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Chasing down the latest Cyber Monday tech deals

By Tim Conneally | Published December 1, 2008, 2:01 PM

2:56pm PT: Geeks.com includes some less commonly seen devices in its holiday sale such as a cassette-to-MP3 convertor, and the Dell Axim PDA.

2:47pm PT: While not precisely a "Cyber Monday" deal, Amazon Web Services has announced a new free tier on its SimpleDB service today.

At the conclusion of the public beta of Amazon Web Services' SimpleDB database, the group has announced it will offer a free usage tier for at least the next six months. Calling it an "unlimited beta," Amazon Web Services' SimpleDB free tier will give users 25 machine hours, 1GB of in/out data transfer, and 1GB of storage per month at no cost. The per gigabyte charge per month for paying customers has also dropped more than 83% to 25ยข per gig.y (and sometimes more, in the case of Best Buy) online sales are the hallmark of "Cyber Monday," so BetaNews is keeping track of some sales most pertinent to our readers' interests.

Long-running New York City technology retailer Sixth Avenue Electronics is one of a handful of select retailers featuring the TomTom One 125 GPS for under $100.

Direct sales pioneer Dell's Cyber Monday Sale includes the XPS M1530 for $1,199, Inspiron 1525 for $519, and Studio 15 for $699.

HP is having its own Cyber Monday sale.

Adobe has reduced prices on its popular software today.

New Jersey computer mailorder giant Newegg is having "Mega Monday Madness," with a long list of products that's increasingly going "Sold Out."

Wal-Mart is offering a package deal with a Compaq CQ50-139QM Laptop and HP Printer/Scanner/Copier for $498.

The VMware Store is offering 50% off of VMware Fusion for CyberMonday.

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