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Catalog shopping seemingly received its death knell with the rise of e-commerce, but it is poised for a comeback with Google Catalogs, a free app for the iPad (and coming soon for Android) that lets you flip through digital versions of print catalogs.
Turns out, your mother wasn’t entirely wrong: Scientists in Australia are reporting that sitting and watching television too much may not be the death of you, but it’ll definitely shorten your lifespan.
Effective immediately, Sony’s PlayStation 3 is $50 cheaper. The home game system now costs $249 for a 160 GB model, or $299 for a 320 GB model.
Since my mother, father, best friend, ex-boss, neighbor, neighbor’s sister and even the guy who sells me my coffee keep asking me when the next iPhone is coming out, let me set the record straight: My name isn’t exactly Steve Jobs, but I can tell you that people are whispering that it will finally be [...]
Apparently, huge price cuts on HP’s Touchpad didn’t save the tablet from flopping hard. Sources tell All Things Digital that Best Buy has sold just 25,000 units — less than 10 percent of its inventory. Analyst Rich Doherty of the Envisioneering Group says sales are also poor at Walmart, Microcenter and Fry’s.
The premise of FastCustomer is astonishingly simple: You select from one of over 2,500 companies (including all of the Fortune 500), and the app calls the company and waits on hold. When a customer service representative finally picks up on the other end, the app calls you back and you’re free to complain chat as [...]
Ah, college: the most and least amount of responsibility you’ll ever have at exactly the same time. It’s equal parts work and fun, kind of like these handpicked back to school gadgets and accessories.
Clearly, Netflix subscribes to the “Get ‘Em While They’re Young” philosophy of brand loyalty, launching a new area of its website called the “Just For Kids.”
Now’s apparently a good time to stop holding out for the iPad 3 or iPad 2 HD that was rumored to arrive later this year. According to DigiTimes, Apple has canceled its plans to produce a high-resolution iPad in late 2011.
Sony might have figured out a sneaky but ingenious way to increase sales of its next crop of e-readers: Cash in on the still-existent Harry Potter craze.
Last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) controversially shut down cellular service in its stations to curb the efforts of demonstrators protesting the police shooting death of Charles Blair Hill back on July 3rd of this year. Discontent with BART police has been festering for quite some time following the wrongful shooting death of Oscar [...]
