Some other differences: the Mobile Mouse requires a dongle, whereas the Comfort uses Bluetooth.

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While the Mobile Mouse has just the Start key and a scroll wheel, though, the bigger Comfort Mouse takes things a step further: the button there doubles as a capacitive surface you can swipe to toggle through open programs in Windows 8.

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In fact, touch computing has eliminated the mouse on mobile devices and speech recognition like Siri and Evi could eliminate the need for a keyboard.

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In many mobile applications, the finger has replaced mouse and key or button entry.

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The glut of Will and Kate products being produced by Woolworths include dolls, spoons, slippers, a mobile phone, photo album, car flags, a mouse mat, buntings, wine glasses, thimbles, mugs, tupperware and of course plates.

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Smaller than a standard mouse, the new All-in-One Mobile Companion offers instant Wi-Fi coupled with a range of useful features designed for today's mobile professional.

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Canonical hopes that future devices (read: arriving sometime in 2014) will not only run the new mobile OS, but will also boot the desktop variant of Ubuntu when docked to a keyboard, mouse and monitor.

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