Archive | November 25th, 2011

ScottEVest Introduces The Puffer Jacket

Posted on 25 November 2011

ScottEVest makes clothes for use geeks. They have lots of pocketses, plenty of acceptable style, and you can amaze people by stuffing a water bottle and laptop out of one of their coats with room to spare

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The Kindle Fire, What Is It Good For?

Posted on 25 November 2011

When the Kindle Fire first shipped a couple weeks ago, the reviews were mixed. Uncle Walt calls it good, but not great .

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eBay: PayPal Mobile Payment Volume Up Over 500 Percent On Thanksgiving Day And Black Friday

Posted on 25 November 2011

As we heard earlier today, Thanksgiving proved to be a lucrative day for online retailers. IBM reported online Thanksgiving 2011 sales were up 39 percent over Thanksgiving 2010, with mobile shopping on the rise. eBay and PayPal are seeing similar trends.

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Walmart’s Black Friday Disaster: Website Crippled, Violence In Stores

Posted on 25 November 2011

Fire sales turned into a firestorm for Walmart this morning as the company’s web servers buckled under Black Friday traffic. Shoppers from around the country waited until the middle of the night for sales only to experience broken checkout pages, emptied shopping carts, and login errors. This caused their desired items to go out of stock before they could buy them, leading to mass frustration and ill will towards the discount store chain

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(Founder Stories) Bump’s David Lieb On Getting To 60 Million Downloads

Posted on 25 November 2011

If you find traditional methods of exchanging contact information a bit lacking,  Bump  offers an updated alternative. Bump is an app that allows users to automatically exchange contact information—along with photos and other items—after bumping fists with smartphones in hand

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They’re Rioting Over BlackBerrys In Indonesia (And Other Black Friday Insanity That’ll Make You Fear For The Future)

Posted on 25 November 2011

Black Friday often makes people act absolutely crazy. This is well-documented .

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Why Quad-Core?

Posted on 25 November 2011

We are entering into a new era, ladies and gentlemen.

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In Look’s iOS Geo-Tagging App, You Can Put A Bird (Or Pepper Spray Cop) On Something And Just Call It Art

Posted on 25 November 2011

Banksy  fans, this one’s for you. Imagine an iOS photo app that swaps out Instagram filters for stencils from your favorite meme or art piece, then add a little augmented reality, and you’ll get Look . Built by a couple of the developers behind Sports+ as a side project earlier this month, it’s the latest mobile app to use simple photo-editing and social features to make the world around you more interesting.

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TechCrunch Cribs: Iovox Is Rocking The Voice World, Literally [TCTV]

Posted on 25 November 2011

Iovox is a startup specialising in something known as VaaS (Voice as a Service).

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AT&T To Press: We Withdrew Our Merger Application First

Posted on 25 November 2011

This morning, AT&T issued a formal statement on the withdrawal of its application from the FCC regarding its merger with T-Mobile. The company had previously agreed to pay a $4 billion pre-tax charge in the case that its $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile failed to go through, $3 billion of which would go to Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile and another $1 billion going to the book value of spectrum access.

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