Is this season to shop on your phone I'm Bridget Carey and this -- -- CNET update. Between online sales on Thanksgiving Black Friday Cyber Monday -- -- colonists cyber weekend because Black Friday has become a huge online shopping day. On sales for -- -- -- retailers surpassed one billion dollars for the first time on the day after Thanksgiving. That's according to com score online shopping on Thanksgiving was also up -- Q percent from last year. So next time -- -- you can just get a great deal at home instead of fighting for phones at Wal-Mart like in this video posted on YouTube. Amazon -- always the top online shopping spot for Cyber Monday deals but other popular online destinations are -- Followed by a -- by Nextel are Amazon's website -- us and Quincy and that's according to tracking agency deep field. And we're doing more shopping on our mobile devices. PayPal an IBM reported seeing a huge influx of mobile shoppers threw out the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In fact a large majority people shopping on tablets we're using I patents. But what are we buying tablets are more popular now than laptops and a recent report from and PD -- search. Further proves this so basically we're buying ipads with our -- there are several factors plane -- like how tablets now are cheaper. Windows eight is designed to work on tablets and companies ordered Moore to prepare for a tablet gets surge this holiday. As for other big tech items the -- -- -- adding -- are hot sellers. And Nintendo sold one of nearly heating systems of the last week which includes 400000. We use systems. 300000 of their original -- systems. And 500000. Portable 3-D S and DS systems. And for gamers paint it -- dollars for yearly PlayStation plus account you can now -- on Sony's music unlimited premium membership for a dollar a month. It's not only ten dollars a month for plus members Sony's music service has eighteen million song streams on computers and mobile devices and it offers the ability to listen offline. If you're traveling for the holidays here's a few apps to keep an ion packing pro in the Apple App Store. Make sure you don't forget anything with a pre trip to do list in -- packing list. You can change things from an exhaustive pre made -- it's one of the reasons that app costs three dollars and we need checks something -- it -- with your other devices that also use the -- When you more about documenting your travels check out hit GO. It's for Apple and Android it's a free app that creates a blog for you to poster images videos text. All tied to -- geo location it's pretty much. That your tech news update you can find links to all of these stories on the blog cnet.com slash update from march genius in New York I'm Bridget Carey. A.
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