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It was just two weeks ago that HP spat out a bunch of new consumer laptops ahead of the holiday shopping season. Now that those products are official, HP is shifting its attention to business customers: the company just unveiled five corporate-friendly notebooks, two of which qualify as Ultrabooks. Starting with the outfit’s higher-end EliteBook line, we’ve got three models: the 12-inch 820, the 14-inch 840 and the 15-inch 850. Like previous generations of EliteBooks, they meet the military’s MIL-SPEC-810G standards for ruggedness, but this time, they’re 40 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter. Across the board, you’re looking at magnesium lids, which have been painted with four coats of paint to minimize scratches; the keyboard deck, meanwhile, is made of aluminum. Speaking of the keyboard area, all three models sport backlit keys, with a special finish applied to the buttons to help keep them fresh over the three-year warranty period.

Interestingly, battery life is the same on all units (up to 12 hours), though the 14-incher, specifically, can be paired with an optional slice battery for a total of 33 hours of juice. On the inside, all of them run Haswell processors, as you’d imagine, though only the 840 and 850 meet Intel’s Ultrabook specification. Once it comes time for your IT guy to configure this, he can get any of the three machines with an optional touchscreen, along with an LTE radio and either an SSD, HDD or hybrid hard drive. As for IT support, these are vPro CPUs, as you’d expect, and there’s also TPM on board for added security. Additionally, as on previous models, the entire back shell is removable with a single latch, making it easy to swap out components. Finally, HP included an all-important Ethernet jack, complete with a drop-down jaw, along with a SmartCard reader, docking connector and legacy VGA port. All are available today with pricing as follows: the 12-inch 820 starts at $859, the 840 goes from $799 ($949 with a touchscreen), and the 850 costs $939.

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Looking to tempt others to check out your Spotify tracks? Before, any interaction with other users or artists had to be done within the various desktop and mobile apps, but there’s now another option: you can embed a ‘Follow’ button into any website. The idea is to make it easier to promote your music (or musical taste) while expanding your follower base. Obviously, it’ll also give Spotify itself a greater online presence and allow it to ensnare new subscribers who’ve yet to download the app. You can grab the code snippets at the source, but you may first want to weed out that playlist from your ‘crunkcore’ phase.

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Caspar Bowden spent nearly a decade working for Microsoft, where he held the position of chief privacy adviser. He says he knew nothing of the PRISM data sharing scheme while there, a fact that’s turned him into a code-examining member of the paranoid elite.

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If you felt left out by the European debut of Google Play Music All Access in August, hopefully Mountain View’s latest announcement brings you into the musical fold. According to Google’s support page — as spotted by Android Police — the search giant’s music locker and streaming service is now available in the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Russia and Switzerland. And given how fast European internet is, it shouldn’t take you nearly as long to upload a massive music collection as it did for us stateside, either.

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Earlier this year LG announced the LG Optimus G Pro and is seems that LG could be working on a dual-SIM version of the handset which could be known as the LG G Pro Lite Dual, whose name we feel could have been much shorter. While the specifications of the device remain unknown, it is expected to be a slightly less powerful version compared to the original LG Optimus G Pro, hence the “lite” moniker. It is expected to support dual-SIMs, and according to the folks at Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru, the phone could also come with a stylus which would play nicely with the phone’s alleged 5.5” display.

We’re not sure if this device was created to compete with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, although if it were, its specs would not be a fair comparison, although it could be a cheaper alternative for those who want a large smartphone with stylus support. No word on pricing but the LG G Pro Lite Dual is rumored for a release this October and will be released in Russia, but no word on whether it will be a Russian-exclusive, or if it will eventually see a release in other parts of the world, but at the same time we expect there are other devices other there that could serve as a decent alternative.

LG G Pro Lite Dual Might Come With A Stylus original content from Ubergizmo.