But there was a low moment just a couple of weeks back where the Nets appeared to be spinning in the wrong direction, and instead they have hit reverse.

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But the colours are not as bright as on other types of screens, and the company's research manager Michael Banach acknowledges the technology at the moment is most likely to be used as a back-up screen which kicks in when batteries run low, rather than the main display.

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For a brief moment, back in the winter, state and local governments looked to be emerging from the red.

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For owners of the original Boxee Box, the company posted in a blog entry (the link appears to be down at the moment) that all back end support will remain running "for the foreseeable future" and an updated Flash Player is on the way.

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