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Samsung made it clear today that it is not interested in buying HP’s PC business, despite market rumours to the contrary.

Not usually so chatty about such speculations, Samsung released a statement from its chief executive, Choi Gee-Sung, denying any thoughts of picking up the unit, which Hewlett-Packard said last week it may “spin off”.

“To put to rest any speculation on this issue, I would like to definitively state that Samsung Electronics will not acquire Hewlett-Packard’s PC Business,” Choi said.

“Hewlett-Packard is the global leader in the PC business with sales of 40 million units last year, while Samsung is an emerging player in the category and sold about 10 million units in 2010. B

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Panasonic has announced a couple new cameras into its Lumix series today, the FZ150 and FX90.  Focusing on the higher-end FX150 first up, this is quite the zoom happy contender with its 24x optical zoom capabilities. It uses a 25mm ultra wide-angle Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens and is capable of recording 1080 60p video.    Looking closer at the specs, it’s got a 12.1-megapixel MOS sensor, a Venus Engine processor, Power O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer), a stereo zoom microphone, 3-inch LCD and sports a 3D Photo mode which works by taking 20 panning shots and selecting two images to synthesize a 3D composite. Read more…

Featuring the next generation PCIe GEN 3, this board has all it takes to be the fastest board available for the Intel platform. It is ready for the future with PCIe Gen 3 graphics card. The board also features the NVIDIA aging NF200 chipset to generate more PCIe lanes. It also incorporates the PLX chipset as well for PCIe lane switching. In addition, it also has XFast LAN and other interesting features on board.

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Gamestop has apologized in an email for it’s actions this past week. Gamestop opened the retail packing for the PC version of the newly released game Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removed a coupon for Onlive PC game service, and still sold the game as “new”. Onlive happens to be a competitor of Gamestop.

“Earlier this week, GameStop removed a competitor’s coupon from standard edition PC versions of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a recent release by Square Enix. We were not aware that the product box would contain this competitor’s offer.

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