In its latest move, an unlocked version of iPhone 3G has been launched by Apple in Hong Kong, giving the independence to the consumers to pick whichever carrier they want.

This comes as an extreme opposite to the policy of the Apple, as unlocked iPhones are uncontrolled in almost all other parts of the world. However, that is not something that Apple has sanctioned.

An apple site recently informed that for these handsets, one will have to shell about $695 (5,400 Hong Kong dollars) for an 8GB version and for a 16 GB model, the price would be $798 (6,200 HK dollars).

With the aim to convert the best ideas into useful product ends, Google has unveiled a competition under which the person with the most unique and best idea will win the prize money of $10 million.

This competition has been launched as part of celebrations, for the company has completed its 10 years. The people have been asked to submit their ideas within seven categories to the project called 10th to 100th.

An announcement made on the website of the company informed, “Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.”

Just recently the Samsung Omina had been launched to be added in the family of Touchscreen Phones, and now only a few days after, Samsung has come out with a similar set with 8 megapixel camera.

A announcement has been made by Samsung about the successor to the Samsung i8510 INNOV8's, that is the M8800 called Pixon, with the code name of Brensson. This new edition is a touch screen phone, which will be in direct competition with the LG KC910 Renoir, that also has a camera of 8 mega-pixel.

The price of the Samsung M8800 will be $979, which is much more than the LG KC910 that has been priced at $800.

Lately the mobile users have been finding it really hard to choose between the three ultimate functional handsets that include Omnia, iPhone and N96.
Though both Samsung Omnia and Nokia’s N96 can be termed as better than iPhone as far as the features are concerned, numerous applications which a user can avail from iPhone is something no set can match.

Omnia and N96 have 5 mega-pixel cameras whereas iPhone has a camera of only 2.5 mega-pixel. However, the lavish touch screen of iPhone makes it superior to the other two.

On the other hand, if you go for N96 or Omnia, you will get a set supported by MMS forwarding and video recording, a feature lacking in iPhone.

The analysts at Gartner recently informed that there will be an increase by 64% in the current year of 2008,  in the worldwide subscription of the Internet-based television platforms as it is about to reach to near 19.6 million subscribers this year.

Since Western Europe is seeing the largest number of rise in the IPTV subscribers and North America is being considered to be the largest market for IPTV revenue, the worldwide Internet protocol television is expected to reach the revenue up to $4.5 billion, up 93.5 percent from a year earlier.

The forecast says that in 2008, 1.1% of households worldwide would be using IPTV, and this figure would rise to 2.8% by 2012.

On Saturday afternoon, Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang stepped out of the orbital module of Shenzhou-7, and thus commenced the first spacewalk or extravehicular activity (EVA) by China in the outer space.