[b]South Korean electronics giant Samsung is planning to take smartphones to the masses to drive revenues. Expanding its smartphone portfolio, the company unveiled two new mobile handsets -- Samsung Wave and Samsung Galaxy S, and announced its plans to bring down price of smartphones to Rs 10,000 by the year-end.

Acer has announced the launch of its latest Special Edition Acer Liquid E Ferrari smartphone in India. The smartphone runs on Android 2.1 OS and 768 MHz snapdragon processor.

Apple has unveiled the new version of iPhone, dubbed as the Apple iPhone 4 with iOS 4. The iPhone 4 is powered by Apple’s A4 processor. The new iPhone 4 is just 9.3mm thick.

Samsung has announced the launch a new 3G enabled dual SIM phone Samsung B7722 phone in India. The Samsung 3G B7722 is a dual SIM phone with a dual standby mode in which one SIM runs on 3G network while the other on GPRS/EDGE.

Nokia has added another smartphone to its X series, namely Nokia X5-01. Nokia X5-01 comes with music is a Slider phone with slide out QWERTY keypad. Nokia X5-01 runs Symbian S60 v3 operating system.

LG has announced the launch of its new touchscreen mobilephone dubbed as LG Viewty Snap GM 360. It runs S-Class Touch UI operating system.

A snapshot of our activities, cell phone data attracts both academics and industry researchers.

Cell phone companies are finding that they're sitting on a gold mine--in the form of the call records of their subscribers.

Today's 3-D movies are far more spectacular than the first ones screened more than 50 years ago, but watching them--both at the movie theater and at home--still means donning a pair of dorky, oversized glasses. Now a new type of lens developed by researchers in Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group could help make glasses-free 3-D displays more practical.

Ford is taking a markedly different approach to making hybrids and plug-in hybrids than competitors such as General Motors--and the company hopes this difference will provide it an edge in a potentially volatile market for such vehicles.

Electric Focus: The Focus will soon be available as a gas-powered car or the electric version, shown here. Hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions will be available by 2012.

May, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that they had made the first synthetic cell by piecing together a genome made from bottled chemicals and transplanting it into a recipient cell. The landmark accomplishment represents a new level of control over the substance of life at the molecular level and one that could lead to ways to make cells that produce vaccines in large quantities and cleaner fuels.