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The next version of Nokia’s tool for S60 widget development is currently in beta testing. In ‘A First Look at Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio 2.0’ I’ve been given the opportunity to preview the new features and find a considerably richer tool, offering support for all the current and forthcoming S60 widget features.

Today AMD is celebrating its 40th anniversary and to celebrate how far theyve come since the days of summer love and bell bottoms they want to give back to their fans and your readers for helping them reach this important milestone. In a series of contest giveaways that will take place over the coming months, AMD will be giving away more than 80 prizes ranging from smoking hot AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processors to ultrathin notebooks to Xbox 360s.

For the first half of the contest, we challenge AMD enthusiasts to submit a video (no longer than 60 seconds) wishing AMD a happy 40th anniversary in the most creative way possible. All imaginative manifestations are welcome, but the one requirement is that the video must somehow say, Happy 40th Anniversary AMD. Three grand prize winners will each receive a high-end ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, and 40 first place winners will receive an ATI Radeon 4650 graphics card.

Maps on Ovi, a comprehensive mapping service running on Nokia’s web servers and which syncs down to Maps 3.0 running on S60 3rd Edition FP1 and FP2 phones, was initially released for Windows-based browsers but has just gone live for Safari on the Mac. As with Windows, there’s a browser plug-in involved. See below for screenshots and brief comments.

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On Wednesday, details emerged of HP's MediaSmart Server LX195, a home server packing a 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor that's priced at $400 with 1GB of memory and a 640GB hard disk drive. To date, HP has been using Intel Celeron and Advanced Micro Devices' Sempron processors.

Earlier this month, Acer rolled out the Acer AspireRevo, a small, slick box that augments the Atom with an Nvidia Ion chipset to boost graphics performance. This is expected to be priced well under $300 for some models. Asus was one of the first to bring out a head-swiveling Atom-based desktop–the Eee Box, which has been updated recently with ATI graphics. By design, Atom is a more power-frugal and, as a result, a slower processor than Intel's mainstream Core 2 chip architecture. HP, for example, markets its MediaSmart server as a storage hub, which typically doesn't require much processing punch. And Atom is cheap–the Atom 230 is $29, whereas comparative Celeron chips are about $34 but draw much more power. And mainstream Core 2 Duo desktop processors start at about $110.

Apple Inc is hiring new employees from the semiconductor industry and is building the capability to design its own chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The iPhone and iPod maker hopes its efforts will lead to new features for its devices and enable it to share fewer details about it plans with outside chip vendors, the report said, citing people familiar with Apple's plans.

Apple has been hiring engineers to create multifunction chips that are used in cell phones, the Journal report said. Sources familiar with Apple's plans don't expect internally designed chips to emerge until next year at the earliest, it said. Last year, Apple acquired P.A. Semi, a designer of low-power microchips, in a move analysts said bolstered its ability to customize key parts for its iPhone, iPod and Macintosh product lines.

Released as free widgets for the Nokia 5800 and N97, PixelsBeatPaper has released interactive maps of the titled underground systems. Nothing fancy, just clear scrollable maps. If you dig a bit further into their site, you’ll see utilities for bill splitting, body-mass-index calculating and a countdown timer, all again only for S60 5th Edition.

Building on the success of the M1010 netbook, Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific has announced the new M2010 that features brilliant screen, bigger keypads and higher processing performance for the mobile users.

As part of the Nokia Developer Summit, the widely publicised Nokia Hackathon ended with a victory for a Mexican designer, with Rocket, a social location widget that will be featured on the front screen of the Nokia N97. It’s not known which social network this is compatible with. There’s an extract from the press release below.

Today, Canon announced a new addition to its LEGRIA line of camcorders, the HV40. This camcorder features True Full HD CMOS sensor (1920 x 1080), 10x optical and 200x digital zoom, Canon’s DIGIC DV II imaging processor and claims to be the ideal choice for video enthusiasts and independent film-makers.