It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Lenovo 15.6-inch laptop: $300 at Best Buy
Best Buy has an enticing deal on this 15.6-inch Lenovo laptop at $300. “What’s the catch?! Surely there’s a catch,” you say. No catch, unless you count having to actually go to a physical Best Buy location to get this deal a catch. …
Everything’s coming up roses for Apple’s iPad in 2011, and that’s bound to continue for at least the next decade or so, predicts Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf. In fact the investment firm just bumped its target price for Apple’s stock to $540 and projects sales of 54 million iPads and 108 million iPhones in 2012.
Is the guy …
I love the idea of dumping cable TV in favor of the wealth of video that’s now available online. I’ve been thinking about it for years. I just haven’t done it. Mostly because much of the TV I watch is live news, usually on all-news channels–something which is still primarily the domain of cable. But I never stop toying with the idea
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It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
Candwich: $5
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Okay fine. Remember your Nintendo? Remember Saved by the Bell? What if Saved by the Bell had been available as an RPG-themed Nintendo game? It only took a couple decades, but we’ve finally got something.
Even though it’s a YouTube video, it’s a “playable” game in that you make …
Hulu has one more suitor in its upcoming selloff… but this one is already playing hard-to-get.
On an earnings call yesterday, DirecTV CEO Mike White admitted that the satellite TV company was joining Apple, Google and many other potential buyers in looking through Hulu’s financial details to see whether a sale would make sense, but …
Slashed prices for refurbished Kindles could be the latest sign that a new version of Amazon’s popular e-reader is imminent.
This week, Amazon dropped the price of refurbished, third-generation Kindles to $99 for a Wi-Fi model and $139 for a model with 3G and Wi-Fi. If purchased new, the same Kindles cost $139 and $189, respectively. …
This might be the best Google-related news of 2011, so far: Gmail just added an optional feature in its Labs section that gives you a preview pane that puts the content of messages on the same screen as your inbox, letting you bop efficiently between messages without having to leave the inbox.
It finally gives Gmail a capability …
If Americans can’t have their cake and eat it too, the mobile phone might just be the last thing standing. When I talk about my relationship with my phone, I’m not kidding. Apparently that’s also true for approximately 33% of Americans, who are willing to give up some of the most basic human desires rather than be stripped of their …
Did Tuesday’s $50 price cut on the HP TouchPad strike you as ho-hum? Perhaps this weekend’s $100 price cut will do the trick.
The instant rebate will be in effect from August 5 through August 7 on HP’s website, PreCentral reports.
(MORE: HP’s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish)
The TouchPad debuted to lukewarm …
Look out, your next iOS device may do away with that fussy charging cable and cradle. In its place? A pair of earbuds. Yep, I said earbuds. Those things you stick in your ears to listen to music, or maybe use to lasso a pen off your desk if you’re lazy (as well as adept at making lassos out of earphones, which probably means you’d be …
DirecTV is being sued for false advertising over its recent claim that subscribers will be able to watch its NFL Sunday Ticket service for free.
“Free” in this case means a two-year subscription with the second year at full-price, and with a cancellation fee should you try and get out earlier. So far so usual, right? Well, yes, except …
