November, 2017

• 24 November

  The Cheapskate’s favorite Black Friday deals of 2017

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! The Verizon Wear24’s few flaws are a lot easier to overlook when it’s …

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• 24 November

  2 big innovations that made Amazon’s Kindle a success

  

  In early 2005, Charlie Tritschler, an Apple veteran, walked into an old law library in Palo Alto, California, where a small group of Amazon employees was working on a secret project and looking to bring him onboard. The space included floor-to-ceiling book stacks and the team worked at boxy carrel desks. But, incongruous to the setting, a table nearby held …

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• 24 November

  Amazon reveals Cyber Monday deals

  

  Is a turkey coma hampering your Black Friday shopping? No worries. Cyber Monday gives you a second shot at the deals, and Amazon is just one of the many retailers rolling out new offerings for the so-called busiest online shopping day of the year. Amazon doesn’t stop at just Cyber Monday, on which the company broke a record last year with …

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• 24 November

  Hawaii’s Schatz: Net neutrality could be the next political movement

  

  The Federal Communications Commission’s effort to repeal net neutrality regulations should be a rallying cry for internet-loving voters. That’s the message Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, is promoting following news this week that the FCC is planning to vote next month on rolling back most of the Obama-era regulations that prevent broadband providers from messing with your internet …

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• 24 November

  The Kunkun Body sniffer says my armpit stinks

  

  Learning my armpits were slightly stinky wasn’t that big a deal, honestly. After all, I’d been walking through the crowded halls of the Anime Festival Asia 2017 in Singapore for the last hour or so. It helped that my smell wasn’t all that bad, according to the Konica Minolta’s Kunkun Body system. It’s a portable odour detector from Japan that …

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• 24 November

  Thanksgiving sets record for online sales

  

  Further confirming the notion that Black Friday may not actually be the start of the holiday shopping season, Thanksgiving Day sales this year jumped by more than 18 percent from last year. US consumers spent a record $2.87 billion at online retailers Thursday, according to Adobe Analytics. In 2016, that number was $1.3 billion. Black Friday was always considered the …

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• 24 November

  My Tamagotchi Forever coming to mobile next year

  

  Bandai Namco has announced that Tamagotchi, those cute virtual pets from the 90s, will be coming to iOS and Android in 2018. The free-to-play mobile game will be called My Tamagotchi Forever and its release will mark Tamagotchi’s 20th anniversary. The trailer reveals a village setting filled with Tamagotchi, suggesting possible interaction with other virtual pets. There are also hints …

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• 24 November

  Moroccan adventure in the new BMW X3

  

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• 23 November

  Walmart Cyber Monday deals will give you Black Friday deja vu

  

  Like other retailers, Walmart wants you to know that it’s got plenty of good deals lined up for you on Cyber Monday — Monday, Nov. 27, the day you return to work after Thanksgiving break. And like other retailers’ sales, the vast majority of those so-called Cyber Monday deals are really just the Black Friday deals with a new name, …

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• 23 November

  Amazon staff won’t work in Italy, Germany this Black Friday

  

  Amazon won’t be enjoying Black Friday — and the rest of the holiday season — this year. Over 500 workers at the e-commerce giant’s main distribution hub in Italy have agreed to strike for the first time this Black Friday after disappointing talks with Amazon for bonuses and better pay, Reuters reported Wednesday. The plan follows strikes scheduled for the …

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