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Brick-and-mortar retail chains did not seem to have a great Thanksgiving week. But the latest comScore numbers show that online shopping not only had a terrific Thanksgiving but that sales growth is actually accelerating into December at a breakneck speed. This Christmas is particularly interesting for consumer electronics, because Apple has widened its smartphone selection, Continue Reading →

It’s not just online transaction databases that are susceptible to attacks. The retailer Target is reportedly looking into the theft of millions of in-store credit card and debit card records from its databases. Customers all over the United States were victimized, reported Brian Krebs, who cited people at two of the top 10 credit card Continue Reading →

The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced today it acquired two video games, thatgamecompany’s Flower and former Xbox VP Ed Fries’ Halo 2600, for its permanent collection. The games were previously included in the Smithsonian’s The Art of Video Games exhibition, and will join the museum’s “growing collection of film and media arts and represent an Continue Reading →

Hulu was born on the desktop computer, and existed there for some time before it began appearing on portable and set-top devices. Part of that was Hulu’s ties to the Flash framework for DRM and other content-provider requirements. But 2013 marks a watershed moment for the service as it says roughly 50% of its now Continue Reading →

You knew it was bound to happen, and happen it has. While it apparently still has a ways to go to catch up to Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, a Kickstarter-backed company moving some 200,000 or so units in a matter of months is nothing to scoff at. To wit, Pebble’s seeing a massive spike in developer Continue Reading →

Yahoo may be working on its own voice-based personal assistant to rival Apple’s Siri and Google Now. A video has recently surfaced that shows the unreleased app running on an Android smartphone. The origins of the clip are unclear, though it may have been developed for internal purposes. In the video, we see the Android Continue Reading →

When Craig Moffett talks, many people hear and work by what emerges from this popular media-focused senior research analyst. In public or private, it takes something for Moffett to correct something offered on his record. The subject of cord-cutting provided an exception, with Videonuze’s VideoSchmooze: NYC meeting earlier this month the forum. Without prompting from Continue Reading →

The FCC may have taken the first steps toward lifting the ban on in-flight cell use, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be listening in on any of your neighbors private conversations anytime soon. At least not on Delta. The airline’s CEO Richard Anderson sent out a company-wide memo to all 80,000 Delta employees, saying that Continue Reading →

Google has just announced a massive update to Google Glass which adds a lock screen, Hangouts chat, direct YouTube uploading via a Glass app and a ‘wink to shoot a picture’ mode. The wink photo mode is obviously interesting as developers had dug up references to it in the Glass firmware a while ago and Continue Reading →

Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will be the new leader of Healthcare.gov, the troubled website through which Americans can access the new federal insurance marketplace. DelBene recently retired from Microsoft after over two decades of work there, most recently as head of the Office division. He’ll start work as a senior advisor to Kathleen Sebelius, Continue Reading →