Though Wal-Mart has made no official announcement regarding the reportedly imminent arrival of Apple’s iPhone on its shelves, it would seem that the big-box retailer will begin peddling the device before the year is out. If that’s the case, how many iPhones is Wal-Mart capable of selling?
Come late December, customers shopping at their local Wal-Mart will be leaving the big-box retailer not just with vacuum cleaners and massage cushions, but with iPhones as well. Boy Genius reports that Apple’s iconic phone will begin arriving at select Wal-Mart locations on Dec. 28.
No one is immune to the econalypse. Not even “Specialty Retailer of the Decade” Best Buy. The company today joined the sad conga line of retailers lamenting the recent turmoil in the financial markets. Citing continued weakness in consumer spending, the company slashed its fiscal 2009 profit forecast.
Astonishing. The average prole spends more than 25 percent of his or her time online at work on personal activities. That’s the word from IT consultancy Voco, apparently having just discovered that the Internet, which essentially puts a concert hall, movie theater, TV, brokerage firm, shopping mall, garage sale and family/friend gathering on every employee desktop, can be–gasp–a distraction in the workplace.
Come next month there will be another retail outlet at which to wait in line for an iPhone. On Sept. 7, Best Buy will become the first U.S. retail chain to sell the iPhone outside of the Apple-AT&T duopoly. The deal is an obvious coup for the big-box retailer, which, with the exception of Apple and AT&T, has a national exclusive on the device through Christmas.
Despite the best efforts of Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Amazon, and Target, Apple’s iTunes Store has managed to maintain its iPod white-knuckled choke hold on the U.S. music market. According to a survey by market research company NPD, Apple dominated the retail music market in the first half of 2008, selling more music from January to June of this year than any of its rivals.
Turns out the long-playing (LP) record album may not be as much of an anachronism as once thought. As CD sales slip into the mud, and digital music outlets pop up on the Web as quickly as Starbucks stores, vinyl is staging a comeback.
It’s been 267 days since Apple last updated the MacBook Pro. That’s 81 days longer than the company historically takes between updates. Which means it was high time for an upgrade. And today we were finally given one.
This morning Apple (AAPL) refreshed both its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, adding Intel’s Penryn [...]
Best Buy (BBY) has added insult to the injury Netflix gave HD DVD this morning, announcing plans to endorse Blu-ray over HD DVD. “Best Buy will recommend Blu-ray as the preferred format,” said Brian Dunn, Best Buy’s president and chief operating officer. “Our decision to shine a spotlight on Blu-ray Disc players and other Blu-ray [...]
Apple doubled the capacity of the iPod Touch and the iPhone this morning. The iPod Touch is now available in three versions: an 8GB model for $299, a 16GB model for $399 and a 32GB model for $499. The iPhone now once again comes in two capacities: 8GB for $399 and 16GB for $100 more.
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12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
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Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
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Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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