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Apple and Best Buy
Apple to sell Macs at Best Buy: I wonder how this will affect the plans for the Apple Stores around the country? Will they only sell in Best Buy markets where they don't have a retail presence? "The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker plans next month to launch a pilot program ...
Published: July 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Best Buy Sells House Brand
Best Buy initiates a battle of the brands: Interesting. Best Buy wants to put its insignia on consumer electronics. The retailer has quietly begun selling a range of devices, including large-screen televisions, portable DVD players and desktop PCs, under a new in-house brand name, Insignia. Via John.
Published: October 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 938
Best Buy's Secret Web Site
Best Buy Web site pricing probed: If Best Buy actually did this, then they're brutally stupid. Blumenthal said his office received at least 20 complaints after a columnist for The Hartford Courant reported the experience of one Connecticut man who found a laptop computer advertised for $729.99 on BestBuy.com, then ...
Published: March 6, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 933
FatWallet Sues Best Buy Over DMCA Claim
FatWallet sues Best Buy over DMCA misuse: Fat Wallet is a Web site that posts retail sales information before the sales come out. Best Buy was a little irritated about this and invoked of all things the DMCA to stop FatWallet from publishing BestBuy prices on the Fat ...
Published: December 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 917
Escape and Studio D: Best Buy Meets Starbucks
Best Buy circles the track: This is about a year old, but I just saw it float across CNN tonight (the TV version). Best Buy has a semi-secret line of stores called "Escape" that try to....well, escape the Big Box store mold. In Chicago's hip and trendy Lincoln Park neighborhood, ...
Published: February 16, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 869
Geek Squad
Geek squad to the rescue: I don't know why, but I hear a lot about these roving Best Buy tech support guys. I have no idea what suddenly elevated them above "normal" on-site computer techs, but Best Buy seems to have struck on a good marketing thing here. Best Buy's ...
Published: November 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 834
The Perv Squad
Best Buy 'Geek' accused of taping woman taking a shower: I'm in ur houze, being a s3x offender. A 22-year-old woman and her mother are suing Best Buy and its "Geek Squad" computer repair team for dispatching a technician who they say videotaped the daughter taking a shower. When you ...
Published: April 12, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 767
The 10 Best Intranets of 2003
10 Best Intranets of 2003: The big items for this year's winners: workflow, self-serve content management, and design consistency. He also notes that half of the winners used Microsoft platforms, apparently way up from previous years. "This year's winning intranet designs emphasized workflow support, self-service content management, and offloading tasks ...
Published: October 14, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 758
Go Buy Your Blu-Ray Player
Report: Toshiba making funeral plans for HD DVD; Wal-Mart to go all Blu: And just like that, the format war is over. Throughout the battle with Blu-ray, Toshiba and the HD DVD Promotions Group had fought aggressively to defend HD DVD, even as Warner Bros. abandoned ship. But that strong ...
Published: February 16, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 757
Napster Gift Cards
The Napster Card: DId you know you can buy Napster gift cards at Best Buy? It's a gift certificate for the online service that the recipient can use to pay for music. Brilliant.
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 753
The Geek Squad Revisited
Perplexed consumers dial up tech 'geeks': Our original post on the Geek Squad is one of our most active. This is an article about the surge in computer support jobs in general, and it includes this bit on the Geek Squad: Best Buy last week said it hired 1,500 more ...
Published: June 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 722
The Nerd Herd
Chuck (TV series): I saw a preview for this show on the flight from Denver to San Francisco. It looks pretty hysterical Chuck is a member of the Geek Squad Nerd Herd at Best Buy Buy More, and he gets a bunch of spy secrets embedded in his brain. ...
Published: September 11, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 712
Earth To Hardware Dudes: Linux Exists
I think that we're rapidly approaching the point at which hardware vendors will no longer be able to ignore Linux. My wireless router has been misbehaving badly lately. When using my (wired) desktop or (wireless) laptop, you occasionally get no signal and no response from it. Trudging down to the ...
Published: October 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 702
Top 10 Mac Failures
Top 10 Mac Failures: An interesting look at Apple miscues. Among them, the Flower Power/Blue Dalmation iMac and my personal choice of unforgiveable design, the round mouse. Users were not universally pleased with the new mouse. It was now totally symmetrical, preventing many users from easily telling which way is ...
Published: January 31, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 697
Porsche Design
Gizmodo : Porsche drives: I've written about the Porsche-computer connection before, but I didn't know Porsche Design is behind the VPR Matrix computers that Best Buy sells. Nor that they're coming out with a line of external hard drives. For the record, Porsche Design has the same genesis as the ...
Published: July 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
Go Ahead, Use My Music
Does the public's ability to buy a single song immediately via iTunes or whatever make it easier to clear the rights to use songs in media? On last week's Saturday Night Live, there was a funny Digital Short that parodied the final episode of Season 2 of The O.C. (video ...
Published: April 24, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
Demon Customers
Apparently Best Buy and a number of other retail outlets are using all the data they collect on you to determine how profitable you are for them. It's pretty fascinating how data mining is changing the way businesses interact with you. Every store has customers it doesn't like, he said. ...
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 675
R.I.P. VHS
Report: Wal-Mart to exit VHS business, free space for DVDs: The death of VHS tapes happened awfully suddenly. [Wal-Mart's decision to stop selling VHS tapes] comes after an announcement from Target that it will phase out VHS sales by September. Best Buy and Circuit City no longer sell VHS tapes, ...
Published: June 13, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 666
The Living Computer
University of Florida scientist, Thomas DeMarse, has grown a "computer" in a petri dish from living cells taken from a rat's brain, and has successfully interfaced the brain with a computer. The brain has learned to fly a flight simulator on the computer. "We're interested in studying how brains compute," ...
Published: October 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
Gateway Buys eMachines
Gateway shares climb on eMachines purchase : I think Dell will follow suit here, in an effort to get in retail shelves. The deal would allow Gateway (GTW: up $0.49 to $4.58, Research, Estimates), which sells PCs in cartons with cow-like markings through its own stores and the Internet, to ...
Published: January 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
Thumb Drives and Car Stereos
Car stereos come with USB ports: Looks like USB drives in car stereos are becoming the next big thing. Stereo makers say they want to accommodate both digital music players and thumb drives to give customers choice. "The whole point is people want music their way," says Amy Gilroy, senior ...
Published: January 5, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
Bride of the Friday Diversion
It's a long weekend coming up for us U.S. folks, so we'll need some extra diversion this week. I was thinking of keeping this one in my back pocket to slowly mete out future Friday Diversions, but this way you can divert yourselves if I miss a Friday or two ...
Published: September 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
P-ISM
Photo Gallery (Pensonal Computer): Snopes reports on something almost impossibly cool. It's a computer broken apart into pieces, each the size of a pen. The screen and keyboard are projected onto surfaces. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, ...
Published: December 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
Glam.com: A Return to Headier Times?
Fashion Site to Try an All-Purpose Portal: I wonder if the success or failure of this site is a barometer for anything in particular. WHEN some of Silicon Valley's best minds pool their collective intelligence and millions of dollars to create a Web site for people who want to read ...
Published: September 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 631
I'll Admit, I Thought The 'Halo Effect' Was BS
When Apple started selling iPods, they had this theory whereby people would like the iPod so much that they'd sell more Macs. Given that iPods work fine with Windows PC's, I thought that notion was dubious at best, and a scheme to falsely build stockholder confidence at worst. It turns ...
Published: November 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 627
Abott and Costello Meet The Friday Diversion
Vega Strike looks completely awesome. I have no idea how I've never heard of it. Vegastrike is an OpenSource 3d Space Simulator. Currently in Beta development, the project, at version 1.0, is to be a generic space simulator. Current features include split-screen play, trading, exploration and of course plenty of ...
Published: September 24, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
Fuel Up The X-Wings
The Cassini Space Probe has photographed a frightening visitor lurking in orbit of Saturn. NASA is trying to play it off as the moon Mimas. Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet at the heavily cratered moon Mimas (398 kilometers, 247 miles across). The enormous crater at ...
Published: July 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 624
Storage Sells
Storage takes starring role in tech gizmo sales pitch: We went through a long period a few years ago when hard drive size was so abstract. Discs had gotten so big compared the stuff we put on them, that increases in hard drive space didn't really matter to anyone. I ...
Published: March 27, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 622
Microsoft: No Windows Update Without Proof of Authenticity
Microsoft: Legit Windows or no updates: I found this via Techdirt which comes to the same conclusion I have: the more Microsoft does things like this to prevent piracy, the more Microsoft alternatives will thrive. Aiming to crack down on counterfeit software, Microsoft plans later this year to require customers ...
Published: January 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 620
The W3C and PageRank
You can donate to the W3C through their "W3C Supporters" program. By donating over $1,000 USD, you get a link from this page. No problem, right? Well... That page is has a Google PageRank of 9. And apparently they'll let "supporters" pick their link text, because there are hyperlinks on ...
Published: July 8, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 619
Insane Dell Deal
Last week, I wrote about how hard drive space was getting ridiculously cheap. Today, I get a Dell catalog in the mail. Their deal on a Dimension 2400: 2.4 Ghz Celeron WinXP Home 256MB RAM 80GB hard drive CD-RW 17" monitor Color inkjet printer All this for $299. There's no ...
Published: July 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 617
eBay Proxy Firms
Firms jump on the eBay wagon: Here's an article about eBay proxy companies outfits that take your merchandise and sell it on eBay for you, taking a commission off the top. We've talked about these before. This article explains how eBay is really working to help these firms instead ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 616
Spyware Removal Testing
Review: Testing anti-spyware programs: CNN tests spyware removers. No clear winner he did the best by running two different progams at the same time. [...] I tested Webroot Software Inc.'s Spy Sweeper, LavaSoft's Ad-Aware, Tenebril Inc.'s SpyCatcher, Spybot Search & Destroy and Computer Associates Inc.'s eTrust PestPatrol. To ensure ...
Published: November 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 611
The PHP Anthology
The PHP Anthology: SitePoint writes some books now and again, and they appear to have come up with a big winner in "The PHP Anthology: Volumes 1 and 2." These books are written by PHP evangelist Harry Fuecks, who is to PHP what Ben Forta is to ColdFusion. I downloaded ...
Published: May 24, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 606
Getting Misty Over Old Machines
You ever get sentimental over an old computer? One that you just can't throw away? Back in 1998, I worked part-time at Best Buy so Annie and I could pay cash for our wedding the next summer. That Christmas season was the year a complete PC system (computer, monitor, printer) ...
Published: August 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 602
Madden NFL Football
Wired News: Madden Keeps Gaining Ground: An homage to the greatest sports sim ever created. "'EA has never been satisfied with Madden,' says Bryan Intihar, associate editor at Electronic Gaming Monthly. 'They have a formula and they keep to it, but they add little things every year to make it ...
Published: August 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 598
MSNBot is on the prowl...
MSN Search MSNBOT: This is new. MSNBOT is a prototype Web crawler robot developed by MSN Search... More good information over at Scripting News: They [MSN] currently outsource all their searches to Inktomi and LookSmart, with ads embedded through a partnership with Overture. Now that Inktomi is owned by ...
Published: June 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 597
New Anti-Spam Approach: Remove the Demand
Australia's Internet Industry Association is launching a new campaign to educate consumers on the best way to eliminate spam: "Don't try - Don't buy - Don't reply". "'Spam is the unwelcome by-product of a largely free and open email system', says IIA chief executive, Peter Coroneos. 'Spammers are freeriding on ...
Published: September 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 590
The Life of a Mule
Cybercrooks lure citizens into international crime: This an interesting article about how crooks are duping people into helping them use information they've phished for. We all understand how they get the credit card information from email scams, but this is a good look at what happens to it after that. ...
Published: July 14, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 589
The State of e-Books
E-books are getting a boost at BookExpo: Here's the latest update on the state of the e-book market. "To those who say it's ridiculous to read a book on computer, Nick Bogaty, who runs the Open eBook Forum trade group, retorts: 'Five years ago, you'd say I prefer getting mail ...
Published: June 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 584
ColdFusion Express
I suddenly have this drive to mess around with every obscure piece of content management and Web scripting software I can find. In this vein, I set up ColdFusion Express 4.5 tonight. This is a stripped down version of ColdFusion that Allaire (now Macromedia) offered for free for a while. ...
Published: October 18, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 576
The Install Doctor
I bought a new car stereo as a gift for my daughter's 18th birthday (dang I feel old!) and thought I'd just take it home & install it myself. I did that sort of thing pretty regularly back in my single days, and thought it might be a fun Saturday ...
Published: October 21, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 564
Sane Mac Deals
The Apple Store has a Special Deals section where they sell refurbished hardware, and there are some sweet deals going on (don't let the word "refurbished" scare you off; you get what is basically new hardware and the standard warranty without the new hardware price.) For instance, you can pick ...
Published: September 25, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 558
The Lost Art of the CD-ROM
I was reading today about how Wikipedia is going to release a CD or DVD of all its content. Very cool idea. This got me reminicising about "The Golden Age of CD-ROMs." Remember when CD-ROMs were the big thing? From, say, 1996 to 1999 or 2000. Remember when Encarta and ...
Published: April 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 548
The Death of Ownership
The Internet has changed my desire to own things. I ve been through a distinct progression in this regard in the 10+ years I ve been online. I remember first getting online at the computer lab at Augustana College and looking up stuff about James Bond. It was all very interesting, but ...
Published: June 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 541
Cultured Diamonds
The New Diamond Age: This was a great feature in Wired magazine about 18 months ago. It details the current state of the precious gem market, and how diamonds can now be made for less than they can be mined. "These are cubic zirconium?" Weingarten says without much hope. "No, ...
Published: March 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 537
My Answer To $4 Gasoline
The topic of motorized bicycles has come up on these pages before (here & here), and all along I ve been wanting to do more than just talk about it. Last fall I took the plunge and committed cash toward that end, and bought myself a kit. And it s finally ready! ...
Published: May 14, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 519
Browser-Based Printing with MeadCo ScriptX
I found a peach of a tool today it was exactly what I was looking for at exactly the right time. We have a central database at my company, and the guys have been bugging me to work up some enhanced printing for it. They want to be able ...
Published: January 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 516
My Corbis Nightmare
Yesterday, I wanted to buy a stock image from Corbis to use in a Web site I'm developing. It was a standard hi-res image of a man standing in front of a building reading a newspaper. This should have been simple... For those that don't know, Corbis is the largest ...
Published: June 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 500
Coming Soon: Guided Content Maps
I was reading a little e-book by Seth Godin the other day called "Everyone's an Expert" which turned out to be a big promo for his new venture: Squidoo (it's not live yet -- so there's not much to look at). In this little book (it's quite good), Godin brings ...
Published: October 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 487
Do Yourself a Favor and Stop Learning
I'm about to admit something odd, and perhaps career-threatening: I'm sick of learning. There, I said it, and I feel better. It's true: learning about new technologies and new ways of doing things is something that plays on an addiction of mine and of many other geeks, I'm sure. We ...
Published: September 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 479
Content Publishing Models
When you get neck deep into a content management implementation, you can lose sight of the actual publishing mechanism-- how the content gets from your system to the end user's browser. No matter how sophisticated your CMS is, at some point, a user enters a URL and some content comes ...
Published: June 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 462
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