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• Intel and Nokia to join in mobile chip marriage

  Intel is hoping that a deal with mobile phone maker Nokia will create a new stable of mobile products with "Intel Inside". Intel is expected to announce a partnership in a press conference slated for 8:30 a.m. PDT Tuesday. The possibilities for both companies here are huge. Intel will be able to sell hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of new CPUs into a new mobile market, while Nokia gains access to technologies such as the Atom processor, which can spawn a new generation of devices.

• O2 to cut off unauthorised iPhone web tetherers

  Apple iPhone owners who've upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0 have been told by O2 not to tether their phones to laptops in order to enjoy free 3G connectivity of their PCs. O2 says it will disconnect anyone who attempts to use their iPhone as a modem without paying the necessary charges.

• Apple claims 1M iPhone 3G S smartphones sold first weekend

  Apple announced today that it sold one million iPhone 3G S phones through Sunday, three days after the device launched, matching last year's sales mark of the iPhone 3G.

• Apple iPhone 3.0: Evolution, not revolution

  The first iPhone was revolutionary, the first smartphone that really worked. People who expect the iPhone 3GS or yesterday's iPhone 3.0 software upgrade to be equally exciting will be disappointed. Not because the product is bad, but because It's hard for any third release to be as dramatic as the first.

• The Palm Pre is out. So where's the SDK?

  Palm's answer to the much-celebrated Apple iPhone, the Palm Pre, was released on June 6 via a partnership with Sprint. But it still remains to be seen when a software development kit will be generally available to leverage capabilities in the device.

• June gadgets are Go with new PSP

  June is always a busy month for new gadgets. The E3 video games show, Taiwan's Computex IT show and Singapore's CommunicAsia all provide a launching pad for new products and other companies are busy preparing new gizmos for the upcoming mid-year holidays. And 2009 was no exception.

• CSIRO chases mobile makers in patent battle

  The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has begun to follow-up from its successful wireless technology patent battle, by chasing royalty payments from another group of manufacturers.

• Acer aims to be a top-five smartphone vendor

  Acer, the world's third largest PC vendor, plans to be among the top five in smartphones within the next few years by creating handsets aimed at people in different market segments and working judiciously on its user interface software.

• Samsung's Android smartphone gets first outing

  Samsung Electronics showed off its upcoming Galaxy smartphone, which runs Google's Android operating system, at the CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore on Tuesday.

• Next batch of Acer smartphones due out in September

  Acer plans to send its three latest smartphones to market in September, with two of the new handsets priced for the recession.

• Developers asked to stop tethering talk on Palm Pre

  Palm Inc. has "politely" cautioned a developer forum not to allow online discussions of tethering with the new Palm Pre.

• Nokia expands XpressMusic line with cheap touch phone

  Nokia has announced the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, a cheaper version of its successful touch phone, the 5800 XpressMusic, it said on Monday.

• iPhone surcharge protest highlight carriers' loss of control

  Ask smartphone users anywhere in the U.S. what they think of their wireless carriers, and you will get an earful.

• Pricey Nokia phone faces tough competition

  "The hottest release of the summer," according to Nokia, is not the new iPhone 3G S or the Palm Pre. It's the N97, Nokia's newest high-end phone and one that few people have probably heard of.

• Ovum: New iPhone marks Apple's continued smartphone focus

  "The latest version of the iPhone marks Apple's continued focus on the smartphone market," said Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst with Ovum. The advisory and research firm expects 171.9 million smartphones globally to be shipped this year, a growth of 23 per cent on 2008 and will represent 15 per cent of the total worldwide mobile phone market in 2009.