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At a time when so many people have so much less than they did just a few months ago, there ought to be a way to lessen the gift-giving pressure.
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The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro will be online to discuss recent reviews, answer your personal tech questions and provide gadget advice for this holiday season.
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Oct. 17: Neiman Marcus' Ginger Reader presents creative gifts for the holiday season. (Today Show)
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This year, cookbooks and museum dates are in; jewelry and televisions are out.
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Calling all young artists to Weekend's Holiday Wrapping Paper Contest. We want Washington area kids to design their own holiday gift wrap and send it to us. The winning entry will be printed in Weekend on Dec. 19 as a sheet of gift wrap.
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Under fire from Democrats and Republicans alike, the White House on Thursday defended giving billions of taxpayer dollars to banks that plan to use some of the money to reward shareholders and executives — or even buy other banks.
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Teachers in Nova Scotia may have found a way to turn the piles of gifts they usually receive at Christmas into lunches for hungry students.
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Holiday gift cards are feeling a lot less like the gift that keeps on giving. Over the past few years, gift card popularity exploded and retailers rushed to display new merchandise the day after Christmas, hoping to attract shoppers flush with new cards. Retailers could count on consumers to splurge on full-priced merchandise or spend all the money on [...]
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In this brutal season of cutbacks, the office holiday party is getting downsized, too.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite a nasty Martian dust storm, Spirit lives....
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EVERYONE'S feeling the pinch in these credit-crunched times including pickpockets and the bartender. They all want your holiday money.
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Where you go, how you get there and even how you pack can result in big cuts to travel costs.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sales of once-hot gift cards are expected to fall nearly 6 percent this holiday season as shoppers try to stretch their dollars by buying discounted merchandise, according to a survey released by the National Retail Federation on Tuesday.
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It's just what I wanted! How did they know? Seriously, are you guys following the trail of de-cloaked internal Microsoft e-mails that's coming out of this class-action lawsuit over the whole Vista Capable thing? Slashdot keeps picking up the news stories -- for example, here, here, here and here. They just keep on coming. I live [...]
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Buying any sort of high-tech product involves risks not faced with most other purchases. The sweater you get for yourself probably won't cost dramatically less next year or be replaced in stores by a vastly upgraded Sweater 3.0, but your new laptop, camera or phone can become overpriced or obsolete within weeks.
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Even though it was released in the U.S. back in May of this year, Nintendo's Wii Fit looks like it will be especially hard to come by this holiday season. Forbes reports that while Nintendo has finally ramped up production of the Wii console to meet demand, the ...
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Whether you're looking to buy economical, expensive, or just plain weird gifts for your friends and family, you'll find the perfect tech gadgets and software in our 2008 gift guide.
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The auto industry may be in a tizzy, but that doesn't mean you can't get a great deal on a new vehicle. And who doesn't love a little holiday cheer in the form of a four-wheel gift? Here are 2008's best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and hybrids. Best Green Car: Toyota Prius The hybrid Prius is still the best such car out there, despite the introduction of several new hybrid models this year. Why? It's all about the numbers: the Prius' 44 mpg overall is still the best of any five-passenger car. Add reliability, versatility and a $24,000 price tag, and we'd go green, too. [product page] [compare with similar models] [manufacturer's page] Runner up: Honda Fit [review] [compare]...
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There are more great games than ever on store shelves... That's why GameSpot has put together the 2008 edition of its Holiday Gift Guide!
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I am a huge fan of smartphones that let me work and play on the go and this holiday season there are some very compelling choices available. I have personally tested most of the models I'll be listing in this Guide and I am finding it tough to decide between which one is the best so I have a couple myself. Most of these smartphones will cost you a few bucks with a 2-year contract, but they are all extremely powerful and are much less than models I have purchased in the past. I recommend you try to get your hands on one of the devices in stores before making the purchase so you can see if the device will...
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You'll never guess how Miss America Kirsten Haglund is getting into the holiday spirit
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While it’s a noble idea to bring the spirit of giving to your workplace, employees walk a fine line when initiating such volunteer and fundraising efforts, experts say.
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Nov. 25: TODAY’s Matt Lauer talks to CNBC’s Sharon Epperson about how to keep your wallet intact over the holidays. (Today Show)
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Many Americans are being forced to forego air travel this holiday season due to fewer flights and higher prices. Mark Strassmann has more.
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Family from Littleton, Colo., will open its home to strangers this Thanksgiving.
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Averaging 19.8 assists in their four games Bruce Weber is hearing about it in the community and seeing the results on the scoreboard. Win or lose, this Illinois basketball team appears to have discovered the gift of sharing.
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The Times art and architecture critics’ pick their year-end favorite books.
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These are our favorite books of 2008 — the titles that we enjoyed enough to buy for friends. In that spirit we recommend them to you.
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The best of the year’s art and photography books, as well as those unclassifiable volumes we call “gift books.”
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The classical critics of The New York Times have chosen their favorite recordings of the year.
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Favorite books of the year from one of The Times’s book critics.
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Favorite books of the year from one of The Times’s book critics.
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In challenging economic times, it may come as a surprise that a well-chosen video game can be one of the most cost-effective gifts.
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The classical critics of The New York Times have chosen their favorite recordings of the year.
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The pop and jazz critics of The New York Times review boxed sets and other notable collections released in 2008.
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In challenging economic times, it may come as a surprise that a well-chosen video game can be one of the most cost-effective gifts.
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DVD sales might have slumped recently, but you’d never know it from the super-duper collectors’ editions and cunningly packaged boxed sets coming out this season.
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Through the Spiral Foundation -- founded by a Pacific Palisades woman -- disabled villagers create gifts that are then sold here. The proceeds pay for surgeries. As an American tourist visiting Hanoi in 1997, Marichia Simcik Arese extended a simple goodwill gesture to a group of struggling teenage students in Vietnam. The youths were working at a restaurant and using their down-time to fashion picture frames from empty aluminum cans.
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A couple days ago I posted my Holiday Guide for MP3/audio players and a couple of commenters asked where ARCHOS and Cowon were on the list. I tried to stay focused on audio focused devices in that guide, although many digital media players today can play both audio and video. This guide focuses on devices that have the primary function of video playback, that similarly can also play audio. While the iPod touch and even the Microsoft Zune are very good digital video players that many find better than a dedicated personal video player, I am not including them in this guide because the focus of those devices is music first so you can check them out in the MP3...
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