Airports are trying to get in on the holiday buzz as they make a huge push to stock and sell consumer electronics for the holidays. According to a November 28th report by The New York Times, consumer electronic sales went from being a pipe dream to a booming niche within airports. In fact, some electronics manufacturers are looking to airports for new locations of stores and increasing their sales. Over the last year, airport retailers [...]

Experts have found that the new Amazon Kindle Fire costs the e-commerce giant $201.70 to produce, which is less than $3 above the retail price of $199. Analysts how ever expected that Amazon would be taking a much larger loss on the device, simply to allow them the ability to compete directly with other tablets such as the iPad 2, which has a much higher starting price of $499 – or the Nook Tablet, pricing [...]

Over the next few weeks the computer market is going to be introduced to a super-thin, power efficient technology known as the ultrabook. Big name hardware makers are jumping all over the ultrabook craze, including Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell, Fujitsu – all of which currently have models in the works. It is predicted that anywhere from 30 to 50 brand new ultrabook models will be launching at CES in January. It is believed that Intel’s new [...]