White by Vera Wang bridal collection debuts exclusively at David’s Bridal as the largest wedding-chain store in America collaborated with the famous fashion designer and bridal couturier.

David’s Bridal brings their widespread success to a higher level in the wedding retail industry through their partnership with Vera Wang, who is famous for her contemporary and stylish approach to design.

Vera Wang had to create designs for David’s Bridal with a given set of parameters to make sure that the upcoming bridal collection would fit a reasonable balance between price and art. She has already made several wedding gowns and dressed brides such as Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton.

The White by Vera Wang wedding collection offer a lower price point than her other more expensive couture line. The exclusive collection hopes to bring the American fashion designer’s celebrated artistry to all women at a much affordable price.

Although Vera Wang had to follow certain guidelines to ensure that the line could keep between the anticipated $600 and $1400 price, the artistic and visual component of the bridal collection is not sacrificed.

Vera Wang offer a wide variety of gowns to suit any hopeful bride on her very special day. Her bridal gowns range in color and styles. Colors vary from soft white, ivory and blush while styles vary from strapless, flare silhouettes, as well as goddess and fit. She remains loyal to her extra feminine draping technique with marvellously complex beading and lace.

White by Vera Wang is her spring 2011 collection, which will be available soon at around 150 David’s Bridal stores throughout the United States. Gown sizes range from 0 to 14. In the fall, gowns up to size 26 will be available.

Wal-Mart fights back competitors by emphasizing low prices and adding back thousands of products in store. The company is also planning to expand into cities and neighborhoods where other people dare not to go.

Three years ago, Wal-Mart led several dollar stores for selection, convenience and price. However, it is now losing customers and revenue, including smarting because of some poor decisions.

Although Wal-Mart is not in danger of giving up its place as top of the retail food chain, several competitors have already begun chipping away some parts of its dominance.

According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, revenue at Wal-Mart stores, which are open at least a year, has decreased by an average 0.75 percent each quarter over the last year. But, revenue increased by an average of almost 1.7 percent at Target, 5.9 percent at Family Dollar and 8 percent at Costco.

Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke said in an interview with The Associated Press that they are running a better business now since competitors brought them to raise their own game. Wal-Mart anticipates that the decline in revenue will stop when it releases results from its fourth quarter this month.

Not like other stores, Wal-Mart thrived in late 2007 when the US when into a reccession. Its primary customers from households bought even more. It became the only place where many people shopped.

The entire $27 billion revenue growth of Wal-Mart for the year ending in January 2009 came from larger demand for basic items such as foods, household goods and pharmacy. That year, shoppers spent almost a quarter more on basics.

The company is also completing a major renovation to address shoppers’ complaints that its stores were messy. It widened aisles, removed clutters, enhanced lighting and lowered shelves.

The online shopping trend in Malaysia is healthy according to the leading eCommerce marketplace, eBay Malaysia. The country manager Ambareeesh Murty said that it is driven by the high broadband penetration rate in the country.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the broadband penetration in Malaysia exceeded the original target of 50 percent to 55.6 percent.

Ambareesh told in a recent interview, online shopping in any market has fundamental requirements, and a key requirement is the use of broadband. He added that broadband penetration in the Malaysian market is already surging.

Because of the convenience it offers, online shopping is getting popular in the country. A survey from MasterCard showed that 30 percent of Malaysians made online purchases in 2009, which increased to 50 percent last year. Ambareesh said that the trend is positive and they are very optimistic about online shopping.

Malaysia ranked number three in online shopping based on the 2010 Visa e-Commerce Consumer Monitor. The country has spent an average amount of $2,006 for the past 12 months. They are behind Taiwan with $4,041 and China with $2,557.

EBay Inc, a world’s online marketplace, allows trade on local, national and international basis. It provides an online platform where millions of items can be sold each day.

EBay Malaysia, a completely-owned auxiliary of eBay Inc, offers three ways to sell products or services. Those are auction, fixed-price and classifieds. It offers an easy, safe and trusted trading platform for their customers, Ambareesh said.

He explained that the company will continuously improve and enhance the features and tools on its website to give a better experience for users.

The clash of tablets appears to be on the rage these recently. But, if new figures are any indication, it probably means they are still warming up.

Apple Inc, the undisputed company leader in the industry, has sold more than 14 million iPads as of December. But, market shares dropped in the third quarter of 2010 from 95 percent to 75 percent the succeeding quarter, according to the research firm Strategy Analytics.

During the same period, shipments of Android-powered tablets increased from 2.3 percent to 21.6 percent. However, those figures on market-shares represent shipments from manufacturers to vendors, and not the sales to end-users.

To sum it all, more than 17 million tablets were shipped in the entire world in 2010. More than half of them or 9.7 million were included in the holiday shopping season in the fourth quarter.

Durring the fourth quarter, there were 2.1 millions shipments for Android tablet while only 300,000 devices equipped with other operating systems were shipped.

But, sales for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which is now the most popular tablet that runs Android operating system, were not as high as the company had hoped for, the Wall Street Journal noted.

Samsung’s Lee Young-hee said in an earnings call on Friday that there were two million Tabs shipped by the manufacturer in South Korea, but only “a small number” were bought by consumers.

Still, Apple’s financial reports showed a decrease on iPad’s success in the last quarter of 2010, CNN noted. There were still 525,000 iPads left unsold than in the preceding quarter.

Timeless appears to be the perfect adjective to describe the newest haute couture collection by Chanel. It is considered as a significant exercise in pure aesthetics and a big statement about modern fashion LK.

The Haute Couture collection was presented in rue Cambon, central Paris last Tuesday morning. Even though the collection was inspired by Marie Laurencin and represented a popular painting composed by “feminist” artist Coco Chanel, it was considered timeless in a sense that it did not suggest any specific period.

The collection consists of clothes that shimmer with crystals, pearls and beads. Semi-transparent clothes also dazzled the audiences where the collection was shown.

The show started quietly with series of models wearing sequined leggings or jeans. The ankle portion has bunches of semi-precious stones, all worn with flat ballet slippers. On top of the jeans, Chanel’s creative director Karl Lagerfeld used sleek tunics and mid-length coats.

In the middle of the show, the Chanel atelier went into full gear with an outstanding series of outfits. The collection was made completely of embroidery. Fitted jackets made of woven crystals, pencil pants made with micro pearls or redingotes amusingly reflected the light.

Lagerfield said that embroidering a design on to a sleeve or lapel is tricky, but creating a whole jacket out of embroidery is extremely difficult. He said he drove the atelier mad.

For the final show, several models posed on a staircase with tall mirrors as a background. It was a replica of the same stairway where Mademoiselle Chanel used to silently observe her own runway shows.

Creative accessories that add character and enhance functionality to Apple’s iPad are crowding in the market. Some of these include customizable and hardcover cases with keyboards.

Heart monitors, hard drives and a digital crayons specially designed for iPad were also demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show that was held early January in Las Vegas.

M-Edge Accessories, the provider of eReader accessories offers customizable cases that will bring personality to tablets and e-readers. Through an online design tool offered by the company, users can create their own artwork using images and photos.

Once the desired design is achieved, M-Edge will print the image on the jacket adding a layer of Scotchguard film to protect the artwork. These jackets are coming soon at the price of $50 for Apple iPads.

Zagg Inc. also offers a protective cover and keyboard for Apple’s iPad. The hard cover is made from aluminum while the middle of the case contains a keyboard that connects to the tablet using Bluetooth.

The Zaggmate plus keyboard is a handy accessory for travelers and users who often make documents through Apple’s iWork suite. It is priced at $99 and is only available at their website.

Earlier this month, iHealth Labs released their iHealth blood pressure monitoring that can be connected to iPad, iPhone, as well as iPod Touch. It includes arm cuff, hardware dock, and an app that collects the blood pressure information. The device is priced at $99.95.

For those people who want an extended storage for iPad, the Sanho HyperDrive hard drive is the solution. It offers up to 750GB additional storage that also includes an internal storage of up to 64GB.

Prices for the iPad hard drive range from $299 for 120GB up to $599 for 750GB hard drive. These are available at the Hypershop’s website.

Lastly, Griffin Technology will brighten kids’ days as it offers a digital crayon that replicates the old Crayola crayons called iMarker styles. Kids can draw on the iPad through the coloring book application. The device will be available on the next quarter.

Motorola’s Xoom, a tablet running under the much-awaited Android Honeycomb will be sold at $800, according to information disclosed from an unknown Verizon employee.

According to a report from Mashable, Xoom is unique for many reasons. First, it is one of the first Verizon 4G LTE devices, along with the Droid Bionic and other lists of smartphones.

Second, it is one of the first tablets that will be running Honeycomb, an Android 3.0 version. Honeycomb is the tablet-specific fork of the Android mobile operating system. While there are Android tablets currently running in versions 1.6 and 2.2 Froyo, the Honeycomb is the first operating system that is intentionally created for the tablet form factor.

Apart from its new OS, Xoom consists of dynamic features such as a 1080p screen resolution, and DMI output and an accelerometer. It has a front and rear cameras with 2 and 5 megapixels, respectively.

Motorola said the device offers console-like gaming performance with its 1280×800 display. It also features a built-in gyroscope, e-compass and adaptive lighting for new kinds of applications.

The tablet also displays Google Maps 5.0 with three-dimensional interaction. It can also get access to more than 3 million Google eBooks, as well as thousands of applications from the Android Market.

The first 3G and Wi-fi enabled Xoom units will be available around the end of the first quarter this year, according to new reports from Android Central. In addition, they said the minimum advertised price for each unit will start at $800, which is a large price tag in comparison to other gadget selections available in the market.

Thousands of objects related to the “Fab Four” are inviting Beatles fans to a newly built museum in Buenos Aires. These items include a brick from The Cavern Club, an “authentic” Beatles wig, and a check for 11 pounds signed by Ringo Starr.

Rodolfo Vasquez, a 53 year-old accountant gave rise to this “Beatlemania” museum. He became a fan at an early age of ten when he acquired the “Rubber Soul” record. He said he fell in love with the Beatles because of their song “In my Life.”

Vasquez took all of the memorabilia that he could find about the most famous rock band in history. It was a serious obsession that got bigger until he made it into the Guinness World of Records as the person having the world’s largest collection in 2001.

Guinness recorded a total of 5,612 items kept in his home’s attic in Buenos Aires. Since then, his collection has grown to over 8,500 gadgets, records, games and puppets.

About 2,200 of these precious pieces are on the shelves in the Memorabilia museum that recently opened a month ago along Avenue Corrientes where several tourists go.

The storefront museum in Buenos Aires rise among other museums because of its complete number of pieces, delicately arranged in display cases and shelves on the walls. It consists of several objects that will suite anyone’s preferences.

Vasquez said the idea of the museum is to show his collection permanently and change the items on display with others every year. Otherwise, he said it would be all kept in the boxes and trunks without anyone being able to enjoy them.

A French perfumer is set to launch fragrances for men and women in commemoration of Michael Jackson, thanks to two young autograph hunters who asked to borrow a pen in Las Vegas.

The fragrances were inspired by the plants that grow at the late King of Pop’s Neverland Ranch. Eau de parfums’ “Jackson’s Tribute” for men and “Jackson’s Legend” for women will be officially launched in United States on March 7.

Julian Rouas Paris manufactures own-brand and private-label fragrances. He formulated the Michael Jackson scents in just two weeks under a partnership agreement with the head of the Jackson family signed last month in California.

Chief executive Frank Rouas said that with Joe Jackson they are 50-50 partners in world sales, including television rights and advertising receipts. He also added that a part of the proceeds will be given to the charities preferred by Michael Jackson.

Franck Rouas is a one-time French tennis instructor to Hollywood stars. He recounted that one day when he was managing his company’s stall at a trade fair in Las Vegas, two autograph hunters asked to borrow his pen telling that the Jackson family was nearby.

Rouas instantly gave them not only his pen, but including two samples of Versailles, one of his firm’s own brands. He instructed the autograph hunters to give the perfumes to Janet Jackson.

After an hour, Rouas was invited to meet the Jackson family in a private salon. The Jacksons showed interest in his products, Rouas said. He then proposed different fragrances to the Jackson family.

Joseph Rubino said that after further negotiations, they settled on a fruity floral blend for women and a muskier version for men. He is the master perfumer who perfected both scents.

However, a spokesman for Michael Jackson’s side informed that the perfume business undertaking was a Joe Jackson deal, in which the estate was not in any way involved.

Verizon Wireless announced on Tuesday that they will be selling their version of the iPhone 4 starting February 10 of this year. This gives iPhone buyers in the United States a different choice of carrier for the first time after three and a half years.

The iPhone has been sold exclusively by the wireless carrier AT&T Inc since it was released to the U.S market in 2007.  Many people were frustrated by this lack of network choice.

The launch event held on Tuesday finally ended the monopoly on Apple Inc’s iPhone. Many people are already excited to get this phone in their hands through the Verizon network.

Tim Cook can not even tell the number of times he has been asked by his colleagues about when the iPhone will work for the Verizon Wirelss, the Apple chief operating officer said on the Tuesday’s event.

For existing Verizon customers, the pre-orders for iPhone will start on February 3. The given price will be $200 or $300 along with a two-year contract. That is about the same price and concurrence as the iPhone through AT&T.

With wider domestic network coverage than AT&T, Verizon is thought to offer better features particularly for the older “3G” wireless broadband. The carrier covers several areas within the country that AT&T does not.

In addition, iPhone service by AT&T in big cities can be spotty most likely because of crowding in the network.

However, it is still unclear as to how many people will shift from AT&T to Verizon. Verizon did not mention anything about their iPhone’s service plan along with pricing on Tuesday.

AT&T has sold about 11.1 million iPhones in a period of nine months in 2010. Analysts are expecting Verizon to sell about 5 to 13 million iPhones this year.