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Who cares about cooking a turkey when there's so much to do in preparation for Black Friday? Like getting in line at Best Buy for a 46-inch Samsung LED TV at $700 off?

Amazon disclosed Tuesday that owners of its Kindle e-reader will receive a free firmware update that will increase the battery life by a whopping 85 percent and add PDF capabilities, all for free.

Now through November 30, 2009, the EA store is having a 30 percent off digital sale. Save on PC downloadable games, including recent hits like Dragon Age: Origins.

On Black Friday, Nintendo is offering two limited edition Nintendo DSI Bundles that come with more than $20 in software value.

On the heels of a judge's decision to allow Verizon to continue running commercials that attack AT&T's 3G network, Apple has a new an iPhone ad campaign that defends AT&T's capabilities.

Google has announced that Google Maps Navigation is now available for Android 1.6 devices as well, not just Android 2.0 phones like the Droid.

Will the market accept another netbook with a non-Microsoft operating system? That's the question some are asking in the wake of the release of the code behind Google's Chrome OS, which is known as the open-source Chromium OS.

A surge in live eBay listings took down the site's full search functionality Saturday, the auction site said in a statement.

Services may have driven Hewlett-Packard to a fiscal fourth-quarter profit, but company executives said they look forward to its printer business pushing forward to increased 2010 growth.

Eric Schmidt wasn't kidding about ramping up Google's small acquisitions. The search engine giant announced Monday that it has acquired display ad company Teracent.

Panasonic's latest D-SLR camera alternative has completely sold out, with back orders lasting for weeks.

Just in time for the maddest shopping season of the year, Google has added a couple features that could help take some of the stress out of the process: Google Product Galleries for clothing and accessories, and summary quotes from reviews for all products.

Microsoft is reportedly in talks to make News Corp. content exclusive to Bing. No way will Google let that fly.

President Obama on Monday unveiled a campaign intended to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education among children – an effort that includes about $260 million in financial support from companies like Time Warner Cable, Discovery Communications, Sony, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft's need to beat Google and Rupert Murdoch's desire to help newspapers survive could lead to an online news ice age.

Security companies identified another variant of a hack of jailbroken iPhones this past weekend. Early reports classified the variant as an actual worm, with a command-and-control server behind it.

A new Facebook worm appeared over the weekend, pairing malware with a sexy come-on. NSFW warning: racy image inside.

Freed from its oppressive Time Warner overlords, AOL is understandably undergoing something of an identity crisis. Gone is "AOL," in is "Aol," plus some interesting new logos.

Not surprisingly, developers have already snapped up the code to Google's open-source Chrome OS, known as Chromium, then compiled it and put it on the Web for users to download.

The micro-blogging platform's new prompt, "What's happening?", is also a redefinition.

On Thursday, I was able to spend some time with the Casio G'zOne Rock, a rugged feature phone that could appeal to adventurers or simply people who break their phones often. A suite of outdoorsy tools also adds to the appeal.

I had a chance to test out Sony Ericsson's new Xperia X10 (codenamed "Rachael") for a few minutes at last night's Pepcom in NYC. It's a beautiful phone, and a uniquely Sony product.

Several New York City Council members are considering a resolution urging the Federal Communications Commission to adopt net neutrality rules, but AT&T met with agency officials this week to voice concerns about the proposal.

The new version of the PogoPlug, announced Friday, improves on the design of the original (assuming you like purple) and adds options to share a lot more data from a lot more drives.

A world-wide gang of criminals stole money from over 2,100 ATMs one year ago according to information released by the FBI. The machines were in at least 280 cities in the US, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, one of the more user-friendly versions of Linux around, has agreed to assist Google with its Chrome OS.

Hoping for an e-reader in your stocking this year? You might be out of luck. Barnes & Noble has announced that pre-orders for its Nook e-reader will not ship until January 4.

While the tech world has been waiting for Apple, Microsoft, and even TechCrunch to introduce their tablets, a company called Camangi has gone ahead and released its own device, the WebStation.