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Mar 11 2009 5:20pm EDT

Last Bytes: New iPod, National Semi, Wal-Mart, AT&T

It was inevitable. Affected by the slumping economy, Apple has introduced a tiny, new iPod shuffle with the same memory as the first big iPod, but with a much smaller price tag. [Wall Street Journal]

Unfortunately, more bad news: National Semi is going to cut a quarter of its workforce, or 1,725 jobs. [Reuters]

Wal-Mart officially has its hands in everything. The retail Juggernaut is now moving into the electronic medical record industry, seeking to bring the technology into the mainstream for physicians in small offices. [New York Times]

AT&T is giving $565 million towards clean, natural gas burning cars, which must be making T. Boone Pickens awfully happy. [CNet News]

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