it's Monday November 28 2011 I'm
markless a on cnet com and it's time to
get loaded black friday 2011 was
reportedly a huge success comscore data
says US consumers spend eight hundred
and sixteen million dollars on the
post-thanksgiving shop extravaganza
spending was twenty-six percent higher
than last year around 50 million
consumers did their shopping over the
web which is a thirty five percent
increase over last year amazon came out
on top with Walmart Best Buy Target and
Apple following in that order and as you
know the online deals are not done my
friends no cyber monday is happening
right now and those same big retailers
have great deal offerings throughout the
day amazon.com has their lightning deals
that you should keep tabs on best buy
still has great deals just don't expect
to get your hands on the blackberry
playbook tablets that pretty much sold
out and Verizon is offering two hot
deals the Motorola Xoom tablet for 199
knocking off one hundred dollars and the
HTC droid incredible 2 is free with a
two year contract and not too long after
the launch of the droid 3 Motorola is
ready to move on the droid 4 is rumored
to launch on December 8th it will have
droid razr styling and use verizon's 4g
LTE network foreign touchscreen 1.2
gigahertz dual-core processor one
gigabyte of ram and a front-facing cam
along with an eight megapixel back
facing cam no word on if this will run
Android Ice Cream Sandwich the asus eee
pad transformer prime is available for
pre-order today it will run honeycomb
has an 8 megapixel camera and comes in
32 and 64 gigabytes oh and it's the
first tablet to sport a quad-core
processor the price tag right now shows
it set at five hundred dollars with a
launch date of December 8th best buy has
started to phase out its UK branch and
now everything must go the UK sale
starts today and will go until january
fifteenth so those in the UK that missed
out on black friday or cyber monday you
should still be able to find some great
deals through and after the holidays the
best buy UK website along with
unredeemed gift cards will end on
january fifteenth as well those are
headlines for today a markless
for cnet.com and you've just been loaded
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