Here we are on Friday and we almost went a whole week without another addition to MSI's Classic series of laptops. Squeaking in just in time is the CX413, the newest addition to the Classic line sporting a 14-inch screen and AMD's new Vision (Danube) platform inside.

Base configuration consists of an AMD Athlon II dual-core P320 processor, up to 8GB of DDR3-1066 memory support (no word on much it ships with), ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics with 512MB of video memory, 250/320/500GB hard drive, DVD burner, a trio of USB 2.0 ports, 4-in-1 card reader, HDMI, VGA, 802.11g/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Gigabit LAN, 1.3MP webcam, and a 6-cell battery.

Like several models that came before it, the CX413 includes MSI's exclusive ECO engine power saving technology, which allows users to select from various power management levels, including Entertainment, Presentation, Word Processing, and Turbo Battery.

No word yet on price or availability.

For the first time ever, South Korea's mobile phone devices outnumber the country's human population, no fooling. According to the Korea Communications Commission, there are now 50 million mobile service subscribers in the country, a staggering number considering there are 48.8 million people living in South Korea.

"You may say there are 1.2 million people carrying two phones, but excluding children and those with no phones, the number of multiple phone owners could be far higher," Choi Seong-Ho, the commission's communication service policy director, said.

Most of those are ordinary cell phones and the such, with 'only' 3.67 million classified as smartphone devices.

How many mobile phones do you own? Hit the jump and sound off.

Hewlett Packard this week introduced a sleek new 23-inch LED backlit panel, the HP 2310e HD. Dubbed an ultra-thin, the 2310e is only 1-inch deep and comes with a detachable stand, albeit no VESA mount.

It's a Full HD panel with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 and support for up to 70 percent of the color gamut. We don't put much stock into display specs, but for what it's worth, this one boats an 8,000,000:1 contrast ratio (dynamic, of course), 250 nits of brightness, and a 5ms on/off response time.

For the environmentally conscious, the WLED backlighting is mercury-free, the glass contains no arsenic, and both the rear cover and base are made from recycled plastics.

Look for this one to start shipping on September 29, 2010 for $289.