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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The global computer market continued its downward trend during the second quarter of 2012, marking the seventh consecutive quarter that the industry had experienced either a loss or modest growth. According to Ian Sherr of the Wall Street Journal, research firms Gartner and International Data Corporation (IDC) reported a 0.1% decline in shipments of personal computers. In terms of actual units, those figures represent hundreds of...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online When done right, smartphones can be big business. Apple, notorious for their profit margins, is able to earn quite a bit of money from their iPhones. As it turns out, ebooks and other forms of digital content are also big business. Amazon has been able to do very well with their Kindle e-readers and have even taken a gamble by selling their 7-inch tablet at a loss in hopes to sell more ebooks, music and videos. Amazon’s Kindle...
Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new purchase for Amazon may just give the online retailer and maker of the Amazon Kindle what it wants: Location, location, location. Amazon acquired 3D map tech startup firm UpNext, for an undisclosed sum. The New York-based UpNext, which is comprised solely of four founding members, has built apps with 3D mapping for the iPhone, Android and Kindle Fire. To date, the company has mapped 50 cities, with enhanced details in 23 cities...
LONDON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaming consoles & games subsector sees sharpest fall The number of UK consumer online searches pertaining to entertainment in April - from Movies, Going Out, Gaming Consoles & games and Music, dropped 13 per cent on January's level, reveals the latest entertainment-related search data from leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight. The Gaming consoles & games subsector, saw the sharpest fall....
CARLSBAD, Calif., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) today announced the appointment of Harry Arnett as Senior Vice President, Marketing. In this role, Arnett assumes leadership of the Company's global marketing, communications and go-to-market functions. The announcement was made by Chip Brewer, President and CEO, Callaway Golf. "Harry has demonstrated an impressive ability to develop and execute compelling strategies on a global scale that clearly...
DecalGirl, the first company to manufacture removable full-color vinyl skins for electronic devices in the U.S., today announced week long giveaway starting June 18-22. Devices will include a Apple iPod Touch, Amazon Kindle Touch, Sony PSVita, Amazon Kindle Fire, and Apple iPad. Milton, DE (PRWEB) June 15, 2012 DecalGirl has long offered a large selection of vinyl skins for a variety of electronic devices, so it is only fitting that DecalGirl is offering a series of giveaways in...
John Neumann for redOrbit.com Is a PC-maker finally understanding that consumers are clamoring for more than ugly boxes with their computers? In a presentation with tech partners Intel and Microsoft, along with retailer Walmart, Vizio CEO and founder William Wang and CTO Matt McRae discussed the current crop of PC's available in the market and highlighted their lack of innovative design. Vizio seeks to remedy that with a line of new, sleek form factors that eliminates, or lessens,...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com As the old saying goes, you never want to know how the sausage is made. Sometimes, it’s simply easier—both on the mind and the stomach— to be ignorant as to how the things we consume are delivered to us. Case in point, Google’s Street View rovers. As they drive through cities and towns, they continuously capture data and images. As such, they’ve often caught a few things on camera that may or may not have been intended for such an audience, as...
Apple tells Google that they will no longer be using Google maps app on their devices including the iPad and iPhone. BarryRealMarketing.com suggests App Empire for anyone who wants to create their own empire and dominate in the smartphone app business. Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 07, 2012 Apple is believed to announce their new Map app for mobile devices and will be using it to replace the Google maps program in their upcoming iOS6. Why now? "Because there is money to be made in mobile...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com Apple has already announced their impressive first quarter results for themselves, revealing they had a stellar post-holiday season. This hasn’t stopped the market research and analyst groups from making their own forecasts and predictions, however. After all, while Apple announces numbers of products sold, some companies hide this information. Companies like Amazon, who only said they had sold “millions” of their new Kindle Fires. Yesterday, ABI...
