Following the announced departure of Nokia’s current CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo ( who is to be replaced by Microsoft’s Stephen Elop), the Finnish company’s executive vice president and a member of Nokia Group Executive Board, Anssi Vanjoki, has also given notice of resignation from Nokia.

 

Vanjoki currently also heads Nokia’s Mobile Solutions unit and has given six months notice during which he will continue in that capacity.

 

“I felt the time has come to seek new opportunities in my life,” Vanjoki stated. “At the same time, I am one hundred per cent committed to doing my best for Nokia until my very last working day. I am also really looking forward to this year’s Nokia World and sharing news about exciting new devices and solutions.”

 

 

Oakley announced on Wednesday that it has engineered innovative new 3D eyewear that both complements and optimises the technology used in the majority of 3D cinemas around the globe. 

 

The company claims its 3D eyewear will maximise the 3D experience with an unrivalled level of performance, by employing its new HDO-3D technology, allowing its premium 3D eyewear to be the first to sport “optically correct lenses”.

 

Oakley 3D eyewear will be available in time for the 2010 holiday season in the US and will be launched globally in 2011.

 

 

 

Apple released iOS 4.1 Software Update this month for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, as well as the second, third and fourth-generation of the iPod touch devices. This update amongst other brought high dynamic range (HDR) photography to the iPhone 4. 

 

This enables users to take high quality photos that capture a wider range of light intensity by making use of the new HDR setting on iPhone 4, which automatically combines multiple exposures into a single HDR image. (Also seen on Canon’s new G12)

 

According to MacRumors, the company’s use of this technology was boosted by its purchase of a small UK-based company, imsense, who developed a technology called ‘eye-fidelity’.

 

This technology allows for the production of nearly instantaneous Dynamic Range Correction in both standard and HDR photos by utilising software algorithms to remap image tones in order to recuperate details lost in underexposed or overexposed parts of photos. It does this while also maintaining colour balance as well as generating final images as close to that perceived by the eye in reality as possible.  

 

 

 

 

For those Twitter users planning to follow the tweets of pop star John Mayer, don’t bother as it’s too late.  According to CNN, Mayer had an estimated 3.7 million followers on his Twitter account, but this week he decided to close his account.

 

His spokesman stated that it was because his Battle Studies Tour was “now at a close and a return to the studio planned.” The singer will from now on be keeping in touch with his fans via his blog.

 

 

According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Mac OS X celebrated its unofficial tenth birthday on Monday since Apple’s co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs provided the first glimpse of the OS during the Apple Expo in Paris on 13 September 2000.

 

The operating system itself however was actually released to the public on 24 March 2001, meaning Cupertino will probably only officially celebrate a decade of Mac OS X around that time next year.

 

 

 

The father of the open-source Operating system Linux, Linus Torvalds, might have been living in the States since moving there from Finland in 1997, but only recently became a US citizen. 

 

According to Geekosystem, this Linux Foundation software engineer, who has two US-born children, this week wrote on the Linux kernel mailing that he was going to test something “in a bit – I need to go do voter registration and socsec update first, though – I became a US citizen last week.”