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Best and Worst Tech Gadgets of 2009
Electronics Gift Guide
A consumer spending slump dealt a blow to electronics makers in 2009.
With
industry sales expected to...
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Best and Worst Tech Gadgets of 2009
Electronics Gift Guide
A consumer spending slump dealt a blow to electronics makers in 2009.
With
industry sales expected to tumble 8% to $164.
9 billion this year, Pioneer dropped out
of the plasma HD television market and mobile Internet device innovator OQO shut
its doors.
Even the supposedly recession-proof video-game industry suffered steep
sales declines.
But the year in tech wasn t all bad.
Online retailer Amazon (AMZN) kicked off a
frenzy of competition with its wireless Kindle e-Book readers.
A certain operating
system named Droid emerged to give Apple a run for its money in the smartphone
market.
And eco-friendly products, from big-screen televisions to music systems,
became commonplace.
Read on for the 20 best products for 2009, as selected by BusinessWeek s
technology writers and editors, as well as five highly anticipated products that fail
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