VH series of feature-rich LCD monitors, consisting of the 18.5-inch VH192C/SC/D, 21.5-inch VH222H/S, 21.5-inch VH226H/C and 23.6-inch VH242H/T monitors has been unveiled by Asus.

The exciting features that this high-gloss black-colored VH models has, consists of HDMI port to connect Blu-ray disc and other portable devices; ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio (ASCR) technology to amplify the contrast ratio up to an astounding 20000:1; Trace Free technology to offer a 2ms (gray-to-gray) quick response time and Aspect Control technology that displays 4:3 images.

The U.S. based web search giant Google has reportedly approached the internet carriers to create a fast lane for its content, retracting from its earlier stance on equal network access for all content providers.

It has been announced by YouTube that in its effort to clean up its content, it is clamping down on ‘sexually suggestive’ videos. “The site would be enforcing a stricter standard for mature content and tightening the standard for what is considered sexually suggestive,” said YouTube on its blog.

The users have already been banned from posting pornographic content on the website by YouTube, the Google-owned website.

Tokyo, Dec. 16 : More than six years after it experimented with mobile phones, the North Korean Government has launched a mobile phone service.

Described as one of the world''s most secretive and tightly controlled states, the launch is seen as striking in a country where the tuning of television sets and radios is limited to state channels and internet access is restricted to senior government and military officials.

Officials concluded a deal with the Egyptian telecommunications group Orascom to launch a third-generation mobile network, but the service is likely to be available to only a few of North Korea''s 23 million inhabitants, the Guardian reports.

San Francisco  - Google has approached major internet service providers in the US with plans for its own fast lane that would send its traffic to users at higher speeds than other internet content, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The proposal would appear to violate the widely accepted principle of net neutrality whereby the operators and owners of the network treat all traffic the same. Large network providers have long lobbied for the ability to charge companies for providing higher speed for their web traffic, but were bitterly opposed by Google and other large web companies like Yahoo and Microsoft.

It has been learnt that Intel is engaging in talks with Indian service providers and device manufacturers with the motive to help them in bringing WiMAX-ready notebooks and netbooks to the India market segment mid-2009.

It was informed by Intel vice president and general manager of the WiMAX Program Office, Sriram Viswanathan, “I have outlined an alliance focused on delivering affordable devices to Indians that take advantage of upcoming 4G WIMAX networks.”

In start, 2.3 and 2.5 GHz devices are to be the focused on.