Nokia Siemens Networks and China Mobile Group Fujian (Fujian Mobile) have teamed up to provide an eCommerce platform that promises an important link between rural consumers and urban businesses.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free-content projects, has selected Sun to help it build a secure and scalable open source web infrastructure using Sun Fire x4500 and x4150 servers and Sun StorageTek storage arrays.

IBM Research and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems that are expected to simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and compact size.

Nokia and IBM announced IBM Lotus Notes support for a number of Nokia’s S60-based mobile phones, meaning that millions of Lotus Notes users are now able to access email with their Nokia devices.

Infineon announced the further expansion of its RFID product portfolio. Infineon’s new RFID chip “PJM Light” provides a memory capacity of 1 kbit and privacy features designed to prevent unauthorized access to the protected data.

The 32nd edition of the list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers has been issued on Friday, November 14, with the 1.105 petaflop/s IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory holding on to the top spot it first achieved in June 2008.

Intel introduced its most advanced desktop processor, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput.

Europe is transforming into a continent of content-craving ‘connect-aholics’, according to the findings of the AMD European Connectivity Study of over 5,000 online respondents.

Infineon introduced its latest chips for Ultra-Low Cost mobile phones, optimizing the system performance by factor five and also again reducing the bill-of-material (BOM) by almost 10 per cent compared to currently available Infineon platform solutions. The company also announced its new Ultra-Low Cost Dual-SIM platform.

Fujitsu and Red Hat have strengthened their global alliance for providing Linux support services for mission-critical environments.

IBM is announcing a collaborative effort with European Union partners to develop new technology that will help support active aging and prevent cognitive decline in the elderly population.

Cisco and IBM announced the launch of two additional offerings for enhancing the retail banking experience that build on their Front Office Solutions for Retail Banking announced in November 2007.

ZTE USA and Qualcomm will collaborate with Aircell to create the networking platform for Aircell’s new Inflight Internet service, Gogo, which first began service in August on select American Airlines flights.

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a new video-processing technology that enables a complete wraparound view of a vehicle’s perimeter in real time, to enhance the driver’s field of view.

NEC announced the launch of sales for the NOIF2500, a device capable of long distance transmission of uncompressed high vision video through up to 160 km of optical fiber, suited for broadcasters and telecommunications carriers.

Adobe announced an extended collaboration with SAP to help enterprises around the globe build richer business applications.

Adobe and ARM announced a technology collaboration to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for ARM Powered devices, ranging from mobile phones to set-top boxes, mobile Internet devices, televisions, automotive platforms, personal media players and other mobile computing devices.

Adobe announced at Adobe MAX 2008 further advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform, a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers to develop Web applications, content and video that run consistently across operating systems and devices.

Fujitsu announced the development of two new series in its line of 2.5″ enterprise hard disk drives, the 10,025-rpm MBD2 RC series and 15,000-rpm MBE2 RC series, both of which provide standard support for the 6Gb/s SAS interface.

NeuroNexus Technologies and Philips have signed a joint research agreement to develop next-generation deep brain stimulation devices with the ambition to improve the treatment of neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders.

Intel announced the start of Mass Animation, the first collaborative, worldwide effort to produce a computer-generated animated short film for theatrical release.

Sun announced the availability of StarOffice 9 and its Asian language counterpart StarSuite 9 with new versions of word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, database and drawing software.

Texas Instruments and Fulton Innovation will accelerate development of efficient wireless power solutions that can charge portable devices without traditional power cords.

ASUS introduced the ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor.

Scartel (brand Yota), Russian provider of Mobile WiMAX, and HTC announced the HTC MAX 4G, the world’s first integrated GSM/WiMAX handset. It will be available in Russia on November 26th.