The U.S. Postal Service, near bankruptcy and losing billions of dollars every quarter pushing a product no one wants, unveiled today its new strategy to regain some relevance. That strategy involves scaring consumers about the dangers of email and online bill payment in several new 30-second TV commercials.
The ads tell consumers that …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
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Facebook may have Don Draper pitching its new timeline interface in fan-made viral videos, but that doesn’t mean that it’ll roll out to universal acclaim. Or, in fact, that it will necessarily roll out at all.
Timelines, a Chicago-based website that offers users the chance to “collaboratively record, discover and share history” has …
Sometimes you need to listen to a particular song that’s in your head, just to exorcise it. And sometimes that song is so embarrassing—”I Think We’re Alone Now,” by Tiffany, for example—that you’d really rather it didn’t show up on your Facebook profile for all to see. That’s where Spotify’s new “Private Listening” feature comes …
With the Galaxy 7.0 Plus, Samsung has finally settled on a favorite tablet size: all of them.
The Galaxy 7.0 Plus is a souped-up sequel to last year’s original Galaxy Tab, running Android 3.2 Honeycomb. It has a 7-inch, 1024-by-600 resolution display, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage, a …
Amidst speculation about whether the soon-to-be-announced new iPhone will sport a new design or basically resemble an iPhone 4 with updated guts (my fake money’s on both: a new model along with a cheaper iPhone 4-like model), MacRumors has apparently been sent photos of a new iPhone protective case that’s already showing up at AT&T …
Could Amazon be lining up to grab Palm away from Hewlett Packard? VentureBeat claims it’s heard as much from “a well-placed source” (well, aren’t they all?). Amazon’s said to be in “serious negotiations” to snatch Palm from HP, and that HP’s more than ready to divest itself of the once-prominent smartphone manufacturer turned webOS …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
As is to be expected, many in the media are commenting on the extremely aggressive pricing of the Kindle Fire as the most disruptive element of the …
BlackBerry PlayBook price, come on down, you’re the next—or actually, first—contestant on The Price Wasn’t Right, But We’ll Fix That, in view of the Android-based Kindle Fire, which Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Wednesday for just $199.
RIM’s PlayBook had been going for between $299 and $499, depending on model, but retailer Best …
Amazon now has seven different Kindle models for sale. Here’s a look at all of them, along with tips for picking the one that’s right for you.
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Tango has launched a PC app, giving desktop and laptop users a new way to video chat with their smartphone-toting friends. The app is available free for Windows PCs from Tango’s website.
Although several other video chat apps exist already for smartphones—Fring and Qik among them—rare is the service that allows PC-to-smartphone or …
If you ever wondered what computer problems would look like if they were actually real, you’ve got your answer. Literally can’t open folders? God forbid if your firewall isn’t working, and all your windows are crashing.
Good thing we don’t take our computer problems too literally.
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