Lately the mobile users have been finding it really hard to choose between the three ultimate functional handsets that include Omnia, iPhone and N96.
Though both Samsung Omnia and Nokia’s N96 can be termed as better than iPhone as far as the features are concerned, numerous applications which a user can avail from iPhone is something no set can match.

Omnia and N96 have 5 mega-pixel cameras whereas iPhone has a camera of only 2.5 mega-pixel. However, the lavish touch screen of iPhone makes it superior to the other two.

On the other hand, if you go for N96 or Omnia, you will get a set supported by MMS forwarding and video recording, a feature lacking in iPhone.

The analysts at Gartner recently informed that there will be an increase by 64% in the current year of 2008,  in the worldwide subscription of the Internet-based television platforms as it is about to reach to near 19.6 million subscribers this year.

Since Western Europe is seeing the largest number of rise in the IPTV subscribers and North America is being considered to be the largest market for IPTV revenue, the worldwide Internet protocol television is expected to reach the revenue up to $4.5 billion, up 93.5 percent from a year earlier.

The forecast says that in 2008, 1.1% of households worldwide would be using IPTV, and this figure would rise to 2.8% by 2012.

On Saturday afternoon, Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang stepped out of the orbital module of Shenzhou-7, and thus commenced the first spacewalk or extravehicular activity (EVA) by China in the outer space.

London, Sep 28 : Video games giant Sony is pushing ‘Sackboy’ as their defining mascot for the Noughties — and he’s British.

The Japanese computer giants, who are pumping millions into the character, reckon every kid in the world will want their own virtual one in the next few months. 

Tiny firm Media Molecule, which operates with just 25 staff in Guildford, Surrey, created Sackboy. 

“It’s fair to say that Nintendo has got Super Mario and Sega had Sonic. It’s about time Sony got their own iconic mascot — Sackboy will be that character,” The Sun quoted Sony PlayStation’s Jonathan Fargher, as saying.

By the end of December, Indian markets will see the arrival of Google Android-power phone designed by HTC, about which almost everyone is eagerly waiting for.

The Taiwan-based cellphone major, presently is in talks with leading service provider in India, informs one the business daily. There is an exclusive partnership of the company with service provider Airtel to sell phones and it further announced that it has no hassles in selling the phone through independent retail channels. However, the business model is still under deliberation.