeted, “Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!” Full update from Eric is available on the Google Blog. ...