Apple’s retail operation increased two-fold during the existing year (2008).
According to Apple’s recent 10-k annual filing released Wednesday, the company presently has 32,000 people on a full-time basis. The figure was up from 21,600 as compared to the corresponding period of last year.
The report also said that around 16,000 of those people work in company’s retail group, which currently has 247 stores.
Apple, in last year's annual report, announced that it had around 8,000 people working in the retail unit, which comprised 197 stores.
Software giant Microsoft, joined by rivals Google and Yahoo, has launched a local mapping service for India, which offers users access to detailed listings and street maps for 9 Cities, business listings across 29 cities, and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns.
Recently, Panasonic announced its latest Toughbook H1 that has been specially developed for health environments. Basically the low power Intel Atom processor is incorporated by this rugged mobile clinical assistant (MCA). The latest Panasonic Toughbok H1 aims at redefining performance and functionality for the MCA category via offering six long hours of battery life, dual hot swappable batteries, screen that can be viewed in daylight and integrated Gobi technology. 
Nokia’s most advanced multimedia device N96, which has already made its debut in India and UK, has now been introduced in the US market.
Recently, it was announced by AT&T that they would introduce data caps for its internet customers. 
