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Five years ago, Patrick Baudisch found that it was getting harder to dial the minuscule buttons on ever-smaller cell phones; he couldn’t see what he was tapping on the keypad while he was holding the phone. What he really needed, he decided, was fingers he could see through.

So Baudisch, a scientist at Microsoft Research who was studying human-computer interaction, started working on something more practical: LucidTouch, a digital technology meant to give handheld devices the illusion of transparency. An unusual joint venture formalized in 2006 between Microsoft and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, LucidTouch is designed to allow the use of all 10 fingers, unlike the BlackBerry or Treo.
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Razer is a company located in California, focused on developing gaming devices using its proprietary technologies and a strong collaboration with gamers, so that its products always meet the latest industry requirements.
At CeBIT this year, Razer introduced its first entry-level gaming mouse, Razer Salmosa, the lightest mouse in its class, available at a price of $39.99 starting with Q3.

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This phone was presented at CeBIT 2008 and it has a watch design , but phone features.It measures only 58.1 x 44.2 x 16.4mm and it weights 142 g, GM500 wants to be the smallest gadget in the world.

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Twenty four hours after Apple revealed its procedure for getting third-party applications on the iPhone, developers have a few questions about the software development kit, but seem mostly satisfied.

In the immediate aftermath of Thursday’s presentation at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., reaction was almost universally positive to Apple’s SDK plans. Some developers had feared worse outcomes, such as having to submit their source code to Apple, and seemed willing to let Apple take a piece of their revenue and be the exclusive distributor for iPhone applications in exchange for getting a crack at the technology.

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After the release of the software development kit for Apple’s iPhone, Sun Microsystems says it’s going to enable Java applications to run on the device, InfoWorld is reporting.

Sun will build a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), based on the Java Micro Edition version of the programming language after June of this year. It will be available in the iPhone AppStore. Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, told InfoWorld Friday that although Apple passed on enabling Java on the iPhone, Sun decided to do so anyway after Thursday’s SDK unveiling. After combing through the documents for the SDK and seeing nothing that barred it from doing so, Sun decided to go for it.

“We’re going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible,” Klein said.

Java on the iPhone will mean that versions of software, like customer relationship management and other enterprise applications, could be available on the device.

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