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Threadflip redesigns, seeing 20% of purchases made through mobile app

by Mike Schramm (May 30th, 2013)

Threadflip is an app where users can buy, sell and discover various clothing and other fashion items, and it's just undergone a major redesign. The app was introduced about a year ago, and since then, Threadflip has seen about 20 percent of purchases made and 40 percent of items listed come ...

E-books not growing much in Canada, slightly better in the US

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2013)

A new study from BookNet Canada notes that the e-book market may be in trouble. Paperback books, says BookNet, made up 58 percent of all purchases last year, with hardcover taking 24 percent. But e-books were only 15 percent of total sales last year, a figure that's down overall from 2012's ...

iPhone 5 supply runs short in India

by Mike Schramm (Nov 6th, 2012)

The iPhone 5 officially launched in India last Friday, and just a day later, stores were selling out of their stock. Don't get too excited. Indian sources note only about 15,000 phones were made available for that market, so a sellout isn't too surprising. There were about 100,000 phones made ...

Ford trying iPads for sales consultants at dealerships

by Mike Schramm (Aug 14th, 2012)

Ford has launched an iPad app specifically for its dealers around the US to use. Fourteen different dealerships participated in a test program earlier this year, in which sales consultants (car salespeople) used iPads to access information about cars on sale, show presentations on various car ...

Preparing your old iPad for sale in five easy steps (Update)

by Steven Sande (Mar 12th, 2012)

It appears from the huge pre-sales of the new iPad that a lot of people are getting the new model. We've also heard from a number of iPad "recyclers" that they're seeing record numbers of people who are selling their original iPad or iPad 2 to trade up to the new model. Since I'm among those who ...

iSuppli estimates the iPhone 3GS costs $179 to make

by Mike Schramm (Jun 25th, 2009)

Did you know that after it is broken down into all of its composite metals and materials and parts, your human body is really only worth about $4.50? Yup, you're cheap in the broadest sense -- all of that oxygen, magnesium, iron, and sodium isn't actually worth all that much in the rare metals ...

Selling your iPhone

by Steven Sande (Aug 6th, 2008)

There are many iPhones and iPhone 3Gs being sold right now, and not just at Apple and AT&T Stores. If you're thinking about selling your old iPhone to get a little spendin' cash, here are some simple tips for you: Tip #1 - Pick a reasonable price. What's reasonable? Anything close to whatever ...

iSale updates bring Safari 3 compatibility and over 200 templates

by David Chartier (Jul 28th, 2007)

Whether you make a living from buying and selling on eBay or you merely sell off your basement junk when it gets too crowded down there, iSale is a fantastic eBay client that merges the wonders of Mac OS X with the world's leading online marketplace. Offering beautiful tempaltes, WYSIWYG auction ...

Sell on iTunes with TuneCore

by Erica Sadun (Apr 5th, 2007)

Have you ever considered selling your own music on iTunes? A service called TuneCore makes that possible. You pay a small charge to deliver your album to iTunes plus a yearly fee. If people start buying your tunes, you earn $0.70 per track. So let's say you create an album with 8 tracks. You pay ...

Microsoft copied the only iPod they could

by David Chartier (Nov 30th, 2006)

John Gruber has penned an interesting observation of how Microsoft might very well have missed the mark from the get-go when they made the strange decision to take on the iPod and iTunes. Since the player's initial wiz-bang sales period is essentially over (as in: it more or less set a decent sales ...