A year after being surprised by upstart budget brands like Vizio and Olevia, the big names in TV have fought back. Samsung showed it too could play their game, and developed its own line of budget model TVs, which have helped it return to dominance in the mid-size LCD market in North America. But what's next for Vizio? CNET home theater expert John Falcone joins us to talk TVs and holiday shopping prices.
Also in Friday's podcast, Apple releases the much needed software update for the iPhone, hackers find their way into one of the computers at CERN used for the Large Hadron Collider project, and Microsoft releases another installment in its Gates and Seinfeld ad campaign.
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Today's stories:
Apple stomps bugs with iPhone 2.1 release
Hackers break into Large Hadron Collider computer
Google buys Korean blog platform TNC
One of alleged T.J. Maxx hackers pleads guilty
Midsize LCD sales: Major names beat Vizio
Seinfeld and Gates hit the road for Vista
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