Users can test drive phones--navigating menus and testing applications--via a Web browser and feel almost as if they were holding the handsets in their hands.

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Deco and Lampard played a lovely one-two in the build-up to the England midfielder testing Doni's reactions with a 25-yard drive that was headed just inside the post.

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Once at the motor sports complex, journalists took turns testing all-wheel-drive XJs and smaller XFs, which also get the system as an option for 2013, by flinging them through various obstacle courses, every one of which was covered in several inches of snow with thick ice underneath.

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In pre-production testing of the Modbook Pro, Modbook Inc. found that solid-state drive options offered a number of clear advantages over mechanical drives.

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InPhase is testing its first holographic disc-drive, called the Tapestry 900, in conjunction with partners such as Ikegami Tsushinki, a Japanese firm which makes video cameras for the television industry.

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To drive away evil spirits, 500, 000 rounds of eardrum-testing pyrotechnics will be set off at Sara Roosevelt Park in Chinatown at the New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival on 10 February, before lion and dragon dance troupes make the rounds to local businesses to ring in the Year of the Snake.

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World number one Tiger Woods played superbly in the testing winds and almost holed his drive to the par-four 18th.

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In the 2011 drink-drive campaign, 27, 744 people were tested, with 545 (1.96%) testing positive or failing or refusing a test.

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