Tuesday tech deals: Logitech X-540 to $ 42

Speakers Logitech X-540 5.1 channels for $ 50 + $ 9 s & h

Logitech.com has the "dented box" Logitech X-540 5.1-channel PC Multimedia Speaker System, model No. 970223-0403, for $ 59.99. Coupon code "logi_x540_21511" it drops to $ 41.99. With $ 4 for shipping, which is $ 10, under a deal from two weeks ago, and the lowest total price we could find by $ 18. the X-540 send 70 watts of total system power to four satellite speakers, a center channel speaker and subwoofer. Deal ends February 21. Although the box can be damaged or scratched, the contents are new with a full warranty.

GameStop coupon: Extra 15% off new games Xbox 360 and PS3

GameStop cuts 15% off new Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video games via coupon code "15NEW." Orders over $ 25 get free shipping via coupon code "SCREEN SAVER"; otherwise, it's $ 2.99. Is your coupon best percent-off we've seen for new games to Gamestop in recent months. Excludes games series collector and limited edition. Where applicable, is added sales tax. Coupon ends on 17 February.

Seagate expansion 2TB external USB Hard drive for $ 75 + free shipping

Office Depot has the Seagate expansion 2TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive, model no. ST320005EXA101-RK, for $ 89.99. Coupon code "21622249" it drops to $ 74.99. With free shipping, that is $ 0.04/GB, a dollar under a deal from two weeks ago, and the lowest total price we've ever seen. It is also a current price down from $ 15. Where applicable, is added sales tax. This 3.5 "hard drive runs at 5900 rpm and has a 32 MB cache Deal ends February 19.

Alienware M11x Intel Core i5 1.06 GHz 11.6 "laptop for $ 699 + free shipping

Dell Home offers the Soft Touch of Alienware M11x Stealth black or Lunar shadow for $ 749. Coupon code "BHW1L0MX0D?MCX "you cut to $ 699. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we've found for this model of $ 600 and only $ 100 more a by a bargain two weeks ago (which had half the amount of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo). Where applicable, is added sales tax. This gaming laptop comes with a 11.6 "1366 x 768 LED-backlit LCD display, an Intel Core i5-520UM dual core, 8 GB RAM, 320 GB 7200RPM hard drive, Nvidia GeForce GT 335 M 1 GB video card, 802. 11n wireless, 1.3 megapixel webcam, 8-cell battery and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Coupon expires on 28 February.

3D-Ready player Sony Blu-ray Disc for $ 100 + free shipping

B & H Photo-Video offers the reader Sony 3D-Ready Blu-ray Disc player, model no. BDP-S 470, at $ 99.95 with free shipping. That is $ 10 under our mention of November and the lowest total price we could find by $ 30. (It's also among the players cheaper Blu-ray 3D that we saw, the BDP-S 570 was briefly $ 2 less in December). Features include support for playback of movies Blu-Ray disc standard and 3D in 1080p, iPhone/iPod touch app for remote access, DVD playback and upscaling HDMI, Ethernet connectivity, WiFi optional support through a USB adaptor, streaming contents from BD-Live BRAVIA Internet Video (Netflix, YouTube and other online entertainment applications), USB connectivity and more.

Movies Blu-Ray at Walmart for under $ 10 + $ 2 s & h

Walmart offers a wide selection of movies Blu-ray disc for less than $ 10. Shipping adds $ 1.97, or opt for free-to-site store. Even with shipping, many titles are at the lowest total price we could find. Where applicable, is added sales tax.

Some notable price lows of all time: American Psycho for $ 8.96, Dirty Dancing 20th Anniversary Edition of Napolean Dynamite, Spy Game, and the bucket list for $ 9.96. More ...

Some shareholders of Nokia offer a plan B, CEO of Nokia

The full letter covers a lot of criticism in regards to what the company is currently planning. The nine should be elected by a majority, want to change the current management seriously. One of the first things they want to do is see the expulsion of Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop.

Their argument is that Nokia will maintain ownership and control of the level of its software products because the software is where the value of innovation, differentiation and shareholder more easily can be created. Also want a renewal in hiring strategy, the Elimination of outdated and bureaucratic R&D practices and at all costs avoid becoming "a poorly differentiated OEM".

If you choose us a majority on the Board will pursue Nokia the following agenda:

* Return the company to a strategy that aims for high growth and high profit margins through innovation and overwhelming products with unrivaled user experience.

* Maintain ownership and control of software of Nokia products. The software is where innovation, differentiation and value to shareholders more easily can be created.

* Hiring strategy Revamp to target the young talent of the top software from around the world. Only if Nokia is able to attract and retain the best talent in the industry will be able to raise the level of innovation that is required to achieve sustained growth and consistently high profit margins.

* Dramatically increase efficiency by eliminating outdated and bureaucratic R&D practices such as geographically distributed software development and outsourcing.

* Avoid at all costs, becoming an OEM poorly differentiated with only low margin, commodity that is able to attract top talent and software cannot create shareholder value though innovation.

If you choose us a majority on the Board of Directors the following Nokia will take concrete actions:

* Immediate unloading of Stephen Elop from his duties as President and CEO of the company. Appointment of a new CEO with an international background of the mobile industry. The new CEO will be committed to pursue the rest of the actions listed below.

* Restructure Alliance with Microsoft as a tactical exercise focused mainly to the North American market. Release one or two Windows Phone devices under a sub-brand of Nokia. Only if the carrier acceptance, sales volumes and profit margins are satisfactory, consider releasing more WP devices and make them available in Europe. Windows phone will be the main development platform for Nokia. Nokia phones running Windows Phone will simply take advantage of existing tools for developers and application ecosystem already put in place by Microsoft.

* MeeGo will be Nokia's primary smartphone platform. This is where most innovation happens. If MeeGo does not bring great devices to the market on an accelerated pace, this strategy will not work. The Smartphone and tablet MeeGo will win top experiences and applications, iOS and competitor of Android-based products. To reduce time to market, will be done all R&D internally and MeeGo in one geographic location. If necessary, suspend the collaboration with Intel and concentrate resources on innovation and release new Nokia MeeGo devices to market faster.

* Increase the duration of Symbian for a minimum of 5 years. Collect the profits of the existing market Share and consumer preference that Symbian is already in Europe and Asia. Use increasingly Symbian to target mid-tier and feature phone segments. Up-selling existing users of Symbian for MeeGo. Concentrate efforts of Symbian in specific countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America where Nokia Symbian enjoy a high level of goodwill of consumers and may be sold to healthy margins.

* QT based strategy Developer with primary focus on MeeGo, but providing a credible story for Symbian Developer. Allow developers to make money with huge installed targeting Symbian based while offering their better user experience on MeeGo platform. All this with a common developer ecosystem that allows writing and releasing the software for Symbian and Meego is interoperability with minimal work.

* End distributed R&D. transition to an installation of R&D of which 90% of all Nokia R&D is done in only two geographical positions. One of them will be in Finland and the other will be defined later. There will be no more R&D projects with resources in more cities and zones. Will be allowed only small tactical software projects to take place outside the two main offices of R&D.

* End of outsourcing R&D. bring all major software and hardware development in-house. Immediate end to the outsourcing facilities where there are multiple levels of Nokia project managers and project leaders of the subcontractor between product managers and software developers (in some cases up to 90% of the team is management overhead). This action implies substantial staff layoffs in Finland and other R&D positions worldwide, as well as the recruitment of talented external key and tactical acquisitions of companies where appropriate.

* Leadership team shakeup. Immediate relief of Tero O.j. npera, Niklas Savander and Mary McDowell from all their responsibilities with the company. Other members of the Leadership Team Nokia can download individual reviews pending with the Board of Directors. Discharged the members of the Leadership team of Nokia to be replaced with the internal and external talent.

* Aggressively recruit young talented software from the best universities. Nokia actively recruiting for visiting top universities worldwide to screen and invite the best students for interviews in Nokia's R&D locations. Establish a path of progression of credible and rewarding technical career in Nokia (to avoid the best talent, leaving the company or to become management overhead). They offer competitive salaries for new talent (if necessary, considerably above the market local wages). Establish Nokia as a company where the best and brightest want to work.

* Specific further actions related to the S40 platform Ovi services will be determined and the company's marketing activities at a later stage.

Sony Unveils Professional 17 inch, 25-inch OLED monitor

Sony will soon sell a professional monitor that contains the largest screen commercial organic light emitting diodes (OLED) still produced.

The monitor, which aims to produce television and film, will go on sale on 1 May and 25-inch OLED screen. A second model with a 17 inch screen will follow on 1 July. (See a video report on monitor).

OLED is a flat screen technology that rivals liquid crystal display (LCD). Pixel OLED screens that contain organic material that emits light, so the screens using the technology can be made thinner LCD monitor and are more power efficient. OLED also fast images better and richer color squares on most LCD screens, but the large OLED panels are expensive to produce.

Sony is positioning of monitor for use in satellite truck bays, and broadcasting control rooms. A high quality picture is required for these so called "Monitor" and Sony said OLED panels, producing an image than LCDS.

During a demonstration at the headquarters in Tokyo, Sony has played the same video footage on new OLED monitors 25 inches and broadcast LCD monitor placed side-by-side.

The OLED screen has been far better, with richer colors and deeper. When the screen was faded to black, the OLED monitor showed nothing but the LCD monitor continued to shining a light shade of gray because of its backlight.

Like a lot of equipment used in the broadcasting sector, the new monitors will not be cheap. The 25-inch model will cost ¥ 2.4 million (US $ 28,840) and 17-inch model will cost ¥ 1.3 million. But while seem expensive compared to consumer-grade monitors, the OLED screens cost only about 10 percent more than LCD monitors that are designed to replace.

Launch Sony commercial 17 and 25-inch OLED monitor is a step forward for the display industry, which has made a habit of promising large OLED screens can then deliver.

Despite some technical advances, flat panel makers have had a hard time crafting OLED production stage where it can make reliable large screens, impeccable. Small screens around 3 inches have not shown any problem and can be found in many mobile phones and portable devices, but larger screens have remained an obstacle.

The difficulty most vividly was demonstrated at the end of 2007 when Sony launched the industry's first--and still the only--OLED television. The XEL-1 had an 11-inch screen still cost US $ 2,500, which was significantly higher than much larger LCD TVs on the market. Monthly production was set at just 2,000 units.

A few months after the XEL-1, launched by Sony CEO Howard Stringer promised a 27-inch model "soon enough," but it never appeared. Competitors, including Samsung and LG Electronics also showed prototypes and even made promises, but have never had a TV OLED market.

Wednesday, Sony will not disclose any plans for OLED TV.

Martyn Williams covers the Japan and General technology breaking news for the IDG News Service. Follow me on Twitter @ Martyn martyn_williams. E-mail address of the Martyn is martyn_williams@idg.com