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Dell has received a letter from the Board of Directors of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC confirming that the company has regained compliance with all NASDAQ listing requirements by reason of its recent filing of past due periodic reports. Accordingly, the company's securities will continue to be listed on NASDAQ.
Business Wire
Wall Street Journal
Company release
The Mitac E100 rugged tablet PC has recently been blessed by the US FCC.
MobileWhack
The Chosun Ilbo
The consumer review found that the flat panel sets overall had a 3% repair rate. RPTVs, on the other hand, were found to be much more repair prone than its two rivals.
Information Week
Electronista
Reuters (via Yahoo! News)
Taipei Times
Company release
The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smartphones that act like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles, and digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.
AP (via Google)
Intel pushed and prodded. Microsoft came in right at the end. How Taiwan's Asustek built its cheap Eee laptop for grown-ups.
Forbes
After introducing a US$198 Linux desktop, PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under US$300 to users next year.
PC World
Use of the WCDMA third-generation mobile phone service is growing rapidly in Korea, with the number of subscribers reaching the four million mark eight months after the service was launched in March.
The Chosun Ilbo
Nokia-Siemens Networks has laid off 350 employees in China as part of the company's global layoff plan.
CNNMoney
Warner Music Group is withholding its content from Nokia Corp's new music Web site over concerns about illegal downloads, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its online edition.
Reuters
AT&T and Motorola announced thatthe MOTO Q 9h global will be available exclusively to AT&T customers in the US beginning November 2.
Company release
Vnunet.com
absolutegadget
Suntech Power announced a first phase agreement with Nitol Solar to supply polysilicon to Suntech over a seven-year period beginning in 2009.
PRNewswire
Wal-mart has begun offering a US$199 Linux PC powered by VIA's C7-D Processor.
The Inquirer
1 Nov 2007
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