Taipei  - Chunghwa Telecom Ltd and Apple Inc plan to jointly launch the third-generation Apple iPhone in Taiwan before the end of the year, the Taiwan firm said Saturday.

A Chunghwa Telecom official said Taiwan would be among the third wave of countries to launch the iPhone 3G since Apple released the device on July 11 in 22 countries in the first wave of marketing.

Chunghwa Telecom has yet to set service charges for the operation of the iPhone 3G, said the company official who asked not to be named.

Apple’s iPhone failed to woo Indian users, but why, what’s the main reason behind it, is it its high cost or anything else?

There are shedloads of people in the Indian market but no one is interested in buying the gadget (iPhone).

Analysts estimated that just 11,000 iPhones have been sold in the whole sub-continent since its launch in September 2008.

According to LiveMint.com even technology giant Apple didn’t consider that the phone would do well in India. It only allocated 50,000 Iphones to that market in the first place.

Alltel Wireless surely deserves lots of congratulations for expanding its range of mobile phones with the launching of its latest addition the ‘LG Swift’ in the US market.

LG Swift, the new flip phone comes packed with host of exciting features including a 1.3MP camera with multi-shot and video capturing, microSDHC slot, Fastap technology, one touch speakerphone, external music buttons and media player.

The fastap technology provides six raised one-touch access Quick keys as well as the traditional keypad.

Washington  - The holiday season is fast approaching in many parts of the world, which means gift givers will soon be compiling their shopping lists. This year, though, the emphasis is likely to be on frugality - thanks to economies around the world that are weak and getting weaker. But never fear: Tech gifts are available in all price categories, and less expensive does not have to mean less interesting or less fun. In fact, searching for low-priced tech products that will make a big impact as gifts just might lead you to look at products that are too often overlooked. Read on for some ideas.

San Francisco - The volume of spam messages on the internet plunged by about two thirds this week after the connection was cut on a company that was allegedly using its servers to disseminate billions of the unwanted email messages, internet security firms said Friday.

Symantec said the number of spam messages had fallen by some 120 billion per day, to around 60 billion. However it warned that many of the spam spewers would probably find new routes to distribute their messages and that the respite was likely only temporary.

San Francisco - Citing a "new economic reality," Sun MicroSystems said Friday that it would restructure and shed up to 6,000 jobs or 18 per cent of its worldwide staff.

The maker of high powered server computers has been struggling for years as its enterprise clients switch to cheaper alternatives based on Microsoft Windows and open-source Linux systems.