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Sep 16 2008 8:09am EDT

First Bytes: HP, Amazon, Apple, Blackberry

- Hewlett Packard is laying off 25,000 workers. Must be the economy, or something. [NYT]

- Amazon.com has gotten around to setting up video -- some 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes -- on subsidiary IMDB. [Amazon.com]

- Apple has released a new version of OS 10. [Ars Technica]

- More Apple: Get ready for new Macbooks! OMG! [VentureBeat]

- BlackBerry fanatics have spotted the new Storm device in the wild. [CrackBerry]

-Sam Gustin. □


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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