Seems searchasaurus Google has an eye on every business opportunity under the sun. We've already learned that the company is shooting for the moon; now, according to Guardian Unlimited, the company is in talks with mobile-phone maker Orange to spawn a mobile device primed for performing search from anywhere.

According to the report, in which anonymous sources are cited: "their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange's logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese firm specialising in smart phones and Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), it might have a screen similar to a video iPod. But it would have built-in Google software which would dramatically improve on the slow and cumbersome experience of surfing the web from a mobile handset."

In an overture to knowledge workers with wanderlust, Hewlett-Packard and Cingular have launched what they are claiming is the world's first notebook with built-in global 3G capabilities.

The HP Compaq nc6400 boasts a built-in Cingular Wireless UMTS/HSDPA module -- in plain English, hardware that lets the notebook connect to Cingular's global high-speed data network in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, and much of Asia, with more than two dozen countries in all.

Mobile phone use among children is growing

Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phones, often without realising they can be breaking the law.  A survey of almost 1,500 eight to 13-year-olds found almost a third shared music via their mobiles.

A smartphone with some neat features, but its lack of a mini-USB connector makes synching tricky

Launched this autumn, Sony Ericsson's P990i should appeal to mobile professionals who need a feature-rich, versatile device. Costing £570 + VAT without a contract, the P990i weighs only 155g and runs the newest release of the Symbian OS, version 9.1.

New family of chips is Marvell's first rendition of the XScale processor it acquired from Intel

Marvell Technology Group launched a family of chips Wednesday that could speed Web browsing on cell phones, marking the company's first rendition of the XScale processor it acquired from Intel.

Nicholas Negroponte’s project to outfit every third world child with his or her very own US $100 laptop moves one step closer to reality with the first 10 laptops shipped at a cost of US $150 each.

Called the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ project, and spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte, these laptops are designed to be used by children in the tough conditions of third world countries, and are built to suit.
 

In the past six months a disturbing trend has emerged involving the theft of laptops containing sensitive personal information -- most recently from the home of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs data analyst.
 

The first domain suffixes especially created for mobile devices became available on Monday, but some critics say a new domain naming plan is unnecessary.

On Monday, Mobile Top Level Domain, the company put in charge by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last summer of allocating the domain names, opened initial domain name registration.

The GP2X is an open-source portable gaming machine that claims to offer four times more power than the DS.

GP32/2x Distribution Ltd has announced that the GP2X is now available in the UK. It is the successor to the GP32 handheld, which sold more than 32,000 units. The console features a 240MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and 64MB of onboard NAND flash memory. It will retail for £124.99 in the UK.

LONDON - Nokia Corp. is adding the Google Talk application to a Nokia handheld Internet browsing device, in a move that could help boost the search company's reach in mobile communications.

Finland-based Nokia on Tuesday plans to announce that an upgraded version of its Internet Tablet device will come ready loaded with Google Inc.'s Talk service, which enables users to have voice conversations and exchange instant messages, according to a person familiar with the plans.
 

Sao Paulo, Brazil – At least five mobile phones have exploded in the past two years, causing serious burns, injuries, and increased anxiety amongst phone users. 
 

Nokia to Add Google Talk Application to Handheld Internet Browsing Device

LONDON — Nokia Corp. is adding the Google Talk application to a Nokia handheld Internet browsing device, in a move that could help boost the search company's reach in mobile communications.

 

LOS ANGELES - The vintage video arcade game Super Pac-Man was revived for play on Sprint mobile telephones as computer game makers showed off their latest wares at the industry's largest trade show. 
 

Motorola will demonstrate communications servers based on Linux and other open standards at the GlobalComm trade show, June 4-8 in Chicago. Faster ATCA switch fabrics and MicroTCA products will help drive adoption of modular, COTS (commercial off-the-shelf), open-standards based systems into data plane and edge applications, Motorola says.

Cell Phone Cameras Are More Available and Cost Less

When a devastating tsunami swept Southeast Asia and claimed more than 200,000 lives, video taken from cell phone cameras offered some of the most immediate and captivating images of the disaster as it happened. It was one of the first times cell phone video recorders played such a large part in a major news story.
 

F-Secure has extended its Mobile Antivirus tool to cover handsets based on the Symbian OS 9 platform
 
F-Secure has extended its Mobile Antivirus tool to cover handsets based on the Symbian OS 9 platform, which includes forthcoming enterprise phones from Nokia.

Opera Software makes it easier for mobile users to buy mobile content 
 
Opera Software said Wednesday that it aims to make it easier for mobile users to buy ringtones and other mobile content with the availability of the Opera Mini 2.0 browser.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The head of the world's largest chip maker on Wednesday unveiled a mobile personal computer designed to provide affordable collaborative learning environments for teachers and students around the world.
 

HELSINKI —Nokia has started deliveries of its E61 business phone with full keyboard, a model directly competing with RIM's BlackBerry device, the world's largest handset maker said on Wednesday. 
 
"First deliveries started late last week. It's gradually becoming available across the globe," Pekka Isosomppi, spokesman for Nokia's Enterprise division.

HONG KONG —Peng Shan, a spirited 21-year-old Beijing design student, changes her cellphone 's ringback tones as often as people change clothes, part of a growing fad that's delivering piles of cash to China's mobile carriers.
 
 "They reflect my feelings," she said cheerfully in a phone interview. "I choose a lively pop song when I'm delighted, and a soothing ballad when I'm frustrated."

Wi-Fi to become common mobile feature

The rise of VoIP will mean that Wi-Fi will become as common a feature in mobiles as it currently is in laptops, according to Infonetics

Source: allheadlinenews

Converged Wi-Fi and VoIP phones are still a drop in the handset ocean this year — but don't rule them out as the next big thing yet, a new report has suggested.

Domain aims to improve internet on phones

A new attempt to promote the use of mobile internet got under way on Monday as the mobile industry was given the go-ahead to create a special “.mobi” internet domain to run alongside “.com”, “.net” and “.org”.

By Maija Pesola, FT.com

The new “.mobi” extension will be used to denote internet pages that have been designed to be viewed on mobile phones.

PalmOne Beefs Up Storage Space with LifeDrive

The new device features a 4GB hard drive, file management capabilities, and built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

By Shelley Solheim, eWEEK

PalmOne Inc. Wednesday launched what it says is the first in a line of a new class of mobile devices.

Unlike traditional handhelds, which are more oriented toward calendar and contact organization, and smart phones, geared toward voice and data communication, PalmOne's new LifeDrive Mobile Manager is more like a mobile suitcase.

Nokia starts to shift N-Gage from console to platform

How ironic. When Nokia launched the N-Gage back in 2003, it insisted the device was a console first and a phone second.

By Tony Smith, theregister

But you're a phone company, we said, of course it's a phone that plays games. No, Nokia insisted, N-Gage is a handheld games platform that just happens to allow you to make calls, send texts etc.

How the world has changed since then. Nokia's attitude to N-Gage certainly has, no doubt because the console/phone/whatever singularly failed to set the mobile gaming world alight. It took Nokia over a year to sell 1m N-Gages - Nintendo shipped that many DS hanhelds in a month.