Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Nov 15, 2011 7:27 AM
Broadband provider TalkTalk is to launch an in-house trial of YouView, the delayed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview, in early 2012.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 7, 2011 6:22 AM
Best Buy is one of the biggest and most influential retailers of mobile phones and other gadgets in the U.S.—impacting pricing for other retailers and influencing what products people buy—but it has stumbled in its effort to take that formula and repeat it elsewhere. Carphone Warehouse, the UK retailer that…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jun 22, 2011 12:08 PM
Not to be outdone by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and the rest of the cloud bandwagon, Best Buy is also expanding its own services up in the sky. Today it has launched a new music streaming offering—appropriately enough called Best Buy Music Cloud. On the…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 22, 2011 5:53 AM
Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has launched its newest onslaught to the digital media economy: an Android app store, appropriately branded “appstore”, beginning with nearly 4,000 apps and counting. Why will this latest app store be different from the rest, and what’s next for the giant e-tailer?
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 14, 2011 11:30 AM
Looks like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is looking to cast its retail net ever wider in the hunt for new Kindle users: the e-reading device is now being sold in the UK by Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK, an extension of a retailing deal the two companies started in the…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 22, 2011 1:23 PM
Updated 3.2.2011: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today unveiled its iPad 2 and as predicted, it’s thinner and faster. Also announced: iOS 4.3 with FaceTime (NYSE: TWX), Photo Booth, new iMovie and more. Plus, take our poll: do you plan on buying the iPad 2? Updated: Several sources (look here and here)…
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