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As we all know, the Kindle Fire’s hot , Apple’s selling bushels of iPads , and there’s plenty of Honeycomb slates out there for you to choose from, but what if you want a tablet free from corporate influence? Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE’s multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure.
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Meet Spark, the €200 slate packing Linux-based Plasma Active UX
Hitachi’s line of domestically produced Wooo TVs is coming to an end, now that the manufacturer has confirmed plans to close a major plant in central Japan. In an announcement issued today, Hitachi said it will shutter its factory in Gifu, where some 100,000 LCD and plasma TVs are produced each month. Citing industry-wide price competition as the deciding factor, the company went on to clarify that the facility will shut down by September of this year, and that it will instead be used to manufacture projectors and chips
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Hitachi to halt domestic production of Wooo LCD and plasma TVs, Mitsubishi to axe optical discs?
Fourth quarter earnings for Samsung are out and wouldn’t you know it, selling a record number of mobile phones — more than three times over what it sold in the same period last year — is a pretty good way to turn a profit. Businessweek notes it closed the three months ending in December with an operating profit of 5.2 trillion won ($4.5 billion), beating analyst estimates. Other than the more than 300 million phones it sold, there was also a bump from the $1.38 billion sale of its hard drive business to Seagate that helped overcome drops in profits from its chipmaking and flat-screen units
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Samsung reports operating profit of $4.5 billion on cellphone, hard drive biz sales
The electronics department at Sam’s Club, soon to get more Apple gear? (Credit: Sam’s Club) Despite making a clean break with wholesale retailer Costco in late 2010, Apple could be looking to expand its footprint with one of its rivals, a new report suggests
Come spring you’ll finally be able to get your grubby paws on that droid-based console you’ve been looking for. Microsoft’s Major Nelson let slip in a series of tweets that the Star Wars Xbox 360 Kinect bundle will land on April 3rd. The set, which was first unveiled, fittingly, at Comic Con, is dressed up like R2-D2 and ships with a C-3P0-themed controller, a white Kinect sensor and the games Star Wars Kinect and Kinect Adventures .
Ep. 16: OnLive Desktop, laptop backbacks, and the Sony Headman visor This week, Ty demos Sony’s strap-on 3D visor, which we’ve dubbed the “Headman,” while Scott shows us how the OnLive Desktop brings cloud PC computing to the iPad. Also, check out a cool new laptop backpack, and find out what our favorite MacBook Air substitutes are
Otterbox is gearing up for the next iPad’s launch. (Credit: Otterbox) Well, here it is. The first e-mail for a case for the iPad 3.
