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• Some Barnes & Noble Nook Buyers Get $100 Voucher Barnes & Noble gives $100 vouchers to Nook customers who won't be getting pre-ordered e-readers until after holidays.
• Taiwan to Host IBM's First Joint Healthcare IT Research Unit In its first ever healthcare research collaboration, IBM will work with Taiwan on how to use mobile devices, analytics and the cloud to improve healthcare.
• Enlarge Your Photos Without Sacrificing Quality Make low-resolution digital photos big enough to print without getting blocky pixels.
• Intel Launches Next-generation Atom Netbook Processor Intel ships its next-generation Atom N450 netbook processor, which is smaller and consumes less power than its predecessors.
• LG Display Develops Thinnest-yet LCD TV Panel LG Display has developed a prototype LCD panel for television sets that's less than a quarter the thickness of the company's current production panels.
• China Video Site Youku Raises $40 Million for Expansion Chinese video-streaming Web site Youku.com raised $40 million in new equity funding as it looks to expand its popular service.
• Lab-Tested: The 10 Best 40- and 42-Inch HDTVs For each of these HDTVs, the PCWorld Labs evaluated the image quality, as well as the extra features offered and how easy the model was to use. Here are the results.
• The Ghosts of Christmas Games Past Where can you bowl with elves, battle evil snowmen, and take your shots at flying turkey helicopters? Only in these 12 Christmas games of yesteryear.
• FujiFilm FinePix F70EXR Fujifilm's FinePix F70EXR is about as compact as cameras get, yet it somehow serves up a 10X-optical-zoom lens (spanning from 27mm to 270mm), dual image...
• The Macalope Weekly: Histrionics Lesson It was a week of making mountains out of molehills, as jokes became dire threats and Apple held its customers hostage by making nice things they like to buy...
• Cybercrooks Target File-Sharing Networks Security experts at Kaspersky Labs warn that cybercriminals are shifting their focus from worms and spams to file-sharing services.
• Tough Times for Chip Makers Gartner analysts project semiconductor sales will show a 11.4% decline in 2009.
• Privacy Worries on Facebook? Just Wait A CMU researcher warns that technology needs to strike a balance between privacy concerns and useful data mining.
• Avatar: Good News for 3D TV and Blu-ray? The electronics industry and Hollywood are both eager to extend new cinema effects to home theater.
• Google, Microsoft Bing Deals Benefit Twitter Most prolific tweeter sees partnerships as a needed boost to the microblogging site.