The Apple iPhone had been eagerly awaited to be launched and when finally it was launched, the customers took a back due to its heavy price tag.
The same iPhone is much cheaper in US, where it was launched in June 2007, and it won the hearts of the customers immediately. However, the same Apple iPhone 3G, which was launched on the midnight of Thursday by Vodafone and Bharti Airtel, received a Luke warm response.
Washington - Lots of folks are familiar with the history of the internet over the past few years. But if you'd like a more comprehensive view, log on to Hobbes' Internet Timeline (http:// www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline). This website takes you year-by-year through the development of the internet, from the 1956 Russian launch of Sputnik onto the World Wide Web (1992). Links to important documents are provided along the way.
Hamburg - The iPod may be the industry leader among MP3 players, but that does not mean it's right for you.
Before any major purchase, customers should consider what they want to do with their MP3 player. Christine Tantschinez of the Stuttgart-based magazine audio says a lot depends on an individual's needs. They determine the size of the device, the pre-packaged components and the price.
"If you just want music for jogging, then go for a very simple model," she says. A display might not even be necessary and you could get away with relatively little memory - just two to four gigabytes.
Berlin - Violent computer games are sparking controversy all over the world. Legislation recently passed in Germany in July, for example, makes it easier to put such games on the banned list following the introduction of a rating index. Yet what does it all really mean? Who sets the age recommendations for "normal" games? In Germany, at least, these roles have been in flux of late.
Hamburg - It's a bit like buying property with just a building frame on it. The dimensions are predetermined, but what kind of heating to use, wood floors or tiles, how the windows should look - that's all left for the customer to decide. Barebones PCs work on the same principle. They contain only the case, power supply and motherboard. Everything else is customer selected.
While the term "Barebones" technically applies to all PCs that do not come with a complete preinstalled set-up, the term has come to take on a different meaning. Tom Seiffert from the hardwaremaker Shuttle near Hamburg notes that the term now refers to PCs with a distinctively small physical profile regardless of whether they come fully configured.
This is the week of the geeks, as the Apple iPhone finally made entry into the Indian market amidst fanfare.
Both
the official Indian operators for the phone Bharti Airtel and Vodafone
Essar rolled out the much-awaited phone at midnight across eight cities.
But
the response was far away from that was seen in international markets
where iPhone buffs queued up the whole night to have their coveted
smartphone. Only a few people reached to grab their iPhone on the
midnight of Thursday.
The reason was clear that the majority
of people think that iPhone is out of the reach of their pockets. In
India, iPhone is available at a price of Rs 31,000 for the 8 GB
version, while the 16 GB version costs Rs 36,100.
was launched, the customers took a back due to its heavy price tag.
Washington - Lots of folks are familiar with the history of the internet over the past few years. But if you'd like a more comprehensive view, log on to Hobbes' Internet Timeline (http:// 
Berlin - Violent computer games are sparking controversy all over the world. Legislation recently passed in Germany in July, for example, makes it easier to put such games on the banned list following the introduction of a rating index. Yet what does it all really mean? Who sets the age recommendations for "normal" games? In Germany, at least, these roles have been in flux of late.
