Tag: WALMART

Earlier today at its Union Square location in downtown Manhattan, Barnes & Noble announced the latest addition to the Nook family of readers: the NOOKcolor. The seven-inch tablet packs a full-color touch screen, runs Android (though won't have access to the Android Market) and has Apple's iPad squarely in its sights. The $249 device has a reading-first focus, treating apps and Web-browsing as ...

Starting Friday, October 15th, Walmart will be selling the status gadget du jour, the iPad. The Apple tablet will initially be available in "hundreds" of the big box retailer's locations, but, by mid November, that number should reach 2,300. Rather than wait for a unit to ship, or drive to your nearest Apple store (which, if you're not in a major metropolitan area, might not be particularly ...

Consumerist reader James spotted this vintage edition of Norton System Works 2006 at his local Walmart. What's more, the relic could be had for the bargain basement price of only $59.72! Many of you are probably thinking, "Why would I pay $60 for a five-year-old security suite?" Maybe security software is like a fine wine, and only gets better with age? ...

Update: Walmart contacted us to clarify that it is not acting as an MVNO. The company is branding and selling plans through its Family Mobile service, but it is not buying air time from T-Mobile. Instead the carrier will be handling billing, customer service, and all the other behind the scenes work themselves. Walmart is throwing its hat into the MVNO mobile market with its own branded cell ...

Walmart, America's largest retailer and the world's largest corporation, will be placing radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on the jeans and underwear sold in its 3,750-plus U.S. stores beginning next month. The removable tags will be used to monitor inventory losses and shelf stock, but some people are less than happy about the prospect of carrying around a tracking device in their ...

Most Apple fanatics who waited in line overnight to get their hands on the iPhone 4 wouldn't part with their shiny new handsets easily. But Brittany Hightower of Little Rock, Arkansas simply couldn't say no to Stacy Andrews, an offensive guard for the Philadelphia Eagles. The NFL star stopped the Walmart shopper, who was on her way out the door with what had been the last iPhone in the store, and ...

Apple fanboys around the world lined up today to get their hands on the latest handset from the reigning king of electronic industrial design. As usual, the day began with absurdly long lines (some of which began forming days ago) that wrapped around blocks and snaked through malls as the most masochistic of iPhone 4 buyers settled in for hours and hours of waiting. If you weren't smart enough ...

The mad scramble to get on the iPhone 4 pre-order list has begun. But unless you have a solid game plan, you might get left in the cold. According to Engadget, the easiest and most reliable way to ensure you get an iPhone 4 on the June 24th launch day is by pre-ordering the device on either Apple or AT&T's Web site. (Apple kicked off pre-orders early this morning, shortly after midnight). ...

If you count yourself among the masses of consumers itching to get your hands on the new iPhone 4 this month, you won't have to wait in line at your local Apple or AT&T store. Instead, you can just mosey on down to Walmart. According to CNET, the retail giant has officially announced that it will begin selling the iPhone 4 on June 24, the day Apple's newest phone arrives at the public's ...

WWDC is just around the corner, and it's a pretty safe bet that we'll be seeing a brand new iPhone there. In fact, we're all pretty sure we'll be seeing this pretty little thing, which boasts a front-facing camera for video calls, that was leaked by Gizmodo last month. But, what if you're the impatient type? What if you can't wait another two weeks? Well, Walmart, eager to dump the last of its ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Yesterday was a terrifying and depressing day for juvenile online pranksters. YouTube pulled the king of Internet memes, Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' video, apparently ending the hilarious and tortuous Rick Roll phenomenon. Google, though, has now returned the video, and says its removal was a mistake because a few ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The United Arab Emirates has received positive recognition for its growing acceptance of women's rights, but the nation is still maintaining a hard-line stance in regard to simulated skin. The UAE has reportedly banned the sale of the video game 'Heavy Rain' because of virtual "blood and nudity." Blood? Really? [From: Joystiq] ...

What could have possibly made 23-year-old Westley Strellis completely lose it and storm through a Walmart outside of Georgia smashing TVs left and right with a bat he found in the store? When police arrived on the scene following Strellis' flat-panel-destroying rampage he was sitting quietly on the floor of an aisle according to the Huffington Post. When placed in cuffs the young-man invoked ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... It appears that Nintendo is finally catching up to the other next-gen console manufacturers, as it will reportedly soon add Netflix-streaming capabilities to the Wii. The service will require the use of a disk, just like the PS3. Since the Wii maxes out at 480p, increased HD resolution and HDMI hook-ups are now officially long ...

Used to be, back in the golden years of kidnapping, abductors would only demand a ransom in exchange for their victims. Nowadays, though, as the video game generation matures into criminal adulthood, typical demands are becoming a bit more... peculiar. Teenager Kyle Yarkosky, of Florida, claims that a fellow teen named David Daniels and another unnamed suspect abducted him last Monday, held ...