A new Harris study on Tuesday again gave Motorola, Verizon Wireless the lead in mobile categories in the 2011 Harris Poll EquiTrend. Motorola outranked it in a large January survey of Americans, giving the Droid creator a top score of 64.4 among phone makers where Apple managed 59.3. It wasn’t even second place as the […]
The FCC is currently seeking comment on a proposal to simplify and standardize the presentation of broadband Internet plans to consumers. The Commission suggests many consumers are left uninformed regarding many of the essential differences between ISP offers, which tend to use a wide range of marketing techniques and inconsistent gauges for essential information such […]
Zillow, which operates real estate website Zillow.com, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, and the leading mobile real estate platform, today announced the acquisition of Postlets, a leading online real estate listing creation and distribution platform. Postlets enables individual real estate agents, property managers and landlords to create listings and send them to 13 real estate and social […]
YouTube wrapped up its week by making YouTube Live a permanent fixture of its service. The once test-only service will now always be available and both show whichever shows are live now as well as allow marking events on the calendar to watch later. Subscriptions notify viewers of streams that are coming up, not just […]
Mint.com wants to help middle schoolers develop good money management skills and have fun while they learn. As part of their parent company Intuit’s financial literacy program that was announced in December of last year, Mint.com is introducing its new online “Quest for Money” game. It provides free tools to help middle school students learn […]
Starz announced that is has renewed the popular, movie parody web series “How It Should Have Ended” (HISHE) for a second season and will expand the HISHE franchise into the video game genre with a new web series, “How It Should Have Ended: Video Games.” The new series will be produced and distributed under a […]
Netflix, in its first signs of addressing a rapidly constricting audience, told Canadian users it was slimming down the bandwidth demands of its video service. By default, streaming in the country will now use a lower 300MB per hour bitrate that consumes two thirds less data but with “minimal impact” on the perceived image quality. […]
Amazon has unveiled its long rumored media locker. Cloud Drive gives users a way to store a minimum of 5GB of files on the web and access them from any Mac or PC. The company has a unique tie-in with Amazon MP3: any songs bought through the music store are saved to the Cloud Drive […]
Mad Catz has recently pledged continued support for Teenage Cancer Trust, a UK charity which helps young people fight cancer. The company is auctioning two of its Rock Band Wireless Wooden Fender Stratocaster Guitar Controllers signed by the charity’s long standing patron and ‘The Who’ front man, Roger Daltrey, and band mate, Pete Townshend, with […]
Mortgage payments comprising 65 percent of all consumer debt, according to the Federal Reserve. To help people plan and budget for owning a home, Mint.com has added a home loans feature to the “Ways to Save” portion of its award-winning tool. The feature looks through thousands of home loan options and compares them to a […]
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