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LONDON:Telecoms regulator Ofcom said on Thursday that seven companies had qualified to bid for the new airwaves needed to roll out superfast 4G mobile broadband across Britain.

LONDON: US technology giant Amazon has devised a new motion-sensor technology for an airbag that can protect your gadgets including smartphones, cameras and tablets from cracking when dropped. The system uses motion sensors, already built into most smartphones, to detect when a phone has been dropped and the mini airbag is then deployed before it hits the floor.

Dubai's total non-oil foreign trade totalled more than AED1trn ($272bn) in the first 10 months of 2012, a record amount for the period.

The figures for January and October compared to AED911bn for the same period in 2011, a growth rate of 13 percent, according to official data released on Wednesday.

Intel (INTC.O) presented new manufacturing technology that it said keeps it on track to launch a new generation of chips for smartphones and tablets as it rushes to catch up with Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and other rivals in the fast-growing mobile market.