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Share of Body Central Corp ( NASDAQ: BODY ) plunged more than 44 %, as company guided a sharp decline in same store sales for second quarter FY12.

The Galaxy S III is official now. Samsung Electronics has unveiled its much-awaited third generation Galaxy S - the Galaxy S III. The smartphone is touted to recognise your voice, understands your intention, and lets you share a moment instantly and easily.

The phone features a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. It has an 8 megapixel rear camera with flash and zero shutter lag and a 1.9 megapixel front camera, which are believed to offer users a wide variety of camera features and face recognition related options.

Weighing 133g, the phone is only 8.6 mm thick. The Samsung Galaxy S III runs Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, operating system. The new Galaxy will be powered by Samsung's quad-core microprocessor.

The Exynos 4 Quad, based on British chip designer ARM Holdings Cortex A9 technology, enables more tasks in a shorter period of time - for example streaming video can run on one core while the other cores update applications, connect to the web and scan virus-check, simultaneously.

The phone will come in three models - 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. The 64GB version is coming later, and the company says it will be available soon. The memory of the Galaxy S III is expandable up to 64GB, using a microSD card. The phone is engineered with a 2100 mAh battery.

The connectivity options icnlude WiFi a/b/g/n, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0(LE). Initially, the Galaxy S III will be available in Pebble Blue and Marble White. Samsung says to introduce a variety of additional color options later.

The Galaxy S III features 'S Voice,' the advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to your words. In addition, this feature is claimed to present powerful functions in regards to device control and commands. For instance, when your phone alarm goes off but you need a little extra rest, just tell the Galaxy S III "snooze." Also, you can use this feature to play your favorite songs, turn the volume up or down, send text messages and emails, organise your schedules, or automatically launch the camera and capture a photo.

Besides your voice, the phone understands your motions also. It has a "Direct call" feature, which means if you are messaging someone but decide to call them instead, simply lift your phone to your ear and "Direct call" will dial their number.

Moreover, the phone has another interesting feature - Smart alert. The phone is claimed to save you from trouble by catching any missed messages or calls; the phone will vibrate to notify missed statuses when picked up after being idle.

With the new "S Beam," the Galaxy S III expands upon Android Beam, thereby allows a 1GB movie file to be shared within three minutes and a 10MB music file within two seconds by simply touching another Galaxy S III phone, even without a Wi-Fi or cellular signal. Its "Buddy photo share" also allows photos to simultaneously shared with all your friends pictured in an image directly from the camera or the photo gallery.

It has much more to offer. With 'AllShare Cast,' users can wirelessly connect their Galaxy S III to their television to immediately transfer smartphone content onto a larger display.

With a view to ensure faster content sharing and connectivity, the smartphone offers Wi-Fi Channel Bonding which doubles the Wi-Fi bandwidth.

Samsung introduces 'Pop up play,' feature that allows users to play a video anywhere on the screen while simultaneously running other tasks. It eliminates the need to close and restart videos when checking new emails or surfing the Web.

The global version is said to support 21Mbps HSPA+, however certain local models will have 4G. The Galaxy S III 4G version will be available in North America, Japan, and Korea during this summer. The Galaxy S III will be launched in 145 countries.

The phone will be available from May 29 in Europe before rolling out to other markets globally.

Facebook has finally decided to launch IPO with the price range between $ 28 to mid $ 35. World's largest social networking website will start trading on Nasdaq exchange on May 18, according to S-1 filing from the company

Facebook plans to raise as much as $12 billion in Silicon Valley's largest IPO, dwarfing the coming-out parties of tech companies like Google and granting the world's largest social network a market value close to Amazon.com's.

The company also released video of its road show, set to start on Monday, online. (Click to watch the video.)

Facebook plans to invest heavily in mobile, even if the payoff takes a long time or is uncertain, Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman says in the video. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg adds that mobile is a key growth area for the company.

The eight-year-old social network that began as Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room project priced its initial public offering at between $28 and $35 a share on Thursday, attaining a valuation of as much as $95.9 billion at the high end. Shares are expected to be priced the evening of May 17, with trading beginning on May 18.

If an over-allotment or "greenshoe" option is triggered, the company could end up raising close to $13.6 billion, according to a Thursday prospectus.

Investors are expected to flock to the highly anticipated IPO, though some have voiced concerns about the social network's longer-term growth

Last week, Facebook reported its first quarter-to-quarter revenue slide in at least two years, a sign that the social network's sizzling growth may be cooling just as it prepares to go public. Its stock should begin trading in about a week or two.

Facebook, which plans to list its stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker "FB", will begin meeting with investors on Monday.