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Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
4:10AM John Mahoney | Watch out Apple! Sony is clearly gunning for a chunk of your stylish retail business by partnering with a name known for its popularity amongst customers and its excellent support and services: Comcast. More »
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Sony Closing San Francisco Metreon Playstation Store
12:39PM Brian Lam | When I visited San Francisco as a young graduate, I saw the Metreon, a building that looked out of a Final Fantasy game, with a store JUST for all things Playstation. It seems silly now, but at the time, it seemed from the future and I decided I had to live in this city. I waited in line for a PS2, and liveblogged the PS3 launch from there. Now they’re shutting down the store. Oh well. [NYT] More »
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Attention Apple Store Web Freeloaders: Facebook is Now Banned
3:40AM John Mahoney | To all who’ve parked at a shiny Mac Pro and Cinema Display to lend some Apple retail magic to your 25 Things chain letter: Facebook has been banned from the Apple Store’s networks worldwide. UPDATED More »
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Microsoft’s Fake Retail Store Looks Good, Reminds Us Of Their Real Retail Store
10:00AM Jason Chen | Microsoft’s “Retail Experience Center” is a 20,000 sqft private retail centre at Redmond that Microsoft is fiddling around with new retail tech, like real-time cart info and other POS services. It’s awesome. Here’s why. More »
Business
The Complete List of Dead Circuit City Stores
12:10AM Matt Buchanan | It’s official. Circuit City is closing 155 stores, as the Consumerist broke yesterday. They’re also “reducing future store openings,” but whatever, you wanna know if your local Circuit City is gone. Here’s the complete list of stores slotted for obliteration. More »
Business
Best Buy’s New Logo Goes for That Classy Look
11:10AM Matt Buchanan | Best Buy’s new test logo is more subdued—classier even—than the old honkin’ yellow tag, which I appreciate, but I think the new font looks weird and uncertain, like it can’t quite decide what it wants to be when it grows up. I wonder if it will psychologically condition people to spend more since it’s so much less tacky than the old logo. [Under Consideration via Consumerist] More »
Software
BlackBerry Storefront Answers Apple App Store and Android Marketplace
9:19AM Jesus Diaz | Good news for BlackBerry users and developers! Research In Motion has just announced an applications store! Bad news for BlackBerry users and developers! It’s not going to be available until March 2009. This sure won’t help the fact that the iPhone is outselling the Blackberry and Android is quickly becoming Apple’s major rival in the public’s eye instead of the new #2 seller. No matter how nice the BlackBerry Storm is, the delay is not good. More »
Random Stuff
Circuit City’s Anti-Death Plan: Amputation
11:15PM Matt Buchanan | Our grim predictions of the imminent epic fail of perpetual consumer electronics big box second-run Circuit City are unfortunately panning out. The WSJ and AP report that their plan to avoid bankruptcy and death is amputation: Shuttering at least 150 stores (one-fifth of their 712 US locations) and cutting “thousands” of employees, which would let them liquidate $US350 million in inventory. Like buzzards circling overhead, we just hope they make it fully intact to deliver those crazy “the economy is shit” Black Friday deals. [Dallas News] More »
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