This year, GE Consumer and Industrial has created America's first National Christmas Tree outfitted from top to bottom with energy-saving LED technology, including many light strings and ornaments used on previous year's trees.

Proctor & Gamble is reeling, much like many other American companies during today’s stock market crash, and spirits will sag further yet if there is a Pampers recall. Parents don’t care quite as much about whether somebody on Wall Street made a typo when recording a big Proctor & Gamble trade (sending investors scrambling for emergency cash loans) as they do about whether Pampers Dry Max diapers are causing diaper rash.

iPhone owners may get a taste of Microsoft on their phones shortly. According to a BusinessWeek report, Apple has been talking with Microsoft about implementing Bing as the default search option on the iPhone instead of Google.