Mobile phone operator Orange and Intel have joined forces to push the new open source operating system Meego which was launched at this years MWC.

Meego is a new Linux-based OS created from the merger of Intels Moblin and Nokias Maemo and specifically designed for portable devices including netbooks and smartphones as well as other non-desktop platforms like connected TVs and vehicles. Orange are hoping to use Meego to attract more customers to use its mobile internet based devices.

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It seems that Panasonic has accidentally published some details on its website of two new micro four thirds cameras, the Panasonic G2 and Panasonic G10. The details have now been taken down, but not before a couple of photography sites managed to capture the photos and the specifications.

The Panasonic G2 will features a 12.1 megapixel sensor, a touchscreen with touch shutter and touch MF Assist, an ISO range of 100 to 6200, and an AVCHD Lite movie mode (1280 x 720) and it features a 3 inch articulating display with live view.

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Google’s new social networking tool Buzz is now available on your iPhone. The Google Buzz iPhone app named Buzzie is the first iPhone client for Google Buzz and is currently on offer with a 33% discount for the first week at only £1.19 or $1.79 from iTunes. Check out the video after the jump for more details and a demo.

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Since Apple [AAPL] announced the iPad, publishers have been getting their content ready to go on Apple’s new device and also their new iBooks platform. One of these companies is UK publisher Penguin, who have shown off some sample books that they will be launching on the iPad.

As you can see from the video below, the books do a lot more than standard hardback books, most of them are interactive and have a number of features.

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Here we have another universal remote accessory for your iPhone 3G and 3GS and iPod Touch, the FLIPR iPhone Universal Remote. The FLIPR iPhone universal remote plugs into your iPhones charging port, so basically you have to use your iPhone upside down to control your home entertainment gear.

The FLIPR iPhone universal remote comes with a free application that can be downloaded from iTunes and it comes pre-programmed with over 14,000 remote control codes.

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Asus has shown off a new broadband router, the Asus RT-456U. As usual with Asus releases all we have is a photo and not many specifications of this new router.

As you can see from the photo the Asus RT-456U router looks extremely thin, probably one of the thinnest routers we have seen to date, what we do know is that it is a 802.11n WiFi router.

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Microsoft [MSFT] has launched its first mobile application on Google’s [GOOG] Android platform, called Microsoft Tag Reader. The Microsoft Tag reader application for Android is similar to other versions on other platforms.

It works by using your mobile phones camera to scan bar-codes which are found on various products, the application then provides you with information, videos, promotions and exclusive offers for that particular product directly to your Google Android handset.

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Apple has yet again decided the need to remove apps from it iTunes App store. This time the Wifi detectors are under the cosh and being removed. After Apple decided they were using a “private framework” and has pulled them without any explanation or apology.

Apple has even declined to tell developers what rules the scanning applications are actually breaking before the pull leave them totally in the dark.

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Reports indicate that a World of Warcraft trojan is spreading that intercepts the authentication code generated by the Blizzard Authenticator system.

When players enter their code before logging into their accounts the Trojan steals the code and gains access to the players account but also sends a false code to Blizzard so the login will fail and makes the authenticator useless. To check if you have been infected follow the instructions below.

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A team of scientists at IBM have created a technology that uses light to allow chips to communicate and replace the traditional methods using electrical signals via copper wires. The tiny silicon circuits called nanophotonic avalanche photodetectors use small pulses of light to communicate to each at super fast speeds receiving optical data signals at 40Gbps (billion bits per second) and simultaneously multiply them tenfold.

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If you have been waiting to update your Motorola Droid or Droid Eris to the latest version of Google’s mobile phone operating system, Android 2.1, good news as it looks like a ROM has been leaked which will allow you to update your Droid to Android 2.1.

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Microsoft [MSFT] has announced that its latest operating system Window 7, has sold over 90 million copies since it was launched on the 22nd of October 2009, and according to Microsoft this is the fastest selling operating system in the history of the PC industry.

The announcement was made by Microsoft’s CFO Peter Klein, at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecoms conference in San Francisco.

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