Black Friday week began this Monday and numerous best deal ads are already floating online, some offering early bird offers, free smartphones, deep discounts and others products at highly slashed prices.
Jefferies believes based on channel checks and its recent visit to Japan that Sharp is taking share in Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 3, iPhone 5 LTE, and iTV displays.
Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Tuesday following the previous session's sharp losses, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.49 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.21 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.17 percent at 0831 GMT.
Samsung Electronics, the world's top TV maker, is in last-stage talks with Google to roll out its Google TVs, the head of Samsung's TV division told reporters on Tuesday.
Google's minimalist Chromebook laptops are now just $300 for the Wi-Fi only Samsung models, and that puts them right in the netbook champion ThinkPad X120e's territory. The Chromebook is a bit less expensive, but it's not as fully featured as the ThinkPad either. Chromebook is like the simplest tablet computer, but it has a keyboard and looks like a laptop.
Sam's Club is offering its members some of the best in-store Black Friday 2011 deals on various items starting at 5 a.m. Friday, Nov. 25 and online starting at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23. in its annual Day After Thanksgiving Event (D.A.T.E.).
Black Friday is all about finding the best deals, and the Samsung Focus Flash and HTC Wildfire S are two of the best deals on smartphones this year. They aren't being sold at discount prices, it's just that they don't have the features to keep up with the main big ticket smartphones. They are both available for under $100, however, and you still get plenty of tech gadgetry in either one.
Traditionally Black Friday deals were revealed through ads released in national and local newspapers on Thanksgiving day, but now with the Internets capacity to make ads go viral the deals are being released earlier and earlier. Here is a roundup of the ads released for Black Friday 2011 so far:
Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the Sony Tablet S are two similar tablets that could be on many people's Black Friday shopping lists, so we lined them up to get a better idea of what separates them. Besides being a couple inches bigger than the Tab 7.0 Plus, the Sony Tablet S is shaped a bit different than most tablets
Droid Razer will be a top seller during the Black Friday rush, but if you're heading out to the doorbuster and bargain sales, the Samsung Focus S is worth checking out. It's $100 less than the Razr, but has a 4.3 Super AMOLED Plus screen for super bright colors and eye-popping contrast. This is classic Samsung tech, and it's the type of display seen on other high-end devices like the Samsung Galaxy S2.
The waiting game is finally over for U.S Galaxy Nexus Prime fans after the release date has been leaked as Dec. 8 for Verizon customers.
Best Buy is offering some of the hottest deals for Black Friday 2011 on electronics starting midnight Friday, Nov. 25 following Thanksgiving this week.
Best $0.00 Black Friday 2011 Deals: BlackBerry and Other Smartphones, Gadgets for a Penny or Free
Because the Amazon Kindle Fire's low price of $199 makes it more accessible than its competitors, ZDNet's Jason Perlow called it the People's Tablet. But early experiences indicate the tablet, available for sale in stores such as Best Buy this week, is not all that great as a reader.
Black Friday crowds are upbeat about the highly anticipated shopping festival of the year. And adding to their joy, many stores have announced their plan to open early on Thanksgiving. Many of the stores claim to have mind blowing deals.
Research in Motion, the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, plans to slash $300 off the price of its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook. $200 seems to be the magic number because that's how much Amazon is selling its already popular Kindle Fire for. Tech blog Apple Insider reported the RIM price drop in a blog post, and it spark yet another tablet war this holiday season.
When he walked into the jury room to start deliberating in Rambus Inc's $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against two rivals, one juror felt confident that the small microchip designer should prevail.
Android phones for less than $100 don't have to be more than two years old, and as fast as technology is moving today, you can get some decent tech for much less than $100. Pantech, a company new to the U.S. is selling a brand new device for $100 with a two year contract from Verizon.
iPad 2 is a 10-inch tablet and the T-Mobile Springboard is only a seven inch device, so they are different animals in that way. But, where they do compare is on some other features, and because the Springboard isn't made by Samsung, it's not getting the attention it should. Springboard is the T-Mobile version of the Huawei MediaPad, and it's 4G enabled along with standard Wi-Fi
Amazon.com Inc almost breaks even on every Kindle Fire tablet it makes and sells, IHS iSuppli estimated on Friday, underscoring the aggressiveness with which it tried to rein in the cost of a device that spearheads its foray into the tablet market.
Between next Friday and the following Monday, AT&T is selling some of its devices online for just one cent.
Droid Razr is an amazing feat of engineering in many ways, but mostly because of how much tech is jammed into its 7.1 mm thick frame. The thinnest smartphones on the market don't differ by much, only a couple of millimeters somethimes, but Droid Razr is the thinnest by about 1.5 mm over the Samsung Galaxy S2.
