The much anticipated Google Nexus One made by HTC was launched just hours ago at an exlusive Android press event. The device showcases a 1Ghz processor made by Qualcomm, a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, voice recognition and typing software, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash,…

So 2010 and we have the first toy of the year, and what seems to be the first genuine contender against the iPhone, 3 years late ( not Google the competition ) but finally here. Watch it live !

Once again, I’ve visited the handy online tool and spent a few hours weighting words for the wordle advanced tool and the result is shown below. If you’d like to download this file as a wallpaper, visit my Deviant art profile tfngwena.deviantart.com

Spinvox, the company that listens to your voicemails and sends them to you as a text, has been sold to Nuance for a total of $102.5 million ( $66 cash, the rest in stock ). The sale has come at a time when Spinvox has been weathering some tough times with investors, as well as allegations that they employed staff (real people) to process the voice-mails they had been processing.

As we say goodbye to the noughties and 2009 comes to an end, its worth looking back at some of the defining trends, toys, and game shifters of 2009. This year saw alot of concepts first conceived in 2008, materialise and mature and towards the end of 2009, the all important question of profitability and longevity being asked of nealry all the players. So lets take a look and see how things went.