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U.S. consumers spent 5% less on consumer electronics during the last holiday season compared to a year earlier, according to a new report from NPD Group. Even at discounted prices, Americans bought fewer flat-screen televisions and desktop computers, as well as lower-end digital cameras and MP3 players, according to the report.
The Beatles Arrive on iTunes; All You Need is Love -- and an iPod
11:51AM 11/16/2010
After decades of topping the musical charts, The Beatles will finally top the one list that the Fab Four haven't been able to crack, the iTunes Top Charts. Apple, the computer company not the record label, announced this morning that The Beatles are finally available in iTunes as a digital...
Sears Holdings, which owns Sears and Kmart stores, announced this week that the company would soon enter the digital video marketplace by selling and renting videos on Sears.com and Kmart.com. The new service, dubbed Alphaline Entertainment, is scheduled to go live later this year on numerous...
The digital TV transition went live almost a year ago on June 12, 2009, when the FTC flipped the switch and turned off the analog television signals that many consumers relied on for entertainment. As part of the digital TV transition, the government made converter box coupons available to...
Starting Friday, Jan. 22 you'll be able to rent movies on YouTube for $4. To start, YouTube will only be offering five movies from the Sundance Film Festival, but the offerings will expand in the coming weeks.
These five movies will be available for a 48-hour rental period until Jan. 31.
The...
E-Books for Kids Get Publishers' Attention
12:00PM 1/16/2010
Book publishers' interest in digital e-books is mounting, as the number of e-readers hitting the market, in all shapes, sizes, and color capabilities, is set to grow. And the children's sector of publishing in particular is getting their notice.
Consumer group blasts White House's digital piracy pow-wow
2:40PM 12/15/2009
Late last month, Somali brigands in a dinghy hijacked the Maran Centaurus, an American-bound tanker carrying millions of barrels of crude oil, in the latest episode of escalating pirate attacks off the coast of the failed, anarchic East African state. But that event won't come up at Tuesday...
Chrysler switches to digital owner's manuals with 2010 models
4:30PM 9/22/2009
Starting with the new Chrysler models owners will find something missing in their glovebox -- a hard copy owner's manual.
In an effort to trim costs, save 20,000 trees a year and be more consumer friendly, Chrysler will put the owner's manuals on DVD instead of printing them.
The good news is...
Ritz camera is throwing in the towel and looking to either sell or liquidate all its remaining stores. It's been a bad month for the photography business, first Kodachrome goes away and now Ritz. Founded in 1918, the single camera shop grew to roughly 800 stores following the acquisition of rival...
The financial protection of a well timed screen shot
3:00PM 2/23/2009
Ripoffs and Scams, Simplification, Consumer Complaints, Crime
In conjunction with a research report I produced for the Sheriff of Racine County Wisconsin, regarding digital image evidence protocol, I examined the value of a computer screen shot as evidence. I have outlined a process by which digital screen shots can be used as evidence in legal process and in...
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