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History repeats itself. Urban campers have already set up their folding chairs and are happily waiting for Apple stores and retail outlets to open at 8 am Friday, with a gleaming new stock of iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S, has already broken the pre-order record of 600,000 held by the iPhone 4, with the first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S the highest for any new product that Apple has ever launched.

Gold was slightly higher on Friday and headed for its biggest weekly gain in more than a month, shrugging off the credit rating downgrade of Spain ahead of a G20 meeting whose agenda will be dominated by the euro zone debt crisis.

Even if you have successfully placed a pre-order at Sam's Club for the Apple's newest iPhone 4S, there is only a slim possibility that you might actually get one on Friday. According to a report in Geek.com, Sam's Clubs nationwide haven't received iPhone 4S shipments expected for Friday's launch. Sam's Club representative confirmed the news that they were notified by Apple that initial iPhone 4S shipments would not be arriving as expected.

Apple iPhone 4S is being sold in stores on Friday. iPhone users have been anticipating the arrival of the iPhone 4S, so much so that pre-orders for the new smartphone sold out ahead of the store launch, according to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's Web sites.

The U.S. job market remains a very challenging one -- with inadequate job growth so far in the current economic expansion. But there is some good news for job seekers this holiday season: retailers plan to add 480,000 to 500,000 season jobs during the next few months to prepare for the holiday shopping season, retail sector officials said.

The new phone is about to hit stores.

She admitted she could not even identify the women in Cameron’s cabinet.

Is there revenue fire in that new Kindle tablet? Amazon.com's (AMZN) new Kindle Fire tablet, priced at $199, has created a buzz, due its potential to grab market share from Apple’s (AAPL) iPad. With the latest kindle send Amazon’s stock vectoring higher?

Apple will finally release the new iPhone 4S in stores on Oct. 14. In addition to the online and physical Apple Stores, here is a list of the various retailers selling the iPhone 4S on its big launch day.

Although the 29 year old Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine is known across the globe as a style icon and has many fashion followers, her fashion sense has been dubbed as ordinary by retail guru, Mary Portas.

Is the Occupy Wall Street movement in lower Manhattan turning into this generation's Woodstock? There seems to be no shortage of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

There is a bad news to those who have not preordered iPhone 4S: pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been sold out. The iPhone 4S is so popular that it was sold out in a single day at the online Apple store. The company started accepting online pre-orders on Oct. 7. Like the previous iPhone 4, the iPhone 4S also has black and white two color versions, each with 16 GB storage capacity for $199, 32 GB for $299?and 64 GB for $399.

While Samsung is still rolling out its Galaxy S2 in the U.S., details of the Galaxy S3 has been leaked to Phandroid, which received a snapshot of a slide allegedly within an internal presentation on smartphone evolution to carrier and retail representatives.

If you count the negatives, there are a lot of reasons why Apple iPhone 4S would look unappealing. The geeks have raised many complaints about the latest iteration of Apple iPhone.

Apple. Inc launched its new world phone on Oct. 4 and has received more than a million pre-orders for the iPhone 4S.

Explosive growth of the tablet sector, compared to tepid PCs sales, have led market researcher Gartner to conclude the computer industry is irrevocably shifting to tablets.

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.