With introduction of an iPhone, Apple opened our eyes to the possibilities of full screen touch interfaces. But such interfaces have one drawback - there’s a limit how small you can make it.

It would be difficult to put such an interface on iPod Nano - with your finger covering a better part of touchscreen, how would you operate it?

Don’t worry, Apple now has a solution. Why not make a full screen iPod or iPhone Nano, and put an operational touchpanel on the back side?

This way you can have a full screen of Next Gen iPod/iPhone Nano for viewing. When active touchpanel on the back side is activated, transparent device controls appear, depending on the mode the device is in - scroll wheel, song list for music, alphanumeric keypad for dialing, QWERTY softkeys for messages.

Google shareholders rejected a proposal on Thursday to require the search giant to set policies to protect freedom of access to the Internet and not self-censor.

Google “must make special efforts to avoid being seen as complicit in human rights abuses…and not be proactive in censorship,” said Patrick Doherty, a representative of the New York City Pension Fund, which submitted the resolution. When it created its Web search site for China, Google said it would remove results from its www.google.cn Web site that would likely offend the Chinese government. Yahoo shareholders face several similar resolutions at their annual meeting.

Before the shareholder vote, Google chief legal counsel David Drummond said the board opposed the measure because it would do more harm than good.

Faced with an urgent need to cut costs, Advanced Micro Devices laid off 430 workers on Wednesday as it looks to get back on track.

AMD had hinted that layoffs were coming when it acquired ATI Technologies last year, but it has also been struggling in the first half of this year with its main processor business. An ongoing price war with Intel and Intel’s renewed competitive position–combined with AMD’s own supply chain missteps–have led to heavy losses. AMD was forced to take out $2.2 billion in notes to keep the lights on as it awaits the launch of quad-core server and desktop processors later this year that it thinks will erase the advantage Intel has with its own quad-core processors.

The Thai government abruptly scrapped plans to sue Google after the U.S. company agreed to remove from a Web site video clips deemed insulting to the country’s revered king, an official said Friday.

The government blocked access to YouTube — a popular video-sharing site owned by Google — on April 4, after Google Inc. turned down Thailand’s request to remove the clips seen as offensive to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

“We decided not to sue Google because it has agreed to cooperate in removing 12 video clips from the YouTube Web site,” said Vissanu Meeyoo, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology spokesman.

Microsoft Corp. and flash memory maker SanDisk Corp. said on Friday they would develop advanced computer memory cards that allow consumers to easily take their data with them in one small device.

Microsoft will develop the software for the product. SanDisk memory cards are about the size of a pack of chewing gum and can store computer files and applications, like e-mail programs. The card itself can be plugged into a port on multiple computers.

MySpace, a networking Web site owned by media conglomerate News Corp., said Friday it launched copyright protection software for video content.

The feature, called Take Down Stay Down, prevents users from reposting videos that have been removed at the request of the copyright owner.

Video-sharing Web site YouTube has agreed to block four clips Thailand says insulted its revered king, the latest twist in a spat that has stirred fierce debate about freedom of expression on the Internet.

However, in a letter to Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, YouTube owner Google said two other videos that had incurred the wrath of Thailand’s military government would stay as they did not break lese majeste laws.

“They appear to be political comments that are critical of both the government and the conduct of foreigners,” the letter said.

“Because they are political in nature, and not intended insults of His Majesty, we do not see a basis for blocking these videos.”