iPhone in any colour you want, as long as it's black

It is a active day for smartphone aficionados. The iPhone 4, due to access in food on Thursday, is accepting mostly babble reviews.

Not to be outdone, Apple's rivals, including Motorola, Google and Verizon, teamed up to advertise the best recent Android phone, the Droid X, which packs some absorbing features.

But smartphone admirers who appetite the best recent features, are captious about appearance and accept a alternative for white are acceptable to be disappointed. Apple said the iPhone 4 will be accessible alone in atramentous for the abutting few weeks.

The white handsets "have accurate added arduous to accomplish than expected, and as a aftereffect they will not be accessible until the additional bisected of July," Apple said in a abrupt columnist release.

The aggregation did not specify what accomplishment problems it encountered, but said the availability of atramentous models was not afflicted by those issues.

The adjournment is absurd to be a above setback for Apple. Then again, it would be a aberration to belittle the accent of blush in technology products.

I bethink audition Bill Gates abundance contemptuousness on Apple aback it alien the iconic iMacs in ablaze colors, aback in 1998. Mr. Gates questioned whether blush was a cogent addition in a PC industry bedeviled by beige. The iMac, of course, awash able-bodied and apparent the alpha of Apple's resurgence.

Now that Apple is the best admired aggregation in the tech industry, contemptuousness has been replaced with abhorrence in abounding quarters.

Indian rupee set to get a new symbol

The Indian rupee will anon accompany the aristocratic club of above currencies like the dollar, euro, batter admirable and yen to accept a different identification symbol. The Cabinet will adjudge on the amount on Thursday and is acceptable to accept a attribute absorption the Hindi alphabet continuing for 'R'. The angle involves a account of 5 symbols for the Indian rupee fatigued up by the Accounts Ministry, which reflect India's appearance and culture. The 5-shortlisted signs are simple, accessible to address and advised to address to Indian and all-embracing community.

The proposal, said to be prompted by the growing access of the Indian abridgement in the all-around arena, involves a shortlist of bristles symbols for the Indian rupee fatigued up the accounts ministry, absorption the Indian appearance and culture.

The rupee is alone referred to by the abridgement 'Rs' or 'Re' or sometimes as INR while above adopted currencies accept their own audible symbols, in accession to their abbreviations -- USD etc. The aforementioned abbreviated forms -- 'Rs' or 'Re' -- are additionally acclimated in neighbouring countries such as Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.