Owners of the first generation of Nokia’s Symbian^3 smartphones – particularly the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7 – will now be able to download the latest Symbian Anna update, after the Finnish mobile giantmade it availablevia both its Ovi software and the software update option on the specified devices. The new update brings with it new icons, improved keyboard and maps, slip-screen typing and an faster, slicker browser. Maps now include a better search function, transport routes and have been given added social options, whilst Nokia has bumped up email support, hardware-accelerated encryption and secure intranet access....

The inner workings of Nokia have been detailed once again by the staff over atMobile Review, providing an insight into what the Finnish mobile giant has planned for its new range of Windows Phone 7 handsets, expected to debut early next year. Initial reports suggest Nokia and Microsoft are having difficulty agreeing on naming conventions of their new smartphones, debating whether to retain the indexes that Nokia has previously employed in the past....

Samsung will become the world’s largest smartphone vendor in the third quarter of 2011, replacing beleaguered mobile manufacturer Nokia, which has held top position for the past fourteen years,according to Nomura. The financial institution believes that Apple will also overtake Nokia, beating the Finnish vendor into second place in the next quarter, after failing to hold back growth of the iOS and Android smartphone operating systems. Nokia remains the world’s biggest producer of mobile phones, thanks to the popularity of its handsets in emerging markets....

For a couple of weeks now, I have been walking with a strange feeling inside. To tell the truth, it’s a feeling that even now sounds ridiculous to me … that maybe I’m not doing enough! A week ago, I saw a video withMeebo’sfounder atTechCrunch. In one part he talked about being the non-coding guy in the Meebo pre-launch. He said that in pre-launch time, he used to bring the coding guys sandwiches and be there for morale....

Last year, nearly200 million peoplevisited the website of Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit that many people turn to for very private matters like sex education, access to contraceptives, and access to abortions. What those visitors may not have known is that as soon as they opened plannedparenthood.org, some two dozen ad trackers embedded in the site alerted a slew of companies whose business is not reproductive freedom but gathering, selling, and using browsing data....