CIBC: Canadians seek deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday to stretch their holiday budget

Photo by James Cridland from Flickr.comPoll conducted by Harris/Decima reveals Canadians are planning to spend, on average, $628 on gifts this holiday season, and another $335 on other holiday expenses, including travel. For many Canadian consumers the holiday shopping season effectively begins this weekend as they look to take advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales on both sides of the border, and online.

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Canadians expected to purchase 100 gifts a minute on Nov 27, the busiest shopping day of the year

eBay predicts that Sunday, November 27th will be Canada’s busiest online shopping day of 2011.

More than a half-million savvy Canadian shoppers are expected to shop on eBay during “Super Sunday,” buying nearly two gifts every second for friends and family – a 17% rise over last year.

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Review: Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 smartphone

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google's Galaxy Nexus is undoubtably the most desired Android smartphone this year. It is, after all, the first device to showcase Android 4.0 (AKA Ice Cream Sandwich) and brings a long list of improvements to the device it replaces, the Google Nexus S.

As competition in the high end handset segment gets tighter, is the Galaxy Nexus the best Android smartphone or has the competition finally caught up with this year's prime Google phone?

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Microsoft Survey: Canadian businesses unclear about Cloud Computing

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Microsoft today sposored a roundtable discussion titled "Journey to the Cloud," which looked at security as well as Canada specific insights on cloud computing based on a survey conducted at Microsoft's request by Leger Marketing.

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