Cyber Monday 2012 in the US is projected to be the biggest ever online shopping day, according to analysts. Research firm Comscore said consumers would have spent $1.5 billion on so-called Cyber Monday, up 20% from last year. Online-sales tracker IBM Benchmark put the internet shopping rise even higher – up nearly 27% compared with the Monday after Thanksgiving last year. Smartphone and tab…
A 1946 cartoon, produced by Disney in collaboration with Kotex, explains “the story of menstruation” – and as the first film to use the word vagina, it was played to 105 million students in health classes across the country. Complete with a soothing-sounding narrator and plenty of wide-eyed illustrations, the film avoids all mentions of sexuality and reproduction, instead emphasizing the im…
Disney is exploring the use of 3D printers to build new kinds of light features into objects. The firm’s researchers are working on a range of techniques including “light pipes” and tubes of enclosed air that can be made to glow in controlled ways. They say that 3D printers can create objects with “micron accuracy” that would otherwise be more complicated and costly…
No matter where you are from, spring is the perfect time of year to take a vacation. Your family may decide on a Hamptons Rental from Elliman, a beachside home in the Carolinas, or take a trip to San Diego. But there is no better spot for a spring vacation than Florida. Florida weather can become very hot and humid in the summer months, but in the springtime, temperatures are generally perfect!…
Cao Haibo, a Chinese internet cafe worker who posted pro-democracy articles online, has been sentenced to eight years in prison, his lawyer says. A court in the south-western city of Kunming jailed 27-year-old Cao Haibo for “subversion of state power”, said his lawyer, Ma Xiaopeng. Cao Haibo had set-up web chat groups on social issues, said a US-based rights group. The case comes shor…
Reference book firm Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided to stop publishing its famous and weighty 32-volume print edition after 244 years of tradition. Encyclopaedia Britannica will now focus on digital expansion amid rising competition from websites such as Wikipedia. The company, which used to sell its encyclopedias door-to-door, now generates almost 85% its revenue from online sales. It recen…
A new survey has revealed that nearly half of us have been treating ourselves to at least one Christmas present with every purchase we made online this festive season. Almost half of the women polled admitted to popping a gift for themselves into their virtual basket, with a third revealing to picking out two gifts, and 9% buying three. The survey of 2,000 shoppers carried out by Waitrose found t…
…Pennsylvania will be automatically charged state sales tax at the checkout on Amazon and other online stores. And next year, they will be joined by shoppers in Virginia and New Jersey, and by January 2014, those in Nevada, Indiana and Tennessee. What comes as bad news for shoppers comes as good news for Amazon’s competitors, who have expressed their relief at finally “leveling the playing f…
A new survey has revealed that approximately 16% of online holiday shopping in the U.S. is conducted from a toilet. More than 38 million Americans, with men found more likely than women, are accused of the clandestine multitasking according to calculations based on 2,104 online adults surveyed in November. “Smartphones and tablets have enabled consumers to shop and gift on-the-go in more ways and…
…ile they work to make the set look perfect for their star, security guards with huge Rottweilers patrol the perimeter. The film will be directed by Robert Stromberg and is set for release on March 14, 2014. …
Almost 500,000 people have signed an online petition requesting that Macy’s ends it association with Donald Trump. Macy’s, which exclusively sells Donald Trump’s clothing line and fragrance, has also made him central to its just launched Christmas advertising campaign. The petition at SignOn.org says Macy’s should break with Donald Trump because of his “especially unpleasant, nasty and despicable…
…Prince Harry cavorting with girls in a Las Vegas hotel online By last night, a Google search for “Prince Harry Naked” produced 68,300,000 results. A search for “Prince Harry Naked Pictures” generated 25,800,000 results. Once Prince Harry had returned to the UK, lawyers for Prince Charles issued threats of legal action. Meanwhile, the pictures continued to be available online, making a mockery of…
…rmation request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats. The words are included in the DHS’s 2011 “Analyst’s Desktop Binder” used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify “media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities”. De…
Previously unseen footage of The Beatles sharing fish and chips while filming their 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour has been posted online. Arts website The Space is hosting the footage, discovered during the making of a new documentary about the film. The documentary shows The Beatles taking a break from the Magical Mystery Tour coach at a fish bar in Taunton, Somerset. The film was first broadca…
…topped the $114 million raised during the month of August. He said in a message on Twitter that more than 1.8 million people donated in September, including over 500,000 who had not donated before in 2008 or 2012. The $181 million was slightly less than Barack Obama’s record of $190 million in September 2008. …
…become the second largest US news weekly magazine, behind Time. But declining circulation and advertising saw it fall into losses. It was sold by the Washington Post Company to Sidney Harman in August 2010, and was merged with the Daily Beast three months later. Tina Brown, who became Lady Evans when her husband Harold Evans, the legendary journalist, was knighted, is a former editor of Vanity Fai…
John Hinckley Jr. was later found not guilty by reason of insanity and is being treated at a psychiatric hospital. Ronald Reagan, who went on to serve two terms as president, died at the age of 93 in 2004. …
…he 175-page cache was posted online by the US Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center – in the week marking a year since Osama Bin Laden’s death. The papers date from September 2006 to April 2011 and include letters from other al-Qaeda leaders. Osama Bin Laden’s documents seized during the raid on the Abbottabad compound were posted online by the research wing of the US mi…
…ventory. Q: Can you comment on whether HP had to manufacture more to meet the recent demand? HP will be manufacturing a limited quantity of TouchPads with webOS during our fourth fiscal quarter 2011, which ends October 31. Q: Will HP continue to make more TouchPads with webOS to meet the demand? HP is discontinuing the development of webOS devices and is winding down device operation…
…ests – even Sinead O’Connor’s four children – apart from the cameramen. Sinead O’Connor dressed unusually girly and looked to have lost weight, looking more like her Nothing Compares 2 U heyday in the 1990s. She wore a strapless pastel pink maxi dress and chunky pink metallic and silver heels. Sinead O’Connor failed to conceal her numerous tattoos, including a massive design on h…
The International Pop Music Festival for Children and Youth “Crystal Star” begins registrations! Starting on March 15, 2012, talented children and young singers, aged between 6 and 25 can apply online on the website www.steauadecristal.ro for participation in the International Pop Music Festival for Children and Youth “Crystal Star “. The festival will take place f…
A collection of more than 200,000 records relating to the Titanic has been published online to mark the 100th anniversary from the ship’s sinking on 15 April 1912. The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, including a number of wills and hundreds of coroner inquest files. The collection has been gathered by the subscription-based family history website…
…the new model this month, although has no details of what new features it may contain. The Commercial Times estimated that full commercial production of the rumored iPhone 5S will begin as early as Q1 2013, with the December run only expected to return between 50,000 and 100,000 units. Facing low yield rates in the production of iPhone 5, Apple has accelerated the certification processes for relat…
The word “ungoogleable” has been removed from a list of new Swedish words after a trademark spat with Google. The idea that something can’t be found online is strange enough to have spawned its own adjective. The word “ungoogleable” is in the headlines after a dispute between Google and Sweden’s language watchdog. The Language Council of Sweden wanted to includ…
Disney has announced a new Star Wars film will appear yearly from 2015, alternating between new episodes in the space saga and spinoff character films. The announcement, made at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, was reported by Comingsoon. Star Trek director JJ Abrams will begin the new cycle of movies with Episode VII, from a script by Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt. Star Wars creator George Lu…
North Korea fires short-range missiles from its east coastNorth Korea has launched three short-range missiles from its east coast, South Korea's defence ministry said. Two missiles were fired on Saturday morning and one in the…
Connecticut head-on train crash injures at least 60 people near New York CityAt least 60 people have been injured, five critically, after a head-on, rush-hour collision between two commuter trains near New York City, officials say. Some 250 people…
Christoph Waltz: Man points gun at him and threatens to blow up studio with hand grenade during Cannes TV interviewChristoph Waltz was left shaken last night after a man pointed a hand-gun at him during a live French news programme TV show and threatened to blow up a studio with a hand…
Cannes Film Festival 2013: $1 million Chopard jewels stolen from Novotel hotel roomMore than $1 million (777,000 euros) worth of Chopard jewels have been stolen from Novotel hotel in Cannes, French police say. The jewels were to be loaned to stars…
George Michael car crash: singer airlifted to hospital with head injury following motorway crashGeorge Michael has been airlifted to hospital with a head injury following a crash on the M1 motorway in UK. George Michael, 49, remains in hospital after the crash at…
Cyclone Mahasen hits Bangladesh's southern coast killing at least two peopleCyclone Mahasen has stricken Bangladesh's southern coast, as people packed into evacuation shelters. The storm hit Patuakhali district on Thursday with winds of up to 100…
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