Online retailers are pulling out all the stops this year to attract shoppers and boost sales this holiday season. And according to initial Cyber Monday reports, it seems to have paid off. The National Retail Federation reported that sales over the holiday weekend (Thanksgiving Day through Sunday) rose 0.5 percent to $41.2 billion, and Coremetrics [...]
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Google News Faces Outage on Tuesday Afternoon
Google News experienced another pretty significant outage yesterday. The URL http://news.google.com was mostly unavailable between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET. AlertSite’s monitoring showed about 27% availability during that time, but it was only that high because of a few positive results from some of our monitoring locations earlier and later during that window. The [...]
Twitter Sick From Too Many Apple Fans
It was recently suggested by my spouse that I might be becoming a bit of an Apple-ista. I have been an enthusiastic iPhone user for almost two years and am truly impressed with the latest rendition. A Macbook Pro has recently been added to the household computing arsenal as well, so there may be some [...]
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