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SAN FRANCISCO — During past downturns, layoffs were mostly a private affair. Big companies tended to issue vague press releases filled with jargon about “downsizing,” and start-ups often gave people the pink slip without telling the world anything at all.
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Samsung Q310
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Samsung announced earlier this week that it would begin selling laptops in the U.S., and the first model, the 13-inch Q310 has is now for sale on Newegg.com. Two Q310 models are listed, the СЕКРЕТУТКА,049 Q310-34G and the нфШс-РЈРΜРЅРΜРҐР¶РΜСЂ,249 Q310-34P. (The prices reflect a $100 and a $50 discount, respectively.)
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On Tuesday, Apple will announce plans and possibly redesigns for its laptop line. As usual, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been tight-lipped on details, but CNET editors have their suspicions.
On this edition of the CNET News Daily Debrief, CNET’s Kara Tsuboi and Crave chief correspondent Erica Ogg discuss new design possibilities, [...]

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Sharp combines Blu-ray Disc Recorders with its LCD television technology
PC World reports that Sharp will begin selling the world’s first LCD televisions with a built-in Blu-ray Disc recorder in Japan next month. The televisions should go on sale in the United States before the end of this year and will begin selling in Europe in [...]

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BearingPoint will provide СЕКРЕТУТКА,000 3G iPhones to its workers in Japan
Japanese news site Nikkei Net reports Softbank Mobile recently signed its first corporate customer for the 3G iPhone in Japan. The Japanese unit of consultancy firm BearingPoint agreed to purchase СЕКРЕТУТКА,000 3G iPhones to be used amongst СЃРΜРЄСЂРΜтарша,200 consultants at client offices.
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HP's first 13-inch laptop, the Pavilion dv3500t
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If 12 is too small and 14 too big, HP now has a laptop to sell you. With the Pavilion dv3500t, the company has slotted in a 13-inch model to its crowded laptop lineup. The dv3500t features a choice of four Intel Core 2 Duo processors (up [...]

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Baltimore residents will be able to get WiMAX service downtown only
WiMAX is one of the mobile technologies that promised so much and ultimately was not able to deliver on its promises — at least on the scale that most people hoped. Sprint began talking up its Xohm service in early 2008.
About the time Sprint put its [...]

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First Nokia handset will be offered exclusively in Britain at Carphone Warehouse
Digital music is a booming business these days with consumers. Rather than owning a physical music disk that has to be stored, users want the convenience of simply downloading tunes direct to their portable devices. Apple has proven that the pure digital delivery format [...]

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Microsoft, OLPC and Peru will use the South American nation as a testing ground for the Windows-powered OLPC
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization announced Peru will be the first nation to receive low-cost XO laptops with Microsoft Windows instead of Linux.  Peru’s Ministry of Education will receive the laptops, and then will [...]

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3M releases pocket size projector… way cooler than a pocket protector
Gone are the days of hauling a big cumbersome projector into your corporate meeting room or college lecture hall for presentations.  Now, a new projector is set to debut that literally can fit in your pocket.
Images of the production version of the new [...]

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