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During April-to-June 2012, AT&T & Verizon lost 94,000 broadband subscribers in total. While they continue to sign up people for fiber and higher speed broadband, they are losing DSL subscribers really fast which is good news for cable broadband companies.

"Remember World of Warcraft? Chances are you've come across someone in the throes of its infamous addiction. Released in 2004, the massively multiplayer online game had 12 million subscribers at its peak in October 2010 - but has been losing them ever since."

In order to evaluate the severity of the situation, there are a few other relevant statistics in play. The bad news for the magazine industry was Tuesday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Audit Bureau recorded only a slight net decline in magazine sales, 0.1 percent; the loss in newsstand sales is generally considered an indication of a collapse in magazine appeal, especially among women and "prestige" audiences. Publications like Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Christine Haughney's blog post for the Times notes, suffered even worse at the newsstand, along with celebrity magazines like People. How bad? About 18 percent declines for those three aforementioned magazines. Struggling numbers could be symptomatic of our repression economy. Newsstand sales are tied to shopping behavior in supermarkets, where consumers can exercise conscious restraint over impulse purchases. But the merely modest growth of digital sales, which John Harrington, an industry consultant quoted in Haughney's blog, called "minute compared to even newsstands and subscriptions," signal a more endemic problem. The magazine industry is falling apart, and the decay seems to be accelerating. Improvements in home and food magazine sales point to the real issue. Harrington told the Times, "by the time the magazine comes out, it's old news."

"En Californie, la mSanté n'est pas l'apanage des médecins et des hôpitaux. Une pharmacie locale, Bi-Rite, a lancé un programme de messages automatiques pour rappeler aux patients qu'ils doivent prendre leurs médicaments."

"uring April-to-June 2012, AT&T & Verizon lost 94,000 broadband subscribers in total. While they continue to sign up people for fiber and higher speed broadband, they are losing DSL subscribers really fast which is good news for cable broadband companies."

Le paiement en ligne vit depuis plus d'un an des évolutions majeures. De nouvelles solutions dans la gestion et la sécurisation des paiements se multiplient : à la 3D Secure, système d'authentification garantissant une meilleure sécurité des paiements mais provoquant une baisse des ventes en ligne, la profession a privilégié d'autres outils, plus souples et personnalisés. Face au succès de PayPal, beaucoup d'acteurs du marché misent sur le développement du portefeuille électronique ou e-wallet. Un mode de paiement alternatif, en très forte croissance, et qui semble promis à un bel avenir.

A sputtering economy isn't slowing the growth of e-commerce. In fact, new data from comScore shows $44 billion in business now moving through U.S. e-commerce channels, up 17 percent from a year ago. More, the last three quarters show accelerating year-over-year growth.

Phénomène Le marché du livre peine à passer au numérique, mais pas les auteurs… Et pendant ce temps... Alors que l'on parle encore et toujours des épineux problèmes de l'édition française avec l'e-book, la révolution numérique pour les auteurs est déjà en route avec l'autoédition.

Si les questions relatives à la gestion de ses finances, de son assurance ou de son investissement ne sont pas les plus attrayantes, le jeu mobile peut aider à s'y intéresser.

What's the future of retail, and how far away is it? Turns out that in the next couple of years, customers will be able to try on clothes and products at home with no shipping required. Technology will allow shoppers to virtually wear garments - smelling, hearing and feeling the fabric as if it were real.

Une étude de l'institut Bowker Market Research estime que les consommateurs ont dépensé 7 % de leur budget livre pour le numérique en 2011, représentant 14 % des ouvrages achetés. En 2010, la répartition était de 2 % et 4 %.   Ces chiffres témoignent de la progression du numérique dans les usages, mais aussi l'infériorité du prix du livre numérique en comparaison de son équivalent papier. La part des dépenses pour l'achat de livres en grand format papier a ainsi décliné de 42 % en 2010 à 39 % l'an passé. 

Unilever had painted itself into a corner. After the global consumer goods company published its Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan laying out ambitious sustainability goals, company leaders realized meeting those goals was going to be tough. So they got creative. Working with GlobeScan, they created an online collaboration platform with one clear purpose - to enable Unilever to hit its sustainability targets for 2020. "We can't solve these issues on our own," explained Miguel Pestana, VP Global External Affairs, "We need to engage with civil society, companies, government and other key stakeholders. It's about developing new models of collaboration."

In the latest example of how Walmart is using mobile as a key part of its promotional strategy for summer blockbuster films, the retailer has launched the Web Slinger augmented reality app, featuring Spider-Man and enabling customers to interact with in-store displays to access exclusive content.

merican publishers are now bringing in more revenue from ebooks than hardcover books, according to a report published by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The figures, which were posted on GalleyCat on Friday, show that net sales revenue from ebooks exceeded that of hardcover books in the first quarter of the year: a first. The data was compiled from 1,189 publishers and did not include children's books.

We're at the early stages of a massive wave of innovation in the payment industry. It's like when Apple launched the iOS platform for mobile developers. The platform in this case is the payment network. Software developers will add new capabilities to cards by programming the payment network to link online applications to specific payment events. Consumers will be able to effectively "drag and drop" apps to their smart cards in the same way that they add apps to their smart phones today.

For about the price of a tank of gas each month, you can have your own lawyer, physician and coterie of Harvard educated experts. Pearl.com (like a "pearl of wisdom") launched on Tuesday, and connects users to trained and certified experts who can answer a myriad of questions.

De la transparence dans les sodas. Associé à Owni et Terra Eco, le site OpenFoodFacts, consacré à l'ouverture des données dans l'alimentaire, lance une grande opération de recueil des données sur les sodas et leurs ingrédients - pas toujours recommandables. Tous les citoyens sont invités à participer.

Dans la grande région de Québec, on en trouve un seul, à Saint-Jean-Chrysostome. Comme l'explique le directeur général de la caisse Desjardins des Rivières Chaudière et Etchemins, Laurier Boudreau, le nouveau type de guichet s'inspire des tablettes électroniques. À terme, «l'écran va finir par avoir les mêmes fonctions qu'AccèsD». En plus des transactions courantes, on pourra y faire des demandes de prêts Accord D, notamment.

Se plaindre sur Facebook ou Twitter est un phénomène qui prend de l'ampleur chez les consommateurs. Pourtant, leurs complaintes resteraient la plupart du temps sans réponse. C'est pourquoi Wacktrap leur propose de se réunir pour taper du poing sur la toile.