Recent Rakuten acquisition Kobo reports a ten-fold increase in its number of e-book customers relative to the pre-holiday period. While Kobo hasn't released sales numbers, it says that it has had Continue reading…
The last week in 2011 was the biggest ever for Android and iOS. According to mobile app analytics company Flurry, over 20 million devices were activated between Christmas and New Year, and 1.2 billion Continue reading…
Andy Rubin continues to use his Twitter account as the broadcasting platform for Android's latest statistical achievements. This time, he's letting us know that a magnificent 3.7 million new Android Continue reading…
Wow. We've seen some elaborate Christmas trees this year — some made entirely from books or from phones — but what we love about this Portal homage is its outside-the-box thinking. The top third Continue reading…
Engineers at BBC Radio 3 have been busily working on a rediscovered 1958 recording of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Cambridge, but rather than the relatively simple audio restoration Continue reading…
Google has released a couple of neat easter eggs for the holiday season, similar to the Starfox-inspired "Do a barrel roll" trick from a couple of months ago that sends your search results page Continue reading…
Apple has a little tradition of offering iOS customers in Europe and Canada free content around the holidays, and this year is no exception: the "12 Days of Christmas" app was just released in the App Continue reading…
Measuring 10 meters tall in non-freedom units, this Lego Christmas tree is thought to be the biggest of its kind in the world. It's composed of over 600,000 bricks, has a thousand baubles dangling Continue reading…
London's St. Pancras International Station is playing host to the world's biggest Christmas tree built out of Lego bricks. It's 10 meters / 33 feet tall, has 172 branches decorated with 1,000 baubles, Continue reading…
Welcome to The Verge Holiday Gift Guide 2011. Holiday shopping season officially begins on Black Friday, and since Thanksgiving is in our rear-view mirror, you're probably desperately hunting for the Continue reading…
