Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been recalled from all retail stores in Russia, effectively banning the game in the country.

Black Friday is almost upon us yet again, and the one day of the year when bargain hunting is regarded as a national pastime needs to be taken seriously or you’re likely to come away empty-handed. Here is a short guide of how to bag a bargain on Black Friday.

Best Buy sells a lot of DVDs, but it can see the writing is on the wall.

It seems that it was just yesterday that everyone was either dying to get a Wii or had just purchased one and was talking about how wonderful it was. Now, sales are way off and Nintendo is in pain.

Either Amazon felt a sudden surge of generosity, or else the etailer is scared out of its wits by the Barnes & Noble nook e-reader.

There is finally some more solid news about the hardware venture being started up by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey to turn the iPhone into a credit card reader.

There is no doubt that the iPhone is one of AT&T’s top selling phones. The company literally made a strong comeback on the back of Apple’s mobile device. However, it seems like there is a flip side to the super fast selling iPhone for the mobile carrier, AT&T.

The Barnes & Noble e-bookstore has been available for a number of portable devices for some time. Now, it is believed that the bookstore chain will soon unveil a hardware competitor to the Kindle.

The trend toward less expensive laptops continues, driven by the even lower prices of netbook computers, as evidenced by prices released in advance by both Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba.

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered Sears to immediately halt a program which effectively tricked customers into allowing the firm to install spyware. The retailer must also destroy all data it collected during the program.

Microsoft has been targeting the OS competition this year in order to prepare for the release of Windows 7. Mac and Linux have been coming under fire from Microsoft lately with a barrage of ad campaigns and patent schemes. After the leak of the Best Buy training material onto the Web recently, more information has been revealed indicating that Microsoft is bribing Best Buy employees with a little incentive to take the training.

PR firms are obviously meant to promote businesses or products for their clients. That is their job and most of them do it well. However, is it right and proper for a PR firm to throw ethics out of the window in an effort to promote something for their clients?

Fire safety hazards with consumer electronics are becoming a serious issue with devices these days. In recent memory, stories of exploding batteries, laptops and iPhones have cropped up from time to time. In most cases it’s a situation of devices overheating and catching on fire. It seems like the Durabrand DVD players from Wal-Mart will be joining the ranks of combusting devices.

Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy are selling out of brand-name laptops priced at or around $299, proving that the most attractive thing about buying a netbook is the price.

Some New York City coffee shops may have had it up to here with people that buy one cup, then hog their tables for hours with their laptops, but Starbucks sees nothing wrong with that trend.

Technology is beginning to leave a mark on one of the proudest traditions of American gathering and discourse, the coffee shop. No conversation, no philosophy, just the quiet clacking of laptop keys.

EBay is asking customers to sign a petition calling on the European Union to take legal action to protect the rights of users to sell used goods. It says manufacturers of brand name goods are trying to restrict competition by exaggerating the risks of counterfeiting to block such sales.