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ABC Money: LG Electronics said it and other LG Group affiliates – LG Philips LCD, LG Innotek and LG Chem – have opened an European LCD cluster in Wroclaw, Poland, offering the opportunity for one-stop LCD manufacturing, from components to TVs.

Three other South Korean parts makers are also housed in the cluster, LG said.

The companies said they have created approximately 4,200 local jobs in total.

The cluster will allow LCD products and components to be produced and assembled at a single location, boosting synergies especially for the European LCD market, which holds about 37 pct of the global market, LG said.

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PC Advisor: Creative and Apple have long been arch enemies in the MP3 player market. After this culminated in court hearings, things went quiet for a while. Now it looks as though Creative fancies another go, this time snapping at Apple’s foreshortened Shuffle with its Zen Stone.

Creative derided Apple for plugging a tiny MP3 player on which you couldn’t select the songs you heard and that had no screen displaying details of what was currently playing. However, Creative’s Zen Stone is a featherlight, pebble-shaped player that mimics precisely those non-attributes of Apple’s Shuffle that Creative mocked.

So the Zen Stone is a bit of a volte-face.

However, it’s also far cheaper than a Shuffle of a comparable size.

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