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The Little Things

Pepcom held its annual Holiday Spectacular this week in New York, where several dozen companies set up booths to promote products that will be in stores for the holidays.

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Picture This

2006 was a watershed year for digital photo frames, according to Dallas-based market research company Parks Associates. Sales of digital photo frames in the first half of 2006 showed a typical growth curve and then skyrocketed.

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Radiohead, Eagles: Out of Record Stores

"Record stores"? What are those? Judging from actions by bands as seemingly disparate as Radiohead (left) and the Eagles, record stores are obsolete.

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Read This

There's something about the electronic book that holds a lot of appeal.

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DLP: Tales from the Dark Side

At the CEDIA Expo, Texas Instruments announced the latest generation of its Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) technology, dubbed DarkChip 4. The company claims even better reproduction of black and dark grays than achieved by its current DarkChip 3 devices (never mind DarkChip 2 and the original, now antediluvian DarkChip).

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TiVo, Rhapsody Hook Up

It's all about the relationship. That was the message at the official rollout of TiVo and Real Networks' new partnership at  the Arena club in Manhattan this week.

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Four Words: Led Zep Goes Digital

Just got the press release 10 minutes ago. Reprinted in full below. —Ken Richardson

LED ZEPPELIN TO RELEASE DIGITAL CATALOG

The Legendary Band's Original Albums Available for the First Time at All Online Music Retailers November 13

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What's in a Name?

A lot of profit, if you're talking about trusted names in consumer electronics. But some of those reassuring brands we grew up with — RCA, AT&T, Westinghouse, and Polaroid — bear no relation to the American companies we associate them with. In many cases, it's Chinese companies looking to make inroads into the lucrative U.S.

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Sharp Expands South of the Border

It was a lesson in perspective this week in Baja California, Mexico, where Sharp Electronics officially cut the ribbon on a $300 million LCD manufacturing plant in Rosarito.

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Surround & Visionaries

Porcupine Tree mastermind Steven Wilson (holding down the middle position and leaning on the center channel in the accompanying photo) dropped by the S&V offices yesterday for a 2-hour surround-sound listening session with yours truly (at right) and entertainment editor Ken Richardson (at left).

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