Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Monday, December 1, 2008
More Women Than Men Buy Apple's iPhones
9 iPhone Business Apps
10 Great iPhone Apps For Your Business
How iPhone Cuts Business Travel Costs
iPhone Proves More Reliable Than BlackBerry
David Pogue Forecasts A Depression For The Storm And I Completely Agree
eBay Companies See Black Friday Shoppers Clicking for Great Deals
More Women Than Men Buy Apple's iPhones
The Herald Sun's Richard Conrad reports:
The fad iPhone has surprised the tech set by finding more homes in handbags than suit pockets.
Australian mobile phone companies confirmed more women than men were buying Apple's fancy iPhone, with one source saying up to 70 per cent of iPhone sales were to females.
Vodafone's general manager for Victoria and Tasmania, Paul Guerra, said the company hadn't researched why women had turned out to be much more receptive to the iPhone than men, despite early assumptions it would appeal more to men.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24724169-2,00.html
9 iPhone Business Apps
Macworld's Bill Wiecking reports:
Letting you play music, movies, and games, the iPhone and the iPod touch could be two of the best time-wasters ever built. But with the right third-party applications installed, they can also give you a whole new mobile workspace. No, they can't replace a laptop when it comes to real productivity. But you can use them to stay in touch with your Mac back at the office, update your to-do list when you're away from iCal, and more. Here are nine applications that can help your iPhone and (in some cases) iPod touch make you more productive, not less.....
You can check it out at:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154645/.html?tk=rss_news
10 Great iPhone Apps For Your Business
InformationWeek's Mary Hayes Weier reports:
Many business professionals who use Apple iPhones would love to use them like company-issued BlackBerrys or laptops so they could tap into such things as their corporate e-mail systems, customer contact lists, and accounting systems.
While options remain limited for using the iPhone like a networked computing client, they are expanding. Consider that when Apple's App Store went online in July, Oracle and Salesforce.com were the only enterprise software vendors with offerings at the site. Within the past few months, however, at least a dozen additional offerings have come online at the App Store that were designed to give iPhone owners a mobile channel into employers' computer systems.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/59tlhm
How iPhone Cuts Business Travel Costs
Forbes' Bonnie Ruberg reports:
In an economy like this one, what company can afford to send its employees on the road with suitcases full of high-tech gadgets? To cut costs, business travelers just need to tote an iPhone filled with applications that help them book airline flights, organize schedules and deliver presentations.
Apple's App Store has hundreds of travel-related apps and almost all of them are $9.99 or less. Indeed, the iPhone is making life much easier for business travelers--or at least it will, once they figure out what it can do.....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/5dysae
iPhone Proves More Reliable Than BlackBerry
MAcUser UK reports:
iPhones are half as likely as rival smartphones to malfunction within the first year of ownership, according to a US provider of extended warranties.
SquareTrade reports that a study of 15,000 iPhones, BlackBerrys and Palm Treos showed that problems occurred with just 5.6% of the Apple devices, as opposed to 11.9% for BlackBerrys and 16.2% for Treos.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/5fblf4
David Pogue Forecasts A Depression For The Storm And I Completely Agree
ZNet's Matthew Miller says:
It is not that often that I agree whole heartedly with David Pogue's reviews since he is a little too pro-Apple for me, but this time I can honestly say his review of the BlackBerry Storm is right on. The power of a BlackBerry is their QWERTY keyboard and RIM needs to forget about future Storm devices and stick with their niche of the market.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=322
eBay Companies See Black Friday Shoppers Clicking for Great Deals
[Press Release]
Black Friday saw a buzz of shopping activity, as consumers took to their computers to snap up hot holiday gifts. eBay Inc. companies, including PayPal and Shopping.com, all saw consumers going online for great deals. The companies reported key online shopping trends, popular categories and hot gifts.
“Results from Black Friday show that shoppers continue to turn to the Web for their holiday shopping needs, especially for consumer electronics,” said Jim “Griff” Griffith, eBay Marketplace Expert. “Online shopping is convenient and allows consumers to find the best values and vast selection. Shoppers can visit eBay and Shopping.com to purchase all of their holiday items at unbeatable prices, and can pay quickly and securely with PayPal.”
Shoppers are Clicking for Deals
With money tighter than ever, shoppers are hitting the Web to find the best values for their hard-earned cash. A recent Nielsen study found that 78 percent of adult online users made a purchase on the Web in the past six months.1 Additionally, a recent survey conducted by Survey.com on behalf of eBay found that getting “great deals” was the most important criteria for shoppers when choosing where to shop online this holiday season.
Shoppers are taking advantage of the great deals on eBay to find must-have gifts. Black Friday online shoppers took advantage of eBay’s great deals, including the Daily Deal, $1 Holiday Doorbusters, Bid from $1 and Microsoft Live Search cashback. Consumers also turned to Shopping.com for their holiday shopping needs, searching most often for Nintendo Wii Fit and Nintendo Wii.
PayPal Customers Cash In on Great Offers
Data from PayPal saw 34 percent more transactions than 2007 and showed a 26 percent increase in online payment volume on Black Friday as shoppers cashed in on exclusive discounts and promotions from some of PayPal’s largest merchants, including Buy.com. Shoppers who use PayPal to make purchases on Buy.com will receive up to $20.00 off Buy.com’s already-low prices and free shipping. This exclusive PayPal promotion gives Buy.com customers’ significant savings on some of the season’s hottest gifts while ensuring that you can pay quickly and securely.
PayPal’s Payflow Gateway data shows that on Black Friday consumers are shopping the most during lunch time, with 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM being the busiest purchasing time for the past three years.
For more information on PayPal’s Black Friday deals, visit http://www.paypal.com or http://www.buy.com/paypal
Hot Products Are in Demand
Consumer spending habits this Black Friday suggest that Consumer Electronics products remain in demand this holiday season. On Shopping.com a GPS sold every nine minutes and an MP3 player every 11 minutes. Additionally, on eBay, the hottest products in this category included the Garmin Nuvi GPS and iPod Touch, with 596 and 415 sold, respectively.
The most searched for product on eBay across all categories this Black Friday was the Nintendo Wii console, 3,171 of which sold on the site. Following it was the Nintendo Wii Fit with 1,059 sold on the site.
Below are some of this season's most popular gifts based on Black Friday eBay shopping activity:
<B>Consumer Electronics</B>
Garmin Nuvi GPS for an average selling price of $258.
iPod Touch for an average selling price of $298.
iPods/iPod Classic for an average selling price of $235.
iPod Nano for an average selling price of $186.
Video Game Consoles/Video Games
Nintendo Wii for an average selling price of $349.
Nintendo Wii Fit for an average selling price of $140.
Sony Playstation 3 for an average selling price of $355.
Rock Band Video Game Bundle for an average selling price of $100.
<B>Smartphones </B>
Apple iPhone 3G for an average selling price of $547.
BlackBerry Storm for an average selling price of $577.
BlackBerry Curve for an average selling price of $256.
T-Mobile Sidekick for an average selling price of $217.
For more information on eBay’s great holiday deals, visit:
http://www.ebay.com/deals
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