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...HDTVs are getting thinner and bigger. While that's not exactly news, it was hard not to be impressed by the gleaming, wafer-thin lineups from Sony, Samsung, Sharp and LG, which have managed to shrink their screens down to half an inch in depth while offering screen sizes in the 100-in.-plus range. OLED TVs, using an amazing new display technology that draws little power but offers a huge array of colors, are now hovering around 21 in., which means that competitive sizes at competitive prices with plasma and LCDs ought to be available in another year...
...leave behind the garish consumerism of Moscow and drive 220 miles (354 km) southwest to the small Russian town of Lyudinovo. For the first part of the five-hour trip the road is a smooth four-lane highway that whisks you past gleaming gas stations and a brand new Samsung TV factory. Then everything slows down. The highway turns single-track and becomes progressively rougher. For the last 20 miles, you bump along the ruts, distracted only by the swaying rows of silver-birch trees that flank the road...
...best way to make sure you get up in time for the 5 a.m. early bird specials on Black Friday is never to go to bed the night before. That's how Christian Perdomo, 15, was able to snag one of the 200 free Samsung MP3 players that Old Navy gave away at its megastore on 34th Street in New York City, along with the $120 worth of clothes he had purchased by 6 a.m. But even though there were still some 200 people in line at dozens of registers by 10 a.m., Liz, a cashier, said, "I think last...
...move their inventory," says Helen Bulwik of New Market Solutions, a retail consultancy in Oakland, Calif. That backlog left the company paralyzed, unable to buy fresh product or pay off its existing debts. Circuit City still owes $118 million to Hewlett-Packard, its largest vendor, plus $116 million to Samsung and $60 million Sony...
Technology is another fertile arena. The tech news website CNET features a "spreadsheet of sunshine": a list of top Web 2.0 companies in search of software engineers, developers, open source technicians and other savvy staffers. Among the blue-chip companies hiring en masse are Facebook, Samsung, Intel and Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry. But it's also possible to flourish at high-tech companies without being, well, high-tech. "If you're in the sales side of technology, that's a pretty good place to be," Hoagland says. "Until we find bottom, what [companies] are going...