Month: September 2010

Beach Camera via eBay Daily Deal offers the Sony BRAVIA 32″ 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. KDL-32EX400, for $479. Apply coupon code “CBEACHTVSEP” to cut it to $431.10. With free shipping, that’s $63 under our June mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s also a current price low by $64.) It…

Senior Nicaraguan diplomat Cesar Mercado was found stabbed to death Thursday in his apartment in Bronx. New York police and the FBI are investigating the murder. Investigators don?t have a motive for the crime nor have they identified any possible suspects. – (AHN) Read the original post by WGNO

Press release, September 24; Yvonne Yu, DIGITIMES [Friday 24 September 2010] Consumers in China are aggressively adopting LCD TVs that use LED backlighting, causing domestic shipments in 2010 to surge by a factor of nearly 14, according to iSuppli. Read the original post by DigiTimes

Pop singer Eddie Fisher, whose clear voice brought him a devoted following of teenage girls in the early 1950s before marriage scandals overshadowed his fame, has died at age 82. Read the original post by New York Times

Research In Motion Ltd. faces high stakes as the company plans to gather its developers together in San Francisco next week, and possibly lift the wraps on a new device that could up its competition with Apple Inc. Read the original post by MarketWatch

The Apple Peel add-on installed on an iPod Touch. Pan Lei and Pan Yong, the Chinese brothers who invented a device to convert Apple’s iPod Touch into an iPhone, say they are innovators, not copycats. Read the original post by The Age

Worldwide enterprise software revenue is on pace to surpass $232 billion in 2010, a 4.5 percent increase from $222.4 billion in 2009, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Aging systems as well as greater demand for security and aligning software with business requirements are driving the increase. – (AHN) Read the original post…

If you are looking for tips on how to transfer music from iPod to Mac, you have landed on the right page. Read the original post by Buzzle.com

Fry’s Electronics offers the Samsung 46″ 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. LN-46C630, for $1,099. At the final stage of checkout, it drops to $699. With around $100 for shipping, that’s the lowest total prices we could find by $135, although it was $72 less in July (since expired). Sales tax is added…

The chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is questioning why it took Abbott Laboratories a week after discovering beetles in one of its plants to recall its powdered infant formula. About 5 million units of Similac are included in the recall. – (AHN) Read the original post by WGNO

Nike posted a 9 percent increase in its earnings for the first quarter, surpassing profit estimates and reporting 10 percent more orders worldwide than a year ago. The Oregon-based company said net income rose to $559 million or $1.14 per share from $559 million or $1.04 a share a year ago. – (AHN) Read the…

FAMILY: Married with six kids, 13 grandchildren. BACKGROUND: Began his business career in 1965 in product management at General Foods. Read the original post by Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Today only, the Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell MP3 Album for $3.99. That’s the lowest price we could find for this 9-track, DRM-free album, released in 2000. (iTunes charges $9.99.) Amazon MP3 downloader is required. Read the original post by dealmac.com

The Justice Department has filed objections to a proposed injunction to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the ban against homosexuals serving in the U.S. military. The Obama administration is defending the filing, despite reiterating its opposition to DADT and expressing disappointment over the failure of Senate Democrats to repeal the policy. – (AHN) Read the original…

A Virginia woman was executed Thursday night, becoming the first woman in 100 years to be put to death in the state. Teresa Lewis was convicted of organizing the 2002 murder of her husband and stepson. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Miami