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24% of online shoppers have spent more than $500 in 2008 holiday season

Amount % of Respondents Less than $100 18 $100-199 22 $200-299 17 $30-399 13 $400-499 5 More than $500 24 Source: Nielsen by NB

Tags: Holiday Season, NB

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Is tech headed for a Bah Humbug holiday season?

Sam Diaz and Sumi Das talk about what sort of forces - everything from Circuit City's Chapter 11 filing to news that Windows 7 will make its debut in time for next year's holiday season - will dictate the mood of this holiday season. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Holiday Season, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-11-10

60% of US consumers to reduce spending this holiday season

53% of Americans surveyed by Deloitte expect the economy to weaken in 2009, compared with 43% of people who expressed that view in 2007. Almost 60% of US consumers said they would reduce spending this holiday season. Shoppers plan to spend about $532 on gifts, down 6.5% from 2007, and...

Tags: Holiday Season, AM

Blog posts 2008-10-22

82% shoppers in 2007 holiday season shopped online for gifts

82% shoppers in 2007 holiday season said they shopped online for gifts vs. 88% in 2006. The percentage of purchasers online (77%) declined slightly from 2006’s 80%, according to TNS Retail Forward. by NB

Tags: Holiday Season, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Holiday PC prank

The holiday season seems to always bring out the prankster in me - and this year I've got a fun trick that I'm planning to play! It's simple really - fire up a few apps, take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as the desktop background...

Tags: Desktop, PC, Holiday Season, Desktops, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-12-24

Photos: Black Friday's hottest buys

Which will be the star gadget of the holiday season? We take an look at some early contenders. by CNET News.com

Tags: Holiday Season, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-11-27

Jobs to $599 iPhone buyers: that's tough. He's right, you know

In Thursday morning's USAToday, you'll find an interview with Steve Jobs. Steve essentially says that if you paid the full $599 price for an iPhone more than two weeks ago, and on or close to the June 29 craziness, well, then you should...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Product, Holiday Season, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-05

The First Holiday Season After Your Loss 1 (Windows)

This free e-book is a resource for those whose loved one died earlier in the year prior to the holiday season. It empowers grieving individuals to stay on top of their situation during the stressful holiday season.

Tags: Holiday Season, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-12-20

First Holiday Season After A New Family Structure 1 (Windows)

This free e-book is a resource for those who had a major change in their family structure, for example: remarriage, blended family, stepparents, empty nesting earlier on in the year prior to the holiday season. It equips such individuals on how to face the combined challenges of their new situation...

Tags: Structure, Holiday Season, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-12-20

The First Holiday Season After Your New Status 1 (Windows)

This downloadable e-book is a resource for those who had changes in their career, status, or became student-immigrants earlier in the year prior to the holiday season. It equips such people to stay on top of their new circumstances during the stressful holiday season.

Tags: Holiday Season, Status, E-books, Professional Development, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Career, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-12-20

The First Holiday Season After Your Divorce 1 (Windows)

This free e-book is a resource for those who experienced the trauma of a divorce earlier in the year prior to the holiday season. It empowers them to face the challenges of the holiday season when they are still trying to discover a new identity as a single person. ...

Tags: Holiday Season, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-12-20

First Holiday Season After A Crazy Year 1 (Windows)

This free e-book is a resource for those who had a year when everything seemed to have gone wrong. It empowers such individuals to get unstuck and face the challenges of their situation during the stressful holiday season.

Tags: Holiday Season, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-12-20

Free Christmas Puzzle (Mobile)

Happy Holidays from Novii Lifestyles!Santa is out of sorts this holiday season and he needs your help! Sort him out and you will reveal a coupon code for 20% off of your purchase of the Christmas Holiday Planner.The Christmas Holiday Planner helps you stay sane & organized this holiday season....

Tags: Mobile, Holiday Season, Mobile Lifestyles, Advertising & Promotion, Palm OS, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-11-21

A Christmas Carol (Mobile)

Untitled Document From our family to yours this holiday season comes Charles Dicken''s classic A Christmas Carol. Taken from the first edition, this version includes the original illustrations by John Leech. In 1843, Charles Dickens was hard at work on his novel "Martin Chuzzlewit" when, in October, he decided to...

Tags: Mobile, Holiday Season, E-books, Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-11-07

Unreal Tournament 2004 Santa Hats mod (Windows)

This mutator arrives just in time for the holiday season, adding Santa hats to all the models in the game.

Tags: Holiday Season, JIT, Quality, Microsoft Windows, Games, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2004-12-22

Winter Wonderland Screen Saver 2.0 (Windows)

Enjoy Winter's Wonderlands with 30 hi res images that will ring in the holiday season. listen to a smooth MP3 sound track as the images rotate by.

Tags: Holiday Season, MP3, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2001-12-06

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Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

Every year, retailers' ads for Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial starting of the holiday shopping season—manage to leak out a few weeks beforehand this year being no exception. And every year, said retailers freak out when the ads appear online, perhaps fearing that competitors could...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Retail Company, HDTV, 1080p, Retail, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09

These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...

Tags: Processors, Nov/Dec 09, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Best Kit List, Hardware 2.0, CPU, hardware, Intel Corp., motherboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

SIA: Chip sales "above expectations"; more growth expected

Echoing a growing sentiment that economic recovery is in the works, the Semiconductor Industry Association today said that worldwide sales of semiconductors were up nearly 20 percent from the previous quarter, though down more than 10 percent from the same quarter a year ago. For the quarter...

Tags: Semiconductor Industry Association, Semiconductor, Chip, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: The best all-around pocket digital cameras

Here are my five choices for the best all-around ultracompact cameras on the market this holiday season for an avid photographer in your life. by Rachel King

Tags: Digital Camera, Camera, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-01