Just load up greySox String Trio, choose a bit of classical music, and press “play”. The music loads in and plays based on the strokes of the virtual “bow” that is your iPhone or iPod Touch. String Trio uses the motion sensor in your iPhone to detect the angle and length of your strokes, and adjusts the playback of the music accordingly. You can either choose automatic accompaniment (hence the “trio” part of the name), or perform a solo without any backing instruments.

Intel Celeton 743 ULV 1.3GHz processor, 3GB of RAM, integrated graphics and a 11.6-inch LED-backlit display are only some of the features.

The OWLE iPhone Video Mount($130) provides a ergonomic solution for holding your iPhone while capturing video. The iPhone iPhone 3G or 3GS fits inside included silicone case, then slips into the mount itself, and even includes a boom mic which attaches to the iPhone’s headphone jack for capturing slightly better audio. It also comes standard with 37mm lens threading, as well as a 0.45x Wide angle/macro combination lens.

Firefox has finally achieved one of its main goals, surpassing Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser. StatCounter’s data shows that Firefox 3.5 had 21.93 percent market share at the end of last week, compared with 21.2 percent for IE 7 and 20.33 percent for IE 8. That’s certainly good news of Mozilla, but if you ignore the versioning, IE still wins with some 55 percent of the web, while Firefox can claim around 32 percent.

A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court. Toronto-based i4i Inc. sued Microsoft in 2007, saying it owned the technology behind a tool in the popular word processing program. The technology in question gives Word users an improved way to edit XML, or code that tells the program how to interpret and display a document's contents.

The man, Howard Schmidt, is a well known figure. Under the previous US administration, he held a role as an advisor on cybersecurity. He also is currently serving as the CEO of the Information Security Forum, has worked in security for both eBay and Microsoft, and also worked with the Army and Air Force in security roles.

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The new GPU is supposedly good enough for "high-end" HTPC use, but manufacturers can add switchable discrete GPUs, so don't fret too much. Both Arrandale chips have Intel's latest hyperthreading tech, and the mobile i5 also has the Turbo Boost core-overclocking feature found in the desktop i5 and i7, which redirects power to a single core to boost performance when needed.

Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).

The new "e-skin", created as part of Philips' ongoing e-paper research, could mean that the colour and appearance of a gadget's surface, with examples given including MP3 players or mobile phones, could be changed to "match your outfit", your mood or environment at the touch of a button.

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