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Bad Batteries May Cause Hoverboard Craze to Flame Out

 December 14, 2015

Amazon has pulled some of this holiday season's most popular gifts from its website amid safety concerns, according to reports that surfaced Monday. It apparently stopped selling several brands of electric self-balancing scooters -- aka "hoverboards" -- including the Swagway. The move comes on the heels of last week's news that Delta Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines no longer...

Microsoft Opens Tony Fifth Avenue Store

October 27, 2015

Microsoft on Monday opened its flagship store in Manhattan. With an area of more than 22,000 square feet, it's the company's largest store and its 113th brick-and-mortar retail establishment. It's also the first Microsoft store that's two stories high. The company gutted a 1930s building that was pr...

Facebook May Be Poised to Push the E-Commerce Button

July 2, 2012

Facebook is rumored to be testing a Want button that would be similar in look and function to its now ubiquitous Like button. The feature was spotted by developer Tom Waddington, who published the button's code on his blog. Such buttons already exist -- but they have been developed by third-party b...

Stories and Legends

August 24, 2009

An unfortunate side effect of a celebrity like Steve Jobs getting sick is that a huge number of us are collecting stories to go into articles and books that would mostly show up after he passed. I ran into two new stories I hadn't heard before last week, and one of them was rather juicy and eventua...

Gift Cards in a Gloomy Economy: A Losing Bet?

January 20, 2009

They may not be the most thoughtful presents in the world, but they sure are convenient. Gift cards relieve shoppers of having to find the perfect size, style, and color of any item on a shopping list. They also avoid scenarios where what the buyer views as desirable is antithetical to the receiver'...

Dollar, Retail Worries Leave Stocks in Red

December 27, 2004

Stock markets slumped back from the holiday weekend today as refreshed concern over the weakness of the U.S. dollar and worries that the holiday shopping season won't pass muster outweighed a plunge in oil prices. The Dow lost 50.99, or 0.47 percent, to close at 10,776.13. The Nasdaq was lower by 6....

Creating E-Tail Sales from Thin Air

August 19, 2002

With consumer confidence beginning to ebb, brick-and-mortar stores are implementing new strategies designed to lure consumers across their thresholds. But retailers trying to balance an actual store with an online presence must employ an array of tactics to prevent cannibalization. Fortunately, s...

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Nvidia Showcases the Metaverse Future at GTC

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Hackers Cast LinkedIn as Most-Popular Phishing Spot

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KYY 15.6" Portable Monitor Packs Value With a Healthy Feature Set

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Hack Your Metabolism To Improve Health With the Lumen Smart Device

Amazon Rolls Out Alexa for Senior Living and Healthcare Providers

Cove High-Tech Neckband Aims To Ease Stress, Improve Sleep

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Home Automation Faces 3 Perpetual Problems

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Ukrainian IT Firm Counterattacks Russian War Lies

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Ransomware-Related Data Leaks Jump 82% in 2021

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Kids' Screen Use Sees Fastest Rise in 4 Years

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HP Chromebase Makes Chrome OS Desktops a Smart Choice

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PII of Many Fortune 1000 Execs Exposed at Data Broker Sites

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Rebuilding Ukraine: 3D Printing and the Metaverse Could Help Create the Cities of Tomorrow

InnoView 15.8" Portable Display: More Screen Space for Small Devices

Desklab Portable Monitor: Ideal for Work, Play, Mobile Productivity

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Report Finds US Workers Lagging in Digital Skills

Nvidia Launches Earth 2 and Goes to War Against Climate Change

The Challenge and Promise of Quantum Computing

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Microsoft Bing, Yandex Create New Search Protocol

Botify SEO Platform Helps Brands Navigate Organic Search Rankings

Google Cloud Seeks To Cure Retailers' Search Woes, Help Compete With Amazon

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Cyber Asset Management Overwhelming IT Security Teams

30 Years of Linux History Told via Distros

Stale Open Source Code Rampant in Commercial Software: Report

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Apple Refreshes iPhone SE, iPad Air, Debuts Studio Desktop

Tesla Smartphone Could Be a Game Changer

Snapdragon 8 Suggests the End of PCs and Smartphones as We Know Them

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Big Tech Firms Move To Squash Deceptive Info on Ukraine Crisis

Facebook Pushes Pause on Instagram for Kids

TikTok Tops YouTube in Watch Time Among Android Users

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Why Commercial Space Travel Is Unlikely To Scale Up

Kuo Predicts 'iPhone 13' Will Support Satellite Calls and Texting

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Microsoft Finally Has Truly Competitive Alternatives to Apple Products

New iPad Mini Stars at Apple Refresh Event

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New EU Law Will Force Google, Meta, Others To Expose Algorithms

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