Black Friday 2014:The 14 Best Deals

As Black Friday draws nearer, you can almost already see the lines forming, crowds congregating and merchandise flying off the shelves. 

If you’re planning on joining the masses on Nov. 28 – or perhaps debating whether you should – you’ll need to know what the fuss is about. To help you out, we’ve rounded up 14 of the best Black Friday deals from major retailers. Keep in mind that most products are available in limited quantities.

 

1. iPad mini 16GB – Walmart

Apple products are always hot commodities, and this year is no exception. If you’re looking for an iPad mini 16GB with Wi-Fi, you’ll want to head to Wal-Mart at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. The discount retailer will be selling the tablet for $199 (currently being sold for $219). Plus, you’ll get a free $30 Wal-Mart gift card with your purchase. This doorbuster deal is more appealing because of Wal-Mart’s one-hour guarantee policy. If you arrive at a Wal-Mart location between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., you’ll receive a limited opportunity to purchase the tablet and have it shipped to your store by Christmas, even if quantities sell out.

2. iPad Air 2 – Best Buy

On Black Friday, you may expect to see larger price cuts on last season’s products, but at Best Buy, you can grab the latest Apple tablet models at a bargain price. All sizes of the recently released iPad mini 3, for example, will be $75 off. For the 16GB version, that’s a sale price of $324.99. As for the iPad Air 2, Best Buy is cutting its price by $100. The 16GB version will be available for $399.99. Best Buy will open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, with deals available online as well.

3. Xbox One – Target

The Xbox One gaming console is sure to be one of the most sought after products this holiday season. You can snag the 500GB system – which will include Assassin’s Creed Unity and Black Flag digital downloads – for $329.99 (regularly $399.99) from Target. You’ll also receive a free $50 Target gift card with the purchase. Target locations are opening their doors at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

4. Panasonic 50-inch LED HDTV – Best Buy

When it comes to big-ticket Black Friday electronics, Best Buy has loads of deals. The Panasonic 50-inch Class LED HDTV, for example, will be available for just $199.99. This is a substantial discount, as the TV is currently on sale from Best Buy for $549.99. Best Buy’s doorbusters – including this product – will be available beginning at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving. The retailer will begin handing out tickets for products up to two hours before this time.

5. Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 – Kmart or Sam’s Club

Kmart is boasting a Thanksgiving morning doorbuster sale this year on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0. You can bring home the tablet for $149.99 (regularly $199.99) beginning at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving. Plus, if you’re a Kmart member, you’ll receive $20 back in points for your purchase. You can also pick up the tablet for the same low price at warehouse store Sam’s Club. The retailer’s in-store, members-only sale begins at 7 a.m. on Black Friday, but members can begin shopping online a day earlier.

6. Asus X205-TA Laptop – Staples

One item gaining attention this year is a $99.99 laptop (regularly $249.99) from office supply store Staples. The Windows laptop has an 11.6-inch screen, 2GB RAM and 32GB hard drive. This Asus X205-TA will only be available in-store, not online. Staples will open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.

7. Samsung Galaxy S5 – RadioShack

Is your phone ready for an upgrade? RadioShack will be offering the Samsung Galaxy S5 for $0 down with carrier financing or for free (regularly $199.99) with a qualifying two-year plan. This nearly $200 in savings will be available beginning at 8 a.m. on Thanksgiving. If you’re one of the first 50 customers in line at a RadioShack location, you’ll also walk away with a pair of free touchscreen gloves that you can use with your new device.

8. Kenmore washer and dryer pair – Sears

At Sears, appliances take center stage on the front page of the retailer’s Black Friday ad. You’ll find an especially deep discount on the store’s Kenmore washer and dryer pair. The 3.9-foot washer and 7-foot dryer are regularly $899.99 each (currently on sale for $549.99 and $449.99, respectively), but the pair will be sold for $799.99 beginning at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Prices will increase to $499.99 each after 1 p.m. on Black Friday.

9. Dyson vacuums – Kohl’s or Sears

Dyson vacuums are a popular Black Friday household item this year. Several retailers have various models of the floor care products on sale. You’ll find especially good deals at Kohl’s, where select models are 30 percent off, and Sears, where select models are $100 to $150 off. Both stores will open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

10. GoPro HERO3+ Silver Edition – Target

The GoPro HERO3+ Silver Edition camera is one of Target’s doorbusters this year. The adventure-oriented camera will be on sale for $249.99 (originally $299.99). Plus, you’ll receive a $50 Target gift card upon purchase. If you want this camera, get to your local Target early, as quantities are limited. Doors open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

11. Jawbone UP24 – Best Buy

Fitness wristbands and activity trackers are all the rage. This Black Friday, you can get the Jawbone UP24 wristband for $79.99 (regularly $129.99) from Best Buy. Not only is this a savings of $50, but it’s also a better deal than Kohl’s, which will be selling the activity tracker for $99.99. Best Buy’s doors open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, but deals will also be available online.

12. Women’s Boots – JCPenney or Sears

Black Friday isn’t all about technology. One popular promotion this season is women’s boots for $19.99. You’ll find this sale at both JCPenney and Sears. At JCPenney, select boots for her (regularly $49.99 to $89.99) will be available for $19.99 as part of the store’s selection of doorbusters on sale when doors open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving. At Sears, women’s fashion boots and booties (regularly $39.9 to $59.99) will be sold for $19.99. Here, doorbusters will begin at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

13. DVDs – Wal-Mart

Sure, you’ll probably spend Black Friday crossing off the big items from your list, but don’t forget about picking up some stocking stuffers, too. In Wal-Mart’s Thanksgiving Day sale beginning at 6 p.m., there will be hundreds of discounted movie titles to choose from. The selection includes over 214 DVDs for $1.96 each and over 113 Blu-ray discs for $3.96 each.

14. Toys – Toys R Us

Regardless of the toy you (or your child) may be eyeing, you’ll likely find it at Toys R Us. The retailer is selling over 200 doorbusters this year, and a variety of toys will be 50 percent off. Toys R Us will open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

source: usnews

iPad Pro 12-inch: it would finally for the second quarter 2015

According to the often well-informed Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI cabinet, the iPad Pro 12.9 inch tablet that Apple would prepare for months is not yet ready for the first quarter of 2015. The sticking point would be in the quality slab, Apple wants the top in terms of response time and color fidelity (which would therefore not yet the case).

And this delay is not good news for two reasons: firstly because your servant expects this tablet as the white wolf (and 6 months to wait is long), and secondly because Ming-Chi Kuo claimed, iPad sales are likely to collapse in the first quarter of 2015, although this decline may be offset by the arrival of a new model.
For analyst KGI does not go with the back of a spoon; let him see his predictions for only 9.8 million iPad sales in Q1 2015, a figure falling to 54.5% from one year to another. For once, Apple executives must hope that Kuo is heavily mistaken in its estimates.

Apple releases first beta of OS X Yosemite 10.10.2

Apple has just released the first beta of OS X 10.10.2, it comes just days after OS X 10.10.1, for once in final version. As with any beta, it is offered to developers and members of AppleSeed program. The build number is 14C68k, it weighs several hundred MB.

For now, Apple does not indicate what are the innovations introduced by the new version. In general, Apple provides little new in the XX2 versions. The XX1 version is still limited to bug fixes, we have seen this year with OS X 10.10.1.
Interestingly, Apple shows no reference to developers. In general, the manufacturer list of items to view detail (eg Wi-Fi, Mail, etc). Maybe Apple will give instructions from the next beta.
OS X 10.10.2 beta 1 recovers from the Mac App Store - if you're a developer.

HBO Go is now available on the Xbox One

The on-demand streaming service from the premium cable network is available for Microsoft's game console.

HBO Go, the cable network's a la carte online streaming service, is now available for the Xbox One game console, Microsoft confirmed Thursday.



Available only to paid channel subscribers, HBO Go lets viewers access HBO's entire library, from "The Sopranos" to "Game of Thrones." While it has been available on Microsoft's last-generation Xbox 360 and Sony's competing PlayStation 3 for months, the network's app was absent from both companies' newer hardware since it was released a year ago. Microsoft announced back in June that Xbox One users would have access to HBO Go by the end of the year.



"Xbox One users can get in on the action and Kinect [sic]" with HBO series and films, said Jeff Dallesandro, HBO's vice president of digital domestic network distribution. His play on words was referring to Microsoft's Kinect voice-controlled camera that can be used to play TV shows and switch apps.



HBO Go joins Microsoft's existing library of media offerings including Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant Video for the Xbox One, which retails for $350 in the US after Microsoft announced a temporary $50 price cut until the end of the year.



Console makers have been aggressively marketing their new devices as both centers for video game playing and hubs for entertainment. Sony and Microsoft are eager to be invited into consumers' living rooms as the cord-cutting crowd, now pegged at about 10 million homes in the US, continues to grow. In fact, the most common device for accessing Netflix on a television screen is a video game console, according to a September report by market researcher GfK.



Yet game companies are still beholden to content providers like HBO and the corporations that own them, in this case Time Warner, whose businesses primarily targets the 50 million cable subscribers in the US. The amount of time it takes to provide media apps on newer devices has been tricky for Microsoft and Sony. Without the availability of HBO Go, viewers have been forced to switch to Web browsers and other streaming devices -- and away from their Xbox or PlayStation.



After Netflix, HBO Go is one of the most sought-after media options for consumers deciding which of the many streaming device options to purchase. Amazon's recently released Fire TV Stick doesn't have HBO Go support, in contrast to Google's competing Chromecast, and illustrates the difficulties even big companies like Amazon have in securing streaming rights to HBO shows and movies.



HBO announced last month that it's planning to release a standalone online service for viewers who do not subscribe to cable. That service will be separate from HBO Go, though the company hasn't said how it may differ from HBO Go or how much it will cost.

Ebola cure in Spain, late forties to USA

The Spanish caregiver who was the first person infected with Ebola outside of Africa has more than viral load.
While she was the last week in a "critical" condition, the caregiver Spanish Teresa Romero, first person to have contracted Ebola outside of Africa, seems to have overcome the disease, three weeks after have felt the first symptoms.
A first test performed Sunday showed that the patient 44, hospitalized in Madrid, has more viral load, ie no trace of the virus is no longer detected in his body. It should soon be subject to a new test, but his health now knows "a positive development," said the Committee responsible for monitoring the virus in Spain. According to the newspaper El Pais, the patient is fed back for three days, but his lungs were damaged by the disease. It is still in an isolation room.
"I am very happy because today we can say that Teresa overcame the disease," said her husband, Javier Limon.

Senegal and Nigeria freed from the epidemic

In the United States, a country that has experienced the first imported case in the person of Thomas Eric Duncan, the picture is less positive. The Liberian succumbed to the disease on October 8 in Dallas, Texas, after bungling in its management that led to send him home when he had a fever and had declared from a country at risk. Two caregivers have subsequently been contaminated by caring for ill. They are hospitalized in institutions. Relatives of the deceased on the other hand must leave Monday for three weeks of quarantine that was imposed on them, as well as the caregivers who first approached.
If these recent cases have brought the United States and Spain in the category of countries affected by the epidemic, two African countries, Senegal and Nigeria reached earlier by the virus leaving. WHO said Friday that Senegal, which had reported one case now healed, should no longer be considered an affected country. Same Monday for Nigeria, where the epidemic was stopped three months after the arrival of the first patient in the most populous country in Africa. With rapid response, the record is 20 cases, including eight deaths. The epidemic has killed more than 4,500 deaths, mainly in three countries in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Stratus XL controller for iPhone and iPad is now available

From today, it is possible to buy the new controller Stratus XL accessories manufacturer SteelSeries. The product was introduced in June, it is only available for purchase now.

The Stratus XL is a variant of the Stratus, with a larger size. It is similar to a joystick Xbox One way, in outline at least. There are four action buttons, four triggers, two joysticks and a directional pad. The player can use Bluetooth, it's a very good point. The first controllers to be connected via the Port must Lightning. Autonomy announced is 40 hours, to see the use however. Just two AA batteries for use.
According to preliminary tests, the Stratus XL offers a better grip than the Stratus. It is certain that Xbox players will notice this. Listed for others.
Stratus XL is available at a price of 69.95 euros on the Apple Online Store. The product is in stock, delivery will be done in a few days. Speaking of joystick controllers will be recalled that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One can not be used with an iPhone or iPad. However, they can be used on the Mac.

Presidential 2016: Clinton, Christie, Cruz and others

Can Hillary Clinton save the Democratic Party? It is one of the questions posed bypolicy makers and commentators in the wake of the mid-term elections. Evidencethat 2016 presidential election and potential candidates already receive attentionin the United States, countries in perpetual campaign.

The counting of the votes was not even completed when Rand Paul, RepublicanSenator from Kentucky and candidate approached the 2016 presidential election,has tried to link Hillary Clinton to the discomfiture of the Democrats in the mid-term elections.

"Today, voters have sent a message to president Obama and Hillary Clinton,rejecting their policies and their candidates", he wrote on his Facebook page,where appeared photos of the former American Secretary of State along with sixDemocrats for whom she had campaigned.

Could "Hillary losers", be read at the bottom of each photo, published shortlyafter midnight last Wednesday.

It wasn't the first time that Rand Paul took to Hillary Clinton, but his message wasa peculiar phenomenon of American politics: at the end of the mid-termelections, he is already question of the next presidential election.

That said, Hillary Clinton and his entourage are perhaps the only Democrats tonot mope as a result of the mid-term elections, no offense to Rand Paul. Since theconquest of the Senate by Republicans is, in their eyes, an evil for a while. Theyare convinced that Kentucky Senator and his colleagues from the Tea Party,including Ted Cruz, their will be wonderfully of pusher.

They are also convinced that the electoral verdict of last week will allow HillaryClinton to position itself even more easily as saving figure to his demoralizedparty. This thesis assumes that it will have too much delay to confirm hiscandidacy for the Presidency (it has already made it clear that it would announceits decision after 1 January).

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton and his advisers will seek to analyze election resultsand polls Tuesday last out of polling stations. And the former first lady will abandon his lectures well compensated to listen to representatives from diversebackgrounds in order to collect ideas and advice for his next campaign.

Several of his interlocutors will undoubtedly not fail to revisit the strategic error ofthe Democrat candidates in the mid-term elections. Rather than defend thebalance of the president and to respond to the anxiety of voters about theeconomy, they tried to dig the advantage of their party with women focusing onrights to abortion, contraception and pay equity.

This strategy has certainly not helped the Senator from Colorado Mark Udall, aDenver Post reporter is mocked in nicknaming 'Mark Uterus'.

But Democrats may not have need of a Savior in 2016. Two cyclical factorscontributed to the triumph of Republicans last Tuesday. As is usually the casewhen the mid-term elections, the participants were older, whiter and moreconservative than they are in the presidential elections. And most of the keySenate races took place in conservative States who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012.

In 2016, the senatorial elections will encourage Democrats. Republicans mustdefend 23 seats (out of the 33 at stake), several of which are in States whereBarack Obama triumphed in 2008 or 2012.

They will also face a dreaded "blue wall". The term used last week by CNN analystDavid Gergen, refers to the 18 States that voted for Democratic candidates for thePresidency in the course of the six recent elections and should be even in 2016.These States represent 242 of the 270 electoral College votes needed to win thePresidency.

Therefore suffice to Hillary Clinton, if she became candidate of Democrats, to addto this 'blue wall' a key like (29 votes in the electoral College) Florida State to winthe Presidency.

Of course, none of this is enshrined in concrete. And some conservatives, inflatedto block after the Republican triumph of last Tuesday, have doubts about theability of Hillary Clinton to save his party. To give an idea of their skepticism,include some excerpts from an article published the week last by the weeklyNational Review under the pen of Yubal Levin:

"[Hillary Clinton] is smart, tough and smart and she has the ability to learn fromits failures and to adjust. But [...] people are weary of it [...]. It is a tasteless elitist[...] which will be probably reduced to campaigning by leveraging the experienceand competence while