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Gmail gets 'Priority Inbox'

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San Francisco: Google Inc can sift through more than a trillion Web links in a matter of seconds, but can the Internet search leader help people wade through their overflowing e-mailboxes?

That's the challenge Google will try to tackle with the introduction of a tool called "Priority Inbox" in its Gmail service. The feature relies on formulas devised by Google engineers to automatically figure out and highlight which incoming messages are likely to be the most important to each Gmail user.

A dress that is also a phone!

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Have you always complained of the time that your black dress could not accomodate your mobile phone?

Well, you can bid adieu to your worries.

A company from Britain has come up with a dress that doubles up as a mobile phone.

The garment, branded the M-Dress, lets wearers make and receive calls by slipping their sim card under the label, allowing them to keep their usual numbers. Cool right?

Phone app to replace the stethoscope?

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London:  The iPhone could soon replace the doctors' best friend, the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University College London researcher.

Peter Bentley invented the 'iStethoscope' application which monitors heartbeat through sensors in the iPhone as just a bit of fun. And, more than three million doctors across the world are signing up for the free application.

"Everybody is very excited about the potential of the adoption of mobile phone technology into the medical workplace, and rightly so. Smartphones are incredibly powerful devices packed full of sensors, cameras, high-quality microphones with amazing displays.

"They are capable of saving lives, saving money and improving healthcare in a dramatic

Google, AP reach deal on online news

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San Francisco: Google and the Associated Press have reached a new deal that will allow the web-search giant to continue running stories from the AP on its Google News site, the internet company said Monday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the announcement, which was posted on Google's official blog.

Google has not been linking directly to breaking AP stories since January when a previous agreement between the two sides expired. However Google still referred readers to older AP stories, and to AP stories at AP clients websites under a temporary licensing agreement.

Nokia launches dual-SIM phones

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New Delhi: Forced by the runaway success of domestic players offering features-rich dual-SIM mobile phones in the sub-Rs 5,000 category, market leader Nokia finally launched two dual-SIM phones in India on Monday.

Interestingly, Nokia C1 (C1-00) and Nokia C2 (C2-00) are the first dual-SIM mobile phones from the Finnish telecom giant.

The market share of the company - already struggling in the high-end smartphone market to match the successes of RIM, Apple and Google Android-based phones - has been battered in India in the past two years.

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