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    <updated>2009-11-20T16:55:05-08:00</updated>
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        <title>A rebuttal to some comments about our laptop failure study</title>
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        <published>2009-11-20T16:55:05-08:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-20T16:53:38-08:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Vince Tseng</name>
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    <content type="html">Dear Readers, I would like to respond to some comments made today in an article by Gareth Halfacree on the bit-tech.net website. You can view that article here. Specifically, a number of claims were made by Ray Gorman of Lenovo...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Getting Tough On Plasma TVs</title>
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        <published>2009-11-20T11:00:00-08:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-20T14:52:10-08:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Naomi R.</name>
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    <content type="html">This week, California became 1st state to impose energy efficiency standards for TVs. Do such regulations help more than they hurt? Some 50-inch HDTVs demand over 400 watts of power when you turn them on. That's more than some modern refrigerators! But consumers have a choice...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Which laptop manufacturers are most reliable? Study has people talking!</title>
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        <published>2009-11-18T15:05:00-08:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-18T18:02:36-08:00</updated>
        
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            <name>Naomi R.</name>
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    <content type="html">Like our previous studies, SquareTrade's Laptop Reliability report has people talking! Join the discussion! Join thousands of others on SquareTrade on Facebook or on Twitter. (Tweet your thoughts or comment below. See live Twitter feed of discusssion below, after the...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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