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eBay has taken a look at the numbers, and it looks like Cyber Monday was huge for shoppers using their mobile devices to make purchases. Could there be a better signifier than the future of mobile commerce? After all, PayPal has been saying for weeks that it will see close to $700 million in mobile…
If your little one is in need of a nap, I’m sorry to say there’s no app for that… however, there IS a quilt for that! The meticulously detailed (and lovingly stitched) iPhone quilt you see above was put together by Harriet Rosin for her new grandson. A mighty *tip of the cap* to Harriet…
We had heard that Richard Branson’s Virgin was set to launch an iPad-specific magazine and the “Project” app has launched and we’re pleasantly surprised with it. You can download the app here and it’s free to download the reader, but you’ll have to pay $2.99 for the magazine itself. I plunked down the cash for…
Some of you may have heard of Call of Duty: Black Ops, a first-person shooter video game that has broken records across a number of entertainment sectors by selling $650 million-worth of units in the first five days of release alone. I’ve been slowly but steadily losing my soul to the game on PC, and…
A recent survey of 269 students from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania has turned up some results that you and I might not find too surprising, but will probably send parents up the wall. Roughly nine in ten students admitted to sending text messages during class and half of those say it’s incredibly easy to do…
There is no better way to kick off the weekend than with a rousing discussion on jailbreaking and piracy. This current round of discussion focuses on the ChevronWP7 unlocking tool which hit the Windows Phone community earlier this week. At the heart of this issue is a camp of people who see the tool as…
Unmarried women from the Lank village of North India are now not allowed to own a mobile phone. The village population measures a mere 50,000 people in size, but nearby regions have considering implementing the same rules. The reason? Arranged marriages are still the norm in that part of the world, and mobile phones enable…
It took quite some time, but now Sony Reader and the Reader Store are available for iPhone or iOS devices and on Android. You can browse and shop titles from within the app, and access the eBooks from either your iPhone, Android device, PC or your Reader. Like other eReader apps, you can bookmark your…
Are you surprised to find that homes with higher household incomes tend to use the Internet more and also own more mobile devices than lower-income households? Shocking! Americans in high-income homes tend to do more online than their less-fortunate counterparts: pay bills, get news and are also more likely to own multiple mobile devices capable…
If there’s one thing every Apple fan should have on their desk besides their MacBook Pro (or maybe MacBook Air) and iPhone 4… it’s probably one of these. Coming to us from the M.I.C Gadget, this Steve Jobs Action figure is incredibly accurate… thought it was worth a late-night mention here. The figurine is quite…