Surprise! Consumers Dreaming of an Apple Christmas.

This just in: You want an iPhone for Christmas.
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Lenovo Looks to Bridge Business and Consumer With New Ultra-Light and Ultrabook ThinkPads

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 carbon Ultrabook is definitely not your father’s ThinkPad.

Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat

So much for falling TV prices.
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Your Smartphone as Superman: 86 Percent Use Phones for “Just-in-Time” Situations

Arguing over fact sets or finding yourself in a sticky situation? Your smartphone, to the rescue.
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Paying With Square’s New Mobile-Payments App

Square’s app for “hands-free” consumer payments is worth trying.
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What Kind of Digital Consumer Are You?

Most people now consider themselves “digital device adopters.” But what’s your digital personality? IBM’s latest study aims to find the answer.
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Beauty-in-a-Box Company Birchbox Will Ship Lifestyle and Tech Products for Men

What’s in the box, you ask?
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Kodak to Stop Making Cameras

Eastman Kodak Company has said it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012, in an effort to achieve annual operating savings of more than $100 million. Rochester, N.Y.-based Kodak says it plans to expand its current brand-licensing program instead, and that it will continue to produce retail-based photo kiosks, inkjet printers, online photo gallery and apps, and camera batteries and accessories. The announcement comes a few weeks after the iconic camera company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Can’t Buy Me Love … But You Can Buy Me Gadgets

What better way to show your affection than with obscure tablets and daily deals?
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Hot-Button Topic: Do Women Buy More Consumer Tech Than Men?

Women spend more than men on consumer electronics. And men spend more than women on consumer electronics. Confused yet? Here’s a different way of looking at it.
In the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", Ferris got a computer, while Jeannie got a car.

Youth Is Wasted on the Young, and So Are Consumer Electronics