Ad Procurement:

• Three ways clients can push ad agencies to save money.

Email Marketing:

• Managing email subscriber expectations during the holidays.
• Email plays large role in small business marketing.

Search:

• New site hierarchies incorporated into Google search results.
• Google: Take advantage of our Advanced Reports feature.

Black Friday Ads:

• Wal-Mart's Black Friday ad: TVs are top deal.

Smartphones:

• Rumor mill gears up for Google smartphone.

E-Readers

• Sony says e-reader shipments may miss holidays.
• Condé Nast preparing e-reader version of Wired magazine.

Mobile Computing:

• The Apple tablet is dead.

Productivity Software:

• Office 2010: At last, the suite that users built.

OS:

• Google's Chrome may shift the OS landscape.

Gaming:

• US PlayStation3 sales leap 70% in October.

Legal/Regulatory Issues:

• Judge denies AT&T's request to halt Verizon ads.