As the popularity of gift cards increase, some resourceful people are creating ways to give gift card holders more options. Now, there are Web sites where people can sell or exchange their unwanted gift cards. M. J. Kelly, CEO of SwapAGift. com, says, "You can list your gift card for sale on the Web site. You can also swap your gift card for a gift card you'd rather have, or you can sell your gift card directly to us. "

In keeping with a holiday tradition, last-minute shoppers this holiday season are more likely to be men, according to a new survey. This, as retailers are depending more on procrastinators this holiday season. Without one or two stand out must-have toys or apparel to lure people into stores, many shoppers have decided to hold off until the final hours before Christmas to open their wallets.

More than 200 partiers dressed like Saint Nick gathered in Los Angeles to do some pretty unsaintly things in the name of Santacon. It's a spontaneous, rollicking piece of performance art that, depending on who you ask, is known as Santacon (for "Santa Convention"), Santarchy (think anarchy), or Santa Rampage. The fun-loving Santas swarmed Los Angeles subways, sidewalks and bars doing some un-Santa-like things in the name of meaningless fun, the Los Angeles Times reported. Those in costume doled out oddities such as old credit cards and ramen noodles as Christmas gifts to passersby Saturday. They even stopped at bars to have a few drinks. Most onlookers say they were very amused.

Students can typically forget a number of things when they go to school, namely their books, notes, or term papers. But the one thing many universities are certain that students never forget is their cell phones - and that is why Japanese universities have decided to incorporate student identification cards on their phones. From next April, all new students at Kanagawa Institute of Technology near Tokyo will carry an ID on their phone that lets them register for classes, open locked doors and surf the Internet for school-related information.

A Wal-Mart manager was fired after calling the law on a black businessman suspected of trying to pass a bad check, store representative said Tuesday. Manager Mark Cornett called sheriff's deputies after Reginald Pitts, 34, tried to pay for holiday gift cards for his company's employees with a $13,000 check.