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Another black eye for Target: faulty gift cards

Target is getting hit with another lump of coal this holiday season. The discount retailer said Tuesday that an unidentified number of gift cards sold over the holidays were not properly activated.

Delta will honor cheap airfares sold after glitch

Some lucky fliers capitalized on a computer glitch Thursday and scored some really cheap flights on Delta Air Lines. Certain Delta fares on the airline’s own website and other airfare booking sites were showing up incorrectly, offering some savvy bargain hunters incredible deals.

 
‘After Christmas’ sales off to an early start

On the day before Christmas, retailers turned shoppers’ attention to the day after the holiday. “After Christmas” sales began before the holiday at Amazon.com, Old Navy and CVS, among other retailers.

 
FCC closer to allowing in-flight calls, DOT wants ban

While one government agency moves a step closer to removing its prohibition of in-flight calls while another considered a new ban of its own.

Green light for state taxes on Internet sales

On perhaps the busiest online shopping day of the year, the Supreme Court refused to wade into a dispute over state sales taxes for purchases on websites like Amazon.com, an outcome likely to prompt more states to attempt to collect taxes on Internet sales.

 
‘Kill switch’ for stolen smartphones rejected by carriers

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, has proposed installing a built-in anti-theft measure known as a “kill switch” that would render stolen or lost phones inoperable, but the nation’s biggest carriers have rejected the idea, according to San Francisco’s top prosecutor.

The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push

The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

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