The Wall Street Journal reports Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha has decided to adopt Google’s Android mobile operating system as one of the company’s three platforms for building next-generation cellular handsets and smartphones.

Jha, who left Qualcomm to join Motorola in early August, also reportedly intends to further trim the company’s workforce. Citing people familiar with the matter, the newspaper said Jha will announce the company’s next round of job cuts when Motorola reports its quarterly results on Thursday.

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It looks like the mini ­notebook (or often referred to as netbook) is now a bona fide market segment, with all the big companies jumping on the ­bandwagon to produce one as well.

So what we have here is the Ideapad S10, sporting almost all the same specifications as the rest of the mini notebooks on the market.

It has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom ­processor, 1GHz RAM, Windows XP Home Edition, 10in screen, webcam and all the usual ­complement of USB ports and VGA output.

However, the S10 does have one feature found in only one other notebook — an ExpressCard slot, something which until now, only the Hewlett-Packard MiniNote has.

So does the S10 sink or swim in a virtual sea of mini notebooks on the market? If you want the quick answer, skip to the end of this ­article. If you want the long answer, then read on. Read the rest of this entry »

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When Kim Kardashian, famous for being famous, sliced her foot on a piece of glass in a New York hotel room in August, the gossip Web site TMZ.com alerted fans over their cellphones. Traffic to the site jumped 10 percent within minutes.

Ms. Kardashian (pict.) also outranked her friend-turned-rival, Paris Hilton, as the most-searched celebrity in August on Yahoo’s mobile service (traffic surged after she danced with the Pussycat Dolls in Las Vegas).

Best known for a sex tape made with her boyfriend, Ms. Kardashian has achieved something on the smallest screen that has eluded her in her television career: an adoring audience. Can other would-be celebrities be far behind?

Celebrity gossip has long been a profitable staple of print, radio and television. More recently, it has made Web sites like Popsugar.com and PerezHilton.com some of the more popular destinations. But in recent months, as consumers started snapping up Web-enabled smartphones like the iPhone, the cellphone has become the latest medium to feed the appetite for up-to-the-second celebrity gossip.

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