Nokia will allow mobile phone operators to profit from its Ovi app store by offering consumers the option of paying for new apps on their phone bill. Nokia has confirmed with iTnews that the Finnish phone company will offer Australian consumers the ability to pay for mobile apps from its Ovi app store via...

Microsoft has wrapped up work on the second service pack update to Windows Vista, the company announced late Tuesday.   The update provides, among other things support for Bluetooth 2.1, an updated Windows search technology and the ability to natively record data to Blu-ray discs. In a blog posting, the...

Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram publicly debuted his company’s forthcoming online “computational knowledge engine” Tuesday–but search Goliath Google launched a service of its own that bears significant resemblance. The Wolfram Alpha engine is a Web service designed to...

Features: Camera resolution: 1.3Mp Talk time: 190 minutes Standby time: 72 hours Mobile network bands: Quad Band GSM Wireless technology supported: Bluetooth Pros: Interesting form factor, wide variety of features in small device Cons: Bad call quality, very difficult to write messages.  The final word:...

A UNIVERSITY dropout from Australia is now working on one of the hottest projects in Silicon Valley. Melbourne software engineer Glen Murphy is part of the team behind Google’s Chrome web browser at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The 28-year-old developer told...