Cyber Monday Laptop Deals, the Best Laptop Deals All Year?

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 28, 2010

In case of missing the boat on Black Friday, there's still Cyber Monday for laptop shoppers who've procrastinated through the weekend. Now, there even better laptop deals online because retailers are more desperate to offload excess inventory. Deals experts have actually seen this happen across many retailers including Apple's Macbooks, the prices are now lower than it was yesterday (Black Friday) or the whole year.

For example, Apple MacBook 13.3-Inch Laptop with model number MC516LL/A was $939.94 on Amazon but it has been lowered to $912.49 as of today, the day after Black Friday. That's additional $27.45 savings for consumers who've missed the Black Friday boat. This is the number one reason why shoppers actually should wait until Cyber Monday for the best deals on laptops.

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Small Business Saturday Entices Locals to Shop Mom and Pop

Small business owners are hoping shoppers will take a day off from the big box retailers–and the crowds.

To counter the corporate world's Black Friday, public and private organizations are joining American Express OPEN—the company's small business unit—in declaring the Saturday after Thanksgiving Small Business Saturday.

The first-time event encourages shoppers to include small, independently-owned businesses when they make their shopping rounds the day after Black Friday.

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Axiom IPO Excludes Retail Investors

DUBAI—In a move aimed at avoiding the sluggish retail demand that has blighted recent initial public offerings in the Gulf region, Axiom Telecom said Sunday that its 35% share sale, the first in the United Arab Emirates in more than two years, would be pitched solely at institutional investors.

The Dubai-based mobile-phone distributor set the price range for its IPO at between $0.80 and $1.15 a share, valuing the company at up to $1.09 billion. The share sale will run from Sunday until around Dec. 3, it said in an emailed statement.


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Facebook to assimilate MySpace

It's been an interesting week for the Facebook Borg, what with the end of email as we know it, playing footsie with Microsoft to send Google a Bronx cheer, and now the demise of MySpace. '

Last week, in a heated public rendition of the pot calling the kettle black, Google and Facebook traded barbs in an ongoing data-sharing dispute. Facebook won the round, scarfing up Google contact data with impunity. Google had no choice but to stand by as its data got sucked into Facebook, wailing as the data faded away, "Are you super sure you want to import your contact information for your friends into a service that won't let you get it out?"

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Google raise: Employees to get 10 pc salary hike

California, Nov 13: The computer giant Google
Inc has announced a 10 percent salary hike for its 23,000 employees on Friday, Nov 12.

All Google
employees will get a 10 percentage or more salary increase and a $1,000 cash Christmas bonus. Also the California based Google will pay the taxes for the cash bonus and give each employee an additional raise equivalent to their target bonus for the year.

Eric Schmidt, the CEO for Google, released a memo internally to confirm the good news.

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Europe could run out of new internet addressed in 2011: Google vice president

Europe will run out of capacity for new internet addresses by early next year, potentially cutting the U.K. off from the rest of the world online, one of the founding fathers of the communications network warned today.

Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google and the man dubbed “the godfather of the net”, said the shortage of internet address space represented a “serious boundary” to the growth of the medium.

Mr. Cerf added that the problem is one of the “biggest set of changes in the history of the internet”.

Online access across Europe will remain fixed at its current rate unless internet service providers (ISPs) move quickly to implement new internet protocol (IP) space, the leading computer scientist warned.

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iOS 4.2: The iPad Update and Businesses

If you have been disappointed with the iPad’s functionality in terms of business, you may be happy to hear that iOS 4.2 should improve things, if you check out this recent PCWorld article you can see some of the many ways iOS 4.2 does just this.

If you are using your iPad for business use you may have more apps installed than the average user, this may make your tablet quite cluttered and unorganized, however once iOS 4.2 is installed you will be able to tidy things up by putting shortcuts in folders.

Business users will be extremely interested in being as productive as possible, at the moment the iPad has a huge bottleneck in its one app at a time setup, however the iOS update will bring multitasking, which means you will be able to create documents, whilst checking your email and browsing the web.

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Which women are searched most often on Google?

COED Magazine has compiled a list based on Google search results that is flying around the Internet, sporting some surprises -- Justin Bieber comes in at No. 7 -- and some givens -- Lady Gaga tops the list at No. 1.

Here are the top 10:

1. Lady Gaga

2. Kesha

3. Madonna

4. Beyonce

5. Rihanna

6. Britney Spears

7. Justin Bieber

8. Miley Cyrus

9. Paris Hilton

10. Avril Lavigne

Washington's famous women made a showing as well: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is No. 18, first lady Michelle Obama No. 21 and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton No. 32.

Poor Justin Bieber. This is the second time in a week that the teen heartthrob and perpetual trending topic on Twitter has sent the Internet into a tizzy. He has also been accused of not knowing the meaning of the word "German."

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Gold surges to Rs 19,850 per ten gram

Gold prices on the eve of Diwali rose by Rs 110 to Rs 19,850 per ten gram in the bullion market here on fresh buying by retailers and jewellers amid a firming trend in global markets.

Silver, however, held steady in restricted trade and traded at Rs 37,600 per kg.

Trading sentiment turned better as retail customers entered the market to make token purchases for the Diwali festival on Friday and jewellers buying to meet the ensuing marriage season demand.

The Diwali is considered to be an auspicious day in Hindu mythology to make new purchases particularly in gold and other household articles.

The prices further bolstered on reports the gold rising in global markets, which normally set prices on the domestic front, as the dollar fell to near nine-month low after the US Fed said it will purchase more government debt.

From : www.indianexpress.com

Winning artists join Ukraine's Friends of EURO

The 20 winners of a nationwide drawing competition in Ukraine have become that country's newest and youngest members of the Friends of UEFA EURO 2012 campaign.

The exclusive group of Friends of UEFA EURO 2012 in Ukraine gained 20 new members as the winners of a drawing competition for young people were presented at the local organising committee (LOC) headquarters in Kyiv today.

The 20 prize winners joined the small number of Ukrainian celebrities already confirmed as Friends of UEFA EURO 2012 at a special ceremony in the capital. The youngsters had been invited to enter a drawing contest, between 15 September and 15 October, on the theme of their country staging UEFA EURO 2012 and what it means to them.

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