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Xiaomi sells 26 million smartphones in first half of 2014

Xiaomi’s handsets, such as the Redmi Note pictured above, have been selling well. Aloysius Low/CNET Xiaomi has announced that the company sold 26.1 million smartphones in the first half of 2014, a 271 percent increase over the last year in the same period. The company sold a total of 18.7 million phones in 2013, and it appears that Xiaomi is …

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A terrific speaker from the UK and a slender German amplifier make beautiful music together

Spendor SP2/3R2 speakers (left), Stein Music Stateline Amp2 (right) Steve Guttenberg/CNET You don’t see a lot of big bookshelf speakers anymore, and that’s a shame. Granted, they’re nowhere as fashionable as skinny towers or pint-size mini-speakers, but big speakers deliver a scale and power that more stylish contenders fail to muster. That’s what crossed my mind as I checked out …

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