Here are a few suggestions for those who love gadgets — and isn’t that everyone?
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JOE MCDONALD
01/12/12 8:08 PM
Angry customers and gangs of scalpers threw eggs at Apple Inc.'s Beijing store Friday after the iPhone 4S launch there was canceled due to concerns over the crowd's size.
Apple reacted to the outburst by postponing iPhone 4S sales in its mainland China stores to protect customers and employees. The phone still will be sold online and through its local carrier.
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By:
JOE MCDONALD
01/12/12 8:08 PM
Angry customers and gangs of scalpers threw eggs at Apple Inc.'s Beijing store Friday after the iPhone 4S launch there was canceled due to concerns over the crowd's size.
Apple reacted to the outburst by postponing iPhone 4S sales in its mainland China stores to protect customers and employees. The phone still will be sold online and through its local carrier.
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San Francisco shoppers are in store for some wallet relief when the sales tax drops by 1 percent Friday, but the full discount might be short-lived.
One percent of the state sales tax is set to expire today after Gov. Jerry Brown and other Democrats abandoned hope of persuading Republican lawmakers to allow a vote on extending the tax. The move lowers San Francisco’s sales tax from the current 9.5 percent to 8.5 percent.
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WHAT: Surveillance video released Tuesday showed Jessica Tata, 22, shopping at a nearby Target store when a fire killed four children she was supposed to be watching alone at a Houston home day care center she ran.
HOW IT HAPPENED: Neighbors said Tata told them the fire started on a stovetop burner while she was in the bathroom. She was also seen driving up to the home and screaming as smoke poured out the front door.
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Every year, Cindy Ehnes makes it a point to buy clothing her daughters will not like for Christmas.
That way, Ehnes said, she can spend the following day with the two of them in San Francisco exchanging the unwanted items for something more to their liking.
“It’s a lot of work,” Ehnes, a Sacramento resident, said of her strategy. “It’s all a matter of taste.”
Lacey Castellano, Ehnes’ daughter, said that taste included ruffles.
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A Virginia toddler was walking out of a shopping mall with relatives when her grandmother suddenly flung her over a railing, sending the girl on a fatal plunge to the pavement several stories below, police said. Carmela Dela Rosa, 50, of Fairfax was arrested and charged with murder, a prosecutor said. Authorities said interviews with witnesses and Dela Rosa led them to the conclusion that the girl’s fall was no accident, but they couldn’t yet explain why the grandmother threw her.
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As San Franciscans hunt for holiday bargains, some shoppers have found that items advertised on Craigslist can be a steal — literally.
Following a rash of theft reports in The City related to the popular website, police are pleading for consumers to use common sense when shopping online this holiday season.
“People become a little bit too comfortable with Internet use,” said police Lt. Troy Dangerfield.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday the City will bring back Shop SF for the holiday season. Being called Shop SF, Get More, the program offers special discounts and promotions exclusively for residents of the nine Bay Area counties until January 2010. It’s mean to help stimulate the local economy.
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