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Microsoft might have launched the first Zune back in 2006 but this new touch-sensitive offering is the gadget we've all been waiting for. The new Zune HD has world-class industrial design, a beautiful user interface and works with some impressive software on your PC.

Smaller and better looking in the flesh, it's thin but feels comfortable heavy and well-built. The 3.3-inch touch sensitive OLED screen is pure bliss and looks amazing with bright, vivid colours. With 480 x 272 pixel resolution, it has a true 16:9 aspect ratio, which works wonders for videos.
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INDIATIMES.COM, the internet venture of India’s largest media house, the Times Group, and Dish TV have entered into a strategic tie-up to offer television viewers a mobile interactive service called ‘Mobile Active’.

Dish TV viewers can now preview mobile services on TV and download mobile content — ringtones, wallpapers, text alerts, contests etc — on to their handsets. Mobile Active aims to tap the growing demand for value-added services from growing number of subscribers.
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Motorola Inc. has unveiled its new rugged mobile computer, the MC9500, leveraging the functionality of its MC9000, to offer reliable performance particularly for mobile workforces in the transportation and logistics, parcel/post, direct store delivery, field service and public safety industries.

The Windows Mobile powered handheld device, claiming to take mobile computing innovation to the next level, will increase productivity, streamline operations and reduce total cost of ownership, said the company.

In addition to the features of the popular MC9000, the MC9500 mobile computer bundles up new capabilities such as modular 3.5G WAN for a groundbreaking enterprise mobility solution that can change the way organizations do business.
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This is what Motorola CLIQ will be known as everywhere except for in U.S.

If you're wondering what the Dext is, let us assure you that this is the same model as the recently announced Motorola CLIQ. While the device will be called the CLIQ in U.S., it seems, it will be known as the Dext elsewhere.
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Microsoft is building Bing with a view towards beating Google in an area its internet rival has highlighted as ripe for massive growth: mobile search.

One of the chief architects behind Microsoft's deal to take over Yahoo!'s search has said Bing is being built to present results suited to mobile phones.

Charles Songhurst, Microsoft's general manager for corporate strategy, told the Jeffries Annual Technology Conference in New York, New York that Microsoft had "internalized a lot of what Google has been saying" in recent years on mobile search being worth more than PC-based search.
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Google has unveiled a service called Fast Flip to let users consume news more quickly and to boost the flagging fortunes of the news industry.

The product is designed to mirror the way readers flick through magazines and newspapers.

Google has teamed up with more than 30 providers such as the BBC to provide what it calls a new reading experience.

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Amid fierce competition in the fast growing handset market, US-based mobile phone maker Motorola on Friday announced the launch of its new device Motorola CLIQ, which will run on Google's Android operating system.

The development is being seen as a step towards breaking the monopoly of global software giant Microsoft, whose Windows operating system is used in most of the high-end devices.
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Just as the rising of the sun is predicated by the fact that it is nothing but a flaming orb geo-centrically swirling around this flat little pancake we call Earth, a new expulsion of iPods from Cupertino’s production line predicates a new swarm of iPod cases to market.

Scosche’s latest iPod Case is aimed at the Nano, and has the absurd name of a product that lives outside the realm of brand recognition: the polycarbonate, rubber-edged kickBACK n5. Don’t settle for the numerically inferior or unarbitrarily capitalized knock-offs, folks.

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Over the last couple of years there has been large increase in the production of gizmos and electronic gadgets due to technological advances in the electronics industry. I would like to share with you my top 15 list of what I believe are the most influential and interesting electronic gadgets available in the Consumer Electronics market today. The following descriptions are unfortunately not accompanied by pictures but the descriptions should be enough to give you a general understanding as well as to wet your appetite.

1. Widescreen MP4 Player Watch
Our first gadget is the MP4/Mp3 player watch which has recently been introduced to the market. So if you like your music then this is the product you will like. This Mp4 wrist watch has 1GB of memory and features a 1.8 Inch TFT screen, MTV format movie player, built-in FM radio, built-in speaker, and many other added features. There are many different types of Mp4/mp3 watches on the market, but have only recently been introduced. They are definitely worth checking out.
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Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers.

"In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a blog post late Thursday. "We'd like to keep our options open as we've said before."

Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen explosive growth since it launched publicly in August 2006 but has been unable so far to generate revenue.
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