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At one time, electronics giants Best Buy and Circuit City seemed to share the market without any clear fiscal winner.  Circuit City was often credited with building one of the first successful box stores back in the 1980s.  However, recent financial reports show that Best Buy has gained market dominance… Continue Reading »

With the release of the iPhone App Store and the Android Market, a lot of apps are trying to become the next social networking app.  E-ventr for Android tries to accomplish this goal by managing your free time.  With E-ventr you can create ope events, or join open events that… Continue Reading »

Committing to a firm date of March 2009, RIM announced today it, too, would have an app store at its super-fun RIM BBDC (BlackBerry Developement Center).  Just like the cool kids from Apple and Google, users can shop for applications to bring new functionality or just time wasters to their… Continue Reading »

This is where we call out by names the actions and companies that seem odd, out of touch or just plain straight up smokin crack.  Technology is an odd realm where PR speak doesn’t hold a lot of water if the 1s and 0s don’t line up.  This week sees… Continue Reading »

If you are headed to the beach, pick up Microsoft’s 10-K filing with the SEC for some light reading.  It’s filled with characters you know and love and their almost comic book struggle to restore peace in the galaxy bring profitability to Microsoft.  If you follow the report carefully, you’ll… Continue Reading »

Gadgetell exclusive: last night I was contacted by a couple of developers, each shut out of the beta program.  Both, I might add, have fantastic application ideas but Apple hadn’t even looked at thier app until yesterday.  Or so it seemed. Both developers got notification they were accepted into the… Continue Reading »

One question I and others have is if I buy from the App store and then later decide to upgrade to the 3G iPhone, will these apps transfer or do I have to buy Monkey Ball all over again?  Knowing how much Apple likes to sell things, I presumed the… Continue Reading »

Keeping true to their priority of being significant hubs of the community, Boost Mobile opened its first three retail stores, they are located in Huntington Park, California, Hialeah, Florida and Houston, Texas. In addition to the new retail locations the Boost Mobile prepaid products have been and will remain available… Continue Reading »

Blackberry users will have something to look forward to next month. Puretracks, a Toronto-based digital music company is bringing DRM-free music to blackberry devices via its online music store. The online music store for Blackberry devices was announced during the SWSX meet a couple of days ago. Although this is… Continue Reading »

Sprint is planning on closing all of their stores, to include licensed dealer locations from 9am to 11am PST today. During this time all partners, owners and employees will watch a webcast. While this is most likely just some employee training, we can always hope for something good, possibly some… Continue Reading »