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Analyst: Walmart will sell 4.5 million iPhones in 2009

by Mike Schramm (Dec 12th, 2008)

Which hardly seems believable, but you never know. Yes, Walmart, that bastion of crass commercialism, is going to be carrying the iPhone, that symbol of elegant commercialism, and what we're going to get is a whole lot of commercialism. Analyst Gene Munster (our favorite prognosticator other than ...

A holiday idea: pay it forward

by Steven Sande (Dec 1st, 2008)

For those of you sickened by the commercialism and resulting chaos of the holiday season, here's an idea to make you appreciate the holidays again: follow the concept of paying it forward. The concept is easy to understand: someone does you a favor, and instead of paying them back, they ask you to ...