Saturday, November 26, 2011

Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters (Mashable)

Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters (Mashable)

Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters (Mashable)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:59 PM PST

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Black Friday online sales growth lags last year (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 01:49 PM PST

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc and other e-commerce companies had a strong "Black Friday," but the industry's growth rate lagged last year's surge in online buying on the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season.

Data of 13 million South Korean online game subscribers hacked (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 03:28 AM PST

Reuters - South Korea's communications regulator said on Saturday that personal information of more than 13 million subscribers of a popular online game of Nexon Korea Corp, a leading game developer in the country, had been leaked in a hacking attack.

Skyrim fans release all in-game books for Kindle, Nook and iOS (Digital Trends)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 03:50 PM PST

Digital Trends - Ever since Bethesda Softworks released Skyrim on November 11, the folks over at Capane have been collecting the in-game books that are available to read within Skyrim and converting them into formats that can be downloaded onto e-readers and tablets. Within the files for the game, the books are all in plain text rather than encoded files. The people at Capane saved each book into a separate document, added headings as well as a table of contents. These files were saved in both .epub and MOBI formats. The .epub files are used within the Nook as well as the iPad and the MOBI format is used within the Amazon Kindle. Capane has made these files available to download for anyone that’s legally purchased a copy of the game.

How to use social media and save on Small Business Saturday (Digital Trends)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:00 AM PST

Digital Trends - Between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the unending onslaught of online deals, there is another holiday shopping day that might get lost in the shuffle: Small Business Saturday. This year marks the second annual such event, a new tradition that tries to steal some addition from chain retailers and big e-commerce sites and give it to local vendors.

Authorities: Ga. prison fight appears gang-related (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 08:48 AM PST

AP - Investigators say a fight that sent a dozen inmates from a state prison in Georgia to the hospital was gang-related and organized using contraband cell phones.

All the news that is fit for your smartphone or tablet (Appolicious)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 07:00 AM PST

Appolicious - News media consumption patters are evolving, and the most discriminating information junkies expect to dial into their favorite stories from any place, at any time, on any device. Increasingly, daily newspapers are releasing official apps for Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices. Many papers are also creating mobile versions of their websites that suit smaller screens on virtually any mobile platform.

Why a Facebook phone is doomed to be the next Zune (Digital Trends)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 04:45 AM PST

Digital Trends - In the list of bad ideas, the rumored “Facebook phone” (which will apparently be built by HTC and may fork the Android code base) is arguably one of the worst ideas since… well, the Zune. Let’s explore that today by looking at some of Microsoft’s own missteps with the ill-fated PMP, and where Facebook and HTC seem to be repeating them.

Online Black Friday spending is up nearly 25 percent over last year (Digital Trends)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 05:39 PM PST

Digital Trends - According to an IBM Benchmark study released today, online shopping during both Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday saw a sizable increase in spending over 2010. Specifically, online sales increased by 24.3 percent on Black Friday and rose by 39.3 percent on Thanksgiving Day. The large increase in Thanksgiving Day sales is likely attributed to stores like Best Buy and Amazon offering discounts on merchandise before Black Friday even started. In addition, traffic on mobile devices rose from 5.6 percent in 2010 to just over 14 percent this year. This can be attributed to many price comparison apps, like RedLaser, that allow users to scan the bar code of an item and compare prices both on the Internet and local stores.
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