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Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday 105

Posted by Zonk from the hit-em-hard-then-pick-them-up dept.
eweekhickins writes "A surge of e-commerce traffic on Thanksgiving night and all day Friday apparently caught several retail giants by surprise, with Lowe's, Macys and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit. In fact, almost a third of leading retailers suffered significant slowdowns on Black Friday, according to statistics released this weekend by Keynote Competitive Research, a firm that tracks Web site performance."
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Journal Journal: Why can't there be unrated video games? 1

Journal by Drosan
In midst of all the controversy from Manhunt 2's rating, why can't we have games without ratings be released into the public? Movies are allowed to be sold on DVD without ratings from the MPAA. Nintendo and Microsoft and maybe even Sony say they won't allow AO games to be sold, since the line has to be drawn somewhere. So if the game wasn't rated at all, would it be sold? Probably, because there is an audience that demands it. But I'm probably missing the bigger image, and there's must be a very

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