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Where Samsung’s true battle lies in 2015: Emerging markets

Enlarge ImageSamsung will be counting on sales in emerging regions — such as this Buenos Aires, Argentina, store — to boost its results in 2015. Shara Tibken/CNET Samsung has long had Apple in its crosshairs, but that rivalry won’t be its main concern in 2015. The primary target for the South Korean electronics conglomerate in the coming year will be …

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What to buy: Sound bar or home

So what’s better: home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) systems or sound bars? The latter are markedly better than they were just a few years ago, but the inherent design compromises of single-speaker systems have, so far, proved insurmountable. Sound bars can’t fill a room as well as five speakers can. It wasn’t that long ago I was reviewing a bunch of HTiBs every …

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