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• Galaxy Tab to be sold by Sprint starting Nov. 14

  Sprint Nextel will sell the Samsung Galaxy Tab touchscreen tablet for $399.99 with a two-year service contract, starting Nov. 14, the carrier announced Monday.

• AMD waits for tablet dust to settle

  In the wake of the success of the Apple iPad, there seems to be a virtually endless line of competing tablets on the horizon. Most of the attention is focused on the operating system platform that drives the tablet, but the battle for the processor that provides the tablets engine is also heating up. As chip manufacturers compete to establish a presence in tablets, though, AMD will be conspicuously absent from the melee.

• Galaxy Tab more bad news for laptops, netbooks

  Samsung USA's introduction of its Android-based Galaxy Tab tablets at an event in New York City Thursday put both Apple on notice that the iPad has a new competitor and laptop makers in general on notice that a new alternative will soon be in town.

• Analysts dispute talk of iPad's impact on PC sales

  The death of the PC industry at the hands of Apple's iPad has been greatly exaggerated, analysts said today.

• Apple iPad looks like a holiday hit

  Consumer tablets, particularly Apple's iPad, will be a favorite among gift-givers this holiday season. That's according to Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn, who announced today that the consumer electronics giant is expanding iPad sales to all of its U.S. stores starting Sept. 26.

• Steep price drop for T-Mobile's new G2 Android

  When T-Mobile announced its Android 2.2-powered HTC G2 phone last week, it made no mention of pricing.

• Spammers exploit second Facebook bug in a week

  Facebook today said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users' walls earlier this week.

• Intel SSDs hit brick-and-mortar retail stores

  Over the past two years, solid state drives (SSDs) have only been sold directly to laptop or portable device manufacturers or through selected online electronics retail sites.

• Targus laptop power adapters recalled for burn hazard

  More than 500,000 units of Targus' Universal Wall Power Adapters for laptops have been recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

• Best Buy briefly sells Palm Pre for $US99 - oops!

  There were some happy shoppers coming out of Best Buy over the weekend after the big box retailer slashed the price of the Palm Pre by fifty percent. The only problem was it may have been a mistake, as other Palm Pre retail outlets including the Sprint Store did not drop their prices.