Internet search giant Google has been found guilty of copyright infringement by a court in Paris. French publisher, La Martiniere, was awarded 300,000 Euros ($ 430,000) in damages and interest. Google was also ordered to pay the sum of 10,000 Euros ($ 14,000) each day until it withdraws the book extracts from its database. The court hearing was initiated by the French Publishers’ Association, La Martiniere and SGDL – an author’s group – who demanded that Google be forced to pay 15m Euros ($ 21m).

Google won’t be too concerned about the size of the settlement – but the ruling may have a bearing on Google’s project to scan as much of the world’s books as possible and to make these available online. At the moment, Google is in the process of scanning as many books as it can. Books no longer covered by copyright law are made available in their entirety. Others covered by copyright may either have small sections made available online or have the entire book made available under an agreed licensing scheme.

The brand new Nokia N900 is an amazing Smartphone. A new addition to the world of Nokia smartphones, the N900 can stand its own when compared to other devices on the market.

Key attributes of the N900:

Appearance – Although a bit chunky, this phone hides a powerful TI OMAP 3430 processor with ARM Cortex-A8 which runs at 600 MHz. Even though a bit bigger in dimension, this phone does not compensate on trend. The N900 is glossy, sleek, and jet black. They keyboard slides into the front panel and the camera is located at the back. A shutter protects this phone’s Carl Zeiss camera lens. There’s a 3.5 mm headphone jack at the top position also having the lock key. are there.

Touchscreen – It has a 5 inch touchscreen offering a resolution of 800×480 pixels. The screen allows you to support 16 million colors. The touchscreen is simple to use and rather reactive.

2009 has been a good year for Amazon, and a lot of their success has been due to the Kindle ebook reader. The original Kindle was launched in November 2007. It sold out in five and a half hours and new stock wasn’t available for months.

Amazon released the Kindle 2 in February of this year, and it featured several enhancements over the original model. They then followed up very quickly with the large format Kindle DX. Amazon now had a “family” of Kindles and, helped by a fair bit of free publicity from bestselling writers like Stephen King, partnerships with universities and colleges together with a lot of discussion by political bodies, the Kindle quickly became synonymous with e-book readers.

Of course, Amazon’s competitors were also checking out the nascent e-book reader market and wondering how to get their share. Currently, there is a very impressive list of manufacturers who all have their own e-book readers in development. Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Barnes and Noble and Asus are just a sample of the competition lining up against Amazon.

If you are after a thin laptop then you can’t get much thinner than the Apple Macbook Air. It’s about the size of a piece of paper (well maybe not quite). This hot laptop is Apple’s entry into the ultraportable laptop market. They have entered with a bang as the Macbook Air is really something to talk about.

Looking at the Macbook Air really does make you want it. Sure there are thinner laptops out there, but do they have anything on the design of the Macbook Air? Not one bit… With the Macbook Air came a laptop that people wanted to show off.

It’s more a fashion item more than anything. If you have one of these you certainly dont want to keep it to yourself. The aluminium casing reassures you that the build quality has not been sacrificed for the size.

The design is fantastic but the power of the laptop is not as good as some others. The Macbook Air is definitely not the fastest of laptops on the market. The Macbook Air is powerful enough to be used for basic processes but you may not want to replace your desktop with it.