Customers with shipping addresses in the United States will be able to order the Modbook Pro online for shipment as early as mid-November.

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Although the new device has yet to hit the market, SpectraCode has already begun taking orders for it, and will deliver the first shipment in early April.

ECONOMIST: Recycling

Solar Frontier, a Japanese company that is part of oil company Showa Shell, built a 900-megawatt factory and began shipment from there in early 2011.

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