The CommunicAsia 2009 conference in Korea this week was more or less a Samsung show! The company unveiled the Omnia Pro - its follow-up to its extremely popular Samsung Omnia; the new Samsung Pixon 12 M8910 - its 12-megapixel camera phone wonder; and an array of other new smartphones and devices. 

With the new-announced five 200M series laptop GPUs – G210M, GT 230M, GT 240M, GTS 250M and GTS 260M - Nvidia has rounded out its mobile GeForce lineup with up to ‘two times the performance and half the power consumption’ of earlier chips.

With the iPhone 3G S – the speedier iPhone unveiled by Apple last week - to hit the AT&T stores in the US on Friday, Apple is already warning that that the new offering will likely be sold out on the launch day itself!

San Francisco  - A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Exxon Mobil Corporation to pay victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill 480 million dollars more in interest on their delayed punitive damage awards.

San Francisco  - California missed its annual deadline to pass the budget Monday as lawmakers quarreled among themselves and with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over ways to close a massive 24.3-billion-dollar deficit.

Washington  - Italy has agreed to take in three detainees from the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, US President Barack Obama said Monday after a meeting with Italian President Silvio Berlusconi.

Washington  - US President Barack Obama said Monday there was some "positive movement" towards peace after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognized the Palestinians' right to an independent state.

Washington  - US President Barack Obama on Monday said he was "deeply troubled" by Iran's violent protests brought on by a disputed election, but said the Islamic country was free to pick its own president.

With the public launch of its Force. com sites, Salesforce will not only be hosting a company's presence on the cloud, but also providing it the requisite tools to build, manage and integrate it - thereby aiming at turning its new sites into a next-generation Web experience.

After nearly a year in development, the unique Hunch.com site, which supposedly helps users find answers to different problems, has been launched today - June 15.