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As the biggest game retailer in the US, GameStop has strongly opposed the idea of downloadable content, as it should have, since it's its natural enemy. Despite the support of the concept from both developers and publishers, GameStop has stood firm in its decision to stay clear of the DLCs. Well, not anymore. It... |
13 November 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Apple has confirmed plans to open its newest retail store yet on Saturday, November 14, at 10:00 a.m. Located at 1981 Broadway, on the corner of West 67th Street (New York Upper West Side), the store lies beneath what Apple calls “a breathtaking all-glass arched roof.” The Apple Store Upper West Side is j... |
13 November 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Apple has opened the first of a series of stores planned for Paris, which includes a location in Montpellier, and one store near the Garnier opera house, which Apple hopes to open by the summer of 2010. The first store is located in the Carrousel du Louvre. Present at the time of the opening was none other than the r... |
6 November 2009
02:50 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore has confirmed that Apple is now switching to iPod touch for customer checkout at its retail stores. The source earlier revealed that Apple had decided to make a few adjustments with its retail establishments and the employees in charge with selling its products. Changes not only include the replacing of... |
5 November 2009
09:55 GMT |
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People familiar with Apple’s plans have been talking to ifoAppleStore about the Mac maker’s latest retail initiatives, and how substantial changes to the retail employee job titles and duties will be made during the month to follow. The news comes on the heels of another ifo report revealing that staffers... |
2 November 2009
10:05 GMT |
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A report over at ifoAppleStore reveals that Apple has decided to make a few adjustments with its retail establishments and the employees in charge with selling its products. Staffers will not be differentiated by the color of their T-shirt anymore, while the EasyPay portable computers they carry around with them will... |
28 October 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the debut of the latest iteration of the Windows client, Windows 7, Microsoft has also opened the doors to its first-ever retail store. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Microsoft retail store is one of the first two projects of their kind for the Redmond company, having already welcomed shoppers... |
23 October 2009
06:17 GMT |
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According to an ifoAppleStore report following Apple’s disclosure of FY 2009 Q4 results, the company’s retail establishments continue to stand tall in times of economic uncertainty. The stores, the source dealing exclusively with Apple retail topics says, “befuddle analysts and delight customers dur... |
20 October 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Windows 7 won’t become generally available until the second half of this month, but, despite this, the retail boxes of the operating system are already in stores. Microsoft is making sure that Windows 7 copies are available to retail outlets weeks before the latest iteration of the Windows client is scheduled t... |
5 October 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Although Apple is said to be merely replacing tables in three of its stores recently closed down for renovations, such changes imply other cosmetic alterations, forcing the company to pull the curtain over the stores’ entrances for a short period of time. “Visitors to the Pacific Centre (Vancouver, BC), ... |
28 September 2009
09:05 GMT |
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While Microsoft is planning to open one of its first retail stores inside the Mission Viejo development (California), Apple has closed down its own store on that location for renovation. Reports say the move appears to be a “preemptive strike,” although it may also be just a coincidence, going by other so... |
24 September 2009
03:32 GMT |
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Apple is known to be opening as many as three new retail stores this weekend, yet the company seems to be focusing on upgrading existing ones rather than on opening stores at new locations, ifoAppleStore reports. Stores to be remodeled The source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple’s ret... |
12 August 2009
10:31 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple’s retail stores, has posted a piece signaling that the Mac maker has a new job page spotlighting retail philosophy. The pages, which promote job opportunities in a usual Apple manner, now include a focus on retail employee model... |
6 August 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Xbox 360 users are getting a lot of interesting services in the coming months, with everything from Facebook integration to Last.fm services or even the ability to update their Twitter straight from the console dashboard. But one of the most interesting and the first to arrive in this new wave of updates is the Game... |
6 August 2009
02:41 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has confirmed that the Windows maker is gearing up for a retail store campaign targeting Apple's own retail chain. The company plans on opening retail stores in the vicinity of Apple's brick and mortar establishments, some of which will be situated wall-to-wall with the Mac maker'... |
16 July 2009
06:01 GMT |
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The Arlington County Police Department Homicide/Robbery Unit is investigating a shooting that occurred in North Arlington this weekend – an African American male in his 20s shot an Apple store female employee and then fled. According to the police report, customers and employees were in the Apple retail store a... |
6 July 2009
04:13 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the primary source of information on Apple's retail stores, points out to some architectural renderings on a public web site, which (seemingly) depict the design for Apple’s upcoming Beijing (China) store. The designs reportedly belong to American architect Benjamin Wood, while the store in ... |
4 June 2009
09:59 GMT |
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OnLive has been announced for quite a few months, promising to bring cloud gaming into the living rooms of everyone with a decent Internet connection. The possibility of playing any game anytime, even though you don't have a PC powerful enough for such as thing or a current-generation console, is something truly... |
28 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Today marks seven years since Apple decided to have its own chain of retail stores, despite criticism coming from analysts at the time. Today, we celebrate the May 19, 2001 grand opening of the first store at Tysons Corner Center (Virg.) and, three hours later, the opening of the Glendale Galleria (S. Calif.) store, ... |
19 May 2009
10:55 GMT |
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The PC platform has been doomed time and time again by a lot of analysts and/or developers over the past few years. From the fact that it would be consumed by piracy to users eventually realizing the advantages of consoles, the PC was seemingly destined to be forgotten by gamers. But that's not true, as a lot o... |
18 May 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Music games are on a high ascending trend in both sales and popularity these days as, seemingly, gamers can't get enough of them, which drives companies to release newer and newer versions of them or more add-ons and track packs. Such is the case with Harmonix, which is responsible for the Rock Band franchise, ... |
13 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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According to recent SEC filings, Apple's retail locations had 14,000 full-time employees at the end of Q2 2009. The figures show a 1,600 drop from the previous quarter, with the average revenue per store declining by 17%, falling to $5.9 million from $7.1 million in 2008. Nevertheless, Apple's revenue grew ... |
27 April 2009
03:22 GMT |
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In a move that is designed to put Microsoft on par with Apple in terms of its actual involvement in the commercialization of its products, the Redmond company is cooking the evolution of the PC retail experience via its own branded stores. The software giant announced that it planned to open a yet undisclosed number ... |
13 February 2009
06:19 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple retail stores, reports that the Mac maker has adopted yet another strategy to speed up the process of making an acquisition in its stores – placing shopping bags under the display tables.“Apple now have a complete purchasi... |
10 February 2009
08:42 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore has picked up on an old, but “rekindled” rumor of Philadelphia's first Apple retail store being under construction. The source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple's retail stores also has a story on burglars driving into a Utah store, running away with tens of... |
20 January 2009
05:28 GMT |
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A new system, developed by TransactionTree, promises to take paper receipts out of circulation, and to replace them with electronic counterparts. For those of you who feel that waiting in line for your printed copy of the receipt takes too long, this is nothing but good news. The company already announced that the sy... |
17 January 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Microsoft has a new mantra when it comes down to helping the retail business navigate the worldwide economical tsunami, namely technology innovation, connected experiences, and customer loyalty. Given the occasion of the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 98th Annual Convention & Expo, the Redmond company has f... |
14 January 2009
05:33 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore is reporting that, despite the economic downturn, tipsters have told them Apple is planning a good number of store openings in 2009 as well. In fact, according to the site's analysis, some 11 shops are expected to open their doors in the first half of the next year. “Despite the economic cris... |
30 December 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Many love Apple for its efforts to stay green, while others simply love the company just for its cool computers and portables. But, how high would Apple rank in your book, if we were to tell you that among the company's policies for hiring retail staff there is one that gives the green light to applicants with p... |
23 December 2008
10:55 GMT |
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Sources are reporting that Apple has announced late hours for its retail stores during the Christmas holiday season for those who can't make up their minds on the gifts just yet. A MacDailyNews piece says that “The company's retail stores are staying open late to accommodate last-minute shoppers.&rdqu... |
23 December 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Pirated CDs and DVDs are a major dent in profits for large companies, considering the fact that some countries use stolen software on 70 to 80 percent of its market. This means that no revenues enter the pockets of the manufacturer, while its products are widely used. Now, scientists at the University of Granada ... |
7 December 2008
03:01 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the only dedicated news source on the activities surrounding Apple's retail stores, is reporting that employees have been given the green light to match the prices of other authorized retailers. Apple has recently announced that its Online Store will be featuring a special one-day-only Christmas s... |
26 November 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Just before Apple's Town Hall event yesterday, the company's online store was taken down. Apple wouldn't have had reasons to do this unless it was adding new items. And it was. Following the event, Apple's store was back up, listing all the new products announced earlier that day, and then some. H... |
15 October 2008
08:39 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the site dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple's retail stores, reports that the current United States credit crisis is unlikely to affect the expansion of the giant’s retail initiative. In fact, it is believed that the crisis offers opportunities for Apple’s r... |
24 September 2008
15:31 GMT |
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"Since the Apple SoHo store moved in six years ago, it has become the worst neighbor in SoHo," wrote SoHo Alliance director Sean Sweeney in the letter addressed to city and state elected officials and Apple Inc.'s management. Seemingly, the last straw was a Jonas Brothers concert at the SoHo store earlier this m... |
22 August 2008
06:12 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore has been busy gathering the latest news regarding Apple's retail stores worldwide. The site dealing with "news and information about Apple Inc.'s Retail Stores" particularly stresses out the situation of two US stores that have been downsized for modifications to their designs, as well as that... |
18 August 2008
08:40 GMT |
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Last week, we reported that Apple's new retail store at the Liverpool One development was set for its Grand Opening this weekend, Saturday, July 26. According to those who attended, the opening went smoothly. No word on who won the Digital Lifestyle Collection, though.Apple was announcing earlier this spring tha... |
29 July 2008
02:54 GMT |
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Apple is set to open yet another one of its stores this Saturday, May 31, in Huntsville, Alabama. Folks living there should already know of the existence of Apple's store located at the Summit shopping center in Birmingham, which makes the new store the second one to open in Alabama.The Huntsville store opens at... |
28 May 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Apple is already hiring for the new store set to open its doors in the downtown area of South Carolina, while the permit application, for King Street, has already been submitted. South Carolina, totally lacking an Apple Store up until this point, is finally getting the Apple Store it deserves.The news comes via a loc... |
11 March 2008
14:51 GMT |
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The last time we heard of the Mall of Louisiana (Baton Rouge) retail store, construction was progressing quickly, with a virtually finished interior and installing of the exterior stainless steel already underway. As it was on track for its March grand opening, Apple has recently announced that the Louisiana Store wi... |
4 March 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Cosmopolitan has recently come to the conclusion that the #1 place to meet guys is your local Apple store. The answer to this lies within our love for gadgets, of course. We agree that the Apple Store is a great place to find guys, possibly even single guys.Really, we're all single up to a certain age, and when ... |
3 March 2008
03:33 GMT |
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British Apple fans can finally rest as the much-delayed Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes Apple retail store is finally opening its doors. Saturday is said to be the big day, with the first 1,000 customers nabbing a free T-shirt (Apple-styled, of course). There's also the usual Digital Lifestyle Collection, which f... |
27 February 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Dell recently put an end to the Dell Direct stores era and announced that it will shut down all the 140 kiosks the company owns inside the United States shopping malls and airports. The Dell Direct Store model started in 2002, and allowed users to examine, inspect, touch and feel the company's products before pl... |
31 January 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Dell announced that their notebooks and desktop systems will be available for sale at BestBuy, starting the next few weeks. The company's bestsellers will be distributed at 900 BestBuy locations: the XPS M1330 in white, the Inspiron 1521 in blue and black, the Inspiron 1420 in black, and the all-in-one XPS One d... |
7 December 2007
03:35 GMT |
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They say that computer memory is a hardware product that really hates Nature. The accusation is justified by the fact that memory modules contain dangerous levels of heavy metals, such as lead and mercury that make them unsafe inside landfills. As if this were not enough, the RAM cards manufacturing process is energ... |
27 November 2007
06:25 GMT |
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The computer hardware manufacturer and vendor Dell is currently expanding its business either by acquiring different companies - both hardware and software centered ones - or by entering alliances and partnerships with companies that are activating in parallel fields.This is the case of the newly announced alliance b... |
15 August 2007
09:03 GMT |
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Evesham is a United Kingdom computer hardware manufacturer that builds, sells and offers support for its own computer systems. For some time, things did not go very smooth for the U.K. company and the business; the bigger part of its customers went to other vendors and manufacturers. Recently, Evesham received a $22 ... |
4 August 2007
07:10 GMT |
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Dell had some serious problems a while back, both with its retail channels and with the chain of suppliers. But it looks like it learned a lesson from those past problems as now it looks for more and more retail dealers in order to expand its market reach. Until now, Dell's presence in Japan has been spotty at b... |
27 July 2007
03:31 GMT |
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The Cupertino based company once known as Apple Computer - now just Apple - is, without a doubt, a symbol of quality. Few companies worldwide have the same customer-orientation as Apple does. Product quality is only part of the experience of being an Apple customer. Apple promotes excellence in every step of their jo... |
9 March 2007
06:25 GMT |
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Once every couple of days, news of an Apple retail store planning/opening/renovating hits the web. And Apple stores are no McDonald's restaurant, they are unique, architectural reference points, symbols of what Apple, as a high-end company, stands for. There are currently 173 retail stores worldwide, most of whi... |
7 March 2007
04:48 GMT |
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