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Retailer Gilt Sees iPad App Driving Fashion Sales

Rachel Dodes, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 16, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Executives at Gilt Groupe, the fashion retailer known for its online-only sales of high-end items, had expected to do well with their iPad app, but they were surprised by some of the results after the device was introduced. On April 4, a day after the device debuted, 2.4 percent of Gilt’s sales came from the iPad, a higher portion than expected, said Gilt founder and chairman Kevin Ryan and Chief Executive Susan Lyne in an interview.

Live from Apple's "Let's Rock" Event: iTunes 9, iTunes LP

John Paczkowski in News on September 9, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

Speaking at Apple’s music event, CEO Steve Jobs, in his first public appearance since his medical leave of absence, introduces iTunes 9. After noting that iTunes is the largest music store in the world, boasting some 100 million accounts, Jobs rattles off some of the software’s new features. Among them: Genius Mixes and improved synching. The latter enables more specific synching and supports a new way of managing applications for the iPhone and iPod touch with a nice drag-and-drop feature. Very easy to organize and reorganize applications. The crowd really likes this one.

Live from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event: iTunes 9, iTunes LP

John Paczkowski in News on September 9, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

Speaking at Apple’s music event, CEO Steve Jobs, in his first public appearance since his medical leave of absence, introduces iTunes 9. After noting that iTunes is the largest music store in the world, boasting some 100 million accounts, Jobs rattles off some of the software’s new features. Among them: Genius Mixes and improved synching. The latter enables more specific synching and supports a new way of managing applications for the iPhone and iPod touch with a nice drag-and-drop feature. Very easy to organize and reorganize applications. The crowd really likes this one.

Macworld ’09: iMovie ’09

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2009 at 9:33 am PT

Next up on the Macworld agenda: iMovie. The software has been given not just a refresh, but a full rewrite. We’ve added so much to iMovie this year, says Schiller, that iMovie will be the consumer video editing software to have. And that may turn out to be so.

Flip Camcorder Goes High-Def

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 11, 2008 at 5:40 pm PT

Katie reviews the Pure Digital Technologies Flip MinoHD, a handheld camcorder that is capable of capturing high-definition footage in 1280×720 pixel resolution, or 720p. (The regular Mino records at 640×480 pixels.)