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Mozilla launches new online service called Weave.

Weave is the service that allows users to synchronize their information which stored on the Mozilla’s servers through the Firefox browser. All personal setting of the Firefox browser including bookmarks can be restored on any machine that connected to the Internet. Also service let users to give permission to other users for accessing their information. Further more Mozilla will create API for developer so that they can build web services based on the Weave.

One of the home developers under the nickname of ZodTTD created a utility that allows PlayStation games run on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Utility divides the 3.5 inch screen in to the small control section which can be used to control game characters of the game. Also user can use the regular iPhone controls to perform action in the game. According to the author utility psx4iphone allows to run around 75% of PlayStation Games.

Canadian company RIM (Research in Motion) tries to get a patent for the new type of the keyboard.

As you can see on the picture above buttons on the new QWERTY keyboard will be turned for the more comfortable typing. All buttons will be placed under 45 degree angle and placed in order from the top left corner to the bottom right. This innovation will be used on the QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards. Unfortunately there no information about the time release of the devices with new keyboard.

According to the technical research Lime Wire client software installed on every third computer that connected to the Internet.

Digital Music News announced their research results about usage of the Lime Wire in the Internet. Information was shocking, 36.4% of all computers on the World Wide Web has Lime Wire software installed. This results was based on the research of 1.5 million computers which connected to the Internet. Last year this number 2% smaller, that means Lime Wire getting new users every year.

New cellphone which will be based on the new platform from Google - Android, will be introduced in February. This event will happen on the Mobile World Congress. Google reserved two big stands on upcoming exhibition and they are to big for simple software introduction. So hopefully they will be used for phones with Android OS.

Nobody said upfront which cellphone company will be install Android, but according to rumors it will be HTC phone with QWERTY keyboard. Few days before that Google already announced that Android will be installed on such phones as HTC, Motorola and Samsung. We are hopping for the best.

Today famous company Panasonic introduced new Blu-ray drive for personal computers.

The main characteristic of this model is the thickness. Panasonic is of the companies who who always tries to create device smaller then standard ones. First they released DVD drive with 12.7 mm thickness, second was 9.5 mm record and now its 7.0 mm. This was the beginning of the small DVD drive. Now company released 9.5 mm Blu-ray drive.

New model can read three types of media - BD, DVD and CD. Also it can read and write four types of the Blu-ray disks - BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL and read BD-ROM. Further more it supports regular DVD-RAM, DVD±R, DVD±RW, CD-R, CD-RW formats and reads DVD-ROM and CD-ROM disks.

ASUS M930W is the killer of the Nokia E90. The main difference from the E90 is that ASUS will run on Windows Mobile 6.

New device is based on the tri-band GSM technology and work on 3G networks. Also it has 3.2 mega pixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, microSDHC slot. ASUS M930W has a processor which works on 520 Mhz frequency, 256 Mb integrated memory and 128 MB operating memory.

ASUS tries to take a place of the largest notebook company in the world. After release of the famous Eee PC company announced new ultra mobile laptop called ASUS U2.

The new laptop is the next version in the U-series after U1. As the previous version new laptop will be small, light and energy economical. ASUS U2 built on the Santa Rose platform and Intel Centrino technology. Laptop has Intel Core Duo ULV U7500, DDR2 memory, 11.1 inch monitor. Notebook will come with installed Windows Vista.

On the next CES exhibition Panasonic will introduce Plasma TV with 150″ diagonal.

TV with 381 cm diagonal will brake the record of previous large TV which was 103″ inch. New monster TV from Panasonic will be put on production line in 2009. Image above shows the 103 inch TV. Now you can compare how big will be the new Plasma TV from Panasonic.

Internet brought us new photos of the Nokia N96 - the phone everybody is waiting for.

First of all the new Nokia will have 5 mega pixel camera, Carl Zeiss technology and dual LED flash. Also N96 will have standing feature which allow to put phone in standing position and watch videos. Creators moved the speakers of the new model to the right side of the phone. One of them located at the right top corner and the other one in the bottom corner.

According to the Internet rumors this model will run on the new Symbian 9.5 FP2 and has ability to connect to the Wi-Fi networks.