High-Def DVD Players Break Below $200 Price Point (Yahoo! Tech Advisors)
The high-definition DVD war continues in earnest. In fact, the ante has just been raised again, as Toshiba has now slashed the price on its HD-A2 HD DVD player from $299 to $198 . (Circuit City has the new pricing already; Wal-Mart is expected to cut prices this coming weekend.) HD DVD enthusiasts have previously been able to get HD DVD for under $200 only through the Xbox HD DVD player ......more...Bag a bargain online (TVNZ)
Christmas shoppers can bag substantial savings by going online rather than to the high street, research by UK consumer group Which? shows....more... Feds to Join Writer-Producer Talks (Backstage.com)
A federal mediator will join negotiations Tue., Oct. 30, between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, one day before their TV and film contract is set to expire, according to The Hollywood Reporter....more... The Page Which Still Doesn`t Care About Scottish Schoolchildren (Football365.com)
What Do The Queen And Arsene Wenger Have In Common? It was in July that the BBC1 channel controller, Peter Fincham, was forced to resign after footage of the Queen was falsified to make it appear that she had 'walked out in a huff'....more... Shopping channel store coup for centre (Peterborough Today)
BARGAIN hunters will be able to pick up some great deals at the first shop launched by the a successful shopping channel. (27/10/2007)...more... Titan makes sport of back roads (Boston Globe)
PITTSBURG, N.H. - We were not nice to this truck. On a trout-fishing trip in the brilliant fade of fall in northern New Hampshire, we filled it with firewood for a campsite, loaded it with kayaks as well as camping and fishing gear. We also expected it to protect our fishing rods and delicate collections of hand-tied flies. Then we ......more... Bag a bargain online this Christmas (Interactive Investor)
Business Finance and city news online from Interactive Investor (www.iii.co.uk). Plus financial and currency market news and information 24/7. Stock prices, share prices, currency markets news and business finance headlines. Also news from AFX and Reuters....more... Huddle Up (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
Want to send an overweight, near-sighted sportswriter into a tizzy (and who doesn't)? Tell him that there was no such thing as a Red Sox-Yankees rivalry before 2004....more... Stocks reverse losses, finish higher amid strength in technology sector and bargain hunting (The Globe Gazette)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Wall Street finished a back-and-forth session higher Monday as investors overcame some of their nervousness about the credit markets and uneven earnings and found solace in the technology sector....more... |