Week in Review: Nokia World and the invisible keyboard

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By Tom Brewster
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This week in IT, Nokia World was held in London, HP spent over a billion on a security firm and an invisible keyboard was created.

Week in review

Nokia World

This week saw Nokia World take place in foggy London Town, with the company saying it expects to sell 50 million of its new Symbian smartphones. The event started just after the firm's mobile solutions leader resigned and then later in the week, stories began circulating that the chairman would be gone in 2012.

One of the firm's closest rivals HTC was looking to crash Nokia's party as it unveiled some new smartphones, while Motorola acquired Aloqa for some location-based fun.

Acquisition mission

Following the monolithic billion-dollar Intel/McAfee deal, HP bought security company ArcSight for $1.5 billion. As for Intel and McAfee, their first product will be launched in 2011.

And speaking of Intel, IT PRO's own Jennifer Scott has been at the company's developer forum, where Dell revealed it has a 10-inch tablet coming in 2011 and we got a sneak peak at some of Intel's own R&D efforts.

For a full round-up, head here.

Best of the rest

Elsewhere, a Google engineer got the sack for breaking privacy policy, while search rival Microsoft launched the IE9 beta.

In the ever-scary world of security, research showed over a million websites were compromised by malware in the second quarter of this year and a new Adobe Flash vulnerability was found, with reports it had been exploited in the wild.

The prize for the most transparent story of the week came from Israel, where an invisible keyboard has been created.

Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster

Tom Brewster is currently an associate editor at Forbes and an award-winning journalist who covers cyber security, surveillance, and privacy. Starting his career at ITPro as a staff writer and working up to a senior staff writer role, Tom has been covering the tech industry for more than ten years and is considered one of the leading journalists in his specialism.

He is a proud alum of the University of Sheffield where he secured an undergraduate degree in English Literature before undertaking a certification from General Assembly in web development.