BlackBerry maker RIM, has just launched the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Bold 9930 at the BlackBerry World conference.

On the design front, it’s the company’s thinnest BlackBerry yet with some design aspects comming from the iPhone 4.  It has a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen display and a QWERTY keyboard with a removable cover revealing the removable battery, and microSD.

HONG KONG – Baidu Inc, the owner of China’s most popular search engine, has “plenty of room” to expand, according to Chief Executive Officer Robin Li, after some analysts projected slowing growth at the company.

“Search just became the most popular application for Chinese Internet users, and there is still a lot of growth to expect for many years down the road,” Li said in a conference call with analysts on Thursday. Baidu reported on Wednesday that first-quarter profit more than doubled and forecast sales this quarter that beat analysts’ estimates as advertising fees surged.

Li, China’s richest man according to Forbes magazine, is spending more to boost Baidu’s search business and expand into services including social networking and electronic commerce. Still, analysts at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse Group AG said Baidu’s growth this year won’t match the increase in 2010, when the company gained market share as Google Inc pulled out of the country.

“The growth rate will not be as fast as last year,” said Muzhi Li, an analyst at Mizuho Securities in Hong Kong. Baidu will be helped by advertising revenue from online commerce companies, he said.

Baidu’s stock fell less than 1 percent on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Wednesday before the earnings announcement. It has gained 57 percent this year, compared with the 88 percent gain in Sina Corp, owner of China’s most popular micro-blogging service, and a 29 percent increase in Tencent Holdings Ltd, the operator of the most popular Chinese online chat software.

Wealth doubled

Li more than doubled his wealth last year after Baidu’s stock more than tripled when Google announced plans in January 2010 to pull out of China.

Baidu’s net income climbed to 1.07 billion yuan ($164.5 million), or 3.06 yuan for each American depositary receipt, compared with 480.5 million yuan, or 1.38 yuan, a year earlier, according to Baidu’s statement on Wednesday. That exceeded the 1.02 billion yuan average of nine analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Second-quarter sales will be 3.23 billion yuan to 3.3 billion yuan, Baidu said. That tops the 3.14 billion yuan projected by analysts.

Baidu may “record slower growth rate in the second half of 2011 due to tougher annual comparisons”, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in an April 15 report. Baidu’s revenue growth this year may slow to 69 percent, after sales increased 78 percent in 2010, according to a March 16 report by Credit Suisse.

SOURCE

CHINA DAILY

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-04/29/content_12417264.htm

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After months of waiting Apple have launched the White iPhone 4.  Since Apple first unveiled the white iPhone last June when it released the  iPhone 4, consumers have been clamoring for the white device however production problems had delayed the launch from over 9 months.

It looks the same as the current Black iPhone 4, with all the same ports and screen sizes. I am sure reviews will start to appear soon. I personally picked the HTC Windows 7 phone last year, which runs Windows 7 but i find some features missing when you compaire it to Windows mobile 6.5. Lets hope Microsoft beings an update out soon.