Officials from the Mexican Ministry of Tourism announced Tuesday that a record number of tourists visited Mexico last year. The 22.67 million individuals who listed Mexico in their vacation plans in 2011 marked an increase of 0.2 percent over 2008’s erstwhile record-breaking numbers. Compared to 2010’s year-ending numbers, tourism numbers rose by 2 percent. Mexico [...]
A study conducted by CASE (Consumers Association of Singapore) revealed that the number of travel complaints increased by around 40 percent in 2011. Although this does seem like a lot of additional irate customers for one year – the number of complaints went up to 1,396 from 994 year-on-year – part of it can be [...]
With Amazon set to release fourth quarter 2011 sales figures Tuesday, quite a few analysts are expecting big things from the reputed online retailer. And it’s hardly surprising these business specialists are tracing Amazon’s success to the Kindle Fire tablet computer. According to Jordan Rohan of Stifel Nicolaus, the Amazon ecosystem of e-books, audio and [...]
Rumours have it that Microsoft has set the wheels running when it comes to their next-generation Xbox 720 console. Sources have indicated that the Xbox 720 Oban chip is already in production. According to technology site, Fudzilla, the initial production of the processor chip that will power the Xbox already started in December 2011. However, [...]
Verizon Communications booked a fourth quarter net loss of $2.02 billion from the overall sales of $28.4 billion, despite the rise of 7.7 percent from the same period in the previous year. From the $2.64 billion netted in the same quarter in 2010 or 93 cents per share, Verizon posted a net loss per share [...]
Home prices in the United States have been plunging at a regular rate as of the last quarter of 2011, based on the December figures issued by the Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS). The average house prices across America marched down as of October 2011, reaching $200,000 by the end of the month and roughly [...]
Zillow’s most recent Real Estate Market Report again provided less than encouraging results for the property market. According to the report, values of residential housing in the United States dropped 0.1% in November 2011 from its October standing – a marginal decrease, but a decline nonetheless. The annual Zillow Home Value Index also dropped close [...]
Rumours have spelled before of a TV set that Apple is looking to manufacture. Recent claims have strengthened the idea of Apple looking into it with 40-inch-and-above-sized smart TVs in mind. The Las Vegas-based Consumer Electronics Shows have seen Apple becoming constantly absent in its many outings. Nevertheless, USA Today has reported that many are [...]
So far, there doesn’t appear to be any shortage of much-anticipated electronic gadgets for the year 2012. One of the most-awaited of these products is the next-generation iPad, or iPad3 as a lot of observers are calling it. As early as now, people are clamoring for a specific release date for the iPad 3. Unfortunately, [...]
2011 ended with the usual suspects lording out the UK game charts. FIFA 12 scored enough goals to earn the top spot. Electronic Arts’ football-based game managed to outsell any other title in the market. This is the second time that a FIFA game closed a year while on top. Also, it marks the fourth [...]