Crowdstorm blog
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Jan 30 2012What's the difference? Cheap smartphones vs high-end smartphones
When it comes to mobiles, everyone these days seems to have a touchscreen smartphone. But of you don't know much about them, where do you start? Is there really much difference between a more mid-priced HTC Desire Z and a top of the range Samsung Galaxy S2? Touchscreen This is an area where you can often really feel the difference between high and low end smartphones. However, it’s...
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Jan 23 2012Classic film: Great reasons to keep it Kodak
It was a rough week for Kodak, as its US owner filled for bankruptcy protection in the UK. However, Kodak execs came out fighting, saying it was a precautionary measure to protect the company as it goes forward.
Kodak invented the handheld camera more than 130 years ago, but hasn't made a profit since 2007.
Despite also inventing the digital camera, it didn't stay at the forefront of... -
Jan 17 2012What tech to upgrade? Five winners and losers at CES 2012
As 2012 dawned, the best place to get an insight into the year’s coming technological upgrades was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Now that CES 2012 has been and gone, we though we’d take a look at how the various types of home goods faired and what to look out for in the coming months. If you’re looking to upgrade anything from your PC to your washing machine,...
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Jan 09 2012What will your Olympic 2012 legacy be? Our top five Olympic 2012 bargains
While Cameron and his Tory cronies sit around the Olympic village in expensive suits, looking every bit as excited about London 2012 as the French, some of us are genuinely excited about the prospect of hosting the biggest sporting event in the world.
As the government tries to convince those living outside the capital that there tax money really is being spent on amenities that they may actually one... -
Jan 04 2012Next sees online sales support 'disappointing' high street figures
As widely reported in the media this morning, Next managed to meet its profit forecasts for 2010 – but only thanks to its online sales.
We applaud Next’s stance not to discount items before Christmas before its big Boxing Day sale, but unfortunately shoppers don’t really care about such a decision and shopped elsewhere at massive discounts – leaving Next’s high street... -
Dec 19 2011Merry Christmas from Crowdstorm!
As shopping days left to Christmas begin to run out and we start looking forward to a few days off as the year comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on what we're achieved – and more importantly, what's yet to come.
2011 has been a great year at Crowdstorm. Since taking the site over we’ve worked hard on tidying up the search results, as well as redesigning the site... -
Dec 12 2011Ted Baker follows in Ebay's footsteps with in-store Wi-Fi
After we discussed the Ebay Store opening in London a few weeks back, it seems Ted Baker is set to take the idea one step further.
After successful trials in three of its stores, the high street fashion store is set to launch Wi-Fi, via The Cloud, in 38 UK and Ireland stores.
As reported by The Retail Bulletin, the Ted Baker trial Wi-Fi service included a QR code based competition - something... -
Dec 06 2011Crowdstorm's top five Christmas toy choices
We're starting to feel fairly festive here at Crowdstorm, so while we've been slaving away on the comparison tables it's been fun to keep an eye on what Santa's been picking up most of in terms of toys.
While there's always a few 'must have' new things that spoilt children simply have to have, we've been surprised that the real big sellers have been the classics -... -
Nov 21 2011The Ebay Christmas Boutique: online shopping hits the high street
While you’re not about to pop out to the shops and find a Crowdstorm Superstore has replaced one of you’re local ‘special’ fried chicken outlets, we’re taking our hats off to Ebay this week for doing just that. For one week over Christmas (December 1-5), the online shopping and auction behemoth will be taking over a store in London’s West End to offer an experimental “no...
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Nov 14 2011Top five rules for Christmas shopping online
We learnt last week that, according to tech firm Rackspace, a massive 90 per cent of consumers will do at least a bit of their Christmas shopping online this year. So with that in mind, we've decided to give you five top tips to make your own online Christmas shopping go as smoothly as possible. 5) Do your research first Just like the high street, the interweb is a big, busy and scary place...
