Square Enix have announced that the expected start of the Beta phase for their RPG game Final Fantasy XIV has been delayed.

On their Final Fantasy XIV Beta page, the developer has stated that the Beta phase which was due to start at 1100 on the 1st September in Japan, 1900 (PDT) on the 31st of August in the US and 0200 (GMT) on September 1st in the UK has been postponed until further notice due to bugs that have been found in the upcoming game.

The notice above has been posted by Final Fantasy developers Square Enix (time and date differs on the notice for each region, this is the notice for UK users – click for full size image) on their Beta Test Application page.

The entry to the Beta application page can be found here.

UK carrier O2 have apparently confirmed the much circulated rumour that the Dell Streak handset will recieve the anticipated Android 2.1 update tomorrow on the network.

O2 previously announced that release of the update would be early September and Engadget have confirmed with O2 who have now said that the update is to be rolled out on the 1st or 2nd of September which is obviously great news for Dell Streak owners.

There is still no news on a date for the release of Froyo (2.2 version of Google Android OS) but, at lease Eclair (2.1) is on it’s way at last, for UK owners at least.

While Orange may have missed the opportunity to be the exclusive retailer for the Xperia X10 Mini Pro in white (available on Three),  like they are for the full size X10, they haven’t missed the chance with the Apple iPhone 4. Orange have secured the exclusive rights to sell the white model of Apple’s latest iPhone.

The white iPhone 4 was supposed to be released a couple of months back but, Apple delayed the release of the white model in the UK due to the reception issues and some handsets also experienced yellow tinges on the screen.After this, it was discovered that the white model, would not be released until the end of the year but, hopefully we should see it before then. Orange haven’t given out much information and have only commented with “later this year”. There may be only a four months left of this year but, later this year, certainly sounds more promising then at the end of the year.

The Xperia X10 finally arrived on US shores last Sunday with AT&T. You can purchase the handset direct from AT&T, where the handset will cost $149.99, plus a two year contract. Where as if you took the X10 from SonyStyle, the phone would still be on AT&T but, cost $20 less and come with an 8GB MicroSD card. However on the SonyStyle website, the handset was listed as featuring a 4 inch multi touch screen. The multi touch feature has been highly discussed, for it to be finally disclosed that the X10 did not feature a screen capable of multi touch.

With the listing on SonyStyle, it had many wondering whether the X10 did in fact feature it, or whether Sony were misleading customers. It seems to be the latter, or maybe just an error on their part. Either way, the website now stands corrected and has removed the multi touch reference. It did however take them a week and a few emails from various sites across the web questioning this before action was taken.

In a deal worth a whopping $7.68bn (£5bn), leading  processor manufacturer Intel have agreed to purchase security software specialists McAfee.

Intel intend using the McAfee side of their future business to create built-in security features, not only in the chips they create for PC’s and servers but, also for the micro processors it makes for items such as mobile (cell) phones and portable computers. Intel are said to have paid 60% more per share than each share was valued at market price to take over McAfee. The market price then rose dramatically once the takeover was announced to around 58% above what it was, almost matching the amount that Intel are set to pay for McAfee.

Intel president Paul Otellini said the deal “elevates focus on security on par with energy-efficient performance and connectivity”.

Source: Press Release from Intel