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The initial launch of Apple iPad allowed buyers with only a debit card or credit card option, but now has an option to pay cash and carry the touchscreen tablet.

The prior law of card payment was implied to ensure that no one violated Apple's two-iPads-per-person rule. This was recently changed by a Californian native Diane Campbell, who after being turned down by store's employees, contacted KGO, an ABC TV associate in California.

Google has launched its Web apps store that enables one to purchase apps directly just like Apple's iTunes store.

The announcement was made at Google I/O conference in San Francisco on Wednesday permitting developers with a facility to publicize their software and make it available for the mass with greater visibility.

Also, industries such as news publications, video producers and musicians can now sell web content through this store.

Google Inc. pronounced that the latest version of smartphones will be advanced in performance and prove as a benchmark of development. The Android based phones will also serve as Wi-Fi hotspots for other devices.

Google which has already crossed the 100,000 activations a day mark, of Android-powered phones ranks first in total Web and applications usage, as per the data from AdMob. Also in terms of sales it rank second in U. S. smartphone, second to RIM's BlackBerry, according to NPD.

According to Jason Garrett-Glaser, the digital video expert who claims that Google's VP8 codec isn't ready for prime time.

The trade analysts state that this codec is a slow, buggy and closely resemble to H. 264. "VP8, as an encoder, is somewhere between Xvid and Microsoft's VC-1 in terms of visual quality. And VP8, as a decoder, decodes even slower than ffmpeg's H. 264," claims Garret.

It was further elucidated that it basically has a C code copy-pasted from the VP8 source code and includes TODOs, 'optimizations,' and even C-specific hacks.

Twitter features itself for free in iPhone at the iTunes store, as the co-founder Biz Stone wrote in his blog post.

Prior to this Apple's iPhone users had to purchase an app Tweetie, for $2.99, which users assumed to be a connecting source to the micro-blogging site, Twitter instead it ended up nowhere, they often gave up, Stone wrote.

This saw a room for improvement and this led to introduce the latest platform Twitter for iPhone and iPod touch is available for free on the iTunes App Store, states the post.

Twitter purchased Tweetie from Atebits in early April and rebranded it as Twitter.

While the Nano has been tagged as the world's cheapest car time and again but it seems that China's Geely is on its way to snatch the tag from the product as it is working on its plan to launch a car below the Nano.

According to the sources familiar with the matter, the much -awaited new Geely IG would be selling for around $2,250 when it goes on sale in China in 2012 and when one compared it to the price of $2,800 to $3,700 that one needs to shed for a Nano in India, the product is surely roadblock in front of Nano.