IDC has said used and refurbished phones grew to 282.6 million in 2022, that's several tens of millions higher than in 2021. In the coming years, it expects demand for second-hand phones to rise more.
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In a controversial move, Electronic Arts has made the decision to lock out multiplayer modes on used sales of its sports games. Beginning with the release of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 on the Xbox...
Apple announced on Tuesday that it has launched its online store to sell quality-tested second-hand Apple products in China, to increase its sales. The available refurbished products in Apple's Chinese store include iPod Shuffles and...
Best Buy, Canada's largest electronics retailer, will enter the second-hand games market with a test run at six of its Future Shop stores in Calgary, Alberta. They will then expand this venture to all 133...
We'll preface this by saying this whole thing could be one giant hoax, but it's most certainly within the realm of possibility. We're told it's a mixture of Insteon, SMS and Twitter, all of...
Processors specially developed by Intel for Apple's new MacBook Air laptop will soon be used by other PC vendors in systems, possibly creating competition for what Apple calls the world's lightest and thinnest notebook. Two...
The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn't been active since November 2007, his rips are still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as...
While the value of the MacBook Air might be up for debate, the $99 price of the portable USB SuperDrive that can be purchased as an add-on is not. However, those of us thinking we...
Advanced features in Google's search engine are being used by spammers to disguise the URLs of spamvertised sites. Hackers have been using Google search functions to hunt for vulnerabilities. Now their peers in the junk...
NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker has some sour grapes over Apple's continued success with iTunes and wants to make sure the whole world knows it. According to Zucker, Apple has "destroyed the music business" and...
The Department of Energy estimates that in the average home, 40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Add that all up, and it equals...
A Hotmail user logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information,...
A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. The entry for the W32.Blaster worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false...
Best Buy today confirmed that four stores in Illinois and California have begun selling used video games, a market that major retail chains have kept away from and left to stores such as Gamestop and...
A REPORT on German website Tec Channel claimed that pirated software was used to create some audio files in the Windows Media Player tour in XP. Tec Channel said that if a hex editor is...
The results of a study by O&O, published today, show that there are still serious problems with both private and business users' handling of secure data deletion and the resultant data protection issues. For example,...
So the UK govn. will soon be able to have a peek at UK'ers finances, eh? Strike another nail in the coffin of privacy if you will please. The government is...
Apple Computer should have adopted the Intel Corp. architecture when it had the chance, former chief John Sculley said Tuesday. In the late-1980s, when Apple was using Motorola Inc. 68000 series chips and considering its...
US regulators said on Monday they had charged a 17-year-old boy with using "spam" e-mails and a fake AOL Web page to trick people out of their credit card information and steal thousands of dollars....
Code from a UK security expert has emerged as the driving force behind the SQL Slammer worm that ravaged servers over the weekend. David Litchfield, co-founder of NGS Software, originally wrote the code to demonstrate...
After committing a great crime the stereotypical criminal will then jet away to a foreign or far away place where they couldn't possibly be identified by local law enforcement. If the unwitting lawbreaker chooses to...
Whats that... did you spot the paradox too?! heh - corporate types eh :| "LONDON - November 11, 2002 - Extending its track record for innovation in the mobile space, NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:...
Thanks mimeryme who mposted this on BPN from the DivX newsletter: Earlier this year, Blizzard Entertainment released the enormously popular "Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos" game featuring great-looking cinematic scenes encoded in DivX...
The industry worries that the expanding used market is cannibalizing new-CD sales, as well as promoting piracy by allowing consumers to buy, record and sell back discs while retaining their own digitally pristine copies. ...