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With signs of a recovery in the consumer electronics market, Sony has recently placed bets on a couple of technologies that it thinks will be big in 2010: 3D television and Internet delivery of content to its TV sets and other devices.

So you didn't feel like waiting in the Best Buy line for three hours to pick up an HDTV? No problem--Amazon is offering a pretty sweet Samsung HDTV and Blu-ray Disc player bundle. The Samsung 52-inch LN52B630 features full 1080p resolution, 120Hz Auto Motion Plus, an 80,000:1 contrast ratio, four HDMI ports, and two USB ports; it currently retails for about $1488.

If you were a bit disillusioned with Apple's Black Friday Sale ($101 off on a MacBook Pro? I saved $150 with my student discount!), you may want to go check out the company's refurb section, where right now Mac computers are on sale for up to $520 off, or discounts of up to 28 percent. A refurbished 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with a 160GB hard drive, a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 2GB of RAM is going for just $999 ($200 off), and a refurbished iMac (with a 24-inch screen, 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 640GB hard drive, and 4GB of memory) is going for $1279 ($520 off).

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp said it is enjoying robust demand for its PlayStation 3 game console and other electronic products so far in this holiday shopping season in the key U.S. market.

NEW YORK - Investors sent GameStop shares sharply lower Wednesday amid worries that the Wal-Mart's video game promotions could undercut holiday sales at GameStop Corp.'s more than 6,000 retail stores nationwide.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Redbox is talking with video game developers about offering their products in its DVD kiosks and hopes to avoid the kind of resistance it encountered from some Hollywood studios, Redbox's president said on Wednesday.

So you didn't feel like waiting in the Best Buy line for three hours to pick up an HDTV? No problem--Amazon is offering a pretty sweet Samsung HDTV and Blu-ray Disc player bundle. The Samsung 52-inch LN52B630 features full 1080p resolution, 120Hz Auto Motion Plus, an 80,000:1 contrast ratio, four HDMI ports, and two USB ports; it currently retails for about $1488.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - After much speculation following the release of a song titled "Acapella" on the Internet last week, singer-songwriter Kelis has announced that she has signed to Interscope Records through Will.i.am Music Group.

Google's ever-expanding presence could mean trouble for Hulu and iTunes, as YouTube may one day let you buy streaming TV shows the day after they air. If a report by All Things D's Peter Kafka is correct, Apple and Hulu should worry because Google is well-positioned to be a network TV streaming powerhouse, and this time it's no joke.

The move by India's top business schools to take their CAT entrance test online turned embarrassing after malware-infected computers left a number of students unable to take the test.

Security vendors could benefit as companies loosen tech budgets tightened in the recession.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has identified flaws in equipment from four companies, including Cisco Systems Inc , that hackers can exploit to break into corporate computer networks.

If you were a bit disillusioned with Apple's Black Friday Sale ($101 off on a MacBook Pro? I saved $150 with my student discount!), you may want to go check out the company's refurb section, where right now Mac computers are on sale for up to $520 off, or discounts of up to 28 percent. A refurbished 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with a 160GB hard drive, a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 2GB of RAM is going for just $999 ($200 off), and a refurbished iMac (with a 24-inch screen, 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 640GB hard drive, and 4GB of memory) is going for $1279 ($520 off).

Can’t figure out whether to get the photo enthusiast on your shopping list a digital picture frame or a snapshot printer? With Epson’s new PictureMate Show PM 300, you can get both. Thanks to the device’s gigantic LCD, Epson’s newest snapshot printer is being touted as a “versatile hybrid,” serving as both a printer and a picture frame.

If Order Mapper has its way, we’ll all be ordering pizzas on our iPhones without ever having to talk to another soul.

Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told investors Tuesday that the world's number-one handset maker remains committed to the open-source Symbian and Maemo operating systems as the main platforms for smartphones, advanced handsets, and web tablets. Among other things, Kallasvuo said Nokia intends to drive user-experience improvements in 2010 by taking the Symbian user interface to a new level.

When Google first announced its Chrome OS project, many commentators assumed that the Internet giant was challenging the dominance of Microsoft Windows. The truth is, Chrome is not a threat to Windows, OS X, or any distribution of Linux--nor is it meant to be.

Dell has unleashed an experimental version of Google's Chromium OS that runs on the PC maker's Inspiron Mini 10v netbook. Chromium, released earlier this month, is Google's open-source version of the Chrome OS based on the Linux kernel and aimed at netbooks.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When work began in 2004 to build the world's tallest tower, Dubai's confidence also was sky high with a host of mega-projects on the drawing board or rising from the sands.

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, new research finds.

All supernova explosions are violent affairs, but this one takes the cake. Astronomers have spotted a new type of extremely bright cosmic explosion they think originates from an exceptionally massive star.