U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories slipped 4 percent in October as demand for most gaming consoles declined from a year earlier, according to data from market researcher NPD Group. Overall game sales were $1.07 billion last month, down from $1.11 billion in October of...
Read MoreFacebook unveiled a new messaging platform Monday that takes aim at one of the Internet’s first applications, e-mail. Although blogs had been speculating that Facebook would announce an e-mail service to rival Google Inc.’s Gmail and others, Facebook said e-mail was just one component of its plans. Declaring e-mail past its prime in the age of texts and instant messages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company doesn’t believe e-mail is going to be a modern messaging system. The first Internet e-mail system arrived in the early 1970s. “If we do a good job, some people will say this is...
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A new service aims to help you share the hundreds of photos you take with your camera phone with the people you trust the most — be it of moments as forgettable as a late-night McRib sandwich or as memorable as a new engagement ring. Path, as it’s called,...
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