Last Week In Tech

Here’s giving you a run though of the most popular news stories, the ones that our readers found most interesting on Tech2 this week.

And in case you missed out on some updates here’s the list in the order of their popularity:

With everything a PC has, now available on a mobile phone the entry of Windows XP on the same was the most read story on our site last week.

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Sony Ericsson’s long-awaited X10, their first Android-powered handset was finally launched and yes a lot of you were as kicked about it as Shayne. It will be available in the first quarter of next year.

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What is the US HIRE Bill and why is India’s $250-billion IT sector worried? Is the internet dead? What's this theory that OpenAI's Sam Altman says might be true?

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Facebook may be wildly popular but there’s no denying that Orkut is still loved. The news that Google was giving it a new look was the third most popular news so go figure.

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Nokia announced five new affordable, ’easy’ phones for the masses. The phones will also support Life Tools, the service that gives consumers in small towns and rural areas the ability to get a range of livelihood and life-improvement services on their mobile phones. We like.

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Windows 7 launched with a lot of fanfare and promises and within days Sophos found out that it was vulnerable to 8 out 10 viruses.

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Low-end or high-end, Nokia’s phones are horribly popular. The X series touch handsets announced at Nokia World will be available soon and yes they are expensive.

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The cute Corby is here and at less than Rs. 10,000 is one of the cheapest touchscreen handsets in India. Available in lively, funky colors the Corby comes with some pretty good features.

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India has huge piracy problem and Windows 7 was not spared. About 50,000 pirated DVDs of Microsoft Windows 7 are estimated to have been sold here since the official launch on Oct 22, generating unaccounted business of around Rs.50 lakh (nearly $100,000).

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Service providers are slashing rates trying to outdo each other and Vodafone’s local, STD calls at 1p/sec in the Karnataka circle was just another example.

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Size zero is in. And how apt is it for a size zero actress to be modelling a size sero laptop just to get the message across. Sony Vaio’s skinny laptops, series X, was launched this week and actress Kareena Kapoor is endorsing them.

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