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Indian equities, on Friday, maintained an upbeat momentum all through the day, and closed strongly, because of positive global signals, backed by firming trends of Asian markets.

The Sensex closed at 9.634.74, up 168.91 points after touching a high of 9,695.59 and a low of 9,540.60. In contrast, the broad-based NSE Nifty gained 55.30 points at 2,948.35 after hitting a high of 2,969.75 and a low of 2,896.85.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap index rose 1.51% and 0.62% respectively

The technology seems to be progressing gradually and it brings happy news for all those who are Gizmo freaks.

LG KP500 Cookie was launched earlier as an affordable and user-friendly full touch screen GSM phone in black color. Afterward, there were special editions of Pink and silver from Orange.

This time, UK’s O2 has offered the ‘Cookie’ in pure white color with a metallic blue rim for UK users.

As part of its worldwide Intelligent Urbanisation initiative, Cisco Systems has signed up a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Karnataka to launch ‘Intelligent Bengaluru’ pilot project in the city.

Under the MoU, the project launched by the state government and networking giant will focus on global sustainable solutions for public safety and security, transportation, buildings, power distribution, energy utilization, health care, education and environment conservation.

The space shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station, due to launch on February 12, has again been postponed for the third time late Friday by NASA. The official launch date for space shuttle has not been disclosed yet as the completion of ongoing fuel valve tests may take some time. However, the shuttle is unlikely to launch before February 27 as per NASA spokesperson. NASA would hold a press conference on February 20 to explain the progress of work.

The Cotton Advisory Board (CAB) revised the production and demand estimate for the crop season 2008-09 in a meeting held in Mumbai on Friday, confirming the impact of global slowdown on cotton economy and impact of erratic rain and pest problem on the crop.