Nokia shows off first Windows 7 handset

Nokia has given the world a glimpse of its first Windows Phone 7 handset, at an event in Singapore, promising there are many more working devices already in the pipeline, notes V3.co.uk.

The device was shown by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who referred to it by the codename Sea Ray when he showed it to the audience in what was possibly meant to be an impromptu unveiling, but which looks in the online video of the event to have been a carefully planned moment.

Nokia's handset appears to be very similar to the N9 smartphone that the company officially unveiled earlier this week, and which runs the MeeGo platform jointly developed by Nokia and Intel.

US federal regulators are preparing to issue court orders to Google and other companies as part of a probe into practices in Google's search engine business, US media reports, according to the BBC.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to open a formal inquiry within the next several days, the Wall Street Journal said.

The FTC is looking at whether Google manipulates its search results to steer users to its own sites and services. Google has not commented on the matter.

Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are pushing ahead with another suit against Facebook, a day after they decided not to appeal a US Supreme Court ruling upholding their $65 million settlement with Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, says Reuters.

In a status report filed yesterday with the US District Court of Massachusetts, the twins and their business partner, Divya Narendra, said they would move the court for discovery on whether Facebook “intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence” during settlement proceedings over claims that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a college social networking Web site.

The claim in the Massachusetts court relates to documents and communications that would have thrown light on the exact relationship between the twins and Zuckerberg at the time of Facebook's founding, and says Facebook should have disclosed those documents during the original settlement discussions.

The Office for National Statistics has confirmed that UK census data collected in March is safe and has not been hacked, reveals The Register.

The rumour that LulzSec had pinched the data on 25 million UK households started when someone put a fake note on PasteBi.

LulzSec had already denied the break-in two days ago. The hacking collective, which has already denied any connection with alleged hacker Ryan Cleary, is promising more action today.