Archive for August 2011

  • 31
    Aug

    2011′s Hottest Holiday Gadgets and Toys: An Early Look

    Filed under: Retail , Consumer Ally Christmas is four months away, and already the experts are weighing in on which holiday toys and gadgets will be worth the credit card debt. Online shopping comparison site PriceGrabber is one of the first to release a “top products” list of the items it predicts will be this year’s hottest. To come up with the list, PriceGrabber analyzed its own keyword searches, as well as the top selling products from the past several months, says Sharon Banfield, PriceGrabber spokeswoman

    Posted by FinanceGuru in DailyFinance

  • 31
    Aug

    In-Flight Live Streaming of Major League Baseball Games Takes Off

    Filed under: Technology , Media , Southwest Airlines , Travel Baseball fanatics won’t have to miss one tobacco spit or big hit while flying now that Major League Baseball will stream games to airline passengers’ WiFi devices. That means if you have a smartphone, laptop or tablet, you’ll have access to more than 2,400 games onboard, broadband provider Row 44 announced Tuesday , making America’s pastime the first major sport to offer live streaming on commercial carriers.

    Posted by FinanceGuru in DailyFinance

  • 31
    Aug

    Clever Ways to Stretch Your Decorating Dollars

    Filed under: Home Depot , Sears Holdings , Lowe’s Companies Inc As the seasons change, the urge to refresh one’s surroundings intensifies. Spring is all about brightening up and cleaning out — painting dated kitchen cabinets and adding pops of brighter colors throughout the house. In contrast, this time of year calls for making things cozy and warm for the fall.

    Posted by FinanceGuru in DailyFinance

  • 31
    Aug

    Feds Delay Sentencing in HP Pretexting Case Due to ‘Related Matter’

    Filed under: Company News , Hewlett-Packard Five years after tech giant Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ ) found itself at the center of a headline-grabbing pretexting scandal, DailyFinance has learned that federal authorities have expanded the scope of their prosecution to include other potential defendants. In 2006, HP publicly disclosed that the company had deceptively obtained personal phone records through pretexting in an effort to find the source of a board-level corporate leak to the media. Pretexting — a federal offense — is the act of..

    Posted by FinanceGuru in WalletPop

  • 31
    Aug

    What Was Wall Street Thinking? Apple Rentals, BlackBerry Noise, TiVo, and Paying More for Payless

    Filed under: Company News , Netflix , Research In Motion , Apple It’s not just Steve Jobs leaving Apple ( AAPL ). The iEverything company is killing off the option of television show rentals at $0.99 a pop from iTunes. It’s true that just two of the major Hollywood studios were participating in digital show rentals — and only offering up a limited amount of content — but this is lousy timing on Apple’s part

    Posted by FinanceGuru in WalletPop