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this holiday season everyone's against amazon I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update best buy will match any price on Amazon during the holiday season this is according to a report from the wall street journal now best buy has always matched competitive prices if that company has a brick-and-mortar store like Walmart or radio shack you just have to show the price on your cell phone at the cashier but best buy never before matched a price with an online store best buy is doing this to fight back against the trend of people using best buy as an in-person showroom for browsing and then walking out to order later on amazon best buy is also offering free home delivery if there's a product you want that's out of stock there's no official word yet about when this will start and if best buy will match prices with other online stores like overstock or newegg but next time you're picking up anything at a Best Buy use a barcode scanner app like scan or shopsavvy see how much the item is going for at other retailers then show the cashier if anyone's selling it for less I've done it for things like games and DVDs and it works but it has to be the same product sometimes you'll find a better cable or memory card online for a lot less but if it has a different product SKU you could be out of luck Apple could finally show off the much-talked-about iPad Mini at a news event on tuesday October 23rd this is according to all things digital and their reports tend to pan out but you won't know for sure until Apple breaks and silence everyone's waiting to see what features apple pack into this smaller tablet and how much it's going to cost and Amazon's Chief Jeff Bezos said the Kindles are sold at cost Amazon's not making any profit because they were rather make the profit off the media you buy with the tablet now don't count on Apple to follow the same path some have estimated that Apple makes about a forty percent profit on the iPad you can now pre-order Windows 8 the new operating system and computers are released October 26th if you want a hard copy of windows 8 on a DVD that'll be seventy dollars it's cheaper if you want to get an upgrade as a download from windows com that'll be forty dollars but that price is only good until the end of January also if you bought a Windows 7 computer since June second the upgrade costs 15 bucks you can also pre-order a Windows 8 PC tablet laptop hybrid tablet laptop and if you like to be unique there's the sony vaio tap 20 which is a whole new category sony calls it a mobile desktop but i call it a 20 inch tablet with a stand and wireless keyboard the tech adventurous can pre-order it for a thousand dollars you might think sony has gone mad but Lenovo is also cooking up something just like this that your tech news update for today you can get links to all of today's stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey