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The concept of DLC might not go very well with the idea of physical distribution, but that doesn't mean that the giant video-game retailers are backing away from the concept. If anything, GameStop, one of the biggest physical distributors, believes that it has to educate the public regarding the extra bonuses th... |
1 February 2010
03:40 GMT |
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Online retail is already big business in the US and Amazon is by far the largest player in the market. Its recent foray into e-books has also proven quite profitable, creating a new market for e-books and e-book readers that is becoming hotly disputed. Now Wal-Mart, one of the largest brick-and-mortar retailers in th... |
17 October 2009
07:22 GMT |
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Wal-Mart has announced that it has begun lending space in its stores to a third-party company, called E-Play, which runs automated kiosks for the purpose of implementing 77 “Video Game Buyback” stations. Only 2% of the stores that Wal-Mart operates in the United States will get a kiosk as part of a pilot ... |
20 May 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Two people were arrested at a Wal-Mart store in Muncie, Ind., after a police officer who was off-duty saw them cutting a line. He stepped up to them and asked them to move to their place, but the two refused. An altercation followed, and the two ended up in arrest, charged with serious crimes each. However, the two, ... |
14 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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On Friday, 34 year-old Jdimytai Damour, an employee at a Wal-Mart store in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y., was trampled by a large crowd, numbering over 2,000 people, who busted through the glass door and stampeded inside the store, in search of holiday bargains."When they were saying they had to leave, that... |
1 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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Without a doubt, Apple has got to be one of the few companies that really know how to sell their products. As it has probably realized that there is a number of iPhones it must “get rid of” by the end of the year, Apple seems to be really keen on accomplishing precisely this task. Of course, all this hold... |
20 November 2008
03:50 GMT |
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The music game market is a very tough one, with the two main competitors, Activision Blizzard's Guitar Hero and Harmonix's Rock Band doing whatever it takes to be number one. Except the battles for songs and albums to come exclusively to their games, they also venture out in creating customized experiences... |
30 September 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Wal-Mart has decided to end selling Linux-based computers in stores, because they didn't attract the attention the company was looking for. These machines will still be sold through the Walmart.com website, though.Mellisa O'Brien, spokeswoman at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said: "This really wasn't what our ... |
11 March 2008
10:03 GMT |
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Following reports that iTunes has recently become the second-largest music retailer in the United States, researchers are now predicting that Apple's online store is likely to kick Wal-Mart's arse this year. This is mostly thanks to the way Apple provides means of paying for the downloaded content. Wal-Mart... |
27 February 2008
04:47 GMT |
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We're not advertising anything here, unless you count letting everyone know about a funny error as advertising a product. Turns out that Doc from SarcasticGamer.com took a ride at the local Wal-Mart for some shopping only to find out that next-gen world had turned upside down. One of Microsoft's displays s... |
3 January 2008
05:14 GMT |
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The holiday season is approaching, fast, and so every video game fan knows that great deals on games and consoles are on their way. Microsoft has already issued theirs, offering every original Xbox console owners the chance to get a free Halo 3 copy. Sony seemingly isn't doing anything to respond to that intrigu... |
22 November 2007
04:19 GMT |
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What happened this week in the Ubuntu world? The greatest thing ever, as Wal-Mart sold about 10,000 units of a Linux-based PC at the incredible price of $200. The computer was called Everex TC2502 Green gPC and it was sold out in no more than 2 weeks! The system specs were low, VIA C7-D Processor running at 1.5 Ghz, ... |
19 November 2007
03:09 GMT |
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Guitar Hero III is finally out and already a couple of issues surfaced and they're ready to ruin the day for the average rocker. In case you're planning a Wal-Mart shopping spree, think again, especially if you're going to buy the latest Guitar Hero title. As you might probably know, the new game come... |
29 October 2007
11:06 GMT |
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VIA Technologies announced a partnership with the Mexican ASI Corporation in order to produce and distribute through the Wal-Mart stores in Mexico a line of energy efficient computers called Alaska Wolf PC. The Alaska Wolf PC is centered on low power consumption and a high energy efficiency rating while allowing for ... |
27 August 2007
07:20 GMT |
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The HP company announced today that it will soon start work together with the retailer Wal-Mart to build a data warehousing platform that should process the complex business data retrieved across Wal-Mart's 4000 American stores. The platform selected by Wal-Mart is the HP's Neowin data storage and analysis ... |
1 August 2007
11:04 GMT |
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Dell seems to have some problems not only with its hardware and supply chains but also with its direct sales strategy that worked good (not brilliantly) for a while and then began to bog down. As they search for a way to revitalize their presence on the computer hardware market the idea of using the indirect sales st... |
20 July 2007
10:11 GMT |
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As the "back to school" season approaches, Wal-Mart decided to sell a computer system designed by Everex( the Everex IMPACT GC3502) that combines three of the most popular IT trends: open source software, high power efficiency and a total lack of "bloat ware". The Everex-built computer uses the Microsoft Windows Vist... |
19 July 2007
03:33 GMT |
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Microsoft and Wal-mart are being sued by the family of an Illinois infant that died in a house fire, claiming that an Xbox 360 system sold by Wal-Mart Stores had overheated and sparked a power socket on fire, killing the child: "The fire was a direct and proximate result of the overheating of the game's power su... |
28 May 2007
05:35 GMT |
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It seems that the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war is far from being over, and just as things started to look better, something had to happen to bring all of the happy consumers back to the ground. There was talk of a deal between Wal-Mart and Fuh Yuan Electronics Development, in which they said Wal-Mart was going for an order of... |
30 April 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Long before the Elite was even properly dated, retailers got their mitts on the machine's 120GB HDD. Over at HardOCP there are actual photos of the product, complete with data transfer cable, coming from reader and recent owner of the elusive black storage drive, Kyle Dobbins, who acquired it at Wal-Mart. The pi... |
26 April 2007
04:24 GMT |
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I guess when you are the world's largest retailer and also the world's largest corporation (according to CNN) you do have some power when it comes to sales, and the prices you practice. I've been around the block a couple of times to know just how big companies deal with promotions and promotional pric... |
23 April 2007
10:42 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 add-on drive for playing HD-DVDs released last year sounded promising. Especially because nobody would even touch Sony's Blu-ray player due to an incredibly high price. Analysts and studio executives have tried to guess in which direction each of the two technologies was going and whether Microsoft ... |
22 March 2007
06:56 GMT |
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