According to customer experience analytics company ForeSee, e-commerce giant Amazon once again topped consumer satisfaction in online retail after taking the top spot in 2010. However, Netflix, which had a dismal year, plummeted in customer satisfaction. For the past seven years, Netflix and Amazon have been competing for first place in Foresee’s Index, but this [...]

2011 was a great year for Android fans, with lots of new and improved apps and the sweet introduction of Ice Cream Sandwich. Here are the most popular Android-related posts and downloads. The Always Up-To-Date Guide to Rooting Any Android Phone With all the different devices out there running different versions of Android, the rooting [...]

Starting in July of 2012, the United States Army will deploy three Boeing A160 Hummingbird drones to Afghanistan as part of a one-year trial program. Unlike the Predator drones already in combat, the A160 is a rotor-based aircraft capable of vertical take-offs and landings. What’s more, the craft will be affixed with the DARPA-developed ARGUS-IS [...]

Just because a breakfast cereal claims it’s healthy (with an exclamation point!) doesn’t mean it is. With Fooducate, you can scan barcodes to see product highlights (both good and bad) as well as comparisons with similar alternatives. Your health is nothing to toy with. Or is it? Health Month makes a game out of your [...]

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Marketing technology company Fiksu tracked the impact of the iPhone 4S on iPhone app downloads and found that download volume of the top 200 free apps increased 15% from October’s previous record high of 4.91 million daily downloads. In November, the firm’s “App Store Competitive Index,” which measures this trend, peaked at 5.65 million downloads [...]

GadgetTrak’s new CameraTrace service helped a professional photographer get back $9,000 worth of stolen gear. CameraTrace can also help you recover your lost or stolen camera, as well as find people using your photos without permission. Like previously mentioned StolenCameraFinder, CameraTrace works by searching photos uploaded online for your camera’s serial number. (Most cameras embed [...]

Which countries really, really love Facebook? If you guessed the U.S., you would be somewhat right – this country ranks #7 on Pingdom’s new list of countries comparing the number of Facebook users as percentages of the population. To be clear, we’re not talking about raw number of Facebook users. The U.S. is still #1 [...]

Mozilla Developer Evangelist Christian Heilmann argues that single-page web applications can be awesome — better than native apps even — but developers need to be careful and remember what makes the web, the web.