HP launches touch-enabled PCs
PC maker Hewlett Packard, HP, has launched its new range of All-in-One (AIO) PCs, based on touch technology. These newly introduced computers have been priced at USD 1200 onwards.
In a statement released on Saturday, HP announced, “HP’s new range of All-in-One PCs combine the monitor and CPU and the result is a powerful, sleek and elegant desktop. HP has also introduced multi-touch computing for consumers with the introduction of HP TouchSmart300 All-in-One Desktop PC.”
The HP TouchSmart300 PC and HP TouchSmart600 PC feature enhanced multi-touch technology, including gestures such as pinch, rotate, arc, flick, press and drag, enabling users to move, modify and share all digital content with natural and intuitive movements, the statement added.
Apple’s iPhone set to make splash in South Korea
Apple Inc.’s iPhone has reached South Korea! And much before the aril, the phone has already created a lot of buzz around the market.
Making an estimate from the number of pre-orders booked so far, starting November 22nd, Apple Inc.’s hit communications device appears set to woo a large number of consumers in south Korea, known as the home to some of the world’s most sophisticated mobile phone users.
In the five days of advance booking so far, KT Corp., the local mobile carrier which has contracted with Apple to sell service plans for the phone, has reportedly received 53,000 advance orders. The phone is set to be launched officially on Saturday, 28th!
Mahindra Satyam to hire 1,000 freshers
One of the top Indian IT companies, Mahindra Satyam has announced its plans to appoint 1,000 freshers by December 15. The announcement was made by the company’s Chief People Officer here on Thursday.
Mahindra Satyam’s Chief People Officer Hari Thalapalli told the reporters, “The process is on and we will give appointment letters to 1,000 freshers out of the 8,000 selected during campus recruitment by December 15.”
Thalapalli however added that the company might not call all of the remaining 7,000, who got selected during campus recruitment.
Nokia unveils budget slider phones
Nokia has revitalized its slider phone range with the addition of two new mid-range mobile handsets titled, Nokia 6700 Slide and Nokia 7230.
Both the newly introduced phones are 3G capable and targeted at a specific design conscious consumer. They have been optimized for sharing content over the Internet.
The new Nokia 6700 slide features a 2.2-inch QVGA display, offers 3G connectivity, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and capture key, web browsing. This one is based on S60 operating system. Additionally, the 6700 slide also features FM radio and music player and support for up to 16GB microSD memory card. The phone will be launched in early 2010 and shall be priced at Rs. 11,200.
The second slider Nokia 7230 features a 2.4-inch display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, FM radio, Bluetooth, Xpress audio messaging and 2GB memory. The phone will run on S40, Nokia’s proprietary OS. Nokia 7230 will be available by early 2010 and is expected to be priced around Rs 7,000.
Nokia to cut 220 R&D jobs
Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, announced on Tuesday that the company is planning to slash around 220 jobs in Japan as part of its plans to streamline its vast research and development operations.
in a statement released on Tuesday, the Finland based company said, “As part of its global efforts to align its research and development (R&D) operations to be in line with its focused portfolio of future products, Nokia will be reducing its R&D activities in Japan.”
Earlier, Nokia announced last week that about 330 employees at its research and development units in Denmark and Finland would be made redundant. At present, the Finnish company employs about 17,000 people in research and development worldwide.
Australia, Canada approve Yahoo!-Microsoft deal
Australian and Canadian competition authorities have approved the Internet search and advertising partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft as per the companies’ announcement on Tuesday.
In a joint statement released by the two companies, it was announced, “Microsoft and Yahoo! have been notified that Australian and Canadian authorities have separately concluded their reviews and have no objections to our proposed search agreement.”
The statement further added, “We continue to believe that this deal will create a true, competitive alternative in the marketplace that will benefit consumers, advertisers and publishers. We remain hopeful that the agreement will close in early 2010.”
The agreement however, remains subject to review by US anti-trust regulators.
Google, Yahoo zero in on Internet ‘freedom’ bill
Leading search engine company Google Inc. and several other Internet companies including Yahoo! have zeroed in on a flexible effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass the ‘freedom bill’. The bill challenges their ability to take a different approach to operating in ‘repressive’ foreign countries.
Google Inc., Yahoo1 and also Microsoft Corp. including several others have been focusing on lobbying efforts on the bill, touted as the ‘Global Online Freedom Act of 2009.’
This curbs the freedom of the companies which have been trying to do business in countries such as China where widespread and expanding Internet access is subject to censorship and political repression. Google specially has struggled to compete in China, lagging behind the local competitor Baidu in terms of Internet search market.
Google apologizes for offensive first lady image
Google Inc. on Tuesday apologized for a racially offensive image of the First Lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on the world’s largest search engine.
Apologizing for the offensive image, Google Inc. has now placed a text ad above the image titled “Offensive Search Results”. It also states that, “Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree.”
Clicking on the act, the user is redirected to a letter from Google that explains that the results at the site can sometimes include disturbing content. It however added that Google doesn’t endorse content on these websites.
The Mountain View based company wrote in a statement that, “We apologize if you’ve had an upsetting experience using Google.”
This is not the first time Google has apologized for content in its search results. The company issued a similar response in 2004 when the top result for the term “Jew” pointed to an anti-Semitic Web site.
Google books hearing set for February 18
Google’s finally got some time!
The judge in the US has set February 18 as the date for hearing on the impending revised legal settlement between Google Inc. and US authors and publishers which would allow the Internet search giant to scan and sell millions of books online.
In a move welcomed by Google, the judge, Denny Chin, also granted preliminary approval to the agreement. However the opponents said it has no bearing on whether he will give a green light to the settlement then or not!
Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers reached the settlement last year to a copyright infringement suit they filed against the Mountain View, California, company in 2005.
Chin on Thursday also set January 28 as the date for the groups to lodge objections to the controversial and complicated class action settlement with his Southern District of New York court.
Google and the authors and publishers submitted a revised settlement to Chin last week which seeks to address the copyright and anti-trust concerns raised by the Justice Department and others to the original agreement.
Obama’s China visit encourage Google to resist copyright theft charge
Reportedly encouraged by the recent visit of the US president, Barack Obama, worldwide internet giant Google Inc. has shown resistance in the company’s battle with an organization of Chinese writers accusing it for copyright violations!
The Chinese firm had asked Google to apologize for the alleged copyright violation however the internet giant did not budge under its pressure. However, it decided to shift the Asia Pacific head office of Google Books from Singapore to Beijing in order to handle the negotiations on this issue.
The negotiations on Friday took place soon after US president Barack Obama said in Shanghai that Internet freedom was necessary for the development of the media and spread of knowledge.
Obama also cited Google’s case citing the way the company had become a global and undisputed web search giant in a relatively short time frame.
Google on the other hand had already refused to accept the company’s allegations stating that it had ‘infringed’ upon copyright laws while putting up scanned copies of Chinese books in its digital library. But it made one concession, which is to provide the China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS) with a list of Chinese books it had scanned to put up in its digital library.
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