Intel to launch power-saving chips

Intel has announced a new manufacturing process to make chips that use far less power, which is expected to extend battery life on cellphones and other mobile devices.

The New York Times online reports that the new process will produce chips that reduce power 'leakage` to as little as one-thousandth of current levels.

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has criticised what he describes as "greedy" demands by music companies for price increases on the iTunes music download site.

MSN Money reports that Jobs was speaking to reporters before the opening of the Apple Expo in Paris.

He said some record companies were pushing him to raise the price of each song download, currently priced at 99c on the US iTunes site.

He has vowed to resist their moves.

Record companies already make more profit by selling a song through iTunes than on a CD, with all the associated manufacturing and marketing costs, Jobs said.

Nokia has delayed the release of its premium N91 music phone until the first quarter of next year, reports Reuters.

The phone was originally scheduled for release during the last quarter of this year, in time for the holiday season.

The company said it wanted to ensure the phone, which will be capable of holding thousands of songs, would work on the widest range of music platforms and be a true 'jukebox` mobile phone.

Key players in the cryptography industry have concluded that a key challenge remains to develop further protocols for more effective hiding of the secret keys to mitigate the vulnerability of cards to attack.

This emerged at the seventh annual CHES (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) Conference headed by Comodo in Edinburgh, Scotland.

CHES is described as the largest and most important forum for discussing the security and implementation aspects of the chips in credit and debit cards to ensure identity integrity.

The delegates noted that threats come via unexpected ways and technologies.

They concluded that the industry needed to investigate new, potential "side channel" attacks, both against specific implementations and involving new concepts, so as to have remedial action in place. They also agreed that new algorithms should be developed to hide secret key bits to prevent the cloning of cards.