In its recent confirmation about choosing the Linux-based MeeGo platform for its flagship N-series smartphones, Nokia told CNET Australia and Reuters that the Nokia N8 will be the last N-series handset to use the company's Symbian operating system.

For its patent-infringement countersuit against Microsoft, Salesforce. com has brought on David Boies on its legal team - Boies, a key figure from Microsoft's past, has already represented the Justice Department in its antitrust action against the software giant.

In a quiet move to apparently drive the sales of the not-too-well-received Microsoft handsets - Kin One and Kin Two - Verizon has slashed their prices, merely six weeks after their release.

In its Monday announcement the Apple iPhone's exclusive US carrier AT&T said that it has completed its upgrades of 3G network in New York; and claimed that the upgrade project, over the last six months, has resulted in a steady improvement of service in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

According to the most recent statistics released by Web analytics firm StatCounter, the Google Chrome browser has become the third-ranking browser in the US, after having deposed the Apple Safari for the first time last week. The Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and the Mozilla Firefox browsers retained their respective top two positions as the most popular browsers during the week.

With the omnipresence of Google already evident from the fact that it helps users search the Internet, send emails to one another, track the places people to go and countless other things, rumors are now making rounds that Google will soon be integrating all the mentioned information into a social website.