shopping

One of my hands-down favorite applications for mobile devices is the price-comparison app ShopSavvy, already popular on a number of mobile platforms today. Recently, the developers gave us a sneak peek of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 version of the application by way of a post on their company…

In the latest Bing refresh (are we at one a day now?), the team has added new features to the Bing Shopping section. One of the updates is a left-side navigation improvement which adds more filters for narrowing down your choices, based on the item you’re searching. In the example on the Bing blog…

The Bing Team just announced a new design for the shopping portal, Bing Shopping. In the updated interface, product categories have been moved to the left side of the page and you can click on them to further drill down into them to find just the product type you’re looking for. An example:…

Blogger Long Zheng noticed something cool at the National Retail Federation Convention & Expo this week – a digital screen that brings to mind the intelligent signage featured in the movie “Minority Report.” Many of us have long since looked to that popular sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise for…

Today, the Microsoft Store is participating in the unofficial retail holiday known as “Black Friday” via their online store. In a special promotion, revealed here on the Store’s website, a number of computer and electronic deals are being featured. Whether you’re looking for a laptop, an Xbox, or…

Thanks to the Windows 7 News site, I came across a decent round-up of today’s Black Friday bargains on Windows 7 PCs. If you’re in the market for an affordable computer upgrade, there are a number of stores with specially priced PCs now on sale. Although this isn’t a complete listing, here are some…

Coinciding with today’s launch of Windows 7, the Microsoft Online Store has added several new products to its lineup, the most notable of which is PCs! Although Microsoft itself is not a computer manufacturer, it’s nice to be able to go to one location to browse through all the different desktops,…

The über-popular price comparison application ShopSavvy, which originally made its debut on Android, is now on its way to other platforms, including Windows Mobile. For those not familiar with this application, the idea is simple. When you’re out and about doing some shopping, you can use your…

Doing some holiday shopping online? As you may know, you can save some dough using Live Search Cashback, but now you can get that cash back even faster. How fast? Instantly! According to the Live Search team blog, the new instant cashback feature will be made available for some Live Search users…

Microsoft recently announced two new LifeCams that join the lineup of webcams designed for users of Windows PCs: the LifeCam Show and the LifeCam VX-5500. The LifeCam Show is an ultrathin camera with a 2.0MP sensor and three different attachment options – a laptop clip, a desktop stand, and an…