121 posts and columns on holiday

Surprise! Consumers Dreaming of an Apple Christmas.

in Product News on December 13, 2012 at 7:30 am PT

This just in: You want an iPhone for Christmas.
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Square Slides Into Apple’s Passbook With Digital Gift Cards

in Product News on December 9, 2012 at 10:16 am PT

Jack Dorsey’s Square gets into digital gift cards. But will you use them?
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LittleBits Wants to Babysit Your Tech-Savvy Kids This Holiday Season

in Product News on November 20, 2012 at 6:01 am PT

LittleBits has a new kit for tinkerers.
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Food for Thought: Apps That Indulge Your Inner “Top Chef”

in Product Reviews on November 19, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Move over, Martha.
My Recipe Book lets you import recipes from other food Web sites.

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Kindle Fire Heats Up Holiday for Amazon

in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 8:50 am PT

Amazon said this holiday season was the best ever for its Kindle, with more than four million Kindle devices sold in the month of December. The company also said that its new tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, has become the best-selling and most-gifted product across all of Amazon.com since its introduction to the market 13 weeks ago. Amazon rarely releases unit sales numbers of its e-readers, but said earlier this month that it had sold more than one million Kindles a week for three consecutive weeks.

Santa’s Digital Downtime (Video)

in Media on December 22, 2011 at 1:30 pm PT

It’s another Siri + Santa video, only this time, we learn more about what he actually does during the other 11 months of the year.
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Apps for Last-Minute Holiday Shoppers

in Commerce on December 21, 2011 at 2:09 pm PT

Here are 10 mobile shopping apps for the holiday procrastinators out there.
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Youth Is Wasted on the Young, and So Are Consumer Electronics

in Commerce on December 12, 2011 at 9:46 am PT

Ah, to be young again, spending that precious disposable income on gadgets.
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