Samsung Electronics and Toshiba Corp. introduced tablet computers at the consumer electronics fair IFA in Berlin yesterday, saying the upcoming tablets would appeal to people due to their lower prices.

Toshiba confirmed that its upcoming Folio 100 tablet would be available in Europe with a price tag of just is 399 euros, as compared with the iPad’s price tag of 499 euros.

Apple unveiled its new and revamped products during its special media event on Wednesday in San Francisco. Among the most striking products and services, the technology firm announced the new iTunes 10, which comes with its social networking module.

The music-only social network, Ping, which is opening up to Apple’s 160 million existing iTunes users will likely work like a cross between Facebook and Twitter for iTunes by letting users to follow celebrities, create social cliques, and receive artist updates through an activity stream.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is in no mood to let its rival Dell get hold of the data storage firm 3PAR.

HP again raised its offer for 3Par to $33-a-share, which values the manufacturer of the data storage systems at around $2.3 billion.

HP’s new offer has put an end to an 18-day bidding war with Dell as Dell refused to match HP’s $33-a-share offer.

Speaking on the new offer, Dell corporate strategy senior vice president Dave Johnson confirmed, “We took a measured approach throughout the process and have decided to end these discussions.”

According to reports, separate statistics from Nationwide and the construction business have posed new concerns, signaling that a faltering housing market might bring the revival to a standstill.

Though the building industry was helpful in driving the monetary growth this year, the Markit/CIPS construction PMI survey revealed that the construction sector witnessed a retarded growth in the month of August compared to July. It was unsuccessful in meeting the expectations of the economists.

Palm, which is now owned by HP, released a new version of its operating system, webOS 2.0, which is now available to developers belonging to Palm's Early Access program.

While unveiling the Software Developer Kit, Palm described several improvements. The company focused on ‘Stacks’ to allow better multitasking, a ‘Quick Actions’ way of searching and creating an e-mail without introducing an application.

On Thursday, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced that it would be dropping down the number of its employees, in an attempt to decrease costs and boost the revenue. 3,500 of the personnel working in RBS would be terminated.

A new survey published on Easyroommate. co. uk, has revealed that 38% of the landlords do not tolerate smoking and would not allow their tenants to smoke in their properties, whereas only 7% of the landlords would give their properties to a smoker, or allow the tenant to smoke at their dwelling.

Today, Lenoir Memorial Hospital is conducting a free of charge colorectal screening at 1 p.m.

LMH Director of Community Programming Constance, Mr. Hengel said that the participants, who will take part in the screening, will get a test kit, which they can use at their home.

Hengel further said that the kit will have all easy-to-understand instructions, which the users will be able to use at the comfort of their home.

The World's Biggest Coffee Morning has got the great challenge of raising £55,000, this year, so as to serve the cancer patients.

Now, the fans of cuppa have an opportunity to help Macmillan Cancer by donating funds for the national day of fundraising on September 24. These funds will help in improving the vital services of the Macmillan Cancer.

As a part of the World's Biggest Coffee Morning, total 286 events were held all across the New York in 2009, raising £51,254 funds.

A poll had been conducted regarding the provincial election campaign, which revealed that the issue of energy has been ranked as the top most by the New Brunswick voters. This priority comes as the Liberal Government had been unsuccessful in a bid to sell NB Power to Hydro-Québec.

It has been revealed by the study that Northern Ireland is the region in UK, which has the lowest economic activity and the rate of unemployment in the region has also become double in two years.

The study has found that one in 10 people between the age group of 35 to 64 are dependent on anti-depressants, while cannabis is being used 30,000 people.

The rate of divorce has also increased by more than five times as compared to the last 40 years. The Centre for Social Justice has carried out the report.

The figures published by the Assembly Government, establishes an augment in the number of children receiving vaccinations.

It also concluded that as much as 95% of one-year-old children have been vaccinated against diphtheria, meningitis C, tetanus, polio, haemophilus influenza, whooping cough and pneumococcal infections.

The doctors further urge parents to get their children vaccinated against 11 life-threatening diseases.

22 years old Mandi Schwartz, and Yale University hockey player, was scheduled to get the potentially life-saving stem-cell transplant on 27 August. She is suffering from cancer and this treatment can save her; but due to a lung infection diagnosed, this treatment will have to be postponed now.

This transplant treatment had been scheduled last month after seeing that her leukemia was not in remission and that she may have to once again go through a round of chemotherapy. But now, even though her cancer is in remission, this lung infection has posed a delay.

Indonesia's failure to regulate the tobacco industry was evident after the internet showed the video of a two-year-old Indonesian boy smoking two packs a day.

Ardi Rizal, who reportedly was in a habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day, has finally been able to kick off the habit after he received an intensive specialist care.

One of the biggest open-pit asbestos mines the world, the Jeffrey mine in Asbestos, Que is due to reopen in the month of September.

Countless efforts have been made by the Canadian Cancer Society, Quebec’s 9,500 doctors, and the Charest and Harper Governments for its revival. This resurgence can however be attributed to the political support from Ottawa and the brisk approval submitted by the Quebec Government of a $3.5 million guaranteed line of credit.