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AP – Internet retailers hope the convenience of the Web, plus discounts and deals, spur still-nervous shoppers to spend more online this holiday season — even as traditional retailers brace for mediocre sales.
AP – People you know have spent small fortunes on shiny new smart phones such as the iPhone 3GS, a BlackBerry or the Droid. But the devices still don’t have all the features they want.
PC World – Every year the Black Friday label entices tenacious consumers to embark on their shopping frenzy. Make it easy on yourself. Skip the lines, sleep in, and enjoy these online hardware and component deals while they last. Note that most of these deals are time-sensitive.
PC World – Wal-Mart has a 46-inch HDTV, the Sony Bravia KDL-46S504, on sale for $798. This 1080p HDTV features a 60Hz refresh rate and a 20,000:1 contrast ratio. It also has three HDMI inputs, and is Bravia Link compatible. The lowest price we found for the KDL-46S504 on PriceGrabber was $1200 at Crutchfield, so you’d save about $400.
Macworld.com – Thursday is Thanksgiving, the holiday season is upon us, and Black Friday is coming, well, Friday. And you know what that meansâdiscounts. Before you go out and brave the throngs of shoppers crowding the malls, have a look at some Mac and iPhone software discounts that you can take advantage of right from the comfort of your home.
PC World – India plans to set up a centralized system to monitor communications on mobile phones, landlines and the Internet in the country, a minister told the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, on Thursday.
LONDON—-Incisive Media today announced that Jim Sterne, producer of the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and chairman of the Web Analytics Association will be a keynote speaker at the London SES Conference and Expo 2010.
AP – A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.
PC World – Best Buy is selling a 13.3-inch white MacBook for $1000.
PC World – Developers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing toolkit have released code that can compromise Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, but the software is not as reliable as first thought.
AP – Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.