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HP is set to launch its first-ever consumer-focused smartphone. The new iPaq will run Windows Mobile and will feature both a touchscreen and a key, designed to challenge the dominance of iPhone and to compete with the recently released Android phone – G1.
HP currently holds a 3.3-percent share of the global smartphone market.

Reports indicated that Microsoft has again given another extension to Windows XP. OEM suppliers are now allowed to offer Windows XP for another six months as a downgrade option with Windows Vista.
They would now be able to offer this service to new customers buying computers till July 31, 2009.
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Xerox has developed a printer paper that if used with a particular form of printing would erase itself after a day.
This technology can be put to good use in offices where a lot of documents are printed for temporary purposes.
The paper can be reused after the ink on it vanishes.

Barack Obama launches a new app on the Apple App Store which is designed to work on the Apple iPhone.
The application is designed for Obama fans to call their friends and relatives in battleground states to convince them into voting for Democrats.
The application is also designed to enable the users to check Obama’s stand on [...]

Dustin Moskovitz, one of the co-founders of Facebook is leaving the company to form a new startup in collaboration with Justin Rosenstein who is also working in Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg who is basically the face of the service said “Dustin has always had Facebook’s best interest at heart and will always be someone I turn to [...]