pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=491c658714b9b93c00612ea6maxX=240maxY=192" border="0" alt="computers.jpg" title="computers.jpg" width="240" height="192" /The PC industry as a whole is in a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/sorry-state-of-pc-industry-getting-worse-hpq-dell-"bad shape/a, but even within the field there will be winners and losers. And if Black Friday is any guide, Dell (DELL) is shaping up to be a loser, and by a mile./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=avozVbelfkrkrefer=home"Bloomberg/a: Dell Inc., the world's second-largest personal-computer maker, lost the Black Friday retail battle against Hewlett-Packard Co. in Best Buy Co. stores, Thomas Weisel Partners said in a report./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Customers preferred Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) PCs 5-to-1 over Dell's during the three-day weekend, according to a survey of 35 stores conducted by Doug Reid, an analyst at Thomas Weisel. Best Buy is the largest U.S. electronics retailer./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell ditched the company's direct-sales-only model in an attempt to win back the PC sales lead held by Hewlett-Packard for more than two years. He put Dell products in 20,000 stores worldwide, starting with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Best Buy in the U.S./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"``Dell has significant work to do,'' New York-based Reid wrote today in the report. ``The only negative comments in our survey with respect to brand were aimed at Dell, with survey respondents noting potential quality issues.''/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The survey focused on the U.S. consumer market, which Reid estimated accounts for 13 percent of Dell's revenue. Consumer sales represent about 20 percent of total revenue worldwide./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/dell-we-told-you-things-were-lousy-and-they-are-look-out-below"Dell: We Told You Things Were Lousy, And They Are. Look Out Below/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/dell-earnings-analysis"Dell Sales Miss By A Billion, Profit Good, No Guidance /abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/sorry-state-of-pc-industry-getting-worse-hpq-dell-"Sorry State Of PC Industry Getting Worse/a/p pemPhoto: a href="http://flickr.com/photos/phil_g/55025940/"phil_g/a/em/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/I_af_URf4sLYNsuDpAtLn4Xtz98/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/I_af_URf4sLYNsuDpAtLn4Xtz98/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Xo0ZNxhL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=Xo0ZNxhL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=M3w9ZeTw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=42J7vNno"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=hDkaXcdd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=hDkaXcdd" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=tW92nDsF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ZY4CVGSq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=D5q0yZaY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=0lQWaWiK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/rOj358wvI-8" height="1" width="1"/

Quote: The Psyclone TouchCharge is wireless in the same way that track lighting is wireless--which is to say that it really isn't. The contact-based charging device is available for Xbox ($69.99), Wii ($59.99), and PS3 ($49.99) controllers, with attachments for the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl, and Motorola RAZR V3 offered as well for an additional $34.99 each.

With attachments for charging two controllers, the TouchCharge cuts cable clutter in half, requiring only one AC adapter in place of two USB charging cables for a PlayStation 3. The PS3 version is compatible with the built-in rechargeable batteries included with each controller, though Xbox and Wii users will have to shell out some extra cash for rechargeable batteries (included in the elevated price of respective TouchCharge units).

To receive power from the TouchCharge, controllers and cell phones can be in contact with any section of the charging pad, so with some fancy maneuvering, you could in theory charge more than two devices simultaneously.

Starting at $49.99, the TouchCharge is not a huge investment, but until it can charge my devices completely wirelessly without the need for attachments, I'm going to stick to the included power cables. Psyclone TouchCharge models for gaming controllers are available at Best Buy, while cell phone charging pads and attachments can be purchased through WildCharge. Source: Gearlog / Press Release

One-day (and sometimes more, in the case of Best Buy) online sales are the hallmark of "Cyber Monday," so BetaNews is keeping track of some sales most pertinent to our readers' interests.

Hi,



I purchased the last MacBook Pro, 15inch 2.5 ghz ( not the LATEST model but the older one) yesterday from Best Buy. I opened it up last night and noticed that the track pad is warped and dented in. You can notice it withe naked eye and can feel it with your fingers/hands. (



I am curious, will it be replaced because I am within the 14 day period? There are not any MBPs which meet my specs in the district. Any idea on how this well work?





Thank you for the help!

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/apple-financial/" rel="tag"Apple Financial/a/ppa href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/indieman/5858851/"img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/12/roundup-438537592.jpg" alt="" //aApple met or beat analyst expectations for sales over the weekend, a href="http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/analysts_apple_one_bright_spot_in_otherwise_lackluster_black_friday/"selling 13 Macs and 3.4 iPhones every hour/a, according to one Piper Jaffray estimate./p pa href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/d13179e4705a23da181f1133cc8e03bc.htm"Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu/a said that Apple's Black Friday promotions helped drive retail store traffic, according to reports from distributors. Wu also noted that the iPod touch is sold out at Amazon.com, which leads him to believe that Apple could sell $10 billion worth of products this quarter./p pThomas Weisel Partners' Doug Reid got the impression that Apple sales were up from last year. He was less optimistic about Dell's retail performance at Best Buy locations, noting that salespeople there were not strongly recommending Dell models at 35 stores they checked./p pWeisel analysts expect Apple to sell 2.4 million Macs during the fourth quarter./p pa href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Analysts+Weigh-In+On+Apples+(AAPL)+Black+Friday+Results/4200713.html"Deutsche Bank analysts/a also conducted their own checks over the weekend, and found demand to be "solid," considering the current global economic woes. They expect Apple to sell 5 million iPhones this quarter, and reiterated their "buy" rating and price target of $150 per share./p pa href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=aapl"AAPL/a was down slightly in morning trading./pp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/analyst-roundup-black-friday-pretty-good-for-apple/"Analyst Roundup: Black Friday pretty good for Apple/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/analysts_apple_one_bright_spot_in_otherwise_lackluster_black_friday/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/analyst-roundup-black-friday-pretty-good-for-apple/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1387201/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/analyst-roundup-black-friday-pretty-good-for-apple/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WtU35ifnwXeJm7-4N-bg6nykUVs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WtU35ifnwXeJm7-4N-bg6nykUVs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=lOVz3ZFP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=lOVz3ZFP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=aArhzk6t"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=aArhzk6t" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/qLMgw4ee5kg" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ds/" rel="tag"Nintendo DS/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps2/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 2/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/psp/" rel="tag"Sony PSP/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/wii/" rel="tag"Nintendo Wii/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a/pbr / div align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/cyber-monday-490.jpg" alt="" //abr //div a name="the-top"/aspan style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 7px;" script var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/The_Best_Video_Game_Deals_of_Cyber_Monday_2008'; /script script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"/script/span Nothing quite like being packed into a frenzied shopping mob, is there? It's why we wait for hours in the cold dark with nothing more than the lingering memory of ... wait a second, it's a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday"Cyber Monday/a! Now we can spend money on reduced-price games without leaving the comforts of our keyboard! Here's our picks for the best deals out there today.br /br / center div align="center" /div table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" border="0" tbody tr td align="right"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#amazon"Amazon/aa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#amazon"br //a/td td align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#toysrus"Toys 'R' Us/a/td td align="center" a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#gamestop"GameStop/abr //td td align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#walmart"Wal-Mart/a br //td /tr tr td align="right" a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#bestbuy"Best Buy/abr //td td align="center" a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#newegg"Newegg/a/td td align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#target"Target/a /td td align="center" a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#misc"Dell/a/td /tr tr td /td td align="center" a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#misc"Sears/a/td td align="center" a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#misc"Buy.com/a/td td /td /tr /tbody /table /centerpa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emHolidaze 2008: The Best of Cyber Monday/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/"Holidaze 2008: The Best of Cyber Monday/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1387307/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/holidaze-2008-the-best-of-cyber-monday/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/S_L-jAwWGZ9rgc0IDsN7sQdm6oA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/S_L-jAwWGZ9rgc0IDsN7sQdm6oA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=8krhXL9m"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=8krhXL9m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=NhEXTFHv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=NhEXTFHv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/T0LgxeeYbSQ" height="1" width="1"/

You made it through Black Friday and you anxiously awaited Cyber Monday. Check out Shop.org’s listing of over 500 merchants, including Best Buy, Sears and Office Depot, that are featuring great deals. Sign up for free and check in for hourly bargains. There are also coupons and special savings that include free shipping and lower prices in all categories. When you shop through the site, a portion of the proceeds from Cyber Monday support the Ray Greenly (their former VP) Scholarship Fund.

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More Cyber Monday Savings originally appeared on Gear Live on Mon, December 01, 2008 - 10:12:37

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/analysisopinion/" rel="tag"Analysis / Opinion/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/hardware/" rel="tag"Hardware/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/multimedia/" rel="tag"Multimedia/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/podcasting/" rel="tag"Podcasting/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/tuaw-business/" rel="tag"TUAW Business/a/pdiv align="center"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/10/zz0aad3453_telephone.jpg" alt="" /br / div align="left"Our fearless co-lead Dave Caolo will be a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077amp;cmd=tc"aboard the USS Talkcast/a this evening with me, and we'll be talking turkey -- cooking them, chasing them down, plucking them, and how to get the most stuffing in there. Oh wait, wait? Thanksgiving is over? Oh well then I guess we'll just be talking Mac and iPhone news as usual.br /br /On the menu: Black Friday and a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/25/black-friday-best-buy-discounting-up-to-150-off-apple-retail/"the deals/a we may or may not have been suckered into, new releases from a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/24/boxee-is-updated-for-apple-tv-2-3/"Boxee/a (read a href="http://tuaw.com/2008/11/27/tuaw-talks-to-boxee-and-brings-you-invites/"the interview/a yet?) and a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/26/utorrent-for-mac-beta-officially-released/"uTorrent for the Mac/a, and since we've got to get our requisite iPhone talk in there, we'll hit on a href="http://tuaw.com/2008/11/28/iphone-hackers-achieve-a-milestone-linux-boot/"the Linux install/a, and a href="http://tuaw.com/2008/11/24/how-to-sell-an-iphone-app-for-9-99/"the tough subject of App Store pricing/a. Join us, won't you?br //div /div Do so on TalkShoe by using the a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/blog/index.php/the-new-talkshoe-a-message-from-the-ceo/"shiny browser-only client/a; or you can also use the a href="http://download.talkshoe.com/TalkShoeSetup_macos.dmg"classic TalkShoe Pro Java client/a that we all know and love. For the web UI, just click the a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077amp;cmd=tc""TalkShoe Web" button on our profile page/a at 10 pm Sunday. You can also listen in a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077amp;cmd=tc"on the Talkshoe page/a or call in on regular phone or VOIP lines: dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *-8. Talk with you then! pemRecording support for the TUAW Talkcast provided by a href="http://ecamm.com/"Ecamm Network's CallRecorder for Skype./a/em/pp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/30/talkcast-live-tonight-at-10pm-et/"Talkcast live tonight at 10pm ET/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/30/talkcast-live-tonight-at-10pm-et/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1386618/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/30/talkcast-live-tonight-at-10pm-et/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UK64yXOUflaAjO9Y0LKrkv_Cl28/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UK64yXOUflaAjO9Y0LKrkv_Cl28/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=tdq3QfGY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=tdq3QfGY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=ANMYS3eG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=ANMYS3eG" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/nD9KY1ed4IM" height="1" width="1"/

pAnd here is the next retailer that starts their Cyber Monday Sale on Sunday. We already reported about the Best Buy Cyber Monday Sale that is already going on. Now Circuit City opened their Cyber Monday Sale also already Sunday. The Circuit City Cyber M.../pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?a=ezhF0sgG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?a=8nrev38q"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?i=8nrev38q" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?a=CLEEaavh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/I4UNews?i=CLEEaavh" border="0"/img/a /div

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