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Nokia sues LCD manufacturers for alleged price fixing (update: joins AT&T)

Price fixing is nothing new in the LCD panel business. Hell, collusion is pretty common across the entire consumer electronics industry though it's difficult (and costly) to prove. Now Nokia, the world's largest maker of cellphones, is suing a who's who of Asian LCD manufacturers alleging a ploy to fix prices on handset LCDs. The November 25th filing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco division, names Samsung Electronics, LG Display, Sharp, Hitachi,

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The Complete List of NewEgg Black Friday Deals [Black Friday]

We were teased with the first leaks, then with an update, but now we've got NewEgg's complete list of Black Friday and pre-Black Friday deals ... PRE-Black Friday Sale from now until 2:59PM PST Wednesday 11/25 ... $97 - TomTom XL340 GPS - Free Shipping ... $149.99 - GARMIN nüvi 1200 3.5" GPS Navigation - Free Shipping ... $49.95 - Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Free Shipping ... $44.99 - Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D Green 380W 80 PLUS Power Supply -

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The Engadget Show - 003: Drew Bamford, Joystiq's Chris Grant, Adamo XPS, and lots of game demos

This is a big one, folks. The new installment of The Engadget Show is jam-packed with goodness. First up, Josh sits down with HTC's director of user experience Drew Bamford to discuss Android, Sense, Windows Mobile and a whole lot more. Then we've got a charming little segment where Paul and Josh go hunting around NYC for KIRFs, and Chris Grant joins the gang on stage for a dissection of the holiday gaming situation ... and some demos where the gang gets to show off their totally radical moves.

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Keepin' it real fake, part CCXLII: Aphone A6 is all about Android, aping Apple (video)

An Android and iPhone hybrid isn't exactly new (hello, OPhone), but at least we can say this has a trackball. In fact, you might even mistaken this for iPhone OS at first glance, it's just that kind of doppelganger. The fine details, you say? The GSM (EDGE only, no 3G) device sports a 3.5-inch LCD display with capacitive multitouch, 2 megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, and the part that really bests it over Apple's offering, a trackball! Huzzah! Video after the break ... [Via technabob] ...

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Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why) [Remainders]

Google and the Phantom Town of Argleton ... 10 Years of Steve Jobs' Apple Product Unveilings ... AT&T's Foray Into In-Car Satellite TV Goes Miserably Wrong ... Robots Will Soon Learn How to Smell Fear ... Google and the Phantom Town of Argleton ... For ages, map makers have protected their own maps by adding little landmarks and towns that don't exist, sort of a hiding-in-plain-sight watermark. Well, the Telegraph UK reported that it had spotted one such town in a Google Map, which was using

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"Working" Apple iPhone Costumes Just Plain Win [Costumes]

Powered by a car battery and full-size 42-inch LCD TVs, these working iPhone Halloween costumes from Apple costume savants "Reko and John" are surely iPhone fanaticism manifested in physical form ... Updated ... Amazingly, this is not the first time the Savio created human-sized iPhone costumes. In 2007, with the help of Bobby Hartman, that duo crafted smaller and simpler versions with 37-in. screens that could only display looped videos of real iPhone screens in use ... This year, however,

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Friday Poll: Where should prices drop next?

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Canon 7D DSLR First Hands On: 18 Megapixels, 24FPS Full HD Video for $1900 [Digital Cameras]

Yep, it's real. The Canon 7D is an 18-megapixel semi-pro DSLR that shoots 1080p video in 24—or 30—glorious frames per second for $1899, kicking Nikon's previously unchallenged D300s where it hurts. But it's also an odd little beast ...

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The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine

When Good Enuf Is Great ... Entire markets have been transformed by products that trade power or fidelity for low price, flexibility, and convenience ... — Erin Biba ... Phone ... Net-based calls can be laggy, and they sometimes drop out in mid conversation. But they can also be free—even international calls—and it's easy to turn conversations into shareable MP3s. Skype now accounts for 8 percent of international calling minutes, and the service added nearly 38 million users in the

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Back to School Tech: 10 Things You Need, 5 Things You Definitely Don't [Back To School Tech]

Life isn't a Supermarket Sweep: You can't just grab every back-to-school gadget in the weekly circular. College-bound kids have to conserve cash for important things like pizza and beer, err textbooks. Cut through the marketing crap and snatch the essentials ... WHAT YOU NEED ... Value-Priced Laptop ... If you were thinking about getting a desktop, STOP. Laptops are the perfect library or couch companion and even the best laptops on the market have come down in price. Apple's MacBook is one of

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