In an annual study tracking customer satisfaction ratings with the top 100 online retailers, perhaps the biggest takeaway is that Amazon is the world’s biggest e-retailer for a reason: It just plain makes customers happier than the competition.
via Apple, Amazon Rank High in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey | Moneyland | TIME.com.
Just think of the endless possibilities you’d have at your disposal if you owned a vehicle “that glides over land and water yet also soars in the air up to 70 mph with the aid of integrated wings.” That’s what Hammacher Schlemmer …
Talk about long distance. Virgin Atlantic has announced that it’s letting customers make calls with their own cellphones — provided they’re on the airline’s new Airbus A330 flying between London and New York.
Yes, you’ll …
Here’s a handful of interesting tech stories from around the web.
Apple Founder Wozniak to Buy Facebook Regardless of Price [Bloomberg]
Wozniak, who built the first Apple computer with Steve Jobs and co-founded the company
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Apple’s next 15-inch MacBook Pro will reportedly be much thinner than its predecessors, at the expense of a DVD drive.
“Trusted sources” tell 9 to5 Mac that Apple is almost ready to launch the revamped 15-inch Pro. The laptop …
Last Friday, we learned that Eduardo Saverin, one of the co-founders of Facebook, had renounced his American citizenship in what seemed to be a transparent ploy to escape a hefty bill from the IRS in the wake of Facebook’s …
Recently, smartphone owners became the majority of mobile subscribers. And a poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project says that 74% of them use their phones to access location-based information — directions, local …
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“It’s key to note that the DigiTimes has a hit-or-miss track record for nailing predictions….”
“Digitimes has a spotty track record with regard to Apple rumors…”
“Given the lack of hard evidence and DigiTimes’s …
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At Yahoo, the sun will always come out tomorrow. Or at least that’s my conclusion after reviewing some of the memos that have leaked from the company after its various difficult transitions over the past five years, culminating …
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And so it ends. This morning, All Things D’s Kara Swisher — whose stories about Yahoo’s crisis over the widely-circulated but false statement that its new CEO Scott Thompson earned a degree in computer science have made for …
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They generally don’t let dogs into tech trade shows — how unfair! — which is why the pooch in the photo above, which I took at CTIA Wireless in New Orleans, is stuffed. He’s helping to demo Tagg, a gadget that uses GPS to help …
Just in time for the weekend, Turntable.fm’s Android app is now available in the Google Play store.
Turntable.fm is a free music app that lets users play songs for one another. Users join a room, where up to five DJs take …
