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Nokia has announced that it has to date shipped the 1.5 billionth phone; running on the S40 Symbian Operating System (OS) BBC News reported.

S40 phones started to roll out in 1999 and for many years was the reason for Nokia's leading world market share for phones. Even with the upcoming new phones utilising newer versions of Symbian and Windows Phone 7.5 OSes, the S40 OS is still alive and kicking in Nokia's feature phones.

These phones offer a lot of functionality but in most cases do not have the processor muscle as their smartphone siblings. 

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Acer has launched the slimmer and lighter Aspire Timeline Ultra.

Aspire Timeline Ultra measures 20 mm thin,has the latest Intel Core processor, dedicated graphics for 3D gaming, a slim DVD-Super Multi optical drive, SSD/HDD option, Dolby Home Theater v4 surround sound, HDMI and USB 3.0 ports.

The 2-spindle design Aspire Timeline Ultra's PowerSmart long-life battery pack can run up to 8 hours and the Acer Green Instant can boot and resume in 1.5 seconds. 

The Acer Always Connect technology lets users manage multimedia and data on all devices even from sleep. Acer Always Connect can connect users online faster than conventional connections so that users can see updates of Facebook, Twitter and Outlook email instantly upon resuming.  Acer Always Connect can wake up the Timeline Ultra from a smartphone.

Western Digital has launched My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system.

My Book Live Duo combines shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system with RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology. 

My Book Live Duo is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, or Lion, as well as DLNA/UPnP enabled devices. 

For both Mac and PC, My Book Live Duo keeps a second copy of all files for real-time data backup in mirrored mode (RAID 1). One half stores users’ data and the other half a second copy. It can also automatically backup Windows users using WD SmartWare software. Mac users can use Time Machine backup software to protect data. The system can combine two drives into one drive. There is an 800 MHz CPU for faster read speeds than USB 2.0 drives.

The user can connect My Book Live Duo to the home network as a  shared storage that he can remotely access via www.WD2go.com or using WD mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or Android smartphones and tablets.

The My Book Live Duo system has a media server for streaming movies, photos and music to any DLNA multimedia device like a WD TV Live streaming media player, Blu-ray Disc player, PlayStation 3, as well as Xbox 360s and smart TVs. Users can also stream movies, photos and music to a tablet or smartphone via the WD 2go app.

My Book Live Duo personal cloud storage is selling at selected retailers and resellers at RM1,299 for 4 TB and RM1,499 for 6 TB. It is distributed by SiS Distribution (M) Sdn Bhd and Amble Action Sdn Bhd.

Nokia held a preview session for its couple of phones from its brand spanking new Lumia line. The Lumia line is Nokia’s Windows Phone based smartphone range. Both of the phones are touted as stunningly social with familiar Nokia elements.

The Nokia Lumia 800 is basically the twin brother of the Nokia N9 save for the fact that it doesn’t run on the short-lived MeeGo OS. Windows Phone Mango is introduced here and it comes with the same design as the N9. These phones are being dubbed as the first real Windows Phones. Besides that, the Lumia 800 has Nokia’s ClearBlack curved display on its 3.7 inch AMOLED screen. Camera-wise, it comes packed with an 8 megapixel Carl Zeiss optics shooter with dual LED flash and HD playback. Internal storage maxes out at 16GB with 25GB of SkyDrive available. 

The Nokia Lumia 710 is the more fun of the two phones, with up to 5 exchangeable back covers. It is just slightly lower spec-ed than the 800, but still a very good phone in its own respect. A 5 megapixel camera is included with 8GB of storage. Unlike the 800, it gets by on a TFT display. 

Both the 800 and 710 are armed with a 1.4 GHz processor, hardware acceleration and graphics processor. The couple of beauties are also definitely designed for instant social and image sharing since it combines your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts into one feed. Moving with the times, Nokia also pushes both these phones into the MicroSim category.

Marketplace availability is not confirmed yet but Nokia has said that it is working closely with Microsoft to make this possible. If all else fails, consumers will be guided towards Singapore’s Marketplace instead. 

Sounds very interesting right? The launch date has not been confirmed yet but Nokia has stated that it will be very soon.

If you haven't heard of SOPA, it simply means you don't go on the Net often.

Sopa in another context stands for soup in Spanish. Ii also stands for Senior Officer Present Afloat,  a U.S. Navy term to indicate the U.S. Navy officer, with the highest ranking by rank, or number in rank, present in a harbor occupied by more than one U.S. Navy vessel.

But right now SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act.

Do the authorities in the US who proposed to make this bill a law actually realise the kind of consequences if SOPA gets passed? 

SOPA is supposed to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.

And how is this going to be achieved? By simplistic measures. By preventing advertising networks and payment facilities from doing business with websites the US authorities think are infringing copyrights. This would in turn give such authorities the right to stop search engines from linking to these sites, and to force Internet service providers (ISP) to block access to them. If caught the owners of such sites could receive a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

In the US most of the big companies like Google are against such a ruling. Wikipedia, the world's biggest aggregator of online knowledge, blacked out its site for 24 hours as a protest. Other sites are blacking out their pages in protest as well.

In the wake of these protests, the latest news is that more than 18 US senators decided to turn against this legislation.

US federal agents have brought down the file sharing site Megaupload. Unbelievably, 4 people have been arrested in New Zealand. These agents have 20 search warrants for suspects all over the world.

In retaliationfor this, the hacker group Anonymous attacked sites for the FBI, Dept of Justice, even nusic compnaies like Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, and the Motion Picture Association of America.

This is LG's first tablet running on LTE.

As far as we know, aside from the LTE, the 1.5GHz Qualcomm processor, and the 3 mm thinner and 100 g lighter body of 245 mm x 151.4 mm x 9.34 mm and 497 g, the rest of the features remain the same as the 3G model:8.9-inch IPS True HD 1280 x 768 pixels display; 8 MP lens that can record HD video and a 2 MP front-facing camera; 32 GB memory; microSD slot for up to 32 GB; and 6,800mAh battery.

From 18th January 2012 Malaysians can buy the world’s first tablet with the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and 12-core GeForce GPU: the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime.

Developed with NVIDIA and Google and running Honeycomb currently, the tablet will be updated to Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich soon. The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime was nominated as a CES 2012 Innovations Honoree.

In either Amethyst Gray or Champagne Gold, the tablet with 32 GB memory is 8.3 mm thin, has a metallic spun finish chassis and weighs 586 g. Other features include audio by ASUS SonicMaster technology;8 MP rear auto-focus camera with LED flash, F2.4 aperture, back illuminated CMOS sensor, touch-to-focus depth of field and low light noise reduction, full HD video;1.2 MP front camera for video conferencing; 18-hour battery when combined with the mobile dock; microSD card slot; 3.5mm combo audio jack and micro HDMI port. When the dock recharges the tablet, it can last up to 18 hours. Its Super IPS+ display is made from scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass and has a wide 178° viewing angle.

Once updated to Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the tablet would have a new camera UI with better sharing, panorama mode, live effects and backgrounds for both stills and videos, basic photo editing, accessible from the lock-screen; new default Roboto font;and folders on the home screen by dragging one app on top of another. 
Users can browse offline when they save web pages. If there is no WiFi, users can use the WiFi Direct feature instead to transfer files between WiFi enabled devices. 

The preinstalled SuperNote can take, draw or record notes. The  Polaris Office can read and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. ASUS is offering free 8 GB of cloud storage for life via ASUS WebStorage.

The Eee Pad Transformer Prime retails at RM2,199 (suggested SRP)from ASUS authorized dealers.

During Intel’s keynote, the CEO of Motorola was invited as a guest to speak about the deal between them and Intel.  

In essence, some of Motorola’s upcoming smartphones and tablets later this year will come packed with Intel processors. This partnership looks to be pretty big and is a multi-year and multi-device deal, although specifics are still pretty vague. Of course, these products will be based off Intel Atom Medfield Z2460 processors. These Medfield processors offer better performance, battery life and security, which are ever-growing concerns.

Scheduled to ship in the second half of 2012, more details will probably be disclosed at future events, like Mobile World Congress next month. There is also a high possibility that these phones will be running Ice Cream Sandwich when the time comes.