Macworld.com - Norway is known for many things: Norse gods, the work of Henrik Ibsen, and a second place spot on the United Nations's Human Development Index (unseated just this past year from the top spot by rival Iceland). -- read full article
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game
console outsold Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 for the
seventh consecutive month in Japan in June, a game magazine
publisher said. -- read full article
Reuters - India's telecoms ministry does not
see any security risk from Research In Motion's popular
BlackBerry e-mail service and has no plans to shut the service,
a top government official said on Wednesday. -- read full article
AFP - BlackBerry mobile devices do not pose a security threat and no permission is needed from the Indian government to make the service available, an official said Wednesday, according to media reports.
AP - In a July 1 story about the new version of the iPhone, The Associated Press, relying on information from an AT&T spokesman, erroneously reported that the carrier is working on creating a prepaid plan for the phone. Spokesman Michael Coe later said he miscommunicated, and that there will be no prepaid plan for the iPhone 3G. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Both states require drivers to use a headset or other hands-free approach if they want to chat on a cell phone while driving. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Customers will have to pay more to use Apple's latest smartphone -- including an extra fee for text messaging. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft is looking to maintain recent Xbox sales' momentum in the face of stiff competition from Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii unit. -- read full article
AP - Q: I want to get rid of my landline phone service and go all wireless, but I don't want to lose my home phone number. Can I transfer it to my cell phone? -- read full article
