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This may come as a little surprising coming from the worlds largest retailer, but Walmart is predicting that sales may be flat this holiday season. This will not be good news for many retailers that are struggling to survive. Walmart is actually enjoying increased sales for 2009, since more people are looking for ways to [...]

Walmart is going to be open all 24 hours on Thanksgiving Day in the hopes of alleviating some of the crowds that have caused problems in the past. You may recall that last year a security guard was crushed to death when a crowd of shoppers trampled him.
Though shoppers will still have to wait until [...]

It seems that the next success stories we will be hearing about on the Internet is about those who are selling virtual products. What are virtual products? They are illustrations of products they are being sold on places such as Facebook. Picture this if you will. Someone on Facebook has a birthday and you send [...]

It should be no surprise to anyone, least of all Microsoft, that sales of their new Windows 7 operating system is already out selling Vista by a wide margin. Vista started out on a bad foot, with so many problems, that it was soon realized by many that this was a bad OS. However, once [...]

Amazon UK has announced that pre-orders for Windows 7 have set the record for biggest pre-orders ever, even beating out Harry Potter. According to Amazon UK,  Windows 7 pre-orders — in the first 8 hours — beat out the number of Vista sold during the entire pre-order process.
A recent article also states:
“The launch of Windows [...]

According to the AppleInsider, Apple continues to gain market share and is now claiming 9.4% of computer sales. According to a recent article:
Overall, Apple came in fourth for U.S. vendors, selling an estimated 1.64 million Macs stateside during the frame. That’s up 11.8 percent from the 1.47 million the company sold in the same frame [...]

The CEO of Acer has recently stated that they will over take Dell and become the #2 computer seller in the world. He must know what he is talking about since recent sales in the U.S. now show that Acer is in the number 2 spot. According to a recent article it also states the [...]

When Microsoft and Yahoo! reached a deal recently there were glowing accolades that Yahoo! would now be free to do its real business, which was not search. The company CEO claimed that Yahoo! would be free to explore its other development options. But behind the scenes all was not well in Yahoo! land.
According to one [...]

The traditional mad shopping day known as Black Friday could turn out to be one of the best ever. With the economy in the crapper, retailers could be offering super deals to entice buyers either into their brick & mortar stores or to their shops online. Yesterday I received an early email notification from Black [...]

Intel and Microsoft probably don’t want to hear that Netbooks are continuing to gain in popularity. The mini laptops are cheap, very portable and are great for those who only wish to surf the Internet or send/receive email. But these inexpensive computers are putting a dent into the profits of the WinTel alliance, since the [...]

GM and eBay are in the process of trying a one month experiment, in which consumers will be able to buy a car on eBay. The experiment involves some 225 dealers in California who will participate in the trials to determine if there is a online market for new cars.
According to a recent article it [...]

With all of the talk about the Apple iPhone, one would of thought that this smartphone would be the sales winner. But surprise! The BlackBerry Curve was the top seller for the second quarter of this year. According to figures compiled by IDC, Apple’s iPhone 3G S took second place, with the iPhone 3G placing [...]

Back in 2007 when Acer bought Gateway, rumor was that Acer was shooting for the #2 position in PC sales. Since Dell had fallen off of their perch as #1, replaced by HP, Acer has been steadily climbing the PC sales ladder. With Gianfranco Lanci behind the Acer helm, the Taiwan based company is quickly [...]

Best Buy is going to start to sell electric motorcycles and bikes soon. The first model is called Enertia, cost $12,000 and have a 45 mile range before it needs recharging. Other electric bike models will follow starting next month from Currie Technologies and Ultra Motor. There is no pricing currently available.
According to the Brammo [...]

Dell has announced that the bucks are flowing and cites their involvement with Twitter for making some $3 million in sales attributed to the social networking site. In fact Dell says on their blog that:
We’ve surpassed $2 million in revenue in terms of Dell Outlet sales, but we’re also seeing that it’s driving interest in [...]

I recall when IBM sold their entire computer division to Lenovo, a Chinese firm that bought the division back in December 2004. Back in 2004 IBM was listed as #3 in the PC market just behind HP and Dell. I remember at the time thinking to myself ‘what the heck is a Lenovo?’ So when [...]

I guess there were no doubts that Apple was not going to enter into the netbook market since they consider the netbook inferior and junk. But Apple has recognizes a market they can attack with a fine piece of computing power that will be superior to anything currently being offered in the mini market. Over [...]

This past week both GM and Chrysler announced the closing of dealerships throughout the U.S. Some of the closings were in to response to what the companies felt were under performing dealerships. Dealerships that GM and Chrysler felt were not selling enough cars and service. Some of these dealerships have been in business for decades. [...]

When Circuit City announced it was closing all of its stores, it seemed that Best Buy would logically pick up the surplus of electronic shoppers. But with the recession, this has not happened. So in steps Walmart with its new electronic department that wants a piece of the action. There is only one small problem [...]

For those of us who have been around computers since the first PC’s were introduced, we are familiar with the era when Intel was the only game in town. Intel charged what they wanted and there was little we could do about it. But AMD came along and gave the big CPU boys a moderate run [...]