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Consumer confidence has faded because of the global financial crisis, which has led to restrained spending on products like consumer electronics and PCs, according to iSuppli

The YP-T9 exemplifies Samsung's strategy of packing a lot of punch into a slim, light-weight device. Besides playing mp3 files, you can use the doodad to listen to FM Radio, view pictures, videos, and text, do voice and FM broadcast recordings, and even play games.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is launching one of the world's first MP3 portable music players using Bluetooth technology to replace cables. And if you thought the boom-box days ended with the emergence of MP3 players, think again: the company has designed an MP3 player with a slide-out stereo speaker system.

Small storage is getting big: Both Sony Corp.'s Memory Stick and Secure Digital cards hit 1GB of storage in versions unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. And Hitachi Ltd.'s Microdrive (formerly made by IBM Corp.) will jump to a whopping 4GB this fall.

Once heralded as potential PC killers, Internet appliances today are dropping faster than pet-supply dot-coms. They're bombing...