Earlier today, I was strolling through a Best Buy [BBY] store, meandering through the games section (as most adults, and even some children, tend to do), when I began noticing several DVD-cased PC games with a blue-banded cover along the spine (the top 1/5-1/4 and the bottom 1/5-1/4). I pulled several of the titles off [...]
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You knew, deep in your heart (and the dark recesses of your mind), that sooner or later, Apple [AAPL] would start selling their popular iPhone 3G smartphones online, preferentially their own online Apple Store. It’s been later rather than sooner, as the iPhone 3G has already made the rounds with the usual suspects of retailers [...]
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Best Buy,
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USA
Well, it seems that yes, in fact, yesterday was quite an interesting traffic-laden day as people struggled with rushing to and from Circuit City stores, jamming roads and doing circles in parking lots while waiting for their accomplices within the stores rummaging around and looking for some sort of “special deals” to be found. Given [...]
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Circuit City,
PlayStation 3,
Xbox 360
A Little Bit: The game developer Free Radical is down… and out. The company door locks were changed so employees were unable to get access to their former work premises. Instead, they were told to report to an offsite location (a hotel meeting room) for a (de)briefing and a “Thanks for all your help, and [...]
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Namco
Well, not exactly… “Er, what?” I was minding my own business, alternating between playing Saints Row (since Xbox LIVE has been brought back online earlier today) and following CNBC [GE] coverage of the ongoing financial disaster, when I inadvertently flipped to a random TV channel and saw Felicia dressed in a funny blue shirt and [...]
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Home Depot,
Lowe's,
Saints Row,
Sears
As was mentioned here several weeks ago, Apple [AAPL] and Best Buy [BBY] had inked a channel deal for the latter to start selling the former’s iPhone product at their retail outlets, to start this month. Today was the launch, and it was clearly advertised in the circulars that went out to the public. However, [...]
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Hot on the tail (tales?) of Apple’s [AAPL] latest news of iPhone connectivity problems and App Store concerns, the Palm [PALM] Treo Pro was announced yesterday, followed today by the RIM [RIMM] BlackBerry Bold. Huh? The Apple iPhone 3G The iPhone 3G has been out the longest, and it has been steadily gaining developer acceptance [...]
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Best Buy,
Palm,
RIM
Perhaps getting less fanfare than the other (more ominous) news mentioned here earlier, there was news reported by CNET that Best Buy [BBY] will start selling the Apple [AAPL] iPhone at their retail outlets starting this September. This leverages the existing relationship between Apple and Best Buy, which involves an Apple section in many Best Buy [...]
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Remember the previous news reported here about the anticipated Xbox 360 console price reduction? Starting July 13, 2008, Best Buy [BBY] (and other retailers) will be offering the “standard” Microsoft [MSFT] Xbox 360 console for $299.99 USD, which is $50.00 less than the previous price. For a lot of folks, Best Buy is the most [...]
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