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1. Apple discounts for Black Friday leak

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   Black Friday for Apple A story on Boy Genius Report indicates that Apple may cut as much as 25 percent off the price of iPods and 25 percent off the price of Macs. The site said it got tipped off and ...

2. Control your enthusiasm

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

   ... learned a couple of hard lessons from it, and be particularly happy that we’re going to have good holiday season. Epilog Black Friday is coming – ignore it. It’s a holdover from the days of saddles and ...

3. Nobody move or the iPhone gets it

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Sunday, 04 October 2009

   ... iPhone’s sorry ass in front of horrified Apple staff. 38 year old Ohio man Donald Goodrich was arrested Friday for brandishing a stylish black 9mm pistol at his local Apple Store in Kenwood Towne Centre ...

4. To lose one Gelsinger is careless. To lose three is an Intel catastrophe

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 14 September 2009

   ... if he was a stick of Blackpool rock. I've met him many many times and a more loyal Intel employee I've never met. He would defend Intel to the death. And now he's gone to a firm which, let's face it, offers ...

5. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   ... With speedy printing speeds for black and white and color as well as a five-year-warranty and priority phone support, the X6675 guarantees productivity at work and at home. Blue Microphones Eyeball:  ...

6. Projector company InFocus sold for $39 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 13 April 2009

   ... $13.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2008 on revenues of $51.4 million. Analysts believed that InFocus had no opportunity to return into the black by itself and would have run out of money by the end ...

7. Australian government agency blacklists a dentist office website?

   (Security/Security Features)

   Monday, 23 March 2009

   It was reported last Friday that over the past several weeks, Wikileaks.org has been publishing what it claims to be a blacklist of banned websites ready to be targeted by the Australian Communications ...

8. No recession here: Amazon.com reports best Christmas season ever

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 26 December 2008

   ... The weight of all GPS devices sold from Black Friday through December equals the combined weight of 151 Mini Coopers, Amazon.com said. The top sellers in consumer electronics included Samsung's 52” 120 ...

9. Garmin expects to ship 18 million GPS PNDs in 2008

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Monday, 22 December 2008

   Garmin, due to better than originally expected sales performance in the North American market since the Black Friday weekend, estimates that its 2008 total sales volume of GPS PNDs will increase ...

10. Nintendo shatters game console shipment records

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 11 December 2008

    ... Sony’s shipments saw a sharp drop. November U.S. sales: Wii outsells Xbox 360 2:1 and the PS3 5:1 Microsoft may have made the most noise after Black Friday, but it was Nintendo that dominated the ...

11. Microsoft uncertain about Xbox 360 sales potential in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

      Microsoft may have said that it drowned the PS3 in Black Friday sales (no word about the Wii, of course), but the company sings a different tune as soon as the topic changes to the 2009 time frame. ...

12. Cyber Monday 2008 second most successful online shopping day ever

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

    ... online this Monday, up from $733 million one year earlier. The four-day period between Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw a sales increase of 13%, from $1.9 billion to $2.2 billion. In absolute numbers, ...

13. Vizio TV sales strong on Black Friday

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

    Amtran Technology, which makes the Vizio-branded flat panel TVs, has disclosed that the brand had strong Black Friday sales because of its pricing strategy, selling 162,000 units in the North American ...

14. Xbox 360 slaughtered PS3 on Black Friday, Microsoft claims

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 02 December 2008

      Microsoft said that its Xbox 360 game console had its most successful Black Friday yet, selling 25% more units than in 2007 – and outselling Sony’s PS3 by a ratio of 3:1. Redmond (WA) – Microsoft ...

15. More shady dealings at Circuit City, this time on Black Friday

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

    A TG Daily reader saw our previous Circuit City article. He sent in detailed events of something which took place last Nov 28. On that Black Friday, a local CC advertisement indicated a HP Pavilion G50-108NR ...

16. Black Friday shopping results not entirely negative

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

      The expectations for Black Friday were shaky at best and it was clear that this year would be different than 2007 or 2006. But as fragile as the overall economy looks at this time, the fact that ...

17. Vizio reduces TV prices for the holidays

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

    US-based TV vendor Vizio is offering special pricing for select models during the Black Friday weekend (starting the day after Thanksgiving, November 27, 2008), according to the company. Vizio's ...

18. Exclusive: Post-bankrupt Circuit City not honoring price match guarantee

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 November 2008

    ... there. The event took place over one week ago, long before Black Friday. Raleigh (NC) - TG Daily has received a report of consumers being deceived by false advertising at the Capitol Blvd. Circuit City ...

19. Apple's Black Friday discounts may rise to 15%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 26 November 2008

      Investment firm Kaufman Bros. said Wednesday it believes Apple is preparing to offer its deepest Black Friday discounts ever, but said the move has been accounted for in the company's guidance ...

20. Retailers await shaky Black Friday as consumers are expected to cut back spending

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 25 November 2008

      It does not take much to predict that Black Friday sales are rather unlikely to set a new record and that retailers won’t have much fun this year. Two surveys shed more light won what we can expect ...

21. DVD sales plummet, last chance for Blu-ray this Christmas

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... than $200. Wal-Mart is believed to be offering a $128 player on Black Friday. According to Pricegrabber.com, the Blu-ray player with the lowest average U.S. retail price is currently the Memorex MVBD2510, ...

22. Black Friday sales intensify in downturn

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    Black Friday, the traditional start to the U.S. holiday shopping season, means more to retailers this year as they struggle to win over consumers with a recession looming. Black Friday falls on November ...

23. Anonymous member charged with Scientology attack

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    ... of prank phone calls and sent black fax pages to the many different offices of scientology. There was even a group of individuals who held anti-Scientology demonstrations outside of multiple centers. ...

24. RIM ready to be acquired?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    The stock of Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) was among those hit hardest by the current financial crisis. The stock is down more than 66% this year and lost another 8% today following an analyst ...

25. Analyst braces clients for "underwhelming" Apple event

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 05 September 2008

    ... pulls a rabbit from his black turtleneck. "While there is always room for surprise, it seems this event may be somewhat underwhelming versus previous expectations and events," he wrote. "Over the past ...

26. Let the (War)games begin! Black Hat and Defcon hacking conventions begin

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 06 August 2008

    ... a temporary truce between the forces of good and evil as federal agents and corporate security officers try to learn the most from their black hat cousins.  Of course, like in previous years, TG ...

27. Meet the most dedicated iPhone fan in Los Angeles

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 11 July 2008

    ... While I was interviewing him, a steady stream of mall goers ambled by staring at the black tarp covering the front of the Apple store.  In preparation for the launch, the store closed early and employees ...

28. Countdown to the iPhone 3G: What you need to know before you get in line

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 09 July 2008

    ... iPhone 3G comes in black or white and US customers can get 8GB model for $199 or 16GB for $299, with an obligatory 2-year service contract with AT&T. Apple's retail chief Ron Johnson told Bloomberg ...

29. Demo handsets and window displays arrive at retail stores ahead of iPhone 3G launch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 08 July 2008

    ... of the iPhone 3G capabilities on its huge screen. These are essentially the same window displays that were used for the original iPhone launch but with the updated iPhone 3G black casing. Apple and AT&T ...

30. Sony’s crapware incident: The right idea gone terribly wrong

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Sunday, 23 March 2008

    ... The story isn’t so black and white as it may appear and there is an important thought behind this crapware removal – a thought that was the right one, but the way how it was offered was, well, silly.It ...

31. “A LAN party by gamers, for gamers” – PDXLAN 11

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 26 February 2008

    ... geek, but to many attendees he’s a gaming icon who has rejected critics to form one of the most successful gaming events in the United States.  Wearing glasses and sporting a black T-shirt, Conwell ...

32. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ...  TGD     30 Blu-ray overpowers HD DVD three-to-one in Black Friday weekend TGD   Dec 4 Over 2.7 million ...

33. Dell dumping AMD?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 09 February 2008

    Dell has slimmed down its product line using AMD processors, triggering a wave of speculation that Dell may actually be phasing out its partnership with AMD. The CPU manufacturer however claims that what ...

34. Best Buy profits rise 52% thanks to Black Friday

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 20 December 2007

    Minneapolis (MN) – Electronics retailer Best Buy has announced a massive 52% increase in third-quarter profits thanks in most part to Black Friday sales and an increase in GPS sales.  The company ...

35. Blu-ray overpowers HD DVD three-to-one in Black Friday weekend

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 30 November 2007

    ... 23, Black Friday, and one week later. Though Nielsen did not give absolute numbers, it reported that around 72% of all HD disc movie sales were attributed to Blu-ray, leaving about 28% for HD DVD.  ...

36. Cyber Monday nabs sales record

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 28 November 2007

    ... it was a 21% increase over last year's Cyber Monday. However, similar to what was seen with Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the average amount spent per person dropped over last year, but ...

37. Price cut triggers three-fold increase in PS3 sales

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 27 November 2007

    ... to $500.  That move also caused a spike in sales, doubling week-to-week unit figures in mid-October. The PS3 was also featured in the Black Friday ads of virtually every major consumer electronics ...

38. Cyber Monday sales taken by 75% of online stores

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Monday, 26 November 2007

    ... online response to retailers' Black Friday sales.  It has since gained in notoriety and in participation. Unlike Black Friday, Cyber Monday deals were kept as secrets and not very easily leaked ...

39. 'Cyber Monday' expected to top sales record

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 26 November 2007

    Following the biggest shopping day of the year, consumers are expected to drop a record amount online on what has become known as "Cyber Monday." Based on heavy online turnout during the Thanksgiving ...

40. Black Friday sales beat last year by 22%

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 26 November 2007

    HDTVs, computers, and MP3 players helped make this year's Black Friday one of the most successful to date. New York (NY) - HDTVs, computers, and MP3 players helped make this year's Black Friday ...

41. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 November 2007

    ... what deals will be available. Leaked Black Friday ads are becoming as much as a tradition as is the Black Friday shopping day itself. Ads from all major retailers are available on the Internet and only ...

42. Does AMD’s Spider catch Intel’s Penryn in its Web?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 November 2007

    Analyst Opinion - The fourth quarter, particularly after Black Friday, is particularly important to the PC industry. PCs are, for the first time in this decade, according to the CEA, at the top of the ...

43. Mozilla releases first public beta of Firefox 3.0

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 20 November 2007

    ... warns of websites that are known to host malware (Mozilla also preps a blacklist of malware sites) and the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer displayed.   Mozilla 3.0 Beta 1 ...

44. Wal-Mart to sell HD DVD player for under $100

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 01 November 2007

    ... $200, making it the lowest-priced high-def disc player at a major retailer. The sale is being touted as a pre-Black Friday sale.  "Black Friday" is the day after Thanksgiving, where stores ...

45. Wal-Mart first to take legal action against "Black Friday" ad leakers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 24 October 2007

    Bentonville (AR) - Wal-Mart has begun issuing cease and desist orders to websites that have leaked information about its all-important pre-holiday "Black Friday" sales. Black Friday, the day ...

46. Palm announces $100 consumer smartphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 27 September 2007

    ... business users anymore: Palm will begin selling the entry-level "Centro" through Sprint in mid-October.       If a Blackberry is just too enterprise-focused and an iPhone is too ...

47. MSN claims to have reached record online video audience with Live Earth webcast

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Saturday, 07 July 2007

    ... Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Black Eyed Peas, James Blunt, Genesis, Kanye West, Pussycat Dolls, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Melissa Etheridge, The Police and Sheryl Crow. A replay of the events will be available ...

48. Geeks furiously trying to unlock the iPhone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 03 July 2007

    ... picked up on.  Two of the most popular hacker conventions, Black Hat and Defcon, will start in less than a month.  Whoever cracks the iPhone would surely get immense admiration or “street ...

49. No people lining up in front of AT&T stores

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 22 June 2007

    ... it has been unable to answer our questions for the past three months). Gee, yes, after watching that video, I am ready to dump my Blackberry Pearl in a heartbeat.     Hold on a second: That ...

50. EMI agrees to $4.7 billion takeover

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 May 2007

    ... rumors since 2000. Among the more prominent parties to have been interested in EMI are private equity firm Blackstone Capital as well as Warner, which has placed numerous bids to purchase EMI over the ...