AOC, the world's largest manufacturer of LCD/LED Monitors and HDTVs, reveals the Aire Black LED, a glossy piano-black monitor featuring one of the world's slimmest display panels. This new all-black addition to the popular AireLED Series offers bonus features like embedded Screen+ software that allows the user to divide the screen into four self-contained work areas. The Aire Black LED monitor comes in 20-inch (e2043Fk, $129), 22-inch (e2243Fwk, $149) and 23-inch (e2343Fk, $179) screen sizes, and is now available at national retailers including Best Buy, Radio Shack, Office Max, Fry's, TigerDirect/CompUSA and PC Richards, among others.

The sleek widescreen Aire Black LED Monitor is one of the slimmest display panels on the market at 12.7 cm throughout. The monitor also offers impressive image quality with a 50,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio, 5ms response time, and a DVI-D with HDCP input for the ultimate HD viewing experience. Along with being EPEAT Gold Certified for its green packaging and production, the Aire Black LED Monitor on average consumes only 15 watts of energy and includes an eSaver feature that lets the user preset power conservation modes for the display when the PC is not in use. The monitor's Power Saving Mode uses 50 percent less power, and Standby Mode uses only 0.1W.

Systemax Incorporated is currently in talks to buy the CompUSA brand, trademarks, e-commerce business and as many as 16 retail stores. Systemax analysts predict that the CompUSA brand name still has quite a bit of value, and can be turned around and brought to profitable glory. Systemax is willing to spend $30 million USD on this acquisition. Systemax has not yet announced what exactly they will do to make CompUSA a profitable enterprise.

While the rumor that CompUSA is closing soon has been going around the internet for around a week now, nobody had actually confirmed anything. CompUSA head honchos officially confirmed what has been suspected: CompUSA was acquired by an investment firm, which goes by the name of the Gordon Brothers Group.

Under the terms of the deal, ownership of CompUSA will be transferred from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim to the Gordon Brothers Group. "An orderly and expedited wind-down and asset sale process is the best option for CompUSA and its creditors at this juncture," said Bill Weinstein of the Gordon Brothers Group.

Assuming you have a CompUSA near you, expect some very nice going out of business sales to arrive shortly.

CompUSA is set to close its remaining 103 shops after it was sold to private equity firm Special Equity on Friday. This should mean some great bargains for consumers buying PC equipment, as CompUSA will need to sell all of its remaining stock before it closes its stores after the holiday period. There were signs that CompUSA was in trouble earlier this year when it closed half its stores in March, and now it looks as though increasing pressure from firms such as Best Buy and Circuit City has driven it out of business.

Circuit City has already announced earlier this year that it plans to close a number of its stores in the US and Canada, and now CompUSA is next on the list - only in a more serious way. The company intends to close 126 of its stores altogether, which will leave only 109 stores in the USA and Puerto Rico. The process got underway last week and is expected to take about between two and three months to complete. CompUSA has struggled to compete with rivals Best Buy and Circuit City in recent years, and increased competition from online stores such as Newegg has forced it to close some of its low-performance or non-strategic stores.