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05/07/2004 07:32 AMReuters - PalmOne Inc. (PLMO.O), faced with
slumping sales of what was once a must-have consumer gadget, is
taking the story of handheld computers directly to the public
with its own retail stores.
PalmOne cautiously opens first retail
stores
PalmOne cautiously opens first retail
stores
05/07/2004 02:51 PMBorrowing a page from Apple and Sony (and hopefully not Gateway),
PalmOne is opening retail stores. Will they be able to reverse their
market share decline?
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PalmOne Goes Retail?
PalmOne Goes Retail?
05/07/2004 02:58 PMPalmOne (and before it, just plain old Palm) has often been compared
to Apple. There are certainly a lot of similarities, so maybe it's
not that surprising that PalmOne has decided to (quietly)
open their own retail stores.
While they've apparently opened up 11 stores, they're only now making
a big deal by opening a "flagship" store at the Philadelphia airport.
Who knew that people went to airports to buy expensive digital
organizers? It's more likely, of course, that they view these stores
the same way
Sony
views their own stores, as a walk-through advertisement for their
products, rather than as a place where they expect to make a direct
return on investment. As such, airports might not be a bad place to
put them. You get a lot of business travelers, many of whom may have
some time to kill before they get on their flight.
PalmOne pushes retail strategy
PalmOne pushes retail strategy
05/07/2004 05:39 PMZDNet May 7 2004 9:17PM GMT
PalmOne continues with retail strategy
PalmOne continues with retail strategy
05/07/2004 01:26 PMPursuing a strategy that has brought mixed results for hardware
makers, the handheld specialist opens its 11th retail store, this one
at the Philadelphia airport.
Retail Stores Trying Software Kiosks...
Again
Retail Stores Trying Software Kiosks...
Again
12/16/2003 04:14 PMAbout five years ago, I was involved in a project looking at software
kiosks for retail stores. The idea was that a shopper could walk up
to the kiosk, select from a bunch of software titles, and the machine
would pop out a receipt. Meanwhile, a second machine in the back of
the store would get to work burning a CD and related artwork (and,
potentially, manuals). This way, the thinking went, any software
store (or, really, any store) could hold millions of software titles.
However, the more I looked into it, the less exciting the idea became.
First, it was just a few years before that the music industry had
tried the same sort of thing - putting such kiosks in retail shops.
Those kiosk had proven to be a huge failure. They broke down
constantly - as publicly pounded machines are known to do. The
maintenance fees were ridiculous. They also tied up customers.
Depending on how many of these (somewhat expensive) kiosks you had,
only one customer could use them at a time - and the process of
finding the software you want is time consuming. If they want to sit
at a machine and buy some software, they'll do it online at home. So,
it's a bit surprising to read this article in USA Today talking about
just such a software kiosk at CompUSA and suggesting that
it
will change the way software is sold. If anything, conditions for
these sorts of machines have gotten much worse since when I was
looking at them. The software retail business is much less appealing.
Fewer and fewer people buy boxed software products. Computers come
with much of what you need and you can download most everything else.
In the few instances where boxed software is needed, many people just
order online to have it shipped. The fact is that there are only a
very few boxed software products that sell - so the number of items
that will actually sell from such a kiosk are fairly limited - and
won't have very much margin. Furthermore, the trend is clear that an
increasing number of software applications are moving online to be
web-based applications, rather than local applications. I honestly
had to double check the date on the USA Today article to make sure it
wasn't from five or six years ago when lots of people were talking
about this same idea. Why they suddenly believe that everyone is
going to use such a device is beyond me.
Wi-Fi Booster Goes to Market At Retail
Stores
Wi-Fi Booster Goes to Market At Retail
Stores
09/02/2004 09:41 PMTechWeb Sep 3 2004 2:21AM GMT
Apple confirms seven new retail stores
Apple confirms seven new retail stores
09/05/2004 08:05 PMAn Apple Store Calendar of Events brochure officially confirms the
openings of seven new retail stores...
New Apple Retail Stores Locations?
New Apple Retail Stores Locations?
12/05/2003 06:43 PM
Richard Bleicher consolidated this list of upcoming Apple Retail Store
locations based on current Apple job listings:
Aventura-Aventura, FL, USA
...
Longrange Wi-Fi Family Goes to Market At
Retail Stores
Longrange Wi-Fi Family Goes to Market At
Retail Stores
09/03/2004 07:59 PMTechWeb Sep 4 2004 0:15AM GMT
'Pro Day' comes to Apple retail stores
'Pro Day' comes to Apple retail stores
01/28/2004 08:42 PMEvery Wednesday,
Apple retail
stores will open one hour early to offer special presentations and
demos aimed at helping business professionals get more from the Mac.
Apple has posted information about
Pro Day online.
Gateway Retail Stores To Stock
Electronics
Gateway Retail Stores To Stock
Electronics
03/20/2003 01:05 PMIn an effort to beat a sluggish PC market that is expected to drag
down this year's holiday season, computer manufacturer Gateway has
announced it will expand consumer electronics offerings at its retail
stores.
Creative Quietly Launches New Zen
Creative Quietly Launches New Zen
03/22/2005 04:45 PM
Creative is apparently launching a new Zen, a full-size
version of the Zen Micro, with a 20GB hard drive. Other than the size
and capacity increase, it appears to be exactly the same. If you like
the Zen Micro—and it's a pretty decent player, for
sure—then you might be excited. The playback time is a little
skimpy at 11 hours, but we'll manage.
There's no talk of price or color information, but I'd be surprised
if Creative, after all the SKUs they've added to stores lately with
the 4/5/6GB Zen Micros, would be reticent to add another dozen or
so.
Product Page [Creative via ChaitGear]
Linspire's Desktop Linux Hits More Than
1,000 Retail Stores Nationwide
Linspire's Desktop Linux Hits More Than
1,000 Retail Stores Nationwide
04/09/2005 01:16 PMTechnology News Daily Apr 9 2005 4:41PM GMT
Rumor Today: The Missing Apple Retail
Stores In Canada
Rumor Today: The Missing Apple Retail
Stores In Canada
05/21/2004 01:01 AMAppleInsider
: It appears that plans to expand [Apple's] retail initiative into
Canada have either fallen behind schedule or been changed due to
unknown reasons.
Note: "Unknown" in this context means unknown to
the rumormonger.
Apple Announces Free iPod Recycling
Program at US Retail Stores
Apple Announces Free iPod Recycling
Program at US Retail Stores
06/06/2005 12:12 AMGoogle Quietly Launches Comparison
Shopping Site
Google Quietly Launches Comparison
Shopping Site
12/13/2002 01:10 PMAiming to parlay its soaring popularity as a search engine into e-tail
glory, Google has launched a shopping search site, quietly releasing a
beta version of Froogle during the busiest shopping week of the year.
Merchants need not pay to be listed, though the site will feature
paying advertisers as it evolves.
Google Quietly Launches Video Upload
Offering
Google Quietly Launches Video Upload
Offering
04/13/2005 07:23 PMA few weeks ago, Larry Page mentioned in passing Google's plan to
let
users upload videos, making Google one of any number of new
players in this suddenly intriguing space of video storage (following
the insanely hot space of photo storage). It appears that
Google
has now launched the beta version of this program quietly (as
quietly as Google can launch anything -- meaning it's spreading fast).
It appears to have some interesting features, including letting you
charge people to download your videos, which puts it in competition
with new offerings like Brightcove. Either way, it's yet another
extension of easy media creation... from text, to audio, to video --
the tools of creations, storage and distribution are all getting
easier. While the easy claim is to dismiss it because there will be a
ton of useless crap (which there absolutely will be), that's missing
the real potential such video creation tools have. What's crap to
some people, won't be to others -- and the ability to find new gems
that weren't possible before will outweigh an infinite amount of
dreadful content.
PalmOne, Confident From Profitable
Quarter, Launches Treo 666
PalmOne, Confident From Profitable
Quarter, Launches Treo 666
07/01/2004 10:48 AM
PalmOne doubled Wall Street
estimates this week, reporting their first profit as a standalone
company due to strong sales of the Treo 600, causing a 22 percent hike
in stock price in after hours trading. Sales of the Treo 600 (and the
upcoming 610 version) are expected to keep profits high, while PalmOne
also tries to expand to fill the space left by Sony's exit from the
PDA market outside of Japan. PalmOne shipped 151,000 Treo 600s during
the fourth fiscal quarter, out of 1.1 million devices, total. If the
610 causes a healthy price reduction for the 600 -- and they can keep
up with demand -- both models will fly off the shelves. (Thanks,
Chaz, for the Photochop.)
Read - PalmOne Swings to Quarterly
Profit [Yahoo]
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Talk2Rep Call Centers Launches IQDIAL
Voice Broadcasting Services for Large
Retail and Healthcare Provider
Talk2Rep Call Centers Launches IQDIAL
Voice Broadcasting Services for Large
Retail and Healthcare Provider
12/07/2004 04:21 PMTalk2Rep call centers offers Sears and other retailers a customer
friendly automated voice broadcasting solution to reach out to it's
customers. Talk2Rep's IQDIAL will service the retail giant and others
with [PRWEB Dec 7, 2004]
I4 Commerce, Retail Decisions sign large
retail chains for payment services
I4 Commerce, Retail Decisions sign large
retail chains for payment services
09/21/2004 04:26 PMInternetRetailer.com Sep 21 2004 7:58PM GMT
Retail spending will be up this month,
Retail Forward projects
Retail spending will be up this month,
Retail Forward projects
04/09/2005 02:47 AMInternetRetailer.com Apr 9 2005 6:29AM GMT
Apple's "stores within stores" down
under
Apple's "stores within stores" down
under
11/12/2003 01:24 PMThe Australian IT news is reporting that Apple is going to open five
Apple stores "within a store" in time for the holiday shopping season.
The stores will be Apple branded and staffed by Apple employees. A
pilot store to test the concept which has been running at the David
Jones Sydney Elizabeth Street store since May has "exceeded
expectations," and the idea of an Apple store inside another store is
expected to be more successful than previous attempts by Apple to...
A Quietly Growing Forest?
A Quietly Growing Forest?
04/12/2005 01:24 PMUniversal Forest Products is an ignored player in the lumber and
building materials game.
Emptying the Recycle Bin Quietly
Emptying the Recycle Bin Quietly
07/04/2004 12:11 PMIn toyland, success often comes very
quietly
In toyland, success often comes very
quietly
12/28/2004 03:11 AMChicagotribune.com - Mon Dec 27, 12:32 pm GMT
PATRIOT Act Quietly Expanded
PATRIOT Act Quietly Expanded
12/02/2003 12:56 AMFrom the linked article: Congress approved a bill on Friday that
expands the reach of the Patriot Act, reduces oversight of the FBI and
intelligence agencies and, according to critics shifts the balance of
power away from the legislature and the courts. A provision of an
intelligence spending bill will expand the power of the FBI to
subpoena business documents and transactions from a broader range of
business -- everything from libraries to travel agencies to eBay --
without first seeking approval from a judge.
Apple Quietly Patches OS X
Apple Quietly Patches OS X
06/08/2004 05:46 AMThe computer maker appears to have finally patched several OS X
security holes that have gaped wide open for several weeks. But this
time, there was no press release crowing about Apple's great security
record. By Leander Kahney.
MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator
MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator
03/17/2005 03:59 AMMSN quietly is experimenting with a Microsoft-developed RSS
aggregator.
New eMacs Quietly Announced Today
New eMacs Quietly Announced Today
04/13/2004 03:43 PMAOL quietly shifts staffing to India
AOL quietly shifts staffing to India
12/23/2003 11:34 PMCNET Asia Dec 23 2003 10:43PM ET
Analysts: Tablet PC Could Quietly Vanish
Analysts: Tablet PC Could Quietly Vanish
05/12/2004 06:55 AMThe "slate" version of the Tablet PC that Microsoft Corp. and its
partners pioneered seems to be increasingly marginalized, a victim of
a desire to bring "electronic ink" technologies into notebook PCs.
Bush records quietly released
Bush records quietly released
02/13/2004 09:19 PMHow ISPs May Quietly Kill VoIP
How ISPs May Quietly Kill VoIP
03/19/2005 02:33 AMT-Mobile offers 3G service -- quietly
T-Mobile offers 3G service -- quietly
01/17/2004 11:10 PMIndustry Standard Jan 16 2004 10:12PM GMT
Google Quietly Introduces Book Searches
Google Quietly Introduces Book Searches
12/17/2003 08:22 PMYou just can't stop Google, it seems. Last week they were adding
features like the ability to track your FedEx packages, and now
they've launched the beta test of their
book
search capabilities. While, this is clearly something of a
response to Amazon's famed
search
inside the book feature, the end result isn't quite there. While
there had been rumors that Google was looking to
impleme
nt a similar service, what they just (very quietly) launched is
much simpler. Basically, they've just stored book flap info, and
mixed it in with the regular search results (though, as the article
points out, it doesn't show up that high on most searches). However,
if you find one, it links to a page within Google that includes
the info from
the inside flap of the book, a few simple facts about the book and
links to buy the book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million
(they haven't even added in pricing info yet). While they don't have
affiliate codes to make money off of those links, I imagine it
wouldn't be difficult to add. The page does have their typical
contextual Adwords advertising, though - increasing their inventory.
U.S. Quietly Sneaks Once-Looted Uranium
Out of Iraq
U.S. Quietly Sneaks Once-Looted Uranium
Out of Iraq
07/07/2004 06:09 PMReuters via Wired News Jul 7 2004 10:25PM GMT
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