May 22, 2013

consumer - News


ScentScape “Smell-o-Vision” On-Demand Odor Accessory Coming to PC & Consoles

ScentScape Smell-o-Vision On-Demand Odor Accessory Coming to PC & Consoles

A new USB peripheral that emits smells is about to hit the PC market and the console version is ‘in the works’. Developed by Scent Sciences Corporation, the machine plugs in to your gaming device of choice and when triggered will emit one of up to twenty different fragrances including pine forest, ocean and smoke. [...]

“Google Offers”‎ Coming to Rival Groupon, LivingSocial

Google Offers‎ Coming to Rival Groupon and LivingSocial

Google expanded beyond its core search operation in mobile phones and other products, is developing a local coupon service like Groupon. As Groupon Inc., the service Google offers, offer limited-time offers from local suppliers, such as restaurants. Ten dollars, for example, could buy $ 20 in food at a local cafe. Google bids to operate [...]

RIM may extend its Server Support to non-BlackBerry Devices

RIM may extend its Server Support to non-BlackBerry Devices

RIM Pete Devenyi, Vice president made a hint that it’s planning to extend its Server support for non-BlackBerry devices. Means that not only to other devices but also devices which don’t use BlackBerry Services. VP Pete Devenyi told AllThingsD that RIM had wondered whether there is “the possibility that RIM might extend capabilities to make [...]

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Smartphone releasing in April 2011?

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Smartphone expected to be released in April 2011

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc officially unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 earlier, but the release date wasn’t mentioned by the Company, now it’s expected that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc will be launched in April. The date was leaked from its own Indonesian site. The information seems genuine, as it’s being circulated by [...]

CES : Kingston Introduces Sandy Bridge HyperX Memory Kits

CES Kingston Introduces Sandy Bridge HyperX Memory Bundle

Kingston today made two announcements about its line of memory products to coincide with the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The first kit is known as the ‘HyperX T1′. This kit includes four 2GB modules giving 8GB of total system memory. Kingston says the T1 is the first 8GB kit in the [...]

After Christmas Sales 2010 – 2010 Year End Sales Tips and Guides

After Christmas Sales 2010 - 2010 Year End Sales Tips

It’s almost Christmas already and consumers are thinking about the after Christmas sales of 2010. Many online retailers have already announced their deals and are allowing early birds to pick from the sale merchandise. After Christmas sales 2010 are drawing near, as people cap the year off with even more shopping after the long season [...]

New Consumer Credit Helps to Increase Credit Card Use

New Consumer Credit Increased Credit Card Use

Discover Financial Services announced recently that it made 349.6 million dollars in the fourth quarter of this year, according to a report by Dow Jones Newswires. This is largely the result of consumers to both increase their use of credit cards, and because they were more conscientious in paying their monthly bills. The figure of [...]

NEC to introduce LifeTouch Dual-Screen Android Tablet at CES 2011

NEC LifeTouch Dual Screen Tablet

To compete in the market that has already been defined by the iPad, Android tablets need something special and unique to differentiate them. It seems Dual Display makes Sense for it. Dual-display devices have become a sort of pet project for notebooks and tablet makers, and it appears that NEC intends to experiment with this [...]

Intel’s 35 Atom-based Tablets to be launched in 2011; Includes Dell, Toshiba, Acer: Intel’s CEO

Intel Atom Based Tablet Image

It seems to have a good day for Intel in coming year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said today that its chips will be in more than 35 different tablet designs in 2011, while clarifying that two lines of Atom processors will be used in tablets. Most will run Windows, but about a third will go [...]

Faxcon to Start “iPad2″ Shipping in February 2011 for April Launch

iPad2 Image

Foxconn is due to start shipping finished iPads in late February for a launch less than two months later, part suppliers said Monday night, and added there is less than 100 days until the first units need to be ready. Sources from Taiwanese component makers are reported to have claimed the iPad 2 will ship [...]

BestBuy Mobile Offers Free “Smartphone” every day in December

BestBuy Mobile Free Offer Image

Best Buy offers ahead of Christmas, at least four free smartphones, one for each of the largest wireless carriers in the US, for every day in December. “Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) Friday said its mobile retail unit Best Buy Mobile is giving consumers a holiday event, featuring free smart phones in [...]

HP Slate Shipping soon?

HP Slate Image

One of Engadget’s readers have let out a little bit of a golden nugget today – that the HP Slate is currently on its way. The reader even provided PDF proof of their claim. Could the Slate be in consumers hands in the next few weeks? It looks like Engadget’s reader is expecting to have [...]