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With just over one hundred days to go until kick-off at the FIFA 2010 World Cup, there are still a number of fantastically priced group accommodation options available in South Africa with the Beekman Group, which will appeal specifically to the bulk tour operator - over 150,000 bed nights still available.

All resorts are no more than four hours from the stadia, with Beekman Group offering operators a chance to block book lodgings for the entire six weeks of competition.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp is slashing prices on a number of its processors, including cuts of up to 40 percent on some of its higher-powered, faster quad-core chips, as the world's largest chip maker copes with weakening demand.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Inflation ate deeply into U.S. consumer spending in the third quarter, doing more harm to the economy than either slumping car sales or housing, but recent commodity price falls may support growth going forward.

This does not mean that the U.S. economy is stronger than it looks. The gross domestic product shrank by 0.3 percent between July and September, according to annualized data released on Thursday, and many economists predict a recession lasting until mid-2009.