Dusting Off Bing’s Old Bones

What is it with Bing Crosby this Christmas? He’s everywhere. Not only does he have a new album (of old stuff) coming up and not only is he doing a duet from the great beyond with Bryn Terfel but now he’s beatboxing for a UK retailer. Check out this Christmas commercial: Argos, a U.K. retail...

Walmart Joins the iPad Christmas Party

Don’t look now kids but Uncle Wally is getting the iPad. That’s right, this week at Walmart you can get an Apple iPad to go with your eggs, beef jerky and Fruit-of-the-Looms. The move on Apple’s part is unprecedented. The iPhone didn’t hit Walmart for more than a year and a half...

Microsoft Takes a Run at iPad

All the shopping and Black Friday sites are prognosticating that Apple’s iPad will be the hot must-have item for Christmas 2010. That is why, we suppose, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft said this week that a new Windows based tablet computer will be out for this holiday season. The announcement has taken...

Hold Off on the Flat Screen Purchase

An oversupply of LCD TV panels in the US is causing television prices to fall. By the end of this month, LCD TV prices will be about 5% lower than they were at the same time last year. Retail survey firms have said the prices will start to plummet in October, with prices continuing to fall into the Christmas...

Commodore 64 Coming Back for Christmas?

There she is, the wanna-be PC of the early 1980s that inspired a whole generation of geeks. It was a $200 computer in an age where real computers were out of reach to the common person. With a creaky floppy drive and two-tone graphics at best, the Commodore gave a rising generation its first real computing...

What WiFi Means for Your Christmas Shopping

It must be dead of summer and difficult to find much Christmas to talk about. But trust me — this is really big Christmas news. It comes from the Queen Mother of all retailers: Walmart, who also does business as Sam’s Club (which is just a Costco that takes Mastercard). While most of the retail...