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Calling all members of the fictitious Class of ’83!
It’s time for a massive 25th reunion for all those who attended the briefly named Warren G. Harding elementary school on Niagara Street in St. Catharines.
Those students were witnesses back in 1983 to the transformation of Victoria School from an ordinary place of education to [...]

Facebook Beacon ruined Christmas and a group of its members are not going to let the social networking site forget it.
A group of irked Facebook members filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook Tuesday that said the company’s controversial Beacon advertising program violates several laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the Computer Fraud [...]

The Man in Black goes red and green with the coming reissue of two late-‘70s holiday specials featuring Kris Kristofferson, Anne Murray, Steve Martin and Tom T. Hall.
The 1978 and ’79 installments of The Johnny Cash Christmas Special, which became a staple of network yuletide programming for a decade, will be released Oct. 7, along [...]

Dick Clark is still Mr. New Year’s Eve — but he’ll be sharing the title with Ryan Seacrest.
Starting this December, Clark’s longtime end-of-year special will be called “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest,” ABC and dick clark productions said Friday.
It was also announced that Seacrest will serve as co-host with Clark and [...]

He talks, has some serious moves and most likely will be near impossible to find come the holidays.
The 2008 version of the talking Elmo doll, which is scheduled for release Oct. 14, is listed as one of Wal-Mart’s top 12 toys for the 2008 holiday season. Fisher-Price, in an attempt to make Elmo Live available [...]

There are more ominous signs for a dreary holiday season in 2008. Sources within the Christmas light industry say that shipments of new-technology Christmas LED lights are down in the months of June and July, bucking the trend of a surging upswing over the past 18 months in the category.
Some speculate that previous hot [...]

Every year we see it: some new gizmo becomes the must-have Christmas present. For Christmas 2008 the rumored “next big thing” isn’t the Nintendo Wii — it is a new Apple iPhone, shrunken down to a ridiculously small size.
The iPhone Nano will have a 2.75-inch screen (compared to the iPhone’s 3.5-inch), MultiTouch and come in [...]

Travel industry experts world wide have urgent advice for people looking to travel by plane during the 2008 holiday season: buy your tickets now and bring plenty of patience.
UK newspaper The Telegraph reports that airlines across the world will cut 60 million seats for the holiday. The U.S. will be hit the hardest, losing [...]