Microsoft to acquire Musiwave

Openwave, the company that makes the web browser that is probably on your non-smartphone just sold Musiwave. They had acquired Musiwave is 2005 for $120 million and now have flipped it to Microsoft. Musiwave is a mobile music distribution company/platform and will be a nice addition to Microsoft's WinMo platform and the Zune. Windows Mobile, currently in a fierce fight with Nokia's Symbian OS. Buying Musiwave is an attempt by Microsoft to to integrate more into the European market where they have been embattled in regulatory hell. Musiwave is based in Paris and will help Microsoft get more involved in Europe where there is no doubt going to be strong moves made by the iPhone and eventually by Google's Android.

Nokia's N810 Internet tablet

This thing is pretty damn amazing. It covers almost all the bases, all it needs is a cellular antenna. Luckily for HTC it doesn't. It can make calls via Skype though so if you are insistent on using this as your primary phone device you can figure something out. Along with WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 4.15" WVGA screen, browsing the web on Nokia's Mozilla based browser with Adobe Flash 9 plug-in will be a great experience. The VGA camera, miniSD, microSD, and up to 2 GB of on-board storage make this thing extremely powerful. It also has a TI OMAP 400 mHz processor is no slouch either.

The N810 has 4 hours of battery with the display on and LAN active and 10 hours when playing just music. It has a slide-out QWERTY and still manages to be a nearly anorexic .55" thin. It has a 3.5mm headphone jack and can support almost all forms of media. Coming out in a week or so at a price of $480. I am excited to see one of these things in action.