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It's billed as the world's largest gathering of technology innovators, but products unveiled at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, pack more power into smaller devices. Left, Nokia's mobile phone "N92" with digital television receiver is shown March 8, 2006.
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Nearly half a million people are descending on Hanover for the giant CeBIT show, which runs March 9 through March 15. More than 6,200 companies from 71 countries will show products during the show. At left, firemen preparing for the opening cleaned a German Telekom AG poster.
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Microsoft big-footed CeBIT's opening by using the occasion to unveil Project Origami. Here, Vice President William Mitchell demonstrates the new ultra compact computer, delivered after months of cryptic Web marketing. It runs Windows XP with a touch screen and wireless connectivity. This model is a Samsung.
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An extremely slim and light notebook at the Fujitsu Siemens exhibition stand is shown by Nathalie, a hostess, on the first day of the CeBIT fair, March 9, 2006. The "Lifebook Q2010" weighs only one kilogram, a little more than 35 ounces.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel shows an ultra mobile PC at the Intel exhibition stand at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. Naturally, there's a new acronym to learn for this product: UMPC. Chancellor Merkel took a tour of the fair grounds on March 9, 2006.
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Marina Gogic presents a Hannspree "Elefant TV" at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, on March 9, 2006. Hannspree builds LCD screens into unusual cases.
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Ina, a model, shows a Vodafone "MobileTV" phone on which a televised soccer game is being broadcast at the CeBit exhibition center on March 7, 2006.
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A CeBIT visitor inspects a Hitachi camcorder that records films on DVD, on the fair grounds in Hanover, Germany, on March 8, 2006.
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Wait! These things are supposed to be getting smaller! A worker fixes an advertising board showing a mobile device from South Korea's Samsung at an exhibition stand at the fair ground in Hanover, northern Germany, March 6, 2006. Samsung is among 6,300 exhibitors who are showing their latest products at the CeBIT show.
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Intel's new Intel Core Duo Processor is shown by a fair hostess at the 2006 CeBIT information and telecommunication technology fair on March 8, 2006, in Hanover, Germany.
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A Nokia 7380 mobile phone from the Finnish mobile devices company's "L'Amour Collection" is shown by a fair hostess March 8, 2006 at the CeBIT fair grounds in Hanover.
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One product is getting much, much bigger, and that's the flat screen monitor. Here, a hostess poses in front of a 103-inch Panasonic that is billed as the world's largest flat screen monitor. The product was on display at the Panasonic exhibition stand at CeBIT in Hanover, northern Germany, on March 9, 2006.
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A visitor stands in front of rows of flat screen monitors at the Panasonic exhibition stand at CeBIT on March 9, 2006.
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Show visitor Sven Dey takes a look at a giant model of a ViaMichelin navigation device at the CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, March 9, 2006. About 6,300 exhibitors from 71 nations are showing their latest products.
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This new device, shown by a hostess at CeBIT, identifies fruits or vegetables and prints an RFID label. The Smart Scales device was unveiled at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, northern Germany, March 8, 2006.
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An Electronic Fashion Consultant is demonstrated at the German METRO Group booth at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, Germany, March 8, 2006. The customer can see a selected item in action on a projection screen.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during an opening event at the CeBIT computer fair on March 8, 2006, in Hanover. The opening-day buzz was owned by Microsoft, which revealed its Project Origami to be an ultra compact personal computer with full PC capabilities.
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