In recent visits to five Wal-Mart stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, however, TheStreet.com found a company still struggling to find its footing in the rough world of retail.
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Dell Having Trouble Fitting In At Walmart?
By 8.27.07
Geek Choice Technician Steals Customer's Computer, Company Refuses To Refund
By 8.23.07
Geek Choice computer technician disappears along with school principal’s computer. Turns out he couldn’t be found because he was in jail.
By 8.23.07
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Basic Editions-brand Girls’ Clothing Sets (entrapment), Priddy “Trucks” Shaker Teether Books (choking), Sleepi Crib Foam Mattresses (entrapment), AC Adapters sold with Network Hard Disk Drives (burn), J.C. Penney Windsor Spindle-Back Side Chairs (fall), Los Angeles Salad Company Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots (bacterial infection)
Wells Fargo's Network Goes Down For 24 Hours, Customers Sad, Broke
By 8.21.07
Some of Wells Fargo’s customers experienced an service outage that lasted about 24 hours, according to the Associated Press. Affected customers were unable to get cash or use their debit cards.
Half Of Consumers Are Not Aware Of Online Threats?
By 8.15.07
Ars Technica quotes a recent study by Microsoft that found that 58% of American consumers didn’t even know “online threats” existed. The study also found that of the ones that did know about said threats, 17% of them had fallen for some sort of Internet scam—and 81% of those people said it was their fault for opening suspicious emails or sending information to strange companies because they had a nice logo.
10 Nifty Free Security Programs For Your PC
By 7.30.07
ZDNet has a list of 10 spiffy free security programs for your PC. We already use CCleaner, a program that removes cookies, URL history and unused files from your PC. Deleting cookies is very cathartic. Try it.
The Sun And I Hate My Dell Laptop's Screen
By 7.26.07
I was very close to tossing my computer through some glass this morning.
Blue Hippo Takes Your Payments, Doesn't Send Your Merchandise
By 7.18.07
Blue Hippo is one of those “no credit check” computer-buying companies. The basic idea is that you start making payments to Blue Hippo in order to “establish your credit history,” then, after 9 weeks, they send you a computer. You continue to make payments on the computer for a year, after which it is yours.
Disgruntled Ex-GeekSquad Postergirl eBays Badge
By 7.12.07
“Hi, my name is Holly Forman-Petersen and I used to be a Special Agent at The Geek Squad. I am eBaying my Special Agent badge.
Geek Squad Hatched Plot To Harvest Porn From Pornstar Jasmine Grey's HardDrive, Days Before She Died In Car Crash
By 7.12.07
“I worked for Best Buy 285 several years ago (2003-2005) and was both a Blackshirt and an Agent once the Geek Squad rolled out.
Departmental Phone Extensions For Every Fry's
By 7.10.07
Here’s a potentially handy list of phone numbers for Fry’s, the electronics retail chain, for bypassing the store operator. Apparently, each Fry’s phone system is set up the same way with the first five digits being the “base” number and the last two being the extension number.
Why Geeks Steal Porn From Your Computer
By 7.9.07
hashand: I used to work at a computer repair place. All the stuff you’re finding isn’t limited to Best Buy. We had a 2 TB [terabyte] server of mp3s.
Geek Squad Company Forums React To Sting Op Video
By 7.6.07
A sampling of what they’re saying on the Geek Squad internal message board about “Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn From Customer’s Computer.”
Why We're Not Telling Geek Squad CEO Which Agent Stole The Porn
By 7.5.07
subject looking for comment re: VIDEO: Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn From Customer’s Computer
How To Make Your Computer Catch People Stealing Your Porn
By 7.5.07
Here’s how we rigged our computer to make a video of itself and caught the Geek Squad stealing porn from it.
Strange Dell Fashion Show Announces New Line Of Pretty Colored Laptops
By 6.26.07
Unable to resist, we sent Gawker video wunderkid Alex Goldberg to tape the affair awesomeness. We hypothesize the fete was conceptually tied to Dell’s new line of Insprions which come in different colors, meaning that Dell has finally caught up to Apple, circa 1998.
