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  • Sleazy Marketing Ploys Not a Concern to Online Merchants Orbitz, Priceline, and United Online seem to believe that if a consumer gets confused by their offers and signs up without intending to, it’s the consumer’s fault.
  • Some New iMacs Arrive DOA, Have Cracked Screens Reports are surfacing that some new iMacs based on Intel’s Core i7 platform are inoperable or defective out of the box.
  • Corel Saves Itself, WordPerfect, and CorelDraw from Brink WordPerfect maker Corel saved itself from severe financial hardship in a business deal that will keep the struggling software maker open.
  • The Google-TiVo Deal: What It Means For You Google and TiVo are teaming up for a new deal that'll put your clicking habits into the hands of advertisers. Here's a look at how the program will work.
  • Verizon Challenges Sprint Marketing Claim Fresh from its legal victory over AT&T's challenge, Verizon is starting a new battle against Sprint's marketing slogan. Verizon has a reason to fight for "most reliable".
  • Top 10 Black Friday Websites Get warmed up for the biggest shopping day of the year by bookmarking the hottest destinations on the Web touting Black Friday deals.
  • Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 2 a Record-Breaker Ubisoft reassures investors its PS3 and Xbox 360 action-stealth game and financial holiday lifeline is selling briskly.
  • Enable Momentum Scrolling for Magic Mouse in 10.5 If you happen to have a new Magic Mouse running on OS X 10.5, you may be disappointed to find that it lacks a feature you get with Snow Leopard: momentum...
  • Senators Call for Transparency in Copyright Treaty Talks Two U.S. senators call on the Obama administration to be more transparent about a proposed international copyright treaty.
  • Google's Ad Empire is Good for Small Business Google is expanding its vast marketing empire with the purchase of Teracent. Google may be bad for traditional advertising, but its good for small business.
  • Kindle 2 Gets Native PDF Support, Improved Battery Life Amazon has an early Thanksgiving gift for all you Kindle 2 owners out there. The company has just announced an upcoming firmware update for its six-inch e-book...
  • Kindle Update Boosts Battery Life, Adds PDF Support Amazon has given its Kindle a software update that it says boosts battery life and now allows people to read PDFs on their Kindles.
  • New Banking Trojan Horses Gain Polish As banks improve their ability to detect and fight fraud, the Trojan horses that criminals devise become even more sophisticated.
  • Holiday Newsletters With IWeb '09 Holiday newsletters bring your relatives and friends up to date about the year's events, but designing, printing, and mailing them can be a chore. This season...
  • Sony Support: Your 15 (Free) Minutes Are Up Sony responds to one reader's complaint that the company purposely prolonged the duration of a support call in order to extract money from him.
  • 12 Must-Have iPhone Apps for the Holidays The holidays are stressful, but an iPhone or iPod Touch can help. Whether you want to cook a great meal or get the heck out of the house, there's an app for that.
  • Pillow Talk Maybe you've decided to show off your love for all things Mac with an Apple logo sticker affixed to your car or perhaps an Apple-themed t-shirt or even a framed...
  • Let Your Light Shine An iPhone with a flashlight app is useful for small tasks like finding your keys. But more rugged situations call for a bright light and free hands. With the $30...
  • Cowabunga iPhone-toting city slickers who'd like a taste of a frontier have a friend in Southern Brand. The company makes the $29 Limited Edition Cowhide iPhone Cover...
  • Wake-Up Call Many iPhone owners already use their phone as a makeshift alarm clock--why not go all the way by turning it into your nightstand clock? Kensington's $40...

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