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All the surveys agree; one of the top consumer electronic gift categories is digital cameras. Surprised? Me neither.

Air travel competition is heating up, and we're not talking about corporate profits and losses here. As airlines reduce flights and use smaller planes, passengers sometimes are jostling for storage space for their carry-on items.

Deck the halls with free wiFi! Google's spreading holiday cheer this year is by equipping 47 airports across the U.S. with free wireless Internet, they announced today.

We're already clapping our hands like children on Christmas day over the free service. But it also comes with a pretty awesome way to give back. If you're stuck on an endless layover and feeling thankful for Google's generosity, the company encourages you to spread that warm fuzzy feeling:

Despite staggering growth e-books remain a sliver of publishing, but this season could be big break.

Some analysts are now predicting higher levels of holiday spending than in the year before.

It's the ultimate trick-or-treating treasure, that one house on the block that offers the coolest candy and surprises galore.

During the week before Halloween each year, Lt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department in Georgia knocks on the doors of every registered sex offender in his jurisdiction.

Trick-or-treaters beware: Manners count - even on Halloween. Britain's authority on etiquette, Debrett's, issued its first guidance Wednesday on how to behave during the uber-American holiday.

A key measure of consumer confidence fell in September, after a gain in the previous month, raising concerns about retail sales in the upcoming holiday season, a research group said Tuesday.

United Airlines’ computers are back up and running at O’Hare International Airport, slowly easing long lines of passengers headed out for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.