Best Buy has often been known to go the extra mile for its customers, but the company's most recent foray into great service has proven problematic. It stole a bunch of trade secrets and now owes $27 million in fines. Whoops!
The culture of innovative technology and the geeks who create it has completely infected the mainstream, as exampled by the praise heaped upon icons like the late Steve Jobs. But a new clip shows us exactly how much respect even obscure tech geeks are now commanding.
RIM hasn't given up on its 7-inch PlayBook tablet, but it seems Best Buy is done with the tablet that's failed to catch on. Reports are coming in that Best Buys are canceling all PlayBook orders.
You have probably heard something about Best Buy's new Buy Back Program, seeing as they spent a bajillion dollars advertising for it with Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne during the Super Bowl. But you'll probably want to steer clear of it, according to a study by Digital Trends.
We await two potentially seminal technology events this week — Verizon's official debut of LTE on Dec. 5 and the release of Avatar on 3D Blu-ray (so far available only with the past or present purchase of a Panasonic 3D HDTV). Each should presage a new age in their respective next-gen standards. Cellphones with 4G should be all the rage in about a year — perhaps the long-rumored Verizon iPhone will be LTE.
But the eventual release of Avatar 3D may be too late to save 3D HDTV, especially the way Best Buy is — or, more appropriately, is not — selling it. See how Best Buy is bah, humbugging 3D HDTV after the jump.
With electric cars looking to become more and more common in coming years, all those plug-in vehicles are going to need places to juice up. And Best Buy wants to be one of those places, which is why the big electronics retailer is installing Blink EV charging stations at 12 of its stores.
Here it is — a netbook made by a cellphone manufacturer, and it's coming to the U.S. just in time for the holidays. Today Nokia revealed that it'll start selling its recently unveiled Booklet 3G in November for $299, exclusively...
As the only big electronics store left standing, Best Buy is looking for ways to keep moving forward. Enter the electric vehicle. In 21 select locations throughout California, Oregon and Washington, shoppers can check out scooters, Segways, electric bicycles, and...
Microsoft is officially wading into competitive retail with its own slew of storefronts, and the company just hired David Porter, the new VP of Retail Stores, to lead the charge when he starts on February 16th. "Defining the time frame,...