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What about getting the smell of exotic food items shown in a cookery show? How about identifying the best flavor of perfume that is shown in the television? All these are going to be possible soon. Japanese scientists have developed a 'Smell-O-Vision' TV which they say could emit the exact smell of the picture on display. Something similar was developed in the U.S. in the '60s, with scents released from sachets hidden in the seats to make cinema audiences more engaged with the entertainment. 

"We are using the ink-jet printer's ability to eject tiny pulses of material to achieve precise control ," said Lead Researcher Kenichi Okada of Keio University, Tokyo. The TV, according to scientists, will release a candy floss smell when the image shows a fairground and can even emit the briny scent of the seaside when people look at their holiday photos. The technology used in the television makes printers to spray small amounts of scent rather than ink.

Vodafone Essar today said it plans to launch third-generation (3G) services in the country early next year, even as its rivals will start rolling out the service from next month.

"We will go for good coverage and will launch (3G) city by city in the first quarter of the next year," Vodafone Essar Managing Director Marten Pieters said. 

Vodafone Essar plans to complete rolling out 3G services in all the 10 circles by the end of the first quarter of 2011, Pieters said.

Vodafone Essar, India's third largest mobile phone operator by subscribers, has 3G radio waves in 10 out of 22 telecom circles in the country, including the lucrative Metros.

3G mobile services will allow high-speed content download and broadband services. Telecom operators who are seeing fierce price war in the market, expects that the 3G services will give them a shot in arm. 

Facebook users using Bing will see their friends' like popping up when they run their Bing searches while logged into their Facebook account. In addition, while searching for friends in Bing, they will have people with common Facebook friends topping the search result.

The move is a result of Microsoft's decision of adding input from users' Facebook data to the results the Bing search pulls up. According to a Facebook spokesperson, the service is already available to two percent of Facebook users in the U.S. and it will be available to the rest in coming weeks. 

Be careful while discarding your mobile phone. A recent research has found that many customers are unknowingly passing out much of the personal data to strangers when they discard mobile phones, with photos and credit card numbers and pins.

An analysis of 50 handsets purchased from second-hand resellers on eBay found that more than half contained personal messages or photos, according to the research launched by mobile and forensics experts Disklabs. Over 60 percent contained phone numbers left on a call log. 

Believe it or not! Now, just shake your phone and you will find your way. Mobile phone maps have guided people through streets around the globe. Now it has also taken a new turn by adding cellphone maps to help people find their way when they are inside mall or airport. In the map users will be able to see a floor plan of a shopping mall, with stores indicated by name, escalators, exits, restrooms and elevators marked in. 

A New York based company MindSmack's FastMall, is one of the indoor mapping services. FastMall has a search engine to help users find stores on its maps and the service places a pin on the map to show the store's location. Tap the 'take me there' button and the service plots a route to the destination. To find the nearest restroom, all the users have to do is shake their phone.

The various mapping services differ in how they obtain their maps. Some get them from mall management companies or mall developers. Others use maps that are already available online or they copy ones posted on mall directories. Most of the indoor mapping apps are free, like PointInside, FastMall and Micello, which work on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. PointInside is also available for many Android phones.

Tata-DoCoMo, the GSM unit of Tata Teleservices, has become the first GSM service provider to announce the launch of much anticipated 3G services in the country. The company is set to launch the 3G mobile services across nine circles - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh (West), Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh – by this Deewali. Initially, 3G coverage will be available only in top cities of each State. Tata Tele has given the 3G equipment contract to Nokia Siemens and Chinese vendor Huawei.