Intel and Nokia Corporation have announced a partnership that focuses on developing a new Intel Architecture class for mobile computing.  The new platform will be used in future notebooks, netbooks, and mobile devices.

Both companies will partner on several open source mobile projects using the Linux operating system.  Through the partnership, Intel will also buy the Nokia HSPA/3G modem IP license for future products.

“This Intel and Nokia collaboration unites and focuses many of the brightest computing and communications minds in the world, and will ultimately deliver open and standards-based technologies, which history shows drive rapid innovation, adoption and consumer choice,” stated Intel SVP and General Manager Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Corporation. “With the convergence of the Internet and mobility as the team’s only barrier, I can only imagine the innovation that will come out of our unique relationship with Nokia. The possibilities are endless.”

[via Intel PR/TechMeme]

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is working on a new project called Xiant.  Xiant is an e-mail startup that makes using Microsoft Outlook much easier.  Xiant Filer allows users to make message filing much easier.  There is no need to change around Microsoft Outlook to make Filer work.  It integrates quite well within Microsoft Outlook.

There is a one click interface with Xiant Filer for filing messages.  There is also batch filing which allows users to move batches of individual messages.

Working on Xiant may help Allen forget about all the money he lost through his investment with Charter Communications.  Allen invested $7 billion for a 52% stake in Charter, but sold nearly all of his Class A common stock holdings for $996 million last week according to PeHUB.

Xiant is available as a free 60 day trial download from their website.

One of Xiant’s biggest competitors is Y-Combinator startup Xobni.  Xobni has about $14.6 million in funding between Y-Combinator, several VC firms, Cisco, the BlackBerry Partners fund, and several private investors.  However Allen is worth about $10.5 billion as of this year.

2tor has announced that they have raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures and was co-invested by Novak Biddle Venture Partners and City Light Capital.  The company was founded by Princeton Review Inc. founder John Katzman.  2tor is an online education company that helps universities manage online courses.

“2tor is proving that online education can be excellent and innovative. We are delighted to have Redpoint, Novak Biddle, and City Light on our team, as well as the expertise, commitment and perspective of their partners,” stated Katzman in a press release. “With them, we will continue to scale up our first program, ready the launch of our second, and step up to the role as the bridge between great universities and online learning.”

As part of the funding, Redpoint Partner Greg Martin and Novak Biddle General Partner Philip Bronner will be joining the 2tor Board of Directors.

Seagate has announced three new BlackArmor hard drives.  The new hard drives include the BlackArmor NAS 220 Storage Server, the BlackArmor PS 110 Portable Device, and the BlackArmor WS110 External Drive Workstation.  The NAS 220 is remotely accessible with up to 4TB and about 20 computers can be connected to it.  The 2TB costs $500 and the 4TB costs $700 each.

The WS 110 External Drive Workstation has an eSATA and USB 2.0 connection.  The 1TB costs $160 and the 2TB costs $310.  The PS 110 is 12.5mm thick and the 500GB hard drive is available for $160.

[via SlashGear]

“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” stated Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”

On Friday Apple started selling the iPhone 3G S mobile phones in retail stores.  Between the pre-orders and the retail store sales, about one million Apple iPhone 3G S units have been sold.  That is pretty staggering considering this is the third generation model.

But that’s not all.  About 6 million people have downloaded and installed the iPhone OS 3.0 on their iPhones within five days of its release.  This is great news for Apple, developers, and AT&T.  Its a much bigger customer base for everyone.  AT&T introduced a new MMS plan add-on.  Apple makes money from AT&T for every iPhone that gets activated.  And developers are getting a cut out of the 50,000 applications that are being downloaded in some way.

[via Apple PR]

Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) created a new iPhone application to try to get new business last May.  Now Sirius is attempting to raise $350 million debt financing through 4 year senior secured notes according to an SEC filing.  Sirius needs money to pay off debt.  This past February Liberty Media Corporation invested $530 million to keep Sirius afloat instead of filing bankruptcy.

[via BusinessInsider]

Microsoft Bing search market share has increased to about 12% since it launched.  This is exciting for Microsoft considering Live.com didn’t do as well in fighting Google’s market share.

At a luncheon in Chicago last week, Steve Ballmer said that he was willing to spend 5%-10% of the company’s operating income over the next 5 years.

Microsoft’s operating income in 2008 was $22 billion.  That means that Microsoft would end up spending as high as $5.5-$11 billion over the next 5 years.  ”We invested in Xbox for years and now it generates nice economic returns for us,” added Ballmer.

[via Reuters]

OneRiot has updated their search algorithm to include real-time data for link indexing and ranking.  Some of the search results from the real-time stream are powered by Digg and Twitter.  OneRiot’s Pulse stream uses a similar ranking system as Google PageRank.

The Pulse search algorithm has been around since OneRiot launched, but they have improved it since then.  Pulse’s results will be considered based on domain authority, timeliness, individual reputation, etc.  Pulse accounts for credible Twitter and Digg users.

“We’re also getting a lot of leverage from our Artificial Intelligence systems that constantly ‘learn’ how to improve the way we rank results,” stated the OneRiot Blog recently.