When you think of the 1980s, certain catchphrases come to mind: "Where's the beef?" "I'll be back!" and "Everybody have fun tonight/Everybody Wang Chung tonight." Even if you're too young to get the final reference, you've probably heard it on a host of CBS shows like "Two and a Half Men," "How I Met Your Mother," "The Big Bang Theory," and many more programs and films. Wang Chung, whose most memorable singles include "Dance Hall Days," "To Live and Die in L.A.," "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," and "Let's Go!" is undoubtedly a part of pop culture history. With 2012's "Tazer Up" -- their first new album in 23 years -- and a recent tour, they are indoctrinating a new generation of fans.

Have you Wang Chunged today?

Download.com caught up with founding members Jack Hues and Nick Feldman about the just-wrapped U.S. tour, producing "Tazer Up," how the advent of synths and drum machines shaped the future of bands, road tripping to Area 51, and how Wang Chung became the catchphrase of the 1980s. Plus, we got a surprising update on Culture Club's Jon Moss!

So how did the tour go? Jack Hues: Really great, actually. It started back on July 20th and the first three weeks were really concentrated, because we were playing gigs with Fixx, and that went really well; and then we flew out to the West Coast and we've been doing gigs for our own shows and they've been great. We've... [Read more]

Although the e-commerce space is set to see strong sales in the US this year, a large portion of that success will be due to smartphones and tablets.

Total e-commerce spending this holiday shopping season is expected to rise by 15 percent to $61.8 billion, new data from research firm eMarketer shows. Shoppers on smartphones and tablets will account for 16 percent of all purchases made through e-commerce sites. In 2011 and 2012, mobile's contribution to sales stood at 7 percent and 11 percent, respectively.

Perhaps more importantly to e-commerce sites, eMarketer expects mobile shoppers to accelerate their use of smartphones and tablets to buy products, with 26 percent of all purchases coming from those devices by 2017.

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Pocket's popular read-it-later service is a Chrome App, too.

Looking at its history, Google's a betting company. On September 4, 1998, the company bet that the world would want a better search engine. On September 2, 2008, the company bet that people would want a better browser. And on Thursday, the company unveiled a new kind of Chrome App that bets that people want to use Web apps, sans browser.

Chrome Apps, known in development as Chrome Packaged Apps, allow Web developers to turn their sites into single-serving apps that function like more like apps and programs written in native code. The apps are currently available only on Chrome for Windows and Chromebooks running Chrome OS, with Mac and Linux support in the works.

You can install Chrome Apps from the For your desktop section of the Chrome Web Store.

Until AM is an audio-mixing app with hooks to SoundCloud and Google Drive.

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