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IPad is well ahead of its second-place competitor with e-books

Looking at future market share for e-book readers, the iPad, with 40 percent, is well ahead of its second-place competitor, Amazon's Kindle, which is expected to come in around 28 percent of Sony VGP-BPS10A battery . Barnes and Noble's Nook is down at 6 percent, and the nearly forgotten Sony Reader comes in at just 1 percent.

But obviously, the iPad is much more than an e-book reader, as ChangeWave's survey also demonstrates. Likely buyers were asked to list their top uses for the iPad, and reading e-books comes in third, after surfing the Web and checking email of apple a1060 battery . Of course, you should approach all consumer surveys with at least a little skepticism. After all, a survey released a month ago showed that people's interest in the iPad declined significantly after Apple's announcement.

The survey doesn't address how the iPad will impact the burgeoning market for tablet computers. But in one possible cautionary point for Apple, one in four likely iPad buyers state they will hold off on the purchase of another Apple product to get their hands on the iPad. After all, there's only so much disposable income to go around of Sony VGP-BPS10A/B battery .

In its latest incarnation, it's a paperback-esque 'digital journal' running? good old Windows 6 CE. Each Tegra-powered Courier will have dedicated cloud storage for images, documents, calendar items and contacts for apple a1045 battery . Engadget reckons it will also come with handwriting recognition, built-in camera and microphone jack, and form the centrepiece of a Microsoft ebook reader ecosystem when it launches in the autumn.

I'm not entirely convinced by that last info-nugget. At a meeting in Redmond last year, Microsoft's Chief Research Officer, Craig Mundie, and gadget supremo Robbie Bach pointed to rapidly improving netbooks as potential spoilers for ebooks and said that Microsoft would 'hesitate' to launch a reader if it couldn't scale up to a major business of Sony VGP-BPS10 battery ,Sony VGP-BPS10/S battery . With the iPad arriving next month, it looks like Microsoft might have hesitated just a shade too long.

TV Makers Gamble's New Target On 3-D

With flat-panel TVs selling for the prices comparable to ordinary televisions a few years ago, manufacturers searching for the next profit boost are preparing a big push with models that can display pictures in 3-D batteries.The world's biggest TV companies are hoping the move will let them capitalize on the billions of dollars they have invested in display technologies this decade and stay a step ahead of the discount brands that have taken a sizable bite from their market share.

But the potential gain from 3-D TVs hangs on whether consumers will immediately flock to the technology, and whether there's enough appealing 3-D content to draw them like Dell GK479 . A delay will allow other manufacturers time to catch up, leading to the price competition that routinely whittles down profits in electronic goods.

Thursday, Sony Corp. struck a partnership with RealD, a maker of 3-D technology and equipment, such as eyewear. Under the deal, Sony will license the company's technology to produce equipment that is expected to hit stores in 2010 for VGP-BPS8 .This year marked a massive roll-out of 3-D technology in movie theaters, as Hollywood released a string of films, such as DreamWorks Animation SKG's "Monsters vs. Aliens" and Twentieth Century Fox's "Avatar," which hits screens this weekend. Sony and other electronics manufacturers are racing to develop equipment that aims to provide a comparable 3-D viewing experience at home.

Those efforts are likely to intensify in the wake of an accord announced Thursday between a group of electronics makers and movie studios finalizing standards for home 3-D viewing like PA3399U-1BRS.At next month's big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony, Panasonic Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are all expected to unveil 3-D TVs in several forms, including both liquid-crystal-display and plasma-display flat screens. The TVs will also display traditional two-dimensional images.

"3-D will be the keyword for the 2010 CES," says Choi Seung-jong, senior research fellow at LG's digital TV lab in Seoul.Morgan Stanley electronics analyst Masahiro Ono estimates there may be as many as 50 million 3-D compatible televisions globally in 2012 for Sony-VGP-BPS5.Companies haven't announced prices for the new 3-D televisions, but industry executives have said there won't be a huge premium over existing high-end models, which can sell for more than $2,000.

Panasonic says consumers won't be "surprised" by the price difference between 3-D and regular televisions. A Sony executive said it might be looking at charging an extra $200 for its 3-D televisions—mainly to cover its costs and the price of the specially made glasses.LG for several months has sold a 47-inch 3-D LCD in South Korea for about double the price of a comparably sized model for Presario R3000 Battery. So far LG, Hyundai IT Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. are among the few manufacturers with a 3-D TV on the market, but they haven't gained widespread adoption amid a paucity of 3-D discs and broadcasts.

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Secret inmate release includes gun crimes

More than 100 inmates who are part of the Illinois prison system's secret early release plan have committed weapons violations, battery and more for VGP-BPS2.The Associated Press obtained and analyzed information showing at least 850 inmates have been released early since September after the Corrections Department awarded them months of good-conduct time as soon as they entered prison.

Right now, the hottest market for laptops PCs are mini-versions of their predecessor called Netbooks, and they're shaping up to be one of the must have gifts of the season for F4809A."A Netbook is similar to a laptop, its just a condensed smaller version of a laptop, your able to take it with you everywhere, they're more manageable for flights for travel," says Michael Swenson with AT&T.

If you're trying to save money, but don't want to be a scrooge this Christmas, here's a gift idea that's becoming beloved by those on a budget.New research shows nearly 9 million of the mini-Notebooks are expected to be sold this year for Presario V3000 battery , which is more than double the number sold in 2008.Analysts say Netbooks, which start at under three hundred dollars, are popular because of the affordable price.

Sanyo will start supplying lithium-ion batteries for plug- in hybrid vehicles as early as the second half of 2011, Mitsuru Honma, Sanyo’s head of the rechargeable-battery unit, said in an interview on Dec. 1 at the company’s headquarters in Osaka for VGP-BPL2. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and two banks that bailed out Sanyo in 2006 have agreed to sell to Panasonic a combined 50 percent stake.

The plan is separate from Gov. Quinn's program to release 1,000 nonviolent inmates early to save money in a budget crisis.The AP analysis shows that among those released in the unpublicized program, 67 were convicted of weapons charges. Nineteen were sentenced for domestic battery and a dozen for aggravated battery like BTP-43D1.Half of those released were convicted of drug possession, aggravated drunk driving or retail theft.

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