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Amazon.com will be offering the XBOX 360 Core game system for $100 on November 23rd. This special one time offer is part of an Amazon.com holidays promotion. The idea behind the promotion is to allow existing customers to vote for deals that they want the most. So far the XBOX 360 is the #1 Deal on the list. The Xbox 360 for $100 is one of 4 items included in “Amazon Customers Vote”. With 86.7% of the vote, it’s looking like a $100 Xbox 360 is going to take it. If the 360 “wins”, 1,000 units will be made available for $100 on Thursday, November 23rd (Thanksgiving Day), at 11 a.m. Pacific Time.

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There is now a new method of female protection that just hit the safety market. It does not require carrying around a bottle of pepper spray, a taser or a small handgun in your purse. Did you ever think that a safety device could become a fashion statement? Well… meet the No-Contact Electric Safety Jacket!

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NEW YORK (AP) - It was the high-tech key to a massive, illegal gambling kingdom: a laptop computer that authorities say was owned by a professional poker player named James Giordano.

Giordano, who rarely let the computer out of his sight, unknowingly took a gamble earlier this year by leaving it behind while attending a wedding ceremony, police said Wednesday.

But in the three hours he and his wife were away from their Long Island hotel room, New York Police Department investigators armed with a search warrant and computer expertise sneaked in, found the laptop on a desk and made a digital copy of the hard drive before the couple returned.

The covert operation on June 15 helped unlock a sophisticated billion-dollar-a-year gambling scheme that rivaled casino sports books, authorities said at a news conference announcing charges against Giordano and 26 other defendants.

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On the official Zune website, Microsoft admits that the Mp3 player is not compatible with Windows Vista and gives no further information as to when it will introduce a fix or firmware update enabling the player to do so. The zune website asks owners to “check back soon for updates”.

Microsoft is set to launch Windows Vista aimed at business customers later on this month. Microsoft told ENN that a new “Zune Mp3 client” or a software patch will be released to make Windows Vista compatible with the new Mp3 player (the Zune). The Zune fix is dated to be released towards the ending of January 2007. This will coincide with the consumer launch of the Vista operating system.

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The lawsuit against Apple claimed that the inverter board on the 17″ Studio LCD Display Monitor was faulty, causing the gradient dimming of the top or bottom half of the screen of the Display and a power light to constantly blink on and off in a short-short-long pattern to signal a problem. Apple has denied all allegations against them and has asserted many different defenses. The settlement they claim is is not an admission of wrong doing or an indication that any law was violated.

Any US nationals who purchased the problem monitor are classed as being a member of the Class Action Settlement and are automatically included in the settlement unless a valid request for exclusion is mailed to Class Counsel postmarked on or before January 19, 2007.

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The Taiwanese company A DATA has announced that come CES 2007 the Info eInk SD Card will be released. Each Info SD Card will have a tiny eInk display which shows how much storage room you have left on the memory card. The SD card’s display is bi-layer, which means it needs no power source to keep the eInk display screen running. The SD Card can continually print to the storage display screen without needing to be recharged or plugged in. The storage capacity is updated once you place your data onto the Digital Display SD Storage Device.

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Computer Search Engine company Mamma.com has agreed to settle on a class action lawsuit pending in a United States Federal Court. Mamma.com stated a total of $3.15 million will paid to the plaintiffs under the settlement agreement. Their insurance carrier is said to be responsible for up to $2.5 million of the payout. The remainder will be paid out by Mamma.com inc.

Guy Faure, the Company’s President and CEO, stated: “We are gratified that the litigation is likely to be settled and on favorable terms. We can now turn all of our attention and resources to continuing to build and pursue our business model and sharpen our focus on achieving profitability and enhancing share holder value.”

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Arkansans who licensed certain varieties of Microsoft Corp. software between Jan. 1, 1998, and Dec. 31, 2004, may be eligible for benefits as part of a proposed $ 37. 8 million settlement for a class-action lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court against Microsoft.

The lawsuit accuses Microsoft of using unlawful tactics to establish a monopoly for products such as MS-DOS, Windows, Word, Excel and Office, then selling them at inflated prices.

Microsoft reportedly sold Windows 98 to Arkansas customers for $89.00 when an internal study by Microsoft in November 1997 indicated the software was profitable at $49.00, the suit states.

Microsoft denied the accusations and contends it developed and sold “high quality and innovative” software at “fair and reasonable prices.” On Sept. 7, the court approved a preliminary settlement, and it is scheduled to rule on final approval at a March 6, hearing.

If the settlement is approved, eligible consumers who submit a claim by April 23 — possibly later if extended by the court — would be eligible for vouchers valued at $ 5 to $ 12 for each software license purchased.

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