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How to Reuse and Recycle Holiday Waste

Holidays are usually great occasions to waste more than we actually consume. To make sure that landfills will stay clean during this time of the year, NRDC offers a great guide for a minimal amount of holiday waste. NRDC officials indicate that almost everything can be reused or recycled and leftovers do not make a...

27 December 2011
04:27 GMT

Shift Unwanted Gifts into Funds Non-Profits Need

The people who think they already have it all or those who hate crowded malls and extended shopping sessions now have an amazing alternative. Shift My Gift initiative aims to help 1.2 million charitable organizations by raising donation from the people who are eager to give up their gifts for a noble cause. The entir...

29 November 2011
11:36 GMT

Select Cruelty-Free Christmas Gifts with PETA

PETA is trying to help us make the most eco-friendly choices when it comes to our Christmas shopping list. Its catalog highlights the hottest eco-products for this season, guaranteeing that our purchase will have zero impact upon the environment. For those who still don't know what to buy, PETA has a great alt...

28 November 2011
02:58 GMT

EPA Shows Us How to Enjoy an Eco-Friendly H2Oliday

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a list of tricks and trips that will make our Christmas spirit even more eco-conscious. Its ideas mainly guide us to water preservation through easy-to-follow steps, also helping us minimize the ecological footprint of our winter shopping session. Off...

24 November 2011
10:17 GMT

Fake E-Gift Emails Pass Old Style IRCBot as Screensaver

A new spam campaign currently making the rounds produces emails that pose as e-gifts from friends, but in fact lead to an IRC-based trojan.The emails have spoofed headers to appear as originating from gifts@freeze.com and bear a subject of "You have received a gift from one of our members !"Freeze.com is a website of...

2 March 2011
03:53 GMT

Walmart Launches Gamecenter, Wants More of the Videogame Business

Retail giant Walmart has announced that it is launching a new online destination called Gamecenter, which will focus on offering players significant sales promotions and low shipping fees for standard options.The site will have quite a bit of content apart from the actual storefront, hosting video previews for big la...

25 May 2010
03:40 GMT

Apple Reminds iPhone Devs of Gifting Feature in the App Store

Apple has updated the News and Announcements section of its iPhone Dev Center with a reminder that App Store users can gift an application using a recently introduced “Gifting Feature.” During the past few months, Apple has implemented multiple changes to the iTunes App Store interface, including the iTun...

19 May 2010
04:13 GMT

Apple Is Offering 100,000 Gifts in 'One Box'

Apple has started sending out emails to those subscribed to its newsfeed encouraging them to shop Apple this year, and make the perfect gift. In usual Apple manner, the company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, advertises the iPhone as a box full of surprises, making it the perfect “box&r...

3 December 2009
06:53 GMT

Apple Intros 'Reserve and Pick Up' Method for Customers

Although not necessarily 100% unique, Apple has announced a new program for customers, in light of the holiday season - Reserve and Pick Up. Claiming to make it easy not only to purchase an Apple product as a gift, but also efficient, the Mac maker promises your purchase will be waiting for you at the Apple retail st...

9 November 2009
08:25 GMT

President Obama Equips Queen Elizabeth with an iPod

US President Barack Obama has been mighty thoughtful on his visit to the Queen of England, bringing Queen Elizabeth II an iPod loaded with lots of great stuff as a present. The Queen, on her part, gave the President a silver-framed signed photograph of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh.An NME report says that Preside...

3 April 2009
12:01 GMT

Apple Stores Offering Contract-Free iPhones

Apple has started selling contract-free iPhone 3Gs through its retail stores, although not advertising the move at all. Apple is said to have embraced the contract-free model so iPhones can be offered as gifts without forcing the recipient to pay two years of AT&T services in order to make the “gift” oper...

30 March 2009
04:19 GMT

Chinese Hacker Tricks iTunes Gift Card Algorithm

Reports say that Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm has been hacked by someone in China. The hackers of Apple’s iTunes store gift vouchers and their local agents alledly make profits by selling $200USD iTunes gift cards for as little as 17.9 RMB - roughly $2.6 USD.Outdustry is reporting that China’s ...

11 March 2009
04:19 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Gets “Terrifying” Sand Globe, a New Wii Game Might Be Made

Games fall into many genres, a lot of them established by certain iconic titles, and, without a doubt, one of the video game franchises that really coined the horror survival genre is Capcom's Resident Evil. The series delivered some of the most memorable experiences to a lot of players.Through the use of clever...

16 February 2009
09:21 GMT

Apple Offers Insight on Redeeming Gift Cards

Apple's website has been continuously changing over the past two months, featuring holiday artwork, new ads, as well as new offers. One of those offerings includes an iPhone 3G Gift Card. The company is now detailing how visitors can redeem cards, not only for the popular handset, but also for iTunes gifts, for ...

28 December 2008
04:13 GMT

iPhone 3G Gift Cards Are Up

Apple has updated its website featuring a special holiday gift card that can be acquired towards the purchase of an iPhone 3G handset. The card, aimed at potential iPhone buyers, or those who wish to make the iPhone 3G a Christmas gift, allows customers to load any value between $25 and $2,500. The service also allow...

27 November 2008
02:57 GMT

Happy Father's Day, Dad! 'Yeah! An Apple TV!'

Some may know, while others may not, that June 15 is Father's Day. If you were among the quick-acting folks when Apple announced discounts for photo books to give your mother as a present, why not shop at Apple this time around too? Dad would just love an Apple TV. In fact, anyone would.Apple's website does...

21 May 2008
03:35 GMT

Nicole Disses Paris. The End of the World Must Be Near...

This is a good one, people! Now, hands up those of you who would ever have imagined Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton's best friend and occasional friendly enemy, would end up turning into a saint? Well, a baby can really turn a woman's life around, and it seems to have been the case for the feisty, petite daught...

17 January 2008
05:28 GMT

Fake Free Laptops Equals $650,000 Fine

I think everybody wants to receive a laptop, a Microsoft Xbox 360 or a flat-screen TV for free. And the advertisers know it but from offering them at no cost to tricking users that loaning a car might get them these gifts, there's a long, long way. The Federal Trade Commission today reported that Adteractive Inc...

29 November 2007
06:46 GMT

The Idiot's Cube: A Manifest for Equality Between People... and People

Ever since Erno Rubik, the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture, invented the, well, Rubik's Cube, a throng of cube gift-receivers started getting more sharp quick thoughts. That's clearly my assumption, I really have no prove here. In fact, I never succeeded in solving the puzzle, so don'...

5 May 2007
17:16 GMT

The Best Gift Ever: Nothing!!!

Have you ever wondered what "nothing" is? Or if you can buy nothing? I did, when I was 2 years old that is (Who cares? Right!). Well, I found out later that nothing is actually the opposite of "everything". Ok, I'll stop here! Here's why I incline to think that Nothing seems to be the perfect gift for lots ...

3 May 2007
06:31 GMT


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