Wal-Mart to sell Blackberry Curve 8520 for $48.88
BlackBerry’s new Curve 8520 will be available at Wal-Mart stores in early August for the iPhone-undermining price of $48.88 with a two-year T-Mobile service contract. (T-Mobile stores will sell the phone for $129.99.) The phone, aimed at young social networkers rather than business people, trades… Continue Reading
Roundup: Cuts at One Laptop Per Child, Yahoo takeover plans and more
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One Laptop Per Child cuts 50 percent of staff — The group says it is refocusing its efforts and that the remaining 32 team members are facing salary cuts.
Investment group eyes Yahoo takeover — Silicon Valley executives and investment bankers are putting together a… Continue Reading
Online holiday shopping drops 3 percent
Surprising no one, online shoppers cut back on their gift-buying this year. Web sales during the holiday season dropped three percent compared to the same period last year, according to data from comScore. This is the first time online holiday sales have dropped since comScore… Continue Reading
The iPhone is coming to Wal-Mart and will be cheaper — by $2
The current hottest iPhone rumor is that it will be available in Wal-Mart stores this month at a discounted price. New information suggests both of those may be true — sort of.
While various blogs have been reporting for weeks that Apple’s hot device would make… Continue Reading
Wal-Mart iPhone to hit the magic price point: $99?
$99 is a magic price point. It’s basically $100 but it doesn’t look like $100 thanks to that one less digit. That comforts a lot of consumers, and they’re more likely to buy when they’re comfortable with the price. So it’s potentially huge news that perhaps… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo developer platform launches, Wal-Mart sells G1, and more
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So many games, so little time — The typical household video game collection boasts 48 titles, but 11 percent of gamers say they own unopened games. That’s according to a new survey by analyst firm the NPD Group.
Desktop software still relevant, Microsoft chief… Continue Reading
iTunes still king of music sales, but Amazon rises and MySpace Music is coming
When’s the last time you bought an actual CD? For me, it’s been almost a year which is crazy considering that between the mid 1990s and mid 2000s I bought hundreds of them. Have I stopped liking music? No, I’ve just gone digital, and apparently… Continue Reading
Wal-Mart wises up, ditches Windows-based DRM
Wal-Mart’s digital music download store is, quite-frankly, awful. That could soon change however with a shift in policy.
Wal-Mart is ditching the DRM it had been using to protect songs sold though its online store and will instead focus on DRM-free music, Wired reports. Because it… Continue Reading
Amid the coronation of iTunes as digital music king, the sound of war
The trend has been clear for a while: Digital music is the future of the industry. Now we have the data to prove it. Apple’s iTunes music store has surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number 1 retailer of music in the United States.
Okay, so a… Continue Reading
Roundup: The growing internet ad market, San Francisco’s carbon tax, Google Maps and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) US internet ad market is big, getting bigger
2) San Francisco, home of the carbon tax?
3) Google Maps adds user ratings to local search
4) Wal-Mart launches cleantech accelerator
5) Visits to Facebook appear to drop
6) Proofpoint raises $28 million for email security
7) Piczo… Continue Reading
Roundup: Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down, Montalvo’s mobile chip and more
1. Amazon S3, VentureBeat go down
2. Montalvo Systems vs. Intel, with chip for handheld devices
3. Fox Interactive to introduce “music Hulu for MySpace”
4. Yahoo’s board moving against Yang
5. Google searchers are wealthier, buy more online
6. Xobni hires Jeff Bonforte away from Yahoo, to be its… Continue Reading
PayPerPost tests your ethics, & Edelman’s fake blog for Wal-Mart
PayPerPost is a Florida start-up that lets bloggers get paid for writing about products and other companies.
It has just got $3 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture firm Draper Fisher Jurveston and others.
People have said this is a controversial company, because regular readers… Continue Reading