Going by the majority of comments here, let me be the devil's advocate.

In my opinion, what Nokia is trying to do is avoid commoditization of mobile hardware. Symbian was no good for them in terms of features and performance requirements.

Going with Android will effectively make the phone hardware a commodity (like what happened with PCs). Just imagine, with Android becoming ubiquitous everywhere, how long until users are free to choose any mobile phone and transfer their full preferences and data to another Android phone. In that case, competition in mobile hardware industry will remain on the basis of price only.

What I feel is, Nokia is betting on WP7 to stand out from the rest of the pack (Samsung/LG/HTC) in order to maintain their market share.

Will this gamble pay off, only time will tell.

Not so fast..
Silicon has a refractive index of about 4.0. So, light travels upto 4 times slower than in vaccum.
Also, the delays are more than just the distance within chips since sensing and detection delays are typically larger.

Currently, the main advantage of optical interconnects is that the capacitive charging and discharging delays within the chip transistors and interconnects comprise a major portion of the total delay. This problem is exacerbated with smaller geometries such as 32nm and 28nm.
Optical interconnects do not suffer from such problems.

Apparently this appears is nothing but a patent troll from Micro$oft.
EDA tool industry has long been using the time-based licensing model for their tools, particularly using the FlexLM based licensing system.
How can they even think to patent this sort of thing ?

I appreciate your observations regarding the domain registration for this site, but the site is directly linked from the ASUS website .
So there is no question of this being a fake site.

Why focus only on google ?
Lets see how slashdot fares on this check !!
145 errors that make it much worse than google.

The biggest advantage of AMD x64 over Itanium is the ability to run x86 32-bit code natively without any performance penalty.
The comparison is not just about better technology. Think of the trillions of lines of x86 32-bit code that has been written.
Would you render all this code unusable just because you want to move to a better architecture.

I would really like to see any citation to support your point. If true, this is really an interesting concept.

The article title and summary could have been worded better.

In addition to the new case (which by any means can be considered a minor change), there is speculation that the new Macs will be using nVidia MCP79 chipsets.

Along with the comparatively better graphics performance, this will also add SLI support to the Macbooks.