| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Walmart Website Error Allowed Customers to Buy $600 Electronics For $8.85
| | | Causing an online frenzy among shoppers, an apparent glitch on Walmart's website early this morning led to $8.85 listings for items, including computer monitors and projectors normally worth hundreds of dollars. (ABC News)
Why This Is Important: This goes to show that the government is not the only organization with a faulty website.
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| | #2 | Microsoft CEO Shortlist: Chair-Flinger, Transformer, Or Humble Techie?
| | | Five people are now in the frame to run the world's largest software company. (The Register)
Why This Is Important: Microsoft has had only two leaders, and the third will come on just as the company faces some of its toughest challenges and can scarcely afford a misstep.
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| | #3 | Can PayPal Crack the Design Challenge of Digital Wallets?
| | | Digital wallets are one of those perennial tech promises that have never quite materialized. (Wired)
Why This Is Important: In order for the digital wallet to succeed, it will need to persuade consumers that it is easier than paying by credit card, as secure as paying with cash -- and also just as satisfying. It is this last aspect that will be the most difficult to overcome.
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"There's some people who are saying the six fewer days is negative, but I keep saying November, December hasn't changed. You still have the same number of people to buy gifts for," said Karen Hoguet, chief financial officer at Macy's.
| | | Blog Post of The Day | Why Making Gadgets Wireless Only Conceals Our Dependence On Them
By Virginia Postrel
In the middle half of the twentieth century, the designer Raymond Loewy — the subject of today's Google Doodle – streamlined products ranging from locomotives to pencil sharpeners, wrapping the complex gears, pumps, and combustion of modern machinery in sleek shells that promised progress and forward movement. More » |
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