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Greenberg talks up line-upDespite the new look PS3 Slim, a lower price and a few big name titles, Microsoft reckon they can hold their own against Sony this Christmas, product management director Aaron Greenberg talking up the Xbox 360's winter line-up.'I think if you first look at this holiday, we shape up really well versus Sony. Sure they have Uncharted and Ratchet, but if you want to play Halo 3: ODST, Forza 3, Left 4 Dead 2 or the GTA IV exclusive games you are only going to find those on Xbox 360. Then you have to add all of the exciting offerings we are bringing to Xbox LIVE with Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and instant-on HD movies in 1080p,' Greenberg beamed, talking with Eurogamer.net.'But of course if you look beyond this holiday you add in even more exclusives like Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, Crackdown 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Halo: Reach and Project Natal. I truly believe Xbox 360 is uniquely positioned to deliver the leading games and entertainment experiences both today

If you thought the travel bargains were unbelievable this year, just wait until 2010. Here are 10 places to find them during the Year of the Deal.

In her weekly commentary, host Michel Martin revisits former President Jimmy Carter's recent suggestion that President Obama is being heavily scrutinized in part because some are uncomfortable with a black president. Martin says to Carter's critics that time spent on pretending that race is not an issue could be better used thinking about how to bring about a colorblind reality.

The American Idol judge says next season promises to be great fun

Katherine Heigl's husband thinks their adopted baby is 'awesome'.

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”In the opening of the classic 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron,” novelist Kurt Vonnegut depicted a future in which people who had been born superior in some way over “average” people could not use those gifts to take “unfair” advantage. The strong lugged handicapping weights, the beautiful wore hideous masks and the clever were not permitted to think for stretches longer than 20 seconds or so. “A little mental handicap radio” transmitted earsplitting sounds such as a buzzer, a 21-gun salute or a ball-peen hammer striking a milk bottle. In response, “thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.” [More] Sponsor

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. 8 tonight, Channel 3. ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE. 8:30 tonight, Channel 3. THERE ARE those who still think of last night's Emmys' host as "Doogie Howser, M.D.," but if you haven't seen him suit up as Barney, the irrepressible ladies' man on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," then you haven't really seen Neil Patrick Harris.

It's all too easy to think that a stock that has risen sharply is no longer a bargain -- or conversely that shares that have been cut in half must be a good deal. If only investing were that simple.

Emmy viewers can be forgiven for thinking Sunday's 61st annual awards show was a repeat of last year's.

Web Entrepreneurs redefine city life. Fred Wilson looks at a handful of startups that are, in one way or another, influencing the way people live in cities. 'But there is something new afoot in urban life,' he writes. 'And it starts with the mobile phone, a computer in our pocket or purse, that is with us at all times.' Wilson cites Twitter, Foursquare, Outside.in, and CitySourced--a startup that launched last week that allows people to report pot holes to the local authorities using a smart phone--as examples. He predicts that the market for this type of company is growing: 'And we are just at the very beginning...Think about what happens when we get new interfaces on our phones that don't require us to be looking down and typing when we we are out and about.' Brooklyn's cluster retail model pays off in the recession. Along the affluent stretches of Smith and Court streets in Brooklyn, entrepreneurs have spent the past decade or so building mini empires using the 'cluster retail' mod