South Korean telecom operator KT Corp planned to start selling Apple’s iPhone 4 this week amid upward competition to expand in the potentially lucrative smart-phone market. KT Corp, the country only distributor for the gadget, plans to start sending out the gadgets on September 10 to around 270,000 customers who placed pre-orders.

KT Corp branches will also start selling the phones after the pre-ordered items are shipped off. KT, South Korea second-biggest wireless operator, has sold about 890,000 iPhones since the market debut of earlier models last November. And tens of thousands of people jammed the company website on August 18 as it started accepting online orders for the latest model of the popular smart-phone.

Local competitors such as LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics have been striving to compete by introducing new smart-phones, including the Galaxy S and Optimums series. On the other side Samsung said it has sold more than one million units of Galaxy S since the firm’s signature smart-phone model hit the market in June. South Korea’s mobile phone market is one of the world’s most dynamic, with 45 million users in a population of 49 million. Smart-phones, though, have a relatively small share, suggesting massive growth potential. Samsung Electronics likely about five million smart-phones will be sold in the country by the end of 2010, up from fewer than one million in 2009.

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Intel Corp. is buying computer security software McAfee Inc. for $7.68 billion as the chip maker put in to its arsenal of tools to serve an increasing array of Internet connected devices, as well as mobile phones. The $48 per share price represents a 60% premium over McAfee Wednesday close of $29.93. McAfee shares rush 58 percent after the deal was announced on Thursday to hit $47.14 in morning trading. Intel Corp., shares decreased 59 cents, or 3 percent, to $19. Intel Corp; is based in Santa Clara, security is now a basic component of online computing, but today approach to security isn’t sufficient for the growing accessibility of Internet connections on mobile phones, medical devices, ATMs, automobiles and somewhere else. Now this industry needs a new advance approach that combines software, hardware and services to meet the future needs.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini said; with the prompt expansion of growth across a huge array of Internet-connected devices, more and more of the basics of our lives have moved online. In the past, energy proficient performance and connectivity have defined computing requirements. Looking forward, security will link those as a third pillar of what people requires from all computing experiences. Intel is a rare acquirer with a history of dabbling in, and retreating from, and markets outside its core business of building computer microprocessors. It once even had a toy division that made microscopes and other gadgets before giving up on it because of meager sales.

But Intel has been determined in trying to get bigger into the market for the guts of smart phones and other Internet connected wireless devices. The purchase of McAfee would assist Intel secure those devices from malicious software and other computing threats. Intel Crop said; the contract with hurt earnings slightly in the first year the companies are combined but not including costs and other one- time items related to the acquisition, Intel Corp; expect the deal will slightly increase earnings next year and improve after that. Both boards of directors have collectively approved the deal. The contract still requires McAfee shareholder approval and regulatory clearances.

McAfee, based in Santa Clara, is one of the world biggest security technology companies with about $2 billion in revenue last year. Intel Corp; has made a series of new software acquisitions including companies that particularize in gaming, visual computing, embedded device and machine software. Last month, Intel reported its biggest quarterly net income in a decade as the chipmaker benefited from a stronger computer market and new sophisticated factories.

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Microsoft web browser Internet Explorer was get underway 15 years ago. Whereas it had its ups and downs over the years and version 6 was plagued by myriad security issues, which made it one of the most despicable browsers around and it is still the most popular browser in the world, with the last few of versions improving radically on their troubled predecessor.

The first version Internet Explorer 1, debuted on August 16, 1995 and was based on Mosaic, a web browser Microsoft had licensed from a company called Spyglass Inc. preliminary with version 3.0, Microsoft begun bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, growing its market share dramatically and eventually squeezing once dominant browser Netscape Navigator out of the market completely.

Whereas, Internet Explorer market dominance started to decline with the rise of popularity of Firefox, a free, open source browser which was launched in 2004, mainly as an answer to the problematic IE6. After a couple of years of somewhat enigmatic negligence, Microsoft started working rigidly on improving performance of Internet Explorer again, with the version 7 is being a big improvement on IE6 when it comes to point of security and stability.

According to the most recent data from Net Applications, Internet Explorer now has a joint market share of 60.74% and Firefox is at 23.75%, followed by Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and others. Right now, Microsoft is preparing for the introduction of the next chapter in Internet Explorer history. The first public beta Internet Explorer 9, of the new browser is scheduled to be launched at an occasion in San Francisco on September 15. With the competition being as tough as it is, Internet Explorer is one of Microsoft most significant products; we are keen to find out what the Internet Explorer team has prepared for us this time.

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Delta Air Lines revealed a new feature on their Facebook page that permits fliers to book air travel completely through Facebook. Dubbed the “Ticket Window,” the new device comes just days after the company gave its homepage a thorough redesign as part of what Delta says is a larger plan to get better the online experience for customers. Moreover, Delta says other plans contains improvements to airport kiosks, and a new iPhone applications that will let fliers check in, search flight statuses, check frequent flier-mile balances, and even set parking reminders. Passengers in certain hub cities will be able to use the application as a boarding pass a characteristic already available on their mobile site. Unlocking the full power of social media and mobile apps is the next step for Delta, while providing inventive travel tools and greater convenience in our customer’s mobile world. The move comes in the midst of an already ferociously competitive commercial air travel market. In May, Continental and United airlines announced an ultimate merger plan, making it the world’s biggest air carrier a title previously held by Delta.

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Google is one of the most innovative and elegant companies in the world, but in its center business online search are being routinely shown up by Microsoft third place search engine Bing. Bing is an amazingly fast moving innovative product and it is forcing Google to play catch up time and time again. A year ago Google set itself apart from other search engines by focusing on making its homepage load faster than everyone else’s, as well as a very simple design with a white background. Then Microsoft launched Bing with a colorful, photography driven design. When Bing seems became well-liked, Google introduced a feature to enable its users to make Google more colorful like that, too.

Now Google even replaced its default background with an image, mimicking Bing’s seemed. Google users were not impressed with the decision, nevertheless. They yowled, and Google quickly get back to the plain white look. The decision to modify its layout and then to undo the transform shows that Google is feeling the pressure of Microsoft going hard into the search space. This was not the first time Google hand was forced by Microsoft. In October, Microsoft declared at an industry conference that it was integrating Twitter results into Bing. Google was upstaged since it had not announced a Twitter deal yet. The company tangled to get Twitter integration, which it announced just hours later. The move looked frantic. Google has also borrowed Bing appears on its search results pages.

When Bing gets underway, it tried pursuing search from a various angle than Google. Industry observer says people want to make decisions in a new way. It was doing this by breaking up search end results into categories. In its place of getting only 10 blue links like Google offered, you get subheadings for each result. At first it is a bit harsh, but it can be helpful by breaking up search end results into what you require. Just over a year after Bing introduced, Google was changing its design to follow the search design Bing was using.

For all of Bing fresh ideas, it has not translated into big gains in users. The latest numbers from comScore show that 63 percent of searches in the USA are done on Google, but only 13 percent are done on Bing. Thanks to that vast share of search, Google has built a profitable business. In the meantime, Microsoft is trailing billions online, dumping money into Bing and other properties, whereas Microsoft gets credit for innovating and forcing Google hand, because it is not paying off.

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Samsung has just introduced the ultra compact ST80 digital camera, a complete package with Wi-Fi and DNLA connectivity. These days more and more pocket sized digital cameras are shipping with built in Wi-Fi. Which becomes particularly helpful for uploading to Facebook and Flickr when on vacation and so long you can find a McDonald’s with free Wi-Fi. The 14.2 megapixel Samsung camera also records 720p HD video at 30fps in H.264 format. Users can make bring into play of the “Smart Auto” feature in both photo and video mode, which lets the camera come to a decision the settings based on the environment. Other important notes of interest are the 3-inch WQVGA touch screen no buttons on the back at all, 3x optical zoom, and the “Smart Crop” tool that lets photographers edit on the fly. The Samsung ST80 camera will be available in September with the retail price of $249.99.

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India has revealed a $35 computer sample as part of its program to give connectivity to its students and teachers at reasonable prices. The Indian human resources development minister Kapil Sibal displayed what a low cost computing and access device in New Delhi, he further said; price would gradually fall to $10 apiece. That device will help in connectivity to all its colleges and universities are vital to achieving its education goals. India a billion plus populations but literacy rate stands at 65 percent. On the other hand, the South Asian nation has made huge strides in a variety of areas since it opened up its economy in the early 1990s. The country guided in a telecom uprising that delivered mobile telephony to nearly 600 million people in just a little more than a decade with extremely competitive call tariffs. Now India is get ready for another leap into the digital world. Presently, it auctioned off its airwaves for third generation services to enable super fast multimedia streaming of wireless. The move is meant at bringing India’s online market on a par with its flourishing cell-phone business through Internet penetration with technology permitting quick access, data transfer and entertainment on mobile handsets. India has announced strategy to link up all its 250,000 village councils by 2012 in a bid to plug huge broadband divides between rural and urban communities as it appears as one of the world’s few growth markets.

Technical institutions involved in designing the new piece of equipment are now setting up research to address price and quality issues, and the aim is to reach such devices to the students of colleges and universities, and to give these institutions a host of choices of low cost access devices around Rs 1,500 or less in near future and also aimed to bring in the new touch screen computing tool at higher educational institutions in 2011.

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Google announced that Chinese government has renewed Google license which will make Google keep on operating and also ending altercation over expurgation. We are very happy that Government has refurbished our Internet Content Provider license and are now working harder to provide our facilities all athwart China. Tokyo pedestal Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said that “I personally do not think that we gave up. We requested Government of China to renew our license to make some of the products that doesn’t require any restriction and we are willing to provide unsuppressed Web search with google.com.hk.

The most notorious web engine agreed last week to halt it automatically its system redirecting user from Chinese site google.cn to its Hong Kong search engine google.com.hk, the move actually dissatisfy the Chinese Government. The renewal of Google’s Internet Content Provider makes company to continue its operation across socialist China regardless of it restricted Web material. There were rumors that China would not renew Google’s license because China wants to control the most popular search engine. Google said that if China had not renewed its license then China could have gone in dark as this search engine provide very useful materials for people especially for students.

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Facebook has started testing of face detection technology for Facebook photos. This is a new feature for its popular photo product. The testing will start on Friday to focus on decreasing the tediousness of tagging friends in Facebook photos. In the present photo features, user upload the photos album, then click on the face of each photo, tag the photo with the friend pictured therein, and this process continue until the album is tagged. This process is inefficient and tedious for large album or too many friends in a single photo. Through face detection technology, user will automatically find faces in photos and select them. This process will eliminate tedious steps of tagging friend in photos. Face detection technology automatically will selected by the software. User just needs to answer “Whose face is this”. This technology is the similar one to face detections technology used in digital cameras. This is very latest and welcomed addition to the Facebook Photo features set. The Facebook promises that face detection technology is the first step of major improvements that they are trying out. The other improvements and features will be implement in Facebook photos is “facial recognition” automatically knowing whose face is whose.

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Most popular search engine Google announced to buy online travel ITA software for $700 million cash, which will improve its visibility in the vastly competitive airfare market. Boston based ITA specializes in systematizes airline statistics, as well as flight times, availability and prices. According to Google, nearly half of airline tickets are now obtained online. In the modern days online travel pricing and availability is a mass confusion but Google CEO Eric Schmidt said; we expect his company can offer a more innovative, effective and modernized approach to online travel.  Google think to help and solve the online travel problems and improve online travel ecosystem, and we can drive even new business to airlines and do something quite special than what’s out there. He further said, his company has no plans to sell airline tickets, but it would likely direct consumers to sites on which they can buy tickets.

Google user experience head Marissa Mayer said, using ITA’s software to field more advanced searches like, where can I travel for $700. ITA CEO Jeremy Wertheimer said, we can do to get better online travel with Google and way in to scale to take this to next level. The companies that rely on ITA’s services strived to co-opt the buyout, and proposed to buy ITA to prevent Google from purchasing it. Google’s purchase of ITA has been under rumors for months, but Eric Schmidt said, Google’s intention is to continue to honor all of ITA’s existing contracts, and this deal will likely face significant regulatory scrutiny. Google is the largest search site and ITA is the biggest airline search software company.

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