The latest reports speculate that Nokia will unveil their first Windows Phone 7 smartphones on October 26th, months after their deal with Microsoft was made public.

If accurate, the launch date should coincide with Microsoft's release of the Mango update for the operating system, which should add some much needed features.

October 26th is when Nokia World begins in London, where the company will unveil the future of its mobile handsets.

There are still no clear details on what the first Nokia WP7 devices will look like, their specs or how they will stack up against the upcoming Android "superphones" and Apple's iPhone 5.

Nokia has said they will begin mass producing Windows Phone 7 devices in 2012.

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Apple rebuilds popular pro video editing software from the ground up.

Final Cut Pro X is a 64-bit application designed to work on the latest Mac systems in the market. The new iteration of the popular software tours a new Content Auto-Analysis feature that categorizes content on import by shot type, media and people, and a new Magnetic Timeline that lets you add and arrange clips wherever you want them, while other clips instantly slide out of the way.

Using Clip Connections, you can link primary story clips to other elements such as titles and sound effects, so they stay in perfect sync when you move them along the Timeline. Related story elements can be combined into a Compound Clip that can be edited as a single clip.

The Content Auto-Analysis feature scans media upon import and tags the content with information that helps it organize the clips into Smart Collections letting you filter clips easily by the type of shot (close, medium, wide) or by the amount of people in them. An Auditions feature lets you swap between a collection of clips to compare alternative takes easily.

"Final Cut Pro X is the biggest advance in Pro video editing since the original Final Cut Pro," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "We have shown it to many of the world's best Pro editors, and their jaws have dropped."



"I'm blown away by what Apple has done with Final Cut Pro," said Angus Wall, Academy Award-winning film editor. "Final Cut Pro X is incredibly modern and fast, but most importantly it lets you focus on telling your story in the most creative way, while it actively manages all of the technical details."

Final Cut Pro X is available for $299.99 from the Mac App Store. Two optional applications are also available to be used alongside Final Cut Pro X; Motion 5 and Compressor 4 for $49.99 each.

Get an overview of the program features here.

Tech specifications (including minimum requirements) are available here.

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PopCap, the company behind blockbuster games like Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, has denied reports today that it is being sold for $1 billion to an unnamed bidder.

Reads a tweet from Jennifer Kye of PopCap:

@MrPope Sorry, I might not have been clear. I was simply stating that @TechCrunch's article is not true," Kye said on her Twitter account. "I'll be working there next week! My boss confirmed it for me.

In the original article, speculation had been that Zynga was an early bidder but the price got too high, but Google, EA or an Asian company may have been the bidder.

PopCap has 4.3 million active daily gamers, and made $100 million in revenue last year, making it one of the most successful independent gaming outfits in the world.

For now, it appears PopCap's expected IPO is still on track for later this year.

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A Competition Commission of India official has said today that a complaint was filed against Apple alleging anti-competitive practices in regards to sales of the iPhone 4 in the nation.

The complaint alleges that Apple has broken the law by only offering the phone via two carrier, Bharti Airtel and Aircel.

Speaking anonymously, the official says the Commission is looking into the complaint and whether it requires further action.

Apple says it has not received notice from the Commission yet but waved off the complaint, adding they sell the iPhone unlocked through the operators and that all data plans bundled by the operators are optional.

As long as you have a GSM SIM card, you can use the unlocked iPhone 4 in India.

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Earlier this year, Amazon announced an unlimited movie and TV streaming service that is free to Amazon Prime users and would rival Netflix's Watch Instantly service.

Today the company has added 1000 new movies and TV show episodes, including a good portion in HD.

Amazon says they have added, for example, the last 7 seasons of Sesame Street, with 3 in HD, along with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in HD, as well.

Among some of the movies added (from quick glance at the list here) are Training Day, the Right Stuff and Superman: The Movie.

Amazon Prime Instant Videos are available for playback on desktops and over 300 devices including HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes.

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Update earlier this year halts surge of 'Autorun' malware family infections.

Microsoft released an update on February 8 for the Windows XP and Windows Vista platforms. The update targeted the "AutoPlay" feature of the operating system that let an Autorun.Inf file in removal media dictate what to execute immediately upon insertion.

The change would stop the Autorun feature from being enabled automatically on the platforms, except in the case of optical disc media. The update was sent out in response to a surge of detections of malware abusing the Autorun system to spread by removal media (USB sticks etc.)

Microsoft security products had tracked the malware under the family Win32/Autorun, and toward the end of 2010, the number of detections on systems skyrocketed past other frequently detected malware such as Win32/Conficker, Win32/Rimecud and Win32/Taterf.



Last week, Microsoft provided some statistics to show how effective the small change to the Autorun feature was at dropping the infection rate (again with data from Microsoft products, such as the Malicious Software Removal Tool delivered via Windows Update each month.)

By May, the number of infections found by Microsoft security products (of the Autorun family) had declined 59 percent on Windows XP systems, and 74 percent on Windows Vista, compared to the infection rates in 2010. The results also varied based on what service packs had been installed, with Windows Vista SP2 seeing an 82 percent decrease.

There was very little difference for Windows XP SP2 since it is out of support and didn't get the update, and likewise Windows 7 wasn't an issue to begin with as it already has a safer Autorun feature built in.



Total infections did not completely disappear because for much of the malware, the Autorun exploitation was only part of their strategy to propagate. On top of that, some of it is downloaded by other malware onto systems.

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