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Sennheiser has introduced a new model of high-performance travel headphones designed for superior ambient noise reduction.

As gesture-responsive mobile applications gain popularity among the users and the developers, companies are offering and new and advanced applications in this field. GestureTek is one such company that has launched a new software that lets Android and Symbian developers integrate motion and object-tracking into gesture-control mobile games and applications.

Littleaton.com, a new electronics superstore for online audio, video, computer, phone, GPS, toy electronics, and other electronics needs, has opened. This new online destination opened Jan. 1 and is slowly growing into an electronics superstore. Littleaton.com started from as an Amazon.com marketplace seller, just selling products here and there and slowly grew to a Web store. Company officials are currently working creating a new Web site that will be released in mid April.

SMSC, a smart mixed-signal connectivity solutions provider, announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets and certain liabilities of Kleer Semiconductor Corporation, a designer of high-quality, interoperable wireless audio technology.

ChaCha, a free mobile service that provides quick and accurate answers, has launched a new Facebook application that offers Facebook users instant access to all the answers from their friends, including ChaCha.

NAVTEQ, a provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions, announced that the company will focus on advanced content and services; innovative, enabling technologies; developer tools and support, which enhance the end-user experience, at this year's Mobile World Congress. This year's Mobile World Congress included a broad range of location-focused applications on display via a variety of customer demos, coupled with interactive demonstrations of unique advancements in visual content; innovative technologies that advance map data collection and content development efforts and lastly, tools and support aimed at helping developers launch new products.

Louisville, Kentucky-based provider of Bluetooth software solutions Stonestreet One has been selected by Kopin Corporation to provide the Bluetooth protocol stack software for Kopin's Golden-i headset and developer kits, which were officially launched at the 2010 Mobile World Congress.

We launched a new service called PoketyPoke in early January…a personal conference manager, announces James Siminoff, CSO of Ditech Network, founder and former CEO of PhoneTag, adding that yesterday was the first time I was on a real conference call with a third party where every participant used PoketyPoke.

Cypress, a provider of high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions, has announced that its TrueTouch touchscreen solution has been deployed in the new docomo PRIME N-02B - which will help the mobile phone's users to focus the phone camera using a touchscreen interface.