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1) The first article I read was an article on how shoppers are more bargain-driven than ever. The article , which was on CNN. com used polls and statistics from America's Research Group (ARG) to show interesting data. The statistics show that a third of American shoppers polled are waiting until the day before christmas to do their shopping. One other statistic that they concentrate on is that a large majority of shoppers are waiting until discounts become as large as fifty percent to purchase some of thier items.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/04/news/economy/holiday_sales/index.htm?postversion=2006120412

2) The second article I read is on Playstation 3's being stolen in Japan. The 180 consoles, which wer a part of a 1,560 shipment were stolen on Friday Dec. 5. The consoles which were stored at Meitetsu Golden Aircargo appearently just "dissapeared" when a employess went to check on them and found that they were missing. There was $82,500 worth of PS3's stolen from the aircargo storage area.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162774.html?tag=latestnews;title;2

3) The third article I read was about the about the console release of the Nintendo Wii in Japan. the console sold 372,00 units in just two days which was just short of Nintendo's projected 400,00 unit goal. While both the playstation 3 and the Wii sold out in Japan the Playstation 3 topped out at 80,000 units.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162702.html?tag=latestnews;title;4


4) This next article I looked at was an article pertaining to the concerns of Nintendo outdoing itself. There was fear of the amazing Wii sales overshadowing the Nintendo DS which is its handheld giant. However the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, is not worried and the sales predictions for 2007 remian strong. In total,Nintendo expects their two consoles to earn them over 1 billion in 2007.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162728.html

5) The last article I read was on sony's new technology; the blu-ray player. It was an article about how the high-defintion dvd player is at war with another format of hd-dvd and it doesn't look good for sony. The model sony is realeasing is priced at around 500 dollars more than other hd-dvd players and does not provide much over thier competition.

http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2006/12/sonys_1000_blur.html