Today is Columbus Day 2011, and there it is a USPS holiday -- meaning no mail delivery or service and all post offices are closed. The United States Post Office takes 11 holidays each year, when there is no mail delivery or service and all USPS retail brances are closed. Here are the annual USPS holidays:
So it wasn't the highly-anticipated iPhone 5 so many wanted to see that Apple finally unveiled at its Let's talk iPhone event. Instead, it was the iPhone 4S, a charged-up version of the company's popular iPhone 4 that was unveiled and launched for sale in pre-orders last week. But the new iPhone 4S is still a big hit, as Apple says more than one million people ordered the new iPhone 4S in the first 24 hours the smartphone was put on sale.
Gold rose more than 2 percent on Monday, lifted by weakness in the dollar versus the euro after France and Germany pledged to come up with a proposal to recapitalize euro zone banks, while traders remained cautious ahead of further details of the plan.
Motorola Solutions, the “old” Motorola sector not being acquired by Google, introduced its ET1 Tablet, an Android-based device intended for retail and factory use.
The iPhone 4S preorders topped one million in a single day, breaking the company's single-day sales record held by the iPhone 4. The surging demand for the 4S is seen as a tribute to Steve Jobs, whose death immediately followed the device's release.
Shares of Apple rose 4 percent after the company announced receiving more than one million orders for the iPhone 4S in a day, nearly 70 percent more than an older version.
At the Let's talk iPhone event, Apple, instead of unveiling an iPhone 5, released an iPhone 4S that features the new iOS 5 and a revolutionary voice-recognition technology.
Apple's newly released iPhone 4S (the 16GB version) has reportedly been completely sold out on Apple's online store, at BestBuy and with service providers AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. What that means is that if you still want to boast of having the new iPhone on the actual day of the launch, you will either have to shell out more money and order the 32GB or the 64GB version or queue up in front of Apple stores across the country.
The bank, whose shares had plunged 42 percent last week, was poised to go bankrupt, a fatality of the Eurozone crisis.
Franco-Belgian bank Dexia agreed early on Monday to the nationalization of its Belgian banking division and secured 90 billion euros ($121 billion) in state guarantees in a rescue that could pressure other euro zone governments to strengthen their banks.
Gold rose more than 1 percent on Monday as the dollar fell versus the euro after France and Germany pledged to strike a proposal to recapitalize euro zone banks, while traders remained cautious ahead of further details of the plan.
Reliance Industries, India's largest listed firm, is set to sign a deal with the Indian unit of Walt Disney, to acquire content for its telecom operations, the Financial Times said.
Starbucks Corp is finalising an equity joint venture with Tata Coffee Ltd for opening coffee shops in Asia's third-largest economy, the Times of India reported on Monday.
Columbus Day gives us a chance to be a bit thrifty before the holidays and enjoy some great Columbus Day sales. Here’s a guide of 35 places you can save on some great deals and score bargains on your Monday off from work (if you are so lucky) both online and in stores on Oct. 10, 2011. Happy savings!
Global mourning and remembrance of Apple's co-founder and long-time CEO continues days after Steve Jobs died at the age of 56, and most have been quick to highlight the genius, innovation and complexity -- if not difficulty -- that Jobs thrust upon the world. A detailed book about his life that Jobs co-operated with is due out in two weeks, and already it has climbed to number one at both Amazon's and Barnes & Noble's online stores through pre-sales.
Apple's new iPhone 4S has quickly become the latest and greatest among iPhone users, as carrier AT&T received more than 200,000 pre-orders for the device within the first 12 hours.
American Amanda Knox, recently acquitted of killing British roommate Meredith Kercher by an appeals court in Perugia, Italy, has reportedly been offered a job by a studio producing pornographic films.
France and Belgium are set to finalize the breakup Sunday of Dexia, the first bank to fall victim to the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, with global credit risk exposure of 512 billion euros ($691 billion).
Hailed as one of the world's greatest visionaries and innovators,the death of Apple co-founder and long-time CEO this week moved much of the world in rememberance and appreciation of the innovator and consumer technology pioneer. Jobs, who died on Wednesday at the age of 56 after a long battle with illness, was reportedly memorialized in a private funeral ceremony.
It is rumored that Amazon.com has received more than 250,000 preorders for the Kindle Fire - the online retail giant's competitively-priced tablet computer - in the five days since its launch. However, the Kindle Fire, priced at $199, will only be shipped from Nov.15.
If you're unwililng to wait that long, you could look at a few other options, apart from the iPad 2.
Here is a list of some Android-based tablets.
Investors tiring of the Eurozone's debt crisis dragging the market all over the place are hoping to focus on something else next week -- earnings.
Indictments of 111 people were handed up Friday in one of the largest identity-theft busts of its kind in the U.S., with thousands of victims in Europe, the Middle East, and China. Thus far, 86 people are in custody and the rest are being sought.
