Baidu opens office in Australia

Thus, according to informed sources, the chief executive of the Australian division of the search engine will be assigned a well-known players to the Australian market Fon Hindman (Fionn Hyndman) - a successful marketing manager, who previously worked in the division Baidu in Singapore.

In the post advisor in a new subdivision Baidu appointed Dean Capobianco (Dean Capobianco), who worked previously at Microsoft and Yahoo. It is reported that Mr. Capobianco has experience in positions of commercial and executive director, and is also known as a successful director of sales department Yahoo Search Marketing, which he left in January of this year.

Also, the team will join the Australian office Baidu Paul Christie (Paul Christy), for many years served as general manager and specialist in mobile strategy a major Australian telecommunications corporation Telstra.

"Today, more than 175 million Chinese users make purchases online. It is also beneficial and western vendors and the market as a whole. As you know, Australia is in close proximity to China and this country has always been a major trading partner of Australia. Today, Australian companies are in an ideal position - they have a great chance to take advantage of growth markets of China and its withdrawal to the international level "- says Fon Hindman.

Recall also that currently Baidu has an active policy of entering the markets of Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia. There are also rumors about the Chinese search engine has opened an office in Brazil.

iPhone 4S has been launched

Philip Schiller, head of marketing, Apple, has presented yesterday brand new iPhone 4S! It looks exactly like the previous version but don’t be deceived because inside it is all new. What Apple has done is put powerful processor inside a super thin phone. So now you can check out brand new features:  
1. Play game features. 7th faster graphics. Even more, now you can customise your weapon!
2. Battery life: 8 hours of 3G talk time, 14 hours of 2G talk time, 6 hours of browsing at network, 9 hours of Wi-Fi, 10 hours of watching video, 40 hours of listening to music. Fantastic battery life!
3. Twice as fast in downloading data. It is possible due to specially designed A5 chip used in iPad.
4. The 4S has 2 antennae to ensure that it works on the both technologies - CDMA and GSM.
5. All new 8 MP camera which has 60% more pixels than iPhone 4.
6. Whole new voice control system. Users are able to speak requests for the time, setting the alarm clock, a weather update, or finding the nearest restaurant.

"Only Apple could make such amazing hardware, software and services and bring them together into this experience," Cook said in his closing remarks. "I am so incredibly proud of this company."

The new handsets will be available in black and white and in three price bands, depending on memory size:
• $199 (US) for the 16GB model
• $299 (US) for the 32GB model
• $399 (US) for the new 64GB model
The phone will be available on 14 October in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, France, Germany and Japan. By the end of the year, the 4S will be available in 70 countries.

IPhone 4 will be available for £99 what makes it a lot more competitive in comparison with cheaper and faster-selling Android models. The 3GS will be available for free with a contract.