Mobile industry giant Vodafone has announced that they are going to acquire a 70-percent stake in Ghana Telecommunications.

The deal is worth around 900 million dollars.

The company said that they would purchase this stake from the government of Ghana. The government would continue to own rest of the stake in the company.

Vodafone added that they expect this deal to complete by the third quarter of the year.

The European company said: “Ghana is one of the most attractive markets in Africa with mobile subscribers growing at more than 55 percent per year and mobile penetration around 35 percent. I expect that our investment will generate substantial benefits for Vodafone and for the Ghanaian economy and we are delighted that we will be working in partnership with the Government of Ghana.”

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Mobile phone make Nokia has announced that they are now collaborating with Norwegian telecom group Telenor to bring OVI to this mobile market.

OVI is the Nokia’s mobile service platform which is designed to generate more revenues for the company.

Nokia spoke about their deal with Telenor: “As part of the collaboration, specific Nokia devices will be customized to provide easy access to both companies’ selected services, such as Nokia Maps, N-Gage and Telenor Music Store and Mobile TV.”

Nokia has similar deals with other mobile service providers including Spain’s Telefonica and German T-Mobile.

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Nokia has launched their latest Smartphone model.

The company introduced their Nokia 6220 device.

Nokia 6220 is a quad-band GSM phone which is capable of using 3G mobile networks.

It comes with support for HSDPA technology capable of a top downlink speed of 3.6 Mbps.

The phone switches to EDGE where 3G networks are not available.

The device features a 2.2-inch screen and GPS receiver. Nokia has loaded this phone with a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.

It comes powered with the Symbian 9.3 mobile OS with S60.

Nokia added that the phone features 128 MB of internal memory which can be expanded to 8 GB using microSD cards.

The phone is already on sale in India for around Rs. 18500.

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Asustek has announced that later this year they would launch a new variant of EEE PC which would feature inbuilt 3G support for fast wireless internet on the move.

This device could be launched in the European market by September this year.

Elitegroup Computer Systems is one company which has already launched such a product: G10IL mini-netbook.

These 3G enabled laptops are likely to come bundled with packages so as to subsidize the cost of the hardware supplied.

This would be similar to how mobiles are sold in the market currently. Asustek said that the prices of the models would depend upon the service contracts.

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Latin American internet company Terra has announced that they have won the rights to broadcast Beijing Olympic Games in the region.

They have won the Internet and mobile rights for this upcoming global event.

The company said that their Olympics portal would be active from August 1.

It would feature as many as 13 channels to broadcast the various events.

Users would get access to streaming as well as live video coverage. Viewers would also be able to get the updates on their mobile devices.

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Search engine giant Google has been ordered by a US based court to provide data related to video-viewing habits of YouTube users to Viacom.

This ruling has been criticized by privacy groups. Google responded in a statement: “We are disappointed the court granted Viacom’s overreaching demand for viewing history.”

Viacom and Google are fighting a legal battle over uploads of copyrighted videos on the popular video sharing service.

Viacom wanted these records to show that videos containing copyrighted media were more popular than user generated material.

Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kurt Opsahl spoke about this ruling: “The court’s erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube. We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users.”

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Search engine giant Google has made a change on their homepage and it is big news.

The new addition on the Google homepage is a link to their privacy policy.

The company was under pressure from several privacy groups to add this link on the homepage of the site.

This is required by law in some regions of USA.

Google has made the change by adding a Privacy link in the footer linking to their privacy information pages.

Incidentally, this word replaces Google after the Copyright sign which leave the amount of content on the page same.

Apparently, the company wanted to keep the size of the homepage same as before.

Google Vice President of Search Products and User Experience Marissa Mayer spoke about this change: “Larry and Sergey told me we could only add this to the homepage if we took a word away — keeping the ‘weight’ of the homepage unchanged at 28.”

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Apple has lowered the price of their MacBook Air notebook model if it is ordered with a solid state drive.

Customers were earlier required to pay a $999 premium for the SSD Drive. This price is now down to $599.

Apple has also reduced the price of another upgrade… The processor upgrade from 1.6GHz to 1.8GHz is now costing $200 instead of $300.

SSD drives are very rare on notebooks though the market is expecting. This is going to further reduce the cost of these drives for the customers in the coming years.

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Apple iPhone would be sold by O2 in the UK market and the company has revealed that they would limit the sale to just one unit per person.

The company has already started sending out messages to their customers to sign up for the Apple iPhone 3G which is coming out later this month.

O2 said in the message that they expect the demand to be massive in the initial days and customers are suggested to book it soon to avoid delays.

The company added that the deliveries would be made “on a first-come, first-served basis”.

Apple iPhone 3G is scheduled to go on sale on July 11 in several markets around the world.

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Microprocessor maker AMD has announced three new quad-core Phenom X4 processors.

These are: 2.6 GHz AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition, 2.0 GHz AMD Phenom X4 9350e and 1.8 GHz AMD Phenom X4 9150e.

The 2.6-GHz AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition processor is a high end version targeted at gamers and power users.

The other two processors are for users who want a power efficient solution for their machines.

AMD added in a statement on these new processors: “These processors, under the most extreme operation, consume no more than 65 watts, delivering the performance of four independent cores at a low wattage.”

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