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The newest Droid, the Motorola Droid Pro , is now available free with a new or upgraded two-year service agreement at WireFly.com , no rebate required. There’s also no activation fee, and 2-day shipping is free

Skip Navigation The Kinect is out now to make your sitting room that little bit more active Get plugged into the best games and the latest peripherals this Christmas. Kinect Microsoft’s Kinect is a revolutionary control system where you are the controller.

Like the iPhone, new Windows Phone 7 powered smartphones are locked down as far as app installation is concerned, meaning users can only install new applications via the Windows Marketplace. Google’s Android OS allows end-user app installation, but the functionality must be manually enabled in the Settings menu.

Skip Navigation Gamestop.ie will have special offers for gaming goods every hour until midnight GameStop.ie has entered the fray for Black Friday sales, offering a new deal every hour all day. From 8am to midnight, GameStop.ie will be offering a special offer, which will close when the hour is finished

Skip Navigation Sony is hoping its library of content will be enough to satisfy e-book consumers Sony Corp has said it is set to re-engage the Japanese electronic book (e-book) market with its Sony Reader and an online book store that will offer around 20,000 titles. The book channel will offer books, primarily in Japanese, in time for the end-of-year rush and in time to synch it with its 5 and 6-inch screen Sony Reader e-book , which goes on sale 10 December, according to Reuters .

Skip Navigation It’s Black Friday at Apple today and buyers can get discounts of around €101 for the MacBook Air Apple has knocked €41 off its range of iPad products and €100 off its MacBook devices for today only on its e-commerce store. Black Friday is the traditional huge shopping day in the US on the day after Thanksgiving.

Skip Navigation The deal will enable YouTube to show more content in France An agreement has been reached between YouTube and a group of French authors, filmmakers and creative artists that will enable the channel to show more content online in France. YouTube came to a deal with Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD), Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia (SCAM) and Société des Auteurs dans les arts Graphiques et Plastiques (SAGP) – who represent a range of authors, creators, writers, directors, visual artists, architects and playwrights

Skip Navigation The Samsung Omnia 7 is out now from free on bill pay from 3, Meteor and eMobile. The Samsung Omnia 7 is now available in Ireland, running on Microsoft’s mobile OS Windows Phone 7

Skip Navigation Israeli army officials used the social network to catch out draft dodgers More than 1,000 women who avoided military service in Israel have been caught out by posting personal information on social networking website Facebook. The Israel Defence Forces has been using Facebook to investigate women who lied about their religious backgrounds in order to avoid being drafted to the army, according to bbc.co.uk .