NXP Semiconductors and Purple Labs announced the release of a 3G Linux reference feature phone offering video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming at a transfer price below US$100.

Nokia Siemens Networks and WWF, the global conservation organization, will work together on a series of activities, including learning on environmental matters. Additionally, WWF will provide an outside view and guidance on the company’s environmental activities.

Telecom Egypt and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a USD125 million contract to deploy a new submarine cable network linking Sidi Kerir in Egypt to Marseille in France.

Opera Software, today announced the official opening of its office in the Czech Republic.

In an industry first, HP today announced it has developed an recycling program that enables the use of post-consumer recycled plastics in the production of new Original HP inkjet print cartridges.

The company today announced that it will close its 140 kiosks in the United States.

Linspire, developer of the commercial Linspire and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, today officially announced an initiative to offer a custom desktop Linux OS Build Service to partners.

Eidos Interactive, a publisher and developer of entertainment software, today confirms MONSTER LAB, an eccentric action and role playing game (RPG) for Wii and Nintendo DS.

A new report by Juniper Research finds that the rush by banks and mobile operators to deliver financial services to the mobile phone will result in just over 612 million mobile phone users generating over $587 billion worth of financial transactions by 2011.

Ericsson had demonstrated for the first time Long Term Evolution (LTE) in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode on the same base station platform.

Mio and Qualcomm announced a collaboration to develop connected personal navigation devices (PNDs).

Nominum, a provider of network naming and addressing technologies, and Afilias, a provider of domain name registry services, announced today that Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist, was the keynote speaker at an event hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and Afilias.

TRUSTe, the leading Internet privacy seal-of-approval, in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute, have announced that HP, Intuit Inc. and AOL have been honored as the Most Trusted Companies for Privacy for 2007.

World’s Largest Driving Simulator, located in Tokyo and owned by Toyota now uses software from CarSim.

A new daily web comic for IT developers and pros debuted today at http://www.heroeshappenhere.com/comic.

4D Inc., maker of an integrated software platform that speeds up and simplifies the process of developing and deploying business applications, announced the release of 4D Ajax For Dreamweaver v11, a plug-in for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 that inserts 4D Ajax objects into standard web pages.

Packet One Networks Malaysia (P1) has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy and manage one of the world’s first large-scale commercial WiMAX networks to date in the 2.3 GHz spectrum band, a deal valued at USD71 million for Phase 1 of deployment.

Toshiba has implemented Broadcom’s media PC technology to enable high quality HD DVD playback for three recently introduced mid-level notebook computers including the Satellite P205, Satellite A205 and Qosmio F45.

Green computing has become very important in recent times. With global resources becoming scarcer and the visible impact our demands have made on our planet, it is vital for everyone – consumers as well as manufacturers, to attempt to protect our environment in every possible way.

IBM, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers University will collaborate to mine information from a huge bank of medical images and other data in the fight against cancer.

Google introduces for public testing some mew ways of searching the web and displaying the results.

Dell announced the completion of its $1.4 billion acquisition of EqualLogic, a leading provider of high-performance storage area network (SAN) solutions designed for virtualization and ease-of-use.

Though other supercomputers can take months to deploy, 14,336-core SGI Altix ICE System boots in less than two days.

Intel said it will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment.

NXP Semiconductors made available an anytime, anywhere digital TV viewing experience with the launch of the world’s first multi-band silicon tuner, TDA18292.