Retail: News

With the last-minute Valentine's Day shoppers increasingly turning to the Internet to make up for lost time, e-commerce companies are doing everything they can to stand out from the pack. However, some sites inevitably fall victim to the problems that result from this rise in demand.

Google is planning to enter the home entertainment market with a Google-branded wireless device that streams music within a house, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon has released a new advertisement that takes a shot at the price of Apple’s iPad, emphasizing the lower cost of the Kindle e-reader and Android-based Kindle Fire tablet computer.

Sony's new CEO says the company needs to move on from its hardware roots.

Sony's upcoming handheld gaming device arrives on February 23 and Vodafone is offering the device on a 12-month contract.

Apple will sell 60 million iPads in 2012, according to Peter Misek of Jeffries, though the analyst has revised his prediction of 150 million sales for the whole of the tablet market next year.

Asus has unveiled the U47, an ultraportable laptop based on Intel’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processor. Thanks to thin bezels, the U47 boasts a sizable14-inch display within a thin-and-light 13-inch shell.

Group buying to become dominant force in online retail

Second consecutive year decline in revenue does not reflect the rising popularity of digital game downloads, according to the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association.

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Dell on Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer, who will step down at the end of March, said Thursday that much of his company's losses were due to circumstances outside of his control and he is confident the company will get back on track.

Sony said Thursday it now expects to lose nearly $US3 billion in the current fiscal year through March, over double its target from just three months ago, as it books expenses related to the sale of its share in its LCD joint venture with Samsung and the effect of flooding in Thailand.

Piper Jaffray analys,t Gene Munster claim,s that a major television component maker has revealed that Apple has made inquiries about the capabilities of its display products. You know what that means--Apple TV sets! Maybe.

Nikon flipped over its whole lineup of Coolpix point-and-shoots today, introducing nine new models to replace and augment the company's 2011 offerings. Leading the charge in features (and price) are the 42X-optical-zoom Nikon Coolpix P510 and the low-light-friendly Nikon Coolpix P310, the latter of which offers a maximum aperture of F1.8.

Sony's new CEO faces a myriad of problems - stemming massive losses, snatching the momentum back from deep-pocketed rivals, unifying his firm's diffuse businesses across the globe - but one of his main priorities is your living room.

Sony said Wednesday that executive Kazuo Hirai, who runs the company's core consumer products division, will be promoted to CEO and President from April.

Panasonic's latest camera models are extreme in a couple of ways: extreme in terms of optical-zoom range, and extreme in the "chugging a carafe of Mountain Dew while pogo-sticking down Mount Everest" sense. The company announced four new Lumix point-and-shoots that will be available in the first quarter of the year, headlined by the 20X-optical-zoom Lumix ZS20 and the rugged but robust Lumix TS4.

Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith fears the electronics chain he founded could be sold to foreign owners by retail giant Woolworths.

Woolworths Group is looking to sell off its Dick Smith business preferring to tackle the consumer electronics market through its subsidiary retail chain, Big W.