Thursday, January 08, 2009
Getting a glimpse of latest tech toys
The tech industry's two big winter gatherings opened this week amid signs of a deepening recession, resulting in much lower-key affairs with fewer attendees and less glitz.
Get in line for digital TV converter box
Consumers who apply for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of next month's transition to digital television broadcasts are being placed on a waiting list and may not receive their vouchers before the switchover, the Commerce Department said this week.
Business
- Consumers warned of 2 supplement sites
- Stores' dismal December means prices should fall
- Macy's will shutter 11 stores in 9 states
- Walgreen will cut 1,000 management jobs in 2009
- The Buzz on Business
- MySpace a research place for 'Dr. Meg'
- Dollars & Sense
- Melamine in more U.S. baby formula
- Pedicab offers easy way around the downtown
- German billionaire commits suicide
- Alcoa crumples up 13% of work force
- Fed fears ongoing sluggish economy
- The Buzz on Business
- Closure of Mervyns leaves giant empty space on McHenry
- Stuff worth seeing at Vegas gadget show
- Gottschalks teeters on edge of extinction
- Obama's effect on diversity weighed
- U.S. auto sales dismal, especially at Chrysler
- Japan auto executives hope for US recovery
- Obama says his plan with tax cuts to get quick OK
Marijke Rowland - Business Beat
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