When Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) held its big Nokia World show last week, the company showed off its new CEO, Stephen Elop, and a couple of new mobile phones that analysts and consumers have been waiting for. One of those phones, the N8, has been delayed since the first of this year as the company has tried to perfect the device.

Apple further develops its digital publications business with the announcement of a new digital newsstand for iPad and iPhone editions of newspapers and magazines. Also, Google Voice and Google Talk make their way back to the app store thanks to the new app approval process. Finally, the iPhone 4 goes to China.

The latest buzz – outside of any Facebook IPO rumors – is that now, thanks to a new deal with General Motors, your car will be able to automatically update your profile for you. Through the magic of OnStar, your entire network of friends will know when your car has broken down.

While companies across the country are still fretting the economy’s woes, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is facing a tougher challenge. Not only is book retailer Barnes & Noble fighting for its immediate health via sales and earnings – but with the Kindle and digital publishing booming, it’s also fighting for its survival as e-books and e-readers come into their own.

Hyundai Motors Co. is doing a little outsourcing of its own, with the automaker moving production of a compact sedan from South Korea to the United States.

The latest in a string of acquisitions and mergers in the tech sector is the offer by IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) to purchase data analytics firm Netezza Corp. (NYSE: NZ) for $27/share, or about $1.7 billion, in cash. The offer is subject to approval by Netezza's shareholders and the usual clearances and closing conditions.

As General Motors Co. prepares for an IPO, the company's majority owner, the US government, is trying to figure out the best way to recover the $43 billion still outstanding from its loan to GM. The roster of potential investors in the IPO includes everyone and everything, from individual investors to pension funds.

Last week, Nokia released its latest smartphone, the 7705 Twist, a device that is an amalgam of features from competing products. The Twist features the same small square form of Apple's new iPod Nano, albeit slightly larger.

Apple's next-generation iPad won't be out for Christmas and will release in 2011's first quarter, suppliers say.

The Chinese government has issued a draft of new regulations governing joint ventures between Chinese and foreign automakers planning to build electric vehicles. The draft is being circulated to government agencies and China's state-owned automakers for comment, but foreign carmakers are not included.

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz dismisses Apple's iAds mobile ad service and is hanging on to a stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), not done dominating Apple headlines, unveiled a preview version of Flash with support for 64-bit operating systems including Mac OS X.

With the rise of the tea party one might expect gun sales to rise in parallel. You would be wrong with that assessment and guilty of what some pundits claim is a gross simplification and stereotype of the grass roots movement.

Advertising research group Nielsen Company has just published the results of their Mobile Apps Playbook survey, the data paints an intriguing portrait of what trends are fueling the skyrocketing sales of smartphones like the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: APPL) iPhone and Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Droid powered by the Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system.