Samsung will begin shipping TVs with Skype software in the Korean market, and worldwide in the first half of 2010. The LED 7000 and 8000 series televisions include Samsung’s free Internet@TV service, which allows access to select online content. Consumers who connect the TVs to the Internet can attach a FreeTrial TV Camera for Samsung provided by In Store Solutions (ISS), available at http://www.skype.com/store, making it possible to place and receive voice calls and video calls. Voice calls will use Skype’s SILK audio codec.

Using the TVs’ remote controls, consumers can create free Skype accounts, log into their existing accounts and navigate via a Skype interface accessible on the televisions’ screens. Skype video calls will be free, as will voice calls between Skype users.

The Ministry has stated, that in the near future the price may even fall to $10 a piece. The main goal is to provide connectivity to all the university’s and collages in India. The country has developed vastly in many fields after the economy flourished from 1990. Now India is heading towards its next goal in making history in technology.

This move has come, because India wants to take the connectivity of Internet and telecommunication to a different level by making it accessible for every one in India. By 2012, India plans to connect 250000 villages across India via Internet, which is a very big leap in technology advancement.

Even though the availability of the device has been scarce, as the production has been ceased, there has been a small amount of demand for the gadget in the market. It is available in selected stores in UK and around Europe.

For Google it may sound as a loss, as the hand set has been phased out, but on the other side where the Google Android phone is on the verge of capturing the smartphone market, it is not a regret after all. Android has been adopted by many smartphone manufacturers as an OS, like the iPhone 4 and RIM.

Mr. Dhabhai stated, that, “We have exclusive licensing and distribution in the subcontinent, which include the countries India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.” After the lapse of the license with Videocon, Global has bagged Akai as a licensed partner.

Akai had an annual turnover of Rs. 275 Crore in the last financial year. Mr. Dhabhai has said that they would be aiming to get a turnover of at least Rs. 475 Crore in the next year. The company which had its products basically limited to television, will now be launching in the range of DVD players, LED and LCD TV’s, microwaves, washing machines etc.

Bharti spokesperson, Sanjay Kapoor, told the reporters in a meeting, that Airtel would be working with Apple, and together would bring the latest gadget into the country by the period of September or October this year. Vodafone earlier this year, had promised that it would be bringing the iPhone in India, but did not disclose the time when it would.

After the launch the gadget would be sold at two different prices, the 16GB iPhone would be costing around Rs.35,500 and the 32GB model would be sold at Rs.41,500. On the other hand, as the 3G services would be commencing in the country by the end of this year, the sale on these products would be increased by the following year.

Other Smartphone company representatives have stated that, such problems are rare in smartphones and not common as stated by Jobs. Samsung spokesperson stated, that they haven’t received any sort of such statement from the customers.

Cellphone giant from Finland, Nokia, has put in thousands of man hours into research and study of how human beings react with cellphones, how they hold them, how they play music etc, even after so much study on the outer body, they give first preference to antenna structure and reception in the phone, but would not sacrifice its performance.

Is Steve Jobs’ pinpointing of the flaws of the other cellphones an attempt to take away attention from the flaws of Apple’s iPhone4? Only time can tell.

The place where the iPhone is manufactured, in China, where number 4 is considered extremely unlucky, as the number four in China sounds similar to ‘death’. The people in China try avoid the number much as possible, as it is an omen to them. A suicide case in connection with iPhone was reported recently, when a worker jumped out of the top floor of the building, after he was accused by his superiors that he had lost an iPhone prototype.

Some months later to the incident in China, an engineer was drinking at a pub in Silicon Valley, and then lost track of his iPhone prototype that was with him for testing.

Reports say that the iPhone 4 press conference will begin at 1 p.m. ET.

The picture makes it look really sleek and slim even though it resemblance the Toshiba Mini NB205 a lot.

Under the lid it looks to have a chiclet keyboard. It has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. MSI says the battery will last for more than 10 hours on just a single charge.
The cost for the U160 will be at around $350.

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ASUS is out with a 6-inch color e-reader, its called the ASUS DR-570 and the product should hit stores this year. Another ASUS e-reader is on its way and it seems this one will reach the market even faster, its called the ASUS DR-950.

It has a 9-inch Sipix panel with 1,024 x 768 pixel resolution.

Some other features include:

A touchscreen of the DR-950 features text-to-speech.
A virtual keyboard and handwriting input facilities.
An RSS reader with inbuilt dictionary that function on a realtime translation.

The Specs of the e- reader include, 222 x 161 x 9-mm / 370-gram reader packs WiFi and HSPA data radios.

A 3.5-mm headphone jack and stereo speakers, with 4GB of internal memory and also includes an SD Card expansion.

Supports formats like the PDF, TXT, Audible, MP3, and ePub.

The other investors are VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures  as well as the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board.

The new investors will buy approximately 65% of Skype, with eBay continuing to own 35%, in a deal valuing Skype at $2.75 billion US.

Ebay had reportedly been looking to sell Skype for $2 billion, compared to the $3.1 billion it quoted to buy out the company and pay out its founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis back in 2005.

Earlier this year, eBay had announced that they would be turning the company into an IPO in 2010.