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Black Friday e-commerce spending rose 11 percent, comScore says

Black Friday online spending rose 11 percent in the U.S. to $595 million, according to market research firm comScore.

This e-commerce spending figure trumps the $534 million spent on Black Friday a year ago. On Thanksgiving day, online spending was $310 million, up 10 percent from $288 million a year ago. And in the first 27 shopping days of November, online sales were $10.57 billion, up 3 percent from $10.25 billion a year ago.

Black Friday was the second-heaviest online spending day to date in 2009.

“Black Friday, better known as a shopping bonanza in brick-and-mortar retail stores, is increasingly becoming one of the landmark days in the online holiday shopping world,” said comScore chairman, Gian Fulgoni. “While this acceleration in spending suggests the online holiday season may be shaping up slightly more optimistically than anticipated, it may also reflect the heavy discounting and creative promotions being put forth by retailers that now encompass the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.”

Fulgoni said that Cyber Monday — the traditional kick-off of the online holiday shopping season — and the subsequent weeks will be the real test for how online retailers fare this season.

One of the new ‘influencers’ are shopping sites known as Black Friday deal sites, which aggregate deals for shoppers. ComScore studied eight Black Friday deal sites for the five days ending Black Friday (Nov. 23-27) compared to the same days last year. Of those, BFads.net led the pack with 3.9 million unique visitors, up 4 percent versus last year. BlackFriday.info followed with 3.5 million visitors, while Black-Friday.net (up 136 percent to 2.3 million visitors) showed the fastest growth.

Meanwhile, comScore said the number of visitors to coupon sites on Black Friday grew to 3.3 million visitors, up 17 percent versus a year ago. Like Experian Hitwise, comScore reported that Amazon.com was the most visited online retail site on Black Friday, with traffic up 28 percent from the same day a year ago.

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Acer to unveil 8 to 10 phones next year, show more love to Android
Acer’s far from being a major player in the smartphone space, but to call it irrelevant would be grossly inaccurate. Up until now, however, the outfit has relied largely on Microsoft’s mobile OS to power its phones, though even it seems shocked by the warm reception the Android-powered Liquid has received. According to the company’s own Aymar de Lencquesaing, Acer recognizes that “there is definitely momentum behind Android,” and he continued by stating that “the pace is faster than most would have anticipated one year ago.” He went on to proclaim that the company was apt to pump out 8 to 10 phones in 2010, with next year’s lineup being “much more balanced” in terms of the amount of Windows Mobile vs. Android handsets. Look out, world — Google just might take over another huge portion of your life while you’re fixated on the next great Black Friday deal.

Acer to unveil 8 to 10 phones next year, show more love to Android originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mimo debuts 7-inch iMo Pivot Touch monitor

Mimo debuts 7-inch iMo Pivot Touch monitor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hands on: Connecting my mini to a TV

Filed under: Multimedia, Wireless, Mac mini, Apple TV, Music

We bought our Olevia 47″ on Black Friday, 2007. It wasn’t a particularly well rated TV. But it was a Black Friday deal that we could afford and it gave us far more screen space than we’d thought we’d be able to purchase. It has served us well through the years, hosting any number of gadgets with its generous ports. The thing supports HDMI, composite and component, with multiple attachments for each. The back of the TV looks like a sea of cables and connectors.

Its VGA connector has not seen much use over the years and I’ve been dying to give it a go. A lack of spare computers was our problem. When my Mac mini died this past winter, I replaced it with a fresh new current-generation mini, which we all love. The dead mini languished until I realized that I needed a Snow Leopard machine for testing during the SL beta. I ended up doing some home brew fix-it with an absolutely minimal 80GB disk bought from Newegg and a few tweaks. And for the last few months, Rome (as in the baking apple) has been my primary 10.6 beta desktop system.

That all changed on Friday. Snow Leopard debuted. And I was finally free to re-purpose this system. Read on to see how.

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TUAWHands on: Connecting my mini to a TV originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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