According to eBay, online shopping on your computer is so 2009.
The company announced this morning that its gross merchandise volume in global mobile sales has tripled from $600 million in 2009 to $2 billion in 2010. eBay also added that its mobile apps have been downloaded over 30 million times in eight different languages and over …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about the Steel one-shot and the first issue of Ultimate Comics Captain America.
GRAEME: It’d be really optimistic to guess that the reason Steel #1 read so much like a generic …
Apple’s most recent line of MacBook Air computers is an impressive competitor in the ultraportable notebook market. While the 11-inch MacBook Air weighs in at just 2.2 pounds, the 13.3-inch version actually strikes me as somewhat more impressive given that its got a nice, big keyboard and the screen resolution is a whopping 1440×900 …
Sources have told Reuters that LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has plans to sell public stock options in the upcoming year. According to the story, the company, which has over 85 million profiles and makes money from advertising and premium account sales, has already chosen Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JP Morgan as …
3D may be the new thing for movies, television and gaming, but just how safe is it…? As we reported yesterday, Nintendo recently posted a warning on its Japanese website that suggested that players take a break from 3D every thirty minutes, adding “For children under the age of 6, looking at 3D images for a long time could possibly …
The television industry may have finally worked out a way to get around concerns about viewers “cord-cutting” and dropping their cable boxes in favor of Video on Demand: Stop releasing their show to VoD companies.
Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent, talking at the Citigroup Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference …
TiVo’s fortunes are on the rise, and it may be because the company is pushing beyond DVR to reposition itself as the producer of the must-have home media hub. According to CEO Tom Rogers, the company’s new Premiere DVR box – which comes free with a two-year subscription for $20 a month, and offers users access to streamed VoD content …
Ford announced Wednesday that it’s 2012 line of Mustangs would all come with its SYNC software system pre-installed, allowing drivers to control their entertainment consoles via the voice activation software of their smartphone with the SYNC Applink phone app.
At first, the set up seems deceptively simple: Just plug your phone into …
There’s no denying that the folks behind Android technology are extremely busy. Today, they previewed the newest operation platform the Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Now with 3D technology best seen when using Google Maps 5 and an easier to use interface, the new design looks sleek and sophisticated – at least according to the video they …
Although the latest tablets may be generating all the buzz, a new Nielsen survey shows that for the average consumer, hype typically doesn’t translate into a purchase. According to the 27,000-person survey, only 6% of respondents said they were interested in buying a tablet. And while Amazon’s Kindle is its best-selling item of all time, …
Smartphone Medic released pictures from a reliable source of what they believe to be a new Apple iPhone prototype. It’s just the metal frame that’s under the casing, so don’t freak out thinking that the next iPhone has gone all cyborg. The website has put the two models (the unknown version and an iPhone 4G frame) together and compared …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a keynote address on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, focusing on his company’s Xbox 360 entertainment initiatives, the new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform, and what we can expect to see from future versions of Windows PCs.
Xbox 360 Kinect
Microsoft’s “Kinect” …
