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<blockquote data-quote="The Feedster" data-source="post: 536388" data-attributes="member: 259515"><p><img src="http://mos.techradar.com//images/steve-jobs-200-200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Just when we thought the flat-panel TV market could only go up, we get the news that LG - the second largest maker of LCDs - is actually cutting production because of a slump in demand.</p><p></p><p>The Korean firm joins AU Optronics in reducing the number of screens it produces by around 10 per cent. The firms are reacting to a saturated market that has seen sales peak as cutthroat competition drives prices down.</p><p></p><p>Nevertheless, market leader Samsung says it has no plans to follow suit, as it has plenty of orders for the LCD panels it supplies to make other companies' television sets.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jobs fine and dandy</strong></p><p></p><p>Although his iconic technology business/lifestyle brand is in the pink, Apple CEO Steve Jobs can't shake rumours about his health that are making investors more than a little uneasy.</p><p></p><p>After successful cancer surgery in 2004 Jobs had been the picture of health, but an apparent weight loss noticed by many at the recent iPhone launch has prompted concern.</p><p></p><p>Such is the importance of Jobs to the firm he founded in 1976, he went off the record to talk to a US journalist in private about his condition. The upshot, we're told, is that he has no recurrence of cancer and is doing just fine.</p><p></p><p><strong>Real webcam</strong></p><p></p><p>Although it isn't a real product yet, the mock-up webcam we've just seen from Bristol firm Flynn Product Design would sit nicely alongside any of Apple's stylish products.</p><p></p><p>The free-standing Bluetooth camera was created by FPD for Philips and is supposed to resemble a spider, albeit one with only three legs. Should it ever go on sale, we recommend arachnophobes steer well clear.</p><p></p><p><strong>Taking cash out of equation</strong></p><p></p><p>Finally, this weekend brought news of a cutting-edge banking system from an unlikely source in the Maldives. The m-banking network established there by the country's banks allows users to pay virtual money into banks or to withdraw it by mobile phone.</p><p></p><p>It comes as a solution to the lack of bank branches across the Indian Ocean island chain. In the 2004 tsunami many people lost their savings that had simply been hidden under a bed or in a box when the flooding struck.</p><p></p><p>That's it for now, but stay tuned to TechRadar for the rest of the day's news as it breaks.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/1893f18/mf.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.techradar.com/433670&link=The best of the rest - weekend roundup" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.techradar.com/433670&link=The best of the rest - weekend roundup" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/14585594952/f/8513/c/669/s/25771800/a2.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/14585594952/f/8513/c/669/s/25771800/a2.img" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/1893f18/story01.htm" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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