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• Hearst's Skiff Plans E-reading Service Around Content UPDATE: A startup incubated by Hearst will launch an e-reading service next year focused on distributing periodicals to multiple devices.
• BenQ Shows E-reader Off, Joins E-book Fray BenQ displayed its new nReader at Taiwan's IT Month exhibition and said it will cost around US$280 in Taiwan and China.
• Wrap Your Brain Around a Game With Emotiv's Epoc Emotiv's headset designed to let you control video games with your brain is on sale now and ships December 21.
• Gazing Inside Howard Stringer's Crystal Ball Sony CEO Howard Stringer has big hopes for 3D TV and online content delivery services next year, he said Thursday in Tokyo.
• Steampunk Tech Mods: A 19th-Century Take on 21st-Century PCs and Gadgets If Sherlock Holmes--or Jack the Ripper--had owned our technology, his equipment might have looked like this.
• Ten Cool Non-Tech Stocking Stuffers for IT Pros IT professionals need a lot more than a computer and a smartphone to get their jobs done. Here are 10 (mostly) non-tech tools that make great holiday gifts.
• DIY USB Wall Outlet Preempts the Future Can't be bothered to find your iPhone's power adapter? If so, this mod may be for you.
• Holiday Gift Guide: Great iPhone Accessories Under $100 Take a look at this iPhone solar charger, hands-free Bluetooth device for the car, alarm clock adaper, and a a device that turns the extra space on your phone (or iPod) into a portable hard drive.
• First Look: FlipShare TV Those who own Cisco's Flip camcorders know how easy it is to shoot with the diminutive camcorder as well as lightly edit the content you've captured with the...
• China and Taiwan Agree to Promote EPUB E-book Standard China and Taiwan have agreed to promote the EPUB format for e-books, an open standard.
• Inside the World's Most Advanced LCD Factory A robotic forklift picks up a sheet of glass thinner than a credit card and as big as two table-tennis tables, and effortlessly swings it 90 degrees before...
• CrunchPad, We Hardly Knew Ye Michael Arrington's CrunchPad is dead before it even had a chance to see the light of day.
• The CrunchPad is Dead: Who Cares! The fabled CrunchPad is dead, declares TechCrunch's Michael Arrington.
• Black Friday Sales Gains Higher Online Than in Stores The holiday shopping season finds more people hitting the keyboards than the sidewalk -- and they're buying electronics.
• Did Kindle Sales Get a Boost from Nook's Fumble? Amazon knows about supply shortages, but this time the Kindle may benefit from its competitors' inventory control issues.
• How to Buy a Digital Camera Shopping tips on megapixels, memory cards, exposure controls, and more.
• 20 Hot Cyber Monday Deals Cyber Monday has some hot deals and steals for everything from laptops, games, movies, and HDTVs.
• Barnes & Noble Delays Nook by One Week Barnes & Noble has delayed its retail debut of the Nook e-reader by one week.
• Taiwan Plans to Roll out E-readers in Schools Taiwan's education ministry plans to start rolling out e-readers in schools next year, after focusing on digital chalkboards this year.
• Sony's 3D TV Plans Become a Little Clearer Sony hopes 3D-capable TV sets will account for up to half of all TVs it sells in 2012, an executive said in an interview.
• Holiday Gift Guide: Three Useful Laptop Accessories Under $100 Your laptop lover might like a classy stand for a Mac laptop, a protective sleeve that allows a hot notebook to cool down, or a backback to carry a laptop that's made of recycled materials. All are priced at under $90.
• 10 Totally Ridiculous Combo Gadgets From a combo taser/MP3 player to a computer mouse/VoIP phone, these Frankengadgets never should have seen the light of day.
• Retail Mania, IE Woes, EU Charges Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.
• Get the Most for Your Gear-buying Dollar It's as inevitable as the turkey hangover the day after Thanksgiving: There's a hot new camera, game system or MP3 player everyone wants for the holidays, and...
• Black Friday Tech Deals: Latest and Greatest We spotted these deals early Black Friday morning, and we think any self-respecting geek should know about them.