Mobile shopping continues to accelerate, and free shipping offers have added to its agility. Consumers spent $161.5 billion on ecommerce in 2011, including $49.7 billion in the last three months alone. Ecommerce…
Forrester: Apple, Not the Cloud, to Top CIO Budgets in Next Two Years
Rather than cloud computing, it is Apple products that will drive the computer equipment market in 2012, according to a recent report from Forrester. While analysts have been predicting that cloud computing…
Mobile App Usage Surges as Web Usage Wanes
The Internet continues to become increasingly mobile as usage jumps from the desktop to people’s pockets, and social networks like Facebook are likely adding to that agility, according to research recently released…
Everspin Triples Orders for Magnetic Chips in 2011
Everspin, the only company shipping production quantities of magnetic RAM chips, recently announced it had tripled its orders in 2011. Magnetic RAM chips work like permanent flash memory chips but with the…
IBM Stores Data on 12 Atoms
Stretching the limits of possibility, IBM has taken data into the realms of the infinite, right down to the atom in theory at least. Scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated the ability…
Apple Reinvents the Textbook with Interactive, Searchable iBooks 2
Reinventing textbooks and the classroom itself, Apple unleashed iBooks 2, an updated iPhone and iPad app that enables highly interactive digital textbooks. The company also announced a new textbook section in the…
Logitech’s Cube Reimagines Mouse as Presenter Tool
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this January, Logitech unveiled The Cube, a new mouse-like device that doubles as a presentation tool. Swipe your fingers along the main panel’s ridges…
Digital Music Tops CD Sales for First Time in History, While Vinyl Makes Comeback
Music history broke another record, albeit a slow one in coming. In 2011, digital music sales finally topped physical sales in the US, according to recent Billboard and Nielsen report. Digital purchases…
Iphone 4S Released to China, 21 Other Countries on January 13
Mainland China will have its hands on the iPhone 4S earlier than expected. Apple announced recently the country will have the phone by January 13. The iPhone will also be available in…
Microsoft Awarded Patent for Walking Directions that Avoid Crime and the Cold
Microsoft was recently awarded a patent designed to provide walking directions that not only avoid crime ridden neighborhoods, but windy breezeways to boot. First discovered by Geekwire, the “Pedestrian route production” patent…