ITV to sell Friends Reunited for just £15m
ITV is close to selling Friends Reunited to internet entrepreneur Peter Dubens at a loss of £160m, according to reports. Duben’s private equity firm Oakley Capital is understood to have presented a £15m bid for the social network, which ITV bought for £175m in December 2005.
New Media Age

Google releases multi-touch Android to devs
Google has released the latest iteration of its Android OS to the developer world and comes complete with multi-touch compatibility, text to speech recognition and other goodies to improve Android to its 2.0 status.
Tech Radar

Vodafone angles for T-Mobile
Vodafone’s chief executive has called for consolidation between operators in the UK market increasing speculation it will bid for T-Mobile. Vodafone’s CEO, Vittorio Colao, said that fewer networks in the UK’s saturated market would mean lower costs for customers reported.
Mobile Today

Nokia, LG, Samsung boost handset shipments
Nokia, LG and Samsung all grew market share, as an analyst reports that 269 million handsets were shipped in the second quarter of 2009. While the global economy remains stagnant, 269 million mobile handsets were shipped in the second quarter of 2009, according to ABI Research.
eWeek

Apple tablet unveiling brought forward
Apple addicts need no longer wait until early 2010 to get their hands on the firm’s long-rumoured tablet PC, because it has emerged that the firm is gunning for a launch within months. It has been reported that Apple is working towards a September 2009 launch date for the tablet PC.
The Register

Nokia boosts its social networking
Nokia is to buy certain assets of social networking software company Cellity, based in Hamburg, Germany. Cellity offers a solution to collect and store users’ contacts in one place. The service will not run under Nokia's ownerhip. Nokia takes on Cellity's 14 staff, and will work in its services unit.
Mobile News

Ericsson wins battle for Nortel
Ericsson has acquired the CDMA and LTE assets of ailing Nortel Networks, after it beat Nokia Siemens in an auction on Friday. Acquiring Nortel’s North American CDMA business would help the firm expand its long-term commitment to North America and aid its efforts towards migrating customers to LTE.
Personal Computer World

Microsoft to offer browser choice with Windows 
Microsoft will offer users a choice of five different browsers when they first install Windows 7, as it seeks to ward off EU legislation. The new system will present users with a "ballot" screen when they first install Windows, offering the choice of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari.
PC Pro

HP plans electronic whiteboarding tool
HP announced that it to introduce an electronic collaboration tool that combines videoconferencing with electronic whiteboarding in coming months plans, saying this tool goes beyond anything Microsoft has developed.
ZDNet UK