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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

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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 .

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Skip Navigation The app includes the first-ever taste profiling feature that gives users the chance to learn which wine style best suits their palates A new app for the iPhone, designed to demystify the often complex ins and outs of wine tasting, has been developed. Pocket Wine, the Irish-developed app, has been made to help users navigate the wine universe with ease and offers them unique wine definitions

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Right on schedule, Verizon Wireless has added the Motorola Droid Pro Messenger-class smartphone to its considerable Android phone lineup.

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If you missed out on Amazon’s $0.01 smartphone sale this weekend, dread not; you can still get your hands on a Windows Phone 7 handset for far less than the direct T-Mobile and AT&T prices. Amazon.com now has three of the four currently-available Windows Phones ( Samsung Focus , LG Quantum and HTC HD7 ) in stock and on sale for $49 with a new two-year service agreement with free two-day shipping and no mail-in rebates.  This is a due-at-checkout price.

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The pink and white Juicy Couture iPhone 4 cover (left) and the blue and black Animal iPhone 3GS cover Juicy Couture and Animal have released fashionable iPhone covers, fit for filling stockings this Christmas. Juicy Couture These covers mark the first foray Juicy Couture has made into the mobile accessory market

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Skip Navigation The system will include a small OnLine MicroConsole TV Adapter and an OnLive Wireless Controller OnLive, an on-demand cloud gaming system aimed at challenging the traditional games console market, has opened for pre-orders in the US. The OnLive game system gives gamers access to instant-play newly released video games on TVs, PCs or Macs.

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Microsoft has just unveiled a new feature in Bing that will help Windows Phone 7 users find new apps for their smartphones.  The new feature, a part of Bing Visual Search, shows users in the United States and UK Windows Phone 7 apps sorted by top rated, newest free, newest paid and most downloaded.  You can also view all Windows Phone apps, which number 2383 as of this posting. To get the full benefits of the new search tool, you’ll need the Zune software installed on your PC (if it isn’t already).

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Although it’s been up for order for some days via third-parties, the LG Quantum Windows Phone is now officially on the shelves of AT&T Mobility stores. The LG Quantum is the fourth Windows Phone 7 powered smartphone available in the US, and the second with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.  It also has the smallest touchscreen of any of the first crop of Windows Phones at 3.5-inches.

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