Yesterday, Apple officando John Gruber posted on what he sees untypical Apple: confusion on which Mac to buy. Typically, Gruber insists, Apple makes it very clear what choices consumers have so they can make the best purchase. With last weeks addition of the Mac Air models, that simplicity is ruined. Gruber contends, “the MacBook Air more »

Now that it is 2009, one of your resolutions might have been to try and save more money. Who can blame you? I’m sure many share your resolution, and a recently launched website, called Learn and Save, aims to help you save more money. With more than 15,000 tutorials, Learn and Save provides many how-to video tutorials, quality information, and then some coupons for additional savings.

Learn and Save’s main goal is to help the consumer learn more about products they are interested in through how-to tutorials, in depth articles, and then coupons. I think that how-to tutorials videos on this site would be better than how-to videos on YouTube, because many of them are company sponsored, and they have to be approved first before they go on the site; whereas on YouTube, anyone can make videos and put them up.

Yahoo and Intel plan to change what they are most known for – the computer, and be known for an advancement in the television industry. I will break this article up into two sections, one being about Yahoo and the other being about Intel.

Yahoo and their Widget Channel

Yahoo is best in their Internet environment and so they plan to combine the Internet with the TV in efforts to expand the TV to more horizons. Yahoo already showed some of what they wanted to achieve back in August, but come CES 2009, they plan to formally introduce what they have in mind, and it begins with the Widget Channel. Continued after the break.

Classmates.com is one of the biggest advertisers on the ‘net. It’s been around since before MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster grew to the popularity they have now. They spend wicked amounts of money on their online advertising; $30 million was spent in 2005 to give you an idea. However, now they just may have to answer for some of their “lure the customer in” tactics.

Anthony Michaels had been a free member of the Classmates.com site since last year. Then, Classmates.com informed Michaels that his old school pals were trying to contact him. He got that familiar to many message “Your former classmates are trying to contact you! Upgrade now to see their messages!” sent to him from Classmates.com. So, curious as to whether it was an old grade school buddy or that girl he was always secretly smitten by, Michaels did what many others are suckered into doing with that message.

Keep reading to find out what could happen to Classmates.com.

Panasonic is already a sizable company, but they are going to get that little bit bigger with the confirmed takeover of Sanyo. Sanyo have been struggling recently, and it’s probably not a coincidence that their downturn coincides with the economic crisis that we are facing. Nevertheless, they are still worth a substantial $18.5 billion which will boost Panasonic’s value to around $107.8 billion, making it one of the biggest consumer electronics companies.

The reason behind this is that this takeover will give Panasonic access to two key technologies in the shape of solar panels and batteries which will help them greatly in their own hand-held electronic products, in fact, Sanyo is the market leader in the manufacture of rechargeable batteries. They will also acquire a company specializing in portable gadgets which generates $4 billion per annum in revenue. Continued after the break.