With the news of Microsoft acquiring Nokia, there has been a resurgence in the news of the terms “feature phone” and “dumb phone” (both as contrasted to a “smartphone” – and why is “smartphone” one word, but not “featurephone” or “dumbphone”?) So, some of you may be wondering “just what is a feature phone? And how is it different from a dumb phone or a smartphone?” We explain.

You may have recently heard of “haul videos” and be wondering what they are. Are they how-to videos put out by U-Haul? (No.) Are they actually “hall videos”, from surveillance cameras or some other hallway phenomena? (No.) So just what are haul videos? We explain.

Thanks to Henry Timms, deputy executive director of the Jewish community center 92nd Street Y, Giving Tuesday and its upcoming Twitter party is the answer for those who have looked on in disdain at Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While some are stampeding (literally) to get those Black Friday deals, and servers are crashing while consumers are virtually stampeding to Cyber Monday, there has been an air of disgust by many on social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, at the blatant, frenzied consumerism that seems to make those rabid shoppers a parody of the typical American.

If you walk into a Target store and see someone from the Geek Squad hanging out, don’t worry, you didn’t inadvertently walk into Best Buy. Chances are you’ve walked into one of the Target locations that has their very own Geek Squad. A joint venture between Best Buy and Target, the new program will put Geek Squad agents in 29 Target stores, to start, with the first one wave concentrating heavily in the Denver, Colorado area.

Many are not aware that smoothie experts Jamba Juice have a secret underground menu, in addition to their regular Jamba Juice menu in stores. The secret menu contains flavors like Fruity Pebbles, White Gummi Bear, Butterfinger, Blue Gummy Bear and even a Screaming Orgasm.

Undergraduate students of California’s public college and university system will now be able to access many of their textbooks for free, online. Governor Jerry Brown signed senate bills 1052 and 1053 into law, which will establish online libraries that contain digital textbooks for the 50 most commonly taken lower-division courses.

Nothing in life is free, and with Walmart’s latest iTunes gift card deal – $100 of iTunes credit for $80 – that is especially true. Sure you receive $20 of “free” turns through this deal, but it’s going to cost you – your personal information.

Investors are quickly bailing as Groupon experienced a new closing low on Friday, with shares down 5% at $4.75. Their stock-price declined even more last week after their second-quarter results reflected a decline in customer growth and revenue.

If you want insanely cheap flights while still being able to book flights online, you can now get cheap flight deals, and compare flights, through Google flights. And these are not cheapo flights from some sort of questionable airline that you have never heard of, these are discounted flights from well known airlines such as US Airways, United, JetBlue and Delta.

Now you can own a little piece – no, scratch that – a big piece of computer history, for your own, for less than $10.00! This compilation of more than 120 articles, from the Best of Creative Computing, circa 1978, is sure to appeal to and fascinate geeks of all persuasions: science fiction buffs, science fact buffs, technology history buffs, educators, and just average Joes who find this sort of thing interesting. It is at once a fabulous overview and review of both computing history, and computer predictions of the future. Now you can look back from that future, boggle at how far we have come, and marvel at who got it right, and who got it oh-so-wrong. All for just $9.99!

Why bother combing through countless Black Friday oads and braving the madding throngs at the stores when you can take advantage of numerous online Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales from the comfort of your computer? These Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals – the day after Thanksgiving and the Monday after Thanksgiving sales – are available at all of your favourite Internet stores. Our Black Friday/Cyber Monday list includes several top online retailers. Here is Black Friday and Cyber Monday info for Walmart, Amazon, and Best Buy sales, to name just a few of the sales available at the day after Thanksgiving, and the Monday after Thanksgiving, sales at your favourite Internet stores.

That Living Social or Groupon voucher is great for the customer, but it can be a near-death knell for the business on the other side of the transaction. (What are LivingSocial and Groupon? Groupon and Living Social are online services through which businesses offer deep-discount deals to Groupon’s and Living Social’s users. The customer purchases the deal up front – say $5 for a $10 cake – and then they take the coupon Groupon or LivingSocial sends them to the bakery to redeem it.) Customers who use Living Social and Groupon like the great discounts – but merchants tell another story.

Whether your digital audio book audio device is an iPod or iPad running an audio book app, or another of the audio book devices, you can take advantage of free audio books online. Why buy audio books when you can get not just cheap audio books, but free audio books online? An online audio book usually is in the form of an audio book mp3, or other audio book format, that you download to your digital audio books audio book player (again, such as your iPad or iPod, or even your cell phone). Whether you are looking for a business audio book such as the 4 Hour Work Week audio book, a classic audio book such as the To Kill a Mockingbird audio book, some other fiction audio book, audio books for kids, unabridged audio books or an abridged audio book, you can find them in free audio book versions online. Many of the audio book clubs online offer free audio books during their trial membership period, but the average price for purchasing an audio book through an online audio book clubs is in the $20s and $30s of dollars. Which is why we prefer completely free, no strings attached free audio book downloads.

We’ll bet that when you are looking for discount travel – especially discount air travel, and cheap air fares and cheap flights – that you turn to discount travel sites, such as Expedia .com, right? But while the Expedia travel site purports to offer cheap air flights – and sucks people in with the promise of cheap air plane tickets – Expedia airfare isn’t always the cheapest – people just assume that Expedia flights are less expensive! Worse, Expedia flights are sometimes not authorized at all, meaning that Expedia com does not have a relationship with – let alone permission from – the airline to offer those cheap airfare tickets! Your effort to get cheap air fare could backfire, and you’ll have paid more than if you’d just gone directly to the airline! Bottom line? For cheap airline flights, instead of relying solely on discount travel sites (cheap plane flights are one of the primary things for which people use sites such as Expedia travel), go directly to the airlines and ask them about their cheap flights!

Finding and purchasing binoculars with a built-in camera can be difficult enough, especially without all of the worry about prices. Its true binoculars with a camera can be expensive, but if you know where to look, you may be able to find discount binoculars cameras or score a binoculars camera discount without ever having to leave your home. You can actually find the perfect pair of discount binocular cameras online — if you have a minute or two to browse through the numerous discount binocular camera offerings available on the Internet today.