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News we can’t cope with, but we couldn’t let go, either:

• Apple will fork out $100 million to Creative for settling their mutual patent dispute. Apparently, the music browsing system that Apple uses in the iPod bears more than a passing resemblance to one that the Singapore-based company filed a patent for, back in January 2001. According to the joint press release, both companies are now more friends than ever.
  
• Nokia extends its 3G-cellphone range in Spain with two new models that one does not know if camera-fitted phones or phone-fitted cameras. One of them, the N93 (749 €; available today) records VGA video at 30 frames per second, while the N73 (509 €; available next week) takes 3.2-megapixel pictures with a Carl Zeiss lens and includes everything to post them on the Net.

• SanDisk challenges the iPod Nano in capacity and price with the new Sansa e280, the first MP3 player with 8 MB of Flash memory (250 €) and reduces the prices of the 2-GB (140 €), 4-GB (180 €) and 6-GB (220 €) models. There’s nothing like manufacturing your own flash memory, instead of purchasing it from third parties.
• The number of Windows Mobile licenses sold by Microsoft during its 2006 fiscal year grew by 90-percent over the previous year. The company reports WM revenues of $55 million, a 37-percent increase, so they must have been quite agressive in pricing. This was the first year in which Microsoft made some money with Windows Mobile, an still small area of its business, but also one of the fastest growing. More details on Microsoft’s Q4 FY2006 earnings report
• Mikael posts at Fosfor a gallery of the 10 most beautiful cellphones. Actually, there are fourteen of them (plus an old piece of junk), and as David Pogue writes, some of them look like ergonomic nightmares, but who cares when design is involved?

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