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Flat-screen TV prices are falling for holidays

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By Evan Ramstad and Gary McWilliams, The Wall Street Journal

For electronics retailers, it will be the holiday season of the flat-screen televisions. But the companies that make the key component — the flat screen itself — won’t have much to celebrate. Heading into the Christmas sales period, traditionally the biggest time of the year for electronics, prices of flat-screen televisions are falling. Sharp’s 32-inch LCD-TV with built-in HDTV tuner — introduced to the United States in January at a suggested price of $5,000 — now carries a suggested price of $4,000 and is being advertised by some online retailers for about $3,100, including shipping. Wal-Mart Stores recently began selling a 42-inch plasma set for under $2,000.

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Techno Women Close ‘Gizmo Gap’ on Gadget Guys

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By Graham Hiscott, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, PA News

Women have closed the “gizmo gender gap� on gadget-obsessed men, experts said today. The latest must-have electronic wizardry has traditionally been known as “boys’ toys�. But all that is changing, according to industry insiders, with women now becoming equally interested in the newest hi-tech equipment on the market. Manufacturers have started responding by making products with females very much in mind.

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iPod available at high-end hotels

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By Alorie Gilbert

Music lovers checking into fine hotels may want to ask the front desk about the latest trend in upscale amenities: in-room iPods. Dream, a new Manhattan four-star, is one of the latest boutique hotels to offer guests the use of Apple’s popular music gadget during their stay. The iPods come preloaded with as many as 2,000 songs and are available for each of the Dream’s 200 rooms, said Dream spokesman Andy Patrizia. The music players, available from the concierge, come with a special cable that plugs into the Bose speakers in each room, he said. The rooms also feature 37-inch plasma televisions, digital cable and 300-count Egyptian cotton sheets. The luxuries don’t come cheap of course. The Dream’s rates range from $275 to $575 a night. A 20GB iPod costs $299.

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IBM, Intel join in mobile security spec release

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Intel, IBM, and Japanese telecom NTT DoCoMo published a jointly developed security specification called the Trusted Mobile Platform. The new spec aims to secure mobile e-commerce activities, such as electronic tickets and e-wallets, and to help protect devices from emerging software attacks. ‘Through tamper-resistant modules and by enabling domain separation, a trusted platform will be able to protect data from potential viruses spreading from one application to the next,’ the companies said in a statement.

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Do geek-speakers speak geek at home, or just to confuse us?

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By Bill Husted, Cox News Service

If ordinary people talked like geeks, we would all die. Your wife would send you to the grocery store for Lactuca sativa and Solanum tuberosum to accompany some commercially ground Bos taurus. Most of us would starve to death without bringing home the lettuce and potatoes to go with our hamburgers for dinner. No one would put up with talk like that, grocery stores would go out of business and America would be a nation of skinny people. I don’t know about you, but we’re sick of that kind of double talk down here at the newspaper.

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The Most Connected Campuses

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Google’s first data center was in Larry Page’s Stanford dorm room, while Michael Dell got his start selling PCs from his room at the University of Texas. Shawn Fanning created Napster so he could share music with fellow Northeastern University students. And Apple Computer co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak got their start selling UC Berkeley students a gizmo that let them make free phone calls. College campuses have always been hotbeds of technological innovation and experimentation. But today, as a generation of students raised on the Internet take over the classrooms, technology is more important than ever. In order to be competitive and attract the best students, a school needs to offer the best infrastructure possible.

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