Featured Report: Mobile shopping skyrockets Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Mobile shopping skyrockets Thanksgiving and Black Friday Chain Store Age Dec,03,2013 By:Dan Berthiaume When compared with a baseline shopping period of mid-October of this year, total mobile visits on Thanksgiving and Black Friday increased 93%. Data from multichannel platform provider Usablenet also shows that overall mobile transactions increased 219% and total revenue from mobile transactions increased by 368%. Read More

Dell 8-inch tablets face off in Android-versus-Windows cage match   ZD Net Dec,04,2013 by: Ed Bott I picked up two new 8-inch tablets last month: the $199 Dell Venue 8, which runs Android 4.2, and the $299 Dell Venue 8 Pro, which runs Windows 8.1. Superficially, there’s not that much to distinguish the two devices. Both are well-made tablets with almost exactly the same dimensions. Aside from the extra $100 in the price tag, what’s the difference? It’s not often that a manufacturer introduces two devices that have so much in common, on different platforms, so this is a real opportunity to do a detailed comparison. Read More

They're Cooked: The top wireless turkeys of 2013 Fierce Wireless Nov,26,2013 by:Staff Thanksgiving is all about tradition. Think of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade or presidents pardoning turkeys. Every family has its own rituals over where everyone gathers for the meal, which family members make what side dishes, how the turkey is prepared and so on. Here at FierceWireless, we are also big on tradition, and one of our longest-running ones also involves turkeys, though not the kind you can eat. Read More

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