The communication regulators in South Korea has officially approved the Apple iPhone. Before the country had a ban that blocked the product from entering the country. The Korea Communications Commission made an exception to a rule that require mobile phones in the Asian country to use domestic technologies for location based services.

Telecommunications company KT Corp. has been having discussions with the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) about bringing the phone to the Korean country. Bringing the iPhone to Korea will be interesting because the market is already saturated by Samsung and LG mobile phones.

South Korea made the rule exception shortly after China did. The exception was made months after consumers were pressuring the Commission.

According to sources with AllThingsD, Yahoo! has been considering selling off Zimbra. Zimbra is an open source e-mail company that Yahoo! bought for $350 million back in 2007. Yahoo! seems to be cutting loose a lot of their assets and properties on the open market including Zimbra. Another property Yahoo! is selling includes HotJobs.

As Yahoo! is preparing to launch a new $100 million marketing campaign, this is evidence that they are planning to slim their portfolio.

Rumor also has it that Yahoo! M&A exec Greg Mrva is responsible for selling the property. Before Yahoo! bought Zimbra, the open source e-mail web start-up was backed by Benchmark Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Accel Partners. Zimbra founder and former CEO Satish Dharmaraj left Yahoo! left the company earlier this year to join Redpoint.

“There’s a crisis in the industry, and the Guardian is no more immune than anyone else, but it’s a myth that we’ve plouged lunatic sums into digital,” stated Guardian Media Group editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. The website Guardian.co.uk has lost £20 million ($32.7 million) since 2002 according to Rusbridger.

Rusbridger wrote the financial details about the Guardian in the form of a comment on an article written by Roy Greenslade titled Murdoch’s digital news cartel will not persuade people to pay for content.

Guardian News & Media Ltd. as a whole lost £26.4 ($43.2) million to £36.8 ($60.18) million between 2008 and 2009. In July 2008, Guardian News & Media agreed to buy out technology news blog paidContent for over $30 million.

TweetDeck already sorts Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for you but the Adobe AIR powered application doesn’t have e-mail or IM software yet. According to a Threadsy presentation at the TechCrunch50 conference, the average 23 year old has 6 different accounts.

Threadsy separates inbound and unbound messages into columns too. Messages directed to you such as incoming e-mail, @replies sent to you on Twitter, and Facebook messages placed on your wall are in the inbound column. The unbound column is all the rest of the activity.

Threadsy will make money through contextual advertising. Threadsy can collect messages from 60 different sources. The company was founded in June 2008 in San Francisco. The company was founded by Rob Goldman and Udi Nir.

Google has found another way to make Microsoft applications work better. As most of you know, Internet Explorer is extremely clunky and takes up more memory than it should. The amount of memory needed to run Internet Explorer keeps on increasing as new versions are released. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox on the other hand are aiming to find ways to reduce memory loads to run their browsers.

Now Google has found a way to make Microsoft Internet Explorer operate more effectively through the use of an open source plug-in called Chrome Frame.

“Recent JavaScript performance improvements and the emergence of HTML5 have enabled web applications to do things that could previously only be done by desktop software,” wrote Google employees Amit Joshi, Mike Smith, and Alex Russell on the Google Chromium Blog. “One challenge developers face in using these new technologies is that they are not yet supported by Internet Explorer. Developers can’t afford to ignore IE — most people use some version of IE — so they end up spending lots of time implementing work-arounds or limiting the functionality of their apps.”

Personally I think Microsoft should be embarrassed and should be ashamed of themselves. You know your product is bad when a competitor goes out of their way to make it work better just so they can tolerate it too.

Alice.com is a website that focuses on making sure that typical household consumers do not run out of supply. According to an SEC filing, Alice.com raised $4 million in funding. Users fill out what they typically buy on Alice.com and then the website recommends deals to look into and links consumers directly to manufacturers. Alice.com was founded by Mark McGuire and Brian Wiegand.

Wiegand and McGuire previously founded and sold Jellyfish.com to Microsoft. Jellyfish was used by Microsoft to create the Cashback program. This allows people that search for merchandise on Bing.com to find deals. Alice.com previously raised $4.3 million in funding from DaneVest Tech Fund and Kegonsa Capital Partners.

Every week, retail companies and e-commerce companies change their websites to focus on new deals. Sometimes managers of these companies want to track trends using what was previously displayed. Perpetually.com has a business model that focuses on helping companies maintain what was previously displayed. This is like a combination of Wikipedia and Amazon’s Archive.org.

Perpetually records what changes were made on the website and what was removed. Perpetually actually maintains what the website looked in context rather than some useless text archive. The user interface looks as clean cut as the Apple Time Machine backup software.

Companies just have to install the software and activate it. There are no plugins or software needed. One of Perpetually’s clients is The Wall Street Journal. The company launched at the TechCrunch50 conference. Perpetually was founded by Darrell Silver and Collin Miller.

Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is spending as much as Microsoft for their marketing campaign. Microsoft spent $100 million to reinvent their brand in order to get people to accept Windows Vista. Now Yahoo! is spending the same amount to launch a campaign called “It’s Y!ou.” The new advertising campaign was announced at the Advertising Bureau’s Mixx Expo by Yahoo! EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Elisa Steele.

It’s Y!ou is intended to focus on “My World” and “The World.” My Work will focus on an individual’s friends and interests. The World will focus on a broad interest information. The $100 million marketing campaign will also have a heavy focus on making web, news, and e-mail easier to use for current and future Yahoo! users.

“I think what happened with Yahoo is that people just decided to put a cloud over its head,” stated Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz. “Now, it’s like, if we’re going to remove the cloud, then there has to be something shiny and different. [But] Yahoo has a fantastic company, a billion dollars a year free cash flow, 600 million users around the world. When you get out of New York City and Silicon Valley, everybody loves Yahoo.”