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Black Friday won't be the beginning and it won't be the end of huge deals on everything from Barbie dolls to plasma TVs this holiday season.

Computers, televisions and other high-tech presents appear to enjoy some protection from the slowing economy.

The clock is now ticking -- loudly -- on the final countdown to the nation's digital television transition.

Flat-screen televisions are usually hot sellers around the holidays and Consumer Reports says this year prices are expected to be 20 to 30 per cent lower than last year.

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TomTom is going for the ultimate in portability with the 2008 ONE 130 and ONE 130S by integrating a nifty fold-out mount right into the devices.

Hoping to overcome consumers' fears and get them to loosen their pocketbooks, retailers are pulling out all the stops this Black Friday - and sooner than ever.

Retailers are pulling out the stops with a series of door busters Friday to motivate you to open your wallet for models which, in many cases, cost $500 to $1,000 more a year ago.

In a volatile year that has turned many Americans into armchair economists, here's an important indicator to watch this holiday shopping season: how many people are lugging home big, flat-screen televisions? A ...

Thousands will spend millions to buy them on "Black Friday" weekend, but if you get one, you might not be the only one watching it.

An Italian chef joined soldiers battling militants at a Mumbai hotel to bring milk to his wife and infant daughter who were trapped during the siege.

All major Italian dailies splashed front-page photos Saturday of Emanuele Lattanzi carrying 6-month-old Clarice from the hotel on Friday.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini praised him for his 'courageous act' and televisions repeatedly interviewed the shy and exhausted-looking cook.

Lattanzi told RAI state TV that he was working in the kitchen on Wednesday night when gunmen entered the Oberoi, one of 10 sites attacked across Mumbai. The restaurant staff and customers managed to escape through an emergency exit, but the chef soon realized his wife and daughter had been left behind because they were asleep in their room.

In entering the set-top box scene, Blockbuster has joined the likes of Apple, Netflix, Vudu and other outfits offering to bring video to viewers' TVs almost instantly via broadband.

Once you get your home theater's video and audio components set up, you may decide the next step is furniture.

A police spokesman in Nassau County, New York, faults inadequate security for the death of a Wal-Mart worker during a shopper stampede.

Unidentified relatives of hostages wait outside the besieged Trident-Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai on Friday.

The sense of panic that's suffocating much of the nation's economy is creeping into what was supposed to be one of this shopping season's cheeriest places: stores that sell digital televisions and accessories.

"My wife thinks I am nuts, as I view retail prices as list [prices] that are quite negotiable," says Richard Hughen, vice president for sales and marketing at CSA Medical, a Baltimore-based medical-technology ...

Shoppers, who had snapped their wallets shut since September, flocked to stores before dawn Friday to grab deals on everything from TVs to toys for the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, feared ...

With the analog-to-digital broadcast switch on the horizon, you dona t want to get left with no signal.Herea s our guide to all things TV to bring you up to speed TIMOTHY R. SCHULTE The Amherst Daily News ...