Over half of US Households now own at least one digital TV set, claim the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
In the build up to the trade show mania that is the CES, the CEA is winding up the PR machine and releasing statistics to both boost the TV industry and get the public interested.
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US online retailers have had a bumper holiday season, with virtual cash tills rattling to a $22 billion spending bonanza, up a hefty 18% increase from the same period last year.
The figures come from stat-loving boffins comScore, who recently released updated figures for the holiday e-commerce season spending for the first 44 days of the November – December 2007 holiday season (1 November – 14 December).
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More and more Americans are ‘vanity searching’ – typing their own names into Google – with many also using search engines to sniff out info about their friends, co-workers and romantic interests.
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Based on nothing more than our wholly unscientific personal observations over the course of a two week stay in the Big Apple, we can declare that the Blackberry is far and away the number one phone in Manhattan.
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We all used to love the early days when the new Wired magazine came out, right? The anticipation of the magazine which actually ‘Got it,’ alone in a world where all other magazines were clueless.
Well, after selling off Wired magazine and wired.com off for not nearly as much as he wanted to get for it, Wired founder, Louis Rossetto floated off to enjoy his life. Well now he’s back with a totally different business – Tcho, selling fine hand-made chocolate.
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Just over two years ago we covered the launch of FiOS TV, an IPTV service by US operator Verizon, that operates over fibre optic connections.
HD VOD – High Definition Video On Demand – has now being rolled out to a number of the regions covered by the FiOS TV service – Richmond and Virginia Beach, Va.; Tampa, Fla.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Pittsburgh.
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Search engine giants, nay, colossi, Goggle have once again increased their share of the U.S. Internet search engine market, eagerly surging past rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.
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A seriously homophobic pastor of an American evangelical church has pledged to ‘take over Microsoft’ by encouraging millions of God-botherers to buy shares and overthrow the company’s longstanding policy of championing gay rights.
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It appears that Hushmail isn’t quite as secure as it was initially thought to be.
Up to this point, it was thought that Hushmail was completely secure as messages were stored encrypted. Indeed Hushmail used to boast that not even their engineers would be able to read messages of users.
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Mydeo, a UK company that lets people securely share video clips on the Internet, has today announced a partnership and investment by electronics retailing giant Best Buy.
Best Buy sell 40% of all camcorders sold in the US, a major benefit for Mydeo, putting them right in front of the people who will be shooting video and looking for a place to host it. The deal was kicked off by an introduction by Microsoft’s Emerging Business unit.
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