Taipei - Several Asian countries plan to jointly build a third Asia-Pacific undersea cable to bring faster internet service to the region, Taiwan media reported Thursday.
The countries plan to jointly invest 500 million dollars to lay the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 3 (APCN3), according to the Economic Daily News and the Commercial Times, which cited unnamed Chunghwa Telecom Co sources.
The APCN3 would link Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The main companies involved in the venture - including Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, China's China Unicom Ltd and China Telecom Corp, Singapore's Starhub Ltd and Japan's KDDI Corp - were expected to sign a contract next month.
It’s apparent that Google is looking to make more improvements in its web browser to offer some tough competition to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, and Mozilla's Firefox. Google released a new beta version of its Chrome web browser on Tuesday.
Alltel has made announcement the launching of the Smartphone LG Banter, which has apparently made its way to the cellular markets.
However, the pricing details of the phone are still unknown.
Equipped in a different design, LG Banter has the same features as LG Rumor 2, which was recently launched by Sprint.
The phone has changeable faceplates allowing users to personalize their handsets as per choice and style.
LG Banter comes with stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recorder, a microSD card slot, and a stylish slide-out expanded QWERTY keyboard.
To add more to its wardrobe, Acer recently has launched the new 10.1-inch Aspire One D150 laptop in the Indian market.
The latest version of the Acer Aspire One comes with a 10.1 WSVGA LCD display featuring Acer CrystalBrite technology. Moreover, the laptop has the ability to put 2 GB of memory.
The new 10.1-inch Aspire One D150 laptop packs in the new edition of the Atom processor N270 having a slightly higher clock speed of 1.60GHz, and backs memory at a fast rate.
The Aspire One also packs in an Intel 945GSE chipset with Intel GMA950 graphics.
International Business Machine (IBM) has developed a new internet browsing technology that permits users to speak to the web and create voice-enabled websites with the help of cellular phones.
IBM’s India development team developed the Telecom Web Browser with the help of a new internet protocol called Hyper Speech Transfer Protocol (HSTP) analogous to HTTP.
HSTP offers a mechanism to join telephony voice applications with one another. Moreover, the new protocol intends to provide a communication bridge between the web and voice.