Circuit City a Little Short?

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Short Circuit

Short Circuit 04/04/2005 06:03 AM
This month: W. Alan McCollough, CEO of Circuit City Stores.

Don't Short-Circuit Standard Micro

Don't Short-Circuit Standard Micro 06/14/2004 01:02 PM
Has this smaller maker of semiconductor technology been overlooked?

General Motors' Short Circuit?

General Motors' Short Circuit? 02/10/2004 11:57 AM
GM's trials and tribulations -- and recalls -- continue.

Circuit Benders Unlock the Long Riffs in
Short-Circuits

Circuit Benders Unlock the Long Riffs in
Short-Circuits 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
In the art of circuit bending, electronic devices - usually toys - are manipulated so they can produce new and unusual sounds.

Circuit City - Never Again!

Circuit City - Never Again! 07/20/2004 01:00 PM

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“So I needed to buy a DVD player on New Years Eve 2000 (going onto 2001) because I wanted to watch a couple of movies and happened to go to Circuit City (the 14th Street Union Square store). At that time they had a promotion that if one bought a 26” TV or bigger, you would get a free DVD player. This I felt was the perfect opportunity to upgrade my crappy 20” TV so…

Silicon demand threatens to
short-circuit solar power firms

Silicon demand threatens to
short-circuit solar power firms 04/14/2005 09:46 PM
Globe and Mail Apr 15 2005 1:23AM GMT

FCC Chairman at Circuit City -- I don't
believe it

FCC Chairman at Circuit City -- I don't
believe it 05/14/2004 03:26 PM
A USA Today article reports that FCC Chairman Michael Powell recently went to Circuit City to switch his phone number to a new carrier:

FCC Chairman Michael Powell said he switched carriers for his work wireless phone as well as for his wife and son at a Circuit City outlet and the moves were done in an hour.

"I was shocked at how well it worked," Powell said. He declined to identify the carriers but said his name was not on the accounts so he did not receive favorable treatment.

What kind of stunt is this? Doesn't Powell have an army of factotums to do this kind of thing for him? And how was he able to change a phone account that didn't have his name on it? Furthermore, didn't the Circuit City people ask to see an ID to see if his name matched the name on the phone account? How did he pay for the account -- using a credit card with a fake name on it? Link

Pity Circuit City

Pity Circuit City 12/19/2004 03:27 PM
Circuit City sales are still slacking. How about trying something different?

Same Story at Circuit City

Same Story at Circuit City 09/07/2004 12:19 PM
August presented a challenge for yet another retailer.

Best Buy, Circuit City delay results

Best Buy, Circuit City delay results 03/30/2005 11:39 AM
globetechnology.com Mar 30 2005 3:27PM GMT

Circuit City Trims Its Losses

Circuit City Trims Its Losses 09/17/2004 03:51 PM
TechWeb Sep 17 2004 7:45PM GMT

Circuit City Migrating to Linux

Circuit City Migrating to Linux 08/13/2004 03:31 AM
Slashdot Aug 13 2004 8:24AM GMT

Circuit City moving to Linux

Circuit City moving to Linux 08/11/2004 06:40 AM
In a press release sent to NewsForge (and probably every other media outlet in the world) yesterday, IBM announced that consumer electronics retailer Circuit City expects to be running most of its critical day-to-day computing functions on Linux by 2006. (Full text of press release below.)

Santa Skips Circuit City

Santa Skips Circuit City 01/05/2005 01:36 PM
Circuit City gets a lump of coal in its stocking.

Circuit City Gets Online Makeover
(AdWeek.com)

Circuit City Gets Online Makeover
(AdWeek.com) 09/13/2004 11:45 PM
AdWeek.com - If you build it, or in the case of Circuit City's Web site, re-build it, they won't necessarily come. So, to ensure visits to the new CircuitCity.com, the electronics retailer yesterday started rolling out a multimedia push that promotes a "Plasma Screen TV Makeover" online contest that carries a grand prize of five flat-screen TVs and home-theater equipment worth $20,000.

Circuit City narrows loss in second
quarter

Circuit City narrows loss in second
quarter 09/17/2004 02:18 PM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 17 2004 6:18PM GMT

Circuit City Hears Verizon's Call

Circuit City Hears Verizon's Call 08/31/2004 11:24 AM
Electronics superstore drops T-Mobile wireless service to make room.

Verizon sets up home in Circuit City

Verizon sets up home in Circuit City 08/30/2004 03:24 PM
The wireless carrier will open showrooms in hundreds of branches of the retail chain across the United States.

Apple, Circuit City Head To Carousel

Apple, Circuit City Head To Carousel 08/01/2004 10:00 AM
Two big names in retail electronics and computers are coming to Carousel Center mall in the fall: Circuit City and an Apple store from Apple Computer. By Bob Niedt, Syracuse Post-Standard (via MyAppleMenu)

Verizon Wireless In Circuit City With
570 Stores; T-Mobile Out

Verizon Wireless In Circuit City With
570 Stores; T-Mobile Out 08/30/2004 03:26 PM
TechWeb Aug 30 2004 7:53PM GMT

With more growth from within, Circuit
City jumps off the Amazon train

With more growth from within, Circuit
City jumps off the Amazon train 04/02/2005 01:53 PM
InternetRetailer.com Apr 2 2005 4:40PM GMT

Circuit City disconnects T-Mobile for
Verizon Wireless

Circuit City disconnects T-Mobile for
Verizon Wireless 08/30/2004 07:30 PM
San Jose Mercury News Aug 30 2004 9:52PM GMT

Circuit City drops T-Mobile for Verizon
Wireless

Circuit City drops T-Mobile for Verizon
Wireless 08/30/2004 05:37 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 30 2004 8:19PM GMT

Circuit City chooses Linux for cash
registers in 600 stores

Circuit City chooses Linux for cash
registers in 600 stores 08/13/2004 05:38 PM
Circuit City this week bucked the trend of retailers opting for Windows-based point-of-sale systems by announcing plans to migrate to Linux-based IBM cash registers at its 600 stores.

Circuit City drops T-Mobile, expands
Verizon Wireless

Circuit City drops T-Mobile, expands
Verizon Wireless 08/30/2004 05:52 PM
MobileTracker Aug 30 2004 9:21PM GMT

Consumer electronics firm Circuit City
narrows loss in second quarter

Consumer electronics firm Circuit City
narrows loss in second quarter 09/18/2004 01:34 PM
Canadian Press Sep 18 2004 4:19PM GMT

Dollar makes minor gains on euro Circuit
City disappointed in 3Q sales Crude oil
prices rise above $

Dollar makes minor gains on euro Circuit
City disappointed in 3Q sales Crude oil
prices rise above $ 12/19/2004 03:28 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Fri Dec 17, 05:27 pm GMT

City of Prescott Implements LiveTime®
Help Desk for City Wide IT Service
Management

City of Prescott Implements LiveTime®
Help Desk for City Wide IT Service
Management 09/08/2004 02:53 AM
This major municipality joins the list of converts to LiveTime’s scaleable, web-based solution. [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]

Texas City in Lather Over Sweatiest City
Label (Reuters)

Texas City in Lather Over Sweatiest City
Label (Reuters) 06/18/2004 04:06 PM
Reuters - Consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co. has learned the hard way how to alienate a city -- dub it the sweatiest in the country.

Short Men with Short Dreams

Short Men with Short Dreams 03/14/2005 05:39 PM
This will just be a quickie. New iPod photos and iPod minis were released today. Cheaper, bigger, whatever. The thing...

NYSIA and NY Tech Leaders Will Testify
to NY City Council on "How City
Government Can Support the Development
of New York City's Information
Technology Industry"

NYSIA and NY Tech Leaders Will Testify
to NY City Council on "How City
Government Can Support the Development
of New York City's Information
Technology Industry" 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
The hearing will address the current state of the tech industry in New York and address crucial workforce issues and trends. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]

Orkut Circuit

Orkut Circuit 01/25/2004 10:32 AM

After my first lap (day) of Orkut, I got these to share.

It's supposedly writ ten in ASP.NET.  That one surprised me.

It has many security and privacy issues just as other social networking services have.  For example, one can send a message to thousands of members with only a few clicks.  There could be some XSS (cross-site scripting) problems as well.  But, overall, I have yet to see anything that can be resolved over time given sufficient technical and financial interests.

Invitation-only aspect of Orkut blew me away in terms of its effect and its meaning.  Since you can't just register without an invitation from someone within, it creates a sense of value that drives people to signup.

As to the meaning, what invitation-only means is that everyone who is a member of Orkut knows Orkut himself through a string of friends.  It means you have joined a six-degree of separation experiment where the starting end is Orkut Buyukkokten.  I'll bet that was why it was named Orkut.

I am not yet convinced that there exists a workable revenue model behind Orkut but then I have similar opinions about Rovers in Mars.  Entertaining thoughts about what might lie beyond the horizon with a bunch of geeky friends is a reward enough for now.  To this end, I created an Orkut Community titled “Orkut Design” to examine Orkut in detail.

MY CITY IT CITY: Boost for PCs, no
clarity on BPO tax

MY CITY IT CITY: Boost for PCs, no
clarity on BPO tax 07/09/2004 12:20 AM
ExpressIndia.com Jul 9 2004 4:50AM GMT

Qt universal circuit simulator

Qt universal circuit simulator 12/08/2003 12:56 PM
Qucs 0.0.1 has been released.

First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A
Circuit

First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A
Circuit 01/07/2004 02:38 PM
btsdev writes "Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University have developed the first ever integrated silicon circuit with ...

Circuit City's Improving

Circuit City's Improving 09/17/2004 02:33 PM
The No. 2 electronics retailer is making strides and beats estimates.

Visual Circuit Board

Visual Circuit Board 10/29/2003 07:11 PM
GraphEditor 0.6 is available

Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit

Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit 08/19/2004 04:39 PM

Post-circuit-switched voicemail

Post-circuit-switched voicemail 11/01/2003 12:57 PM
Nice rant on how "circuit-switched" thinking is holding back advancement in telephony:

Assume a phone call requires an (extremely generous) 3Kb per second of audio. One hour of stored audio is about 10Mb of data. This is a pretty modest amount by the standards of modern flash memeory. Your mobile phone is perfectly capable of storing all your voicemail. The network is perfectly capable of transmitting the data in a sensible amount of time. Unlike email, most voicemail is listened to -- the amount of wasted download is small...

You should be able to listen to voicemails on your plane journey home. You should be able to reply to them on a store-and-forward basis, even when you're not connected to the network. And most of all, you shouldn't have to use a clunky telephony user interface to navigate a message queue. And you shouldn't be restricted to one device for accessing your own data.

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