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tis the season to shop on your phone I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update between the online sales on thanksgiving black friday cyber monday they should just start calling this cyber weekend because black Friday has become a huge online shopping day online sales for internet retailers surpassed 1 billion dollars for the first time on the day after Thanksgiving that's according to comscore online shopping on thanksgiving was also up thirty two percent from last year so next time maybe you could just get a great deal at home instead of fighting for phones at Walmart like in this video posted on youtube amazon is always the top online shopping spot for cyber monday deals but other popular online destinations our ebay followed by shopify next up are amazon's websites zeppos and quincy that's according to tracking agency Deep Field and we're doing more shopping on our mobile devices paypal and IBM reported seeing a huge influx of mobile shoppers throughout the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in fact a large majority of people shopping on tablets we're using iPads but what are we buying tablets are more popular now than laptops and a recent report from NPD displaysearch further proves this so basically we're buying iPads with our iPads there are several factors playing in like how tablets now are cheaper Windows 8 is designed to work on tablets and companies ordered more to prepare for a tablet gifts surged this holiday as for other big tech items the new furby and skyliners are hot sellers and nintendo sold 1 million game systems over the last week which includes 400,000 we use systems 300,000 of the original we systems and 500,000 portable 3ds and DS systems and for gamers paying fifty dollars for a yearly PlayStation Plus account you can now add on Sony's music unlimited premium membership for a dollar a month it's normally ten dollars a month for plus members Sony's music service has 18 million songs streamed on computers and mobile devices and it offers the ability to listen offline if you're traveling for the holidays here's a few apps to keep an eye on packing pro in the Apple App Store make sure you don't forget anything with a pre-trip to-do list and the packing list and you can choose things from an exhaustive pre-made list it's one of the reasons the app costs three dollars and when you check something off it syncs with your other devices that also use the app but if you're more about documenting your travels check out hip Geo it's for Apple and Android it's a free app that creates a blog for you to post your images videos text all tied to your geolocation it's pretty much an easy-to-use blog tool that's your tech news update you can find links to all of these stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey