Apple iPhone

According to the latest speculations on the web Apple will integrate some Facebook features into its new iPhone software. The rumors say that these features could be unveiled by the company during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7.

Some unnamed sources report that Apple is at least planning to include Facebook contact syncing directly into the iPhone software and thus users will be able to pull Facebook contacts into their iPhone phonbooks which is nothing new as many other manufacturers of mobile phones are already offering.

At the end of last week Samsung revealed the first phone based on its own operating system bada. The technology underlying the operating system is Samsung’s TouchWiz system used on its touch-screen non-smart phones. The company wants this way to challenge Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry markets.

J.K. Shin, the president of Samsung's phone division, said the goal of bada was to expand the market for smart phones, making them available to people across the world who have made do with non-smart phones.

 Nokia Oyj plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, a source told Reuters on Monday, dampening prospects of a quick makeover of the Finnish group's struggling product line-up.

But a spokesman said the world's biggest handset maker had no plans to sell its manufacturing plants, clarifying earlier comments by an executive in the run-up to the firm's strategy update on Wednesday.

Zenius Solutions, a leading NFC software company, has announced the integration of its software to an NFC add-on for GSM phones, offering the ability to easily enable interactive NFC capability on current mobile phones.  The solution expands on current NFC offerings in the market by supporting multiple NFC applications, providing control to the user from the handset screen, and supporting remote pro