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Best Buy gift cards are a pig in a poke

Best Buy gift cards are a pig in a poke

On the Mohney Give and take

AS BEST BUY gives with one hand, it takes away with the other.
Once upon a time, Best Buy became the first Big Box store in the States to ditch its mail-in rebate program, instead giving "instant saving" to buyers. Previously, anything marked up for sale could have a complicated set of in-store rebates, company mail-in rebates, and manufacturer mail-in rebates.
Best Buy turned its mail-in rebate program into "instant savings", so there's one less set of receipts and envelopes to deal with when you try to milk out the last couple of bucks. You still have to deal with manufacturer mail-in rebates, but that's no big deal.
Best Buy also has a Frequent Buyer programme – it calls it "Reward Zone" and it is like many other such schemes. You buy something, you whip out your card to be scanned, you get points for the amount of money spent, and Best Buy mails you $20 discount coupons every time you spend so much cash. If you don't mind the fact that Best Buy doesn't have a wide selection of gear, typically buy brand-name products, and like the convenience of walking into the store to purchase and return kit, it's a decent place to shop. I had a TiVO die on me about nine months into warranty; Best Buy took it back, no questions, just pulled another one off the shelves, and thank you very much.
Best Buy is also going to try to give other advantages to "Reward Zone" members. Next Sunday, it's going to have a "Private Shopping Event" around the US. From 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, there will be a "give away" to the first 100 customers, "Product demonstrations on great new technology" and a $50 dollar gift card drawing will be held every 15 minutes. Oh, and I mustn't forget that it's double points on all event purchases and triple points if I spend $2,000 or more!
Shame I'm not shopping for a plasma display HDTV, since I could rack up a lot of points that evening. I don't need the product demonstrations and I suspect the "give away" will be something like 256MB memory sticks or something equally worthless and gathering dust. It will also be interesting to see what kind of bargains are in the Sunday ad inserts. Will I get a good deal and double buy points?
Unfortunately, Best Buy has changed its policies on its return/display model gear. Once upon a time and up until a couple of weeks ago, you could find an open-box special simply marked down from the current list price. Very simple, you looked at the discounted price, how long the computer or monitor or printer had been sitting on the shelf, and decided if you wanted to buy it or not. Those days are gone, at least for now. Instead, you now pay list price for a display model and get handed a Best Buy gift card with a proportional dollar amount between five to 30 per cent. So if you bought a $300 printer, you might get a $20 gift card. An $1,100 list price computer yields a $300 gift card. It's an accounting gimmick, so it can show it sold off the unit at full market price in one column - boosting total dollars on the revenue sheet - and then can hand back dollars as a marketing expense. Gift cards also work because they make sure you have to come back to Best Buy to buy more stuff and they also get some of the money "back" if you don't spend the full amount on the gift card - all of it if you lose or forget about it. µ

SanDisk announces Sansa View MP3 player

SanDisk Corporation has announced the new Sansa View, a video MP3 player with a long list of features and generous capacity.

The Sansa View provides MP3 player attributes with full-motion video support, a larger screen, long battery life and large capacity.

Saying this is a significant step-up from the company’s Sansa e200 music player series, SanDisk points out that the slim Sansa View features music, photos, FM radio and audio books, plus video transferring capabilities and memory of up to 24GB (by using an optional 8GB microSD/microSDHC card).

The player innovates makes it easy for users to transfer videos natively using available software. Most popular formats are supported via embedded player functionality (H.264, WMV and MPEG4), or via a one-time software download of the Sansa Media Converter which transcodes numerous video files, including DivX.

Consumers can purchase and insert one of SanDisk’s microSD/microSDHC cards to play up to 24GB of music, video and photos on their Sansa View. In addition, the microSD card allows users to easily move their content to a mobile phone or other mobile device.

An MP3 player at its core, the Sansa View comes equipped with backlit scroll wheel and 2.4” widescreen display. The device supports many music download and subscription services, including Rhapsody To Go, Napster, eMusic and others.

The Sansa View player will come in two capacities — 8GB and 16GB — and is expected to be available from retailers in Canada later in 2007 with other regions to follow shortly thereafter.

Vodafone announces new handsets for Christmas

Vodafone Group has announced its range of Christmas 2007 consumer handsets offering a wide choice of exclusive and Vodafone branded handsets. The line-up includes the latest premium models from handset suppliers, a range of open system devices enabling easy downloads and a set of Vodafone branded handsets.

In the UK Vodafone has also announced its range of handsets for Christmas as well as MusicStation, a new and exclusive music service from Omnifone, the UK based mobile music company. This offers customers unlimited music downloads direct to the mobile from all the major record labels, as well as leading independents, on a raft of new handsets for Christmas.

The service will work on Vodafone UK's new handsets as well as current 2.5 and 3G mobiles.

Vodafone has listed some of the highlights including three premium 3G broadband (HSDPA), handsets- the Nokia N95 8GB, the Samsung SGH-F700V and the Sony Ericsson W910i.

Two BlackBerry handsets from Research In Motion (BlackBerry CurveT 8310 and BlackBerry PearlT 8100) are also listed and Vodafone says it will appeal to both consumers as well as business customers, featuring Vodafone live! services with news, music and entertainment on the move, including an exclusive version of the BlackBerry CurveT 8310 with built-in GPS.

A broad range of open system devices customised for Vodafone will deliver browsing, internet services and message support, including two new Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets as well as a range of six devices based on the S60 platform

Master Chief unveiled at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas

Madame Tussauds Las Vegas honored Xbox 360’s Halo by immortalising Master Chief as the first video game character to be enshrined in the world famous attraction’s 250-year history.

The life-sized figure of Halo’s Master Chief was created at the Madame Tussauds Studios in London specifically for the Las Vegas attraction. Master Chief stands at 7’2” tall, with an approximate finished weight of 275 lbs. A total of 10 studio artists worked on the massive figure, dedicating an estimated 892 man-hours for the finalisation of the soldier.

Total man-hours included 687 hours for sculpting, 168 hours for molding, and 37 hours for painting. Materials included over 1,000 pounds of clay.

Visitors to Madame Tussauds Las Vegas will have the opportunity to see the figure up close and personal before the Halo 3 release on 25 September 2007. Master Chief will be stationed at the attraction’s front entrance area.

In addition to getting their picture taken with the legendary Master Chief at Madame Tussauds, Halo 3 fans will have the opportunity to purchase an array of Halo licensed products, at the Madame Tussauds Las Vegas location in addition to other gaming, specialty, and traditional retailers courtesy of Microsoft’s exclusive Halo 3 licensing agent 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising.

In “Halo 3,” the third installment of the “Halo” trilogy and hugely anticipated sequel to the acclaimed “Halo 2,” people everywhere can take on the role of Master Chief and experience Master Chief’s greatest battle as he launches an epic mission to stop the Covenant, destroy the impending Flood threat and ultimately save mankind.

AMD introduces the quad-core AMD Opteron

AMD is introducing the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, and the company says this is the world’s most advanced x86 processor ever designed and manufactured and the first native x86 quad-core microprocessor.

Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers from global OEMs and system builders can possibly deliver breakthrough capabilities to customers in a time of dramatically escalating performance-per-watt emphasis.

The Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture introduce innovations that go beyond four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon including energy efficiency with a 50 percent increase in integer and floating-point performance

Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based systems from global OEM and system-builder partners begin shipping this month and are expected to increase in number through the remainder of the year. AMD Phenom processor solutions, which will leverage many of the same benefits of this innovative, next-generation architecture, are expected to be available for the desktop market in December. Due in part to the industry’s most stable x86 server platform, more than 50 socket compatible Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-ready system choices are on the market today from tier one OEMs, all of whom are publicly supporting today’s introduction.

Sun Microsystems for instance already announced the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module, the first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Sun also previewed a next-generation four-socket, 2U quad-core server that will be available by the end of the year, powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.

Systems based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are also being announced today by a host of other manufacturers, including Appro, Egenera, Gateway, Rackable Systems, Supermicro and Verari.

The company also introduced the Average CPU Power (ACP) metric, which represents processor power usage, including cores, integrated memory controller, and HyperTransport technology links, while running a suite of typical and relevant commercially useful high utilisation workloads to be more indicative of the power consumption that end-users can expect. ACP is a useful metric for data centre operators when estimating power budgets to size their datacenters.

AMD is introducing Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors today at the 55- and 75-watt ACP.

Those Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture also operate well, in virtualised environments, claims the company, because of the integrated memory controller and Rapid Virtualisation Indexing, a new feature in AMD Virtualization technology designed to reduce the overhead associated with software virtualisation.

Rapid Virtualisation Indexing takes functionality that was previously performed in software and greatly accelerates it by performing those functions within the CPU to help enable near-real time application performance.

Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors maintain compatibility with the socket and thermal envelopes of Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors to enable a seamless customer upgrade path. AMD’s common core strategy empowers customers to scale with one AMD architecture to reduce platform management complexity and increase datacenter uptime and productivity.

Wireless sensors using .Net Micro Framework available

Crossbow Technology, Inc. has introduced the Imote2.Builder for .NET Micro Framework, a SDK based on the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. The Imote2.Builder is a set of tools for accelerating the development of wireless sensor applications on the Marvell PXA Xscale (ARM) hardware platform on which the Imote2 is built.

Crossbow’s Imote2.Builder can be combined with the Imote2 product line to provide developers with rapid prototyping of wireless sensor applications by creating proof of concepts, and a quick, familiar debugging using Microsoft’s Visual Studio environment.

The platform is built on the Marvell PXA271 XScale ARM-based microprocessor, a platform that supports applications involving data-rich problems

The range of wireless units include modules for ZigBee, FM, Ultrasound and RF networks. Packaged sensor boards include light, temp, humidity barometric pressure and seismic sensor board

Kits comes in different versions from the WSN Starter to WSN Professional and WSM OEM Design and are now available in New Zealand through local distributor Mandeno.

AMD details Open Source offerings for its ATI GPUs

AMD has announced a strategic initiative to support the Open Source development community for ATI Radeon graphics processors. The week of 10 September AMD plans to provide Open Source information and development package supporting the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series as well as ATI Radeon X1000 series of graphics processing units (GPU) on Linux desktops.

To accelerate this initiative, AMD partnered with Novell’s SuSE Linux engineering team. The initial release includes source code and hardware specifications to engage the Open Source community for collaboration on 2D graphics drivers. Over the following months, AMD will work with the community to enable 2D, 3D and video playback acceleration to provide the best possible experience on the Linux desktop.

This strategy complements and enhances AMD's existing support of the Linux community through its regularly released high performance Catalyst driver.

“The lack of open source drivers for graphics hardware has long been a major obstacle for Linux developers and Linux desktop users,” said Nat Friedman, chief technology and strategy officer for Open Source at Novell. “Our ultimate goal is complete, high-quality open source drivers for all video hardware. Today's announcement brings us one major step closer. Novell is pleased to have extended our collaboration with AMD to deliver the initial drivers that will allow Open Source developers to make the Linux experience even better on desktops, laptops and workstations, and we look forward to contributing this initial code to X.Org.”

As part of the process AMD consulted with members of the Open Source community and the X.Org Community to ensure that the driver addressed the needs of both Open Source developers and Linux users. The release of these specifications will allow the development community to partner with AMD to drive new innovations for the Linux desktop. AMD will provide on going support for this project with an in-house development team.

Thureon introduces Armarac server room in a box

Thureon, a New Zealand engineering and IT operations company, has introduceds a zero-footprint rackmount system that enables enterprises to securely deploy servers and network equipment without requiring a network room.

The Armarac brings the capabilities of a complete server room into a compact, wall-mounted enclosure, and the company says it fills a void in the market for customers who need to deploy rackmount systems in harsh environments or locations that lack space or physical security.

Bolted to a wall, the tough non-ferrous Armarac clamshell unlocks to reveal Thureon’s Vertiblade hinging mechanism that holds five full-length 1U devices plus an additional half-length device. Any two full-length slots can be combined to accommodate a 2U device. Full-length slots can be converted into two half-length slots with equipment installed back-to-back.

An optional keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) is built into a lockable compartment on the top half of the clamshell exterior. A half-height 5.25” internal tape drive can be installed in a compartment on the lower half of the clamshell.

In addition to server and network equipment, a single Armarac also has room for a location’s PBX and voicemail server before expanding into a second Armarac.

Typical configuration examples that could be deployed using the Armarac include 1U or 2U UPS (APC SmartUPS RM), 2U 2-way dual or quad-core server running multiple virtual machines (Dell PE2950; HP DL380 G5; IBM x3650). 1U IP PBX server (Cisco MCS), 1U Router/Firewall (Cisco 2811; Juniper NetScreen) and 5.25” LTO3 tape drive.

Benefits and features of the Armarac include an advanced design which resists fire and water damage; multi-thread mount extrusions which accommodate industry-standard server retention screws from all major vendors including HP, IBM, Sun, Apple and Dell; the highest level of structural security against theft or forced entry; and a choice of enclosure colors.

Thureon co-founders Darren Smith and Ross Vincent explained that the company’s unique enclosure was born of necessity: “We were working with a project management company in Auckland that needed a temporary remote office in a factory,” Smith said. “It was hot, dusty, and without any place to put the equipment – not even a closet or stairwell.” Since their client preferred to use rackmount gear wherever possible, “we looked for a compact, dustproof, lockable rack that we could cool,” said Vincent. “We couldn’t find anything out there, so in typical New Zealand fashion, we decided to build our own.”

At the heart of their innovative technology, the Vertiblade articulated hinge system, which holds the devices vertically without rails, makes the Armarac enclosure particularly easy to deploy. “You can get to both sides of the devices to install cables without moving your feet – and without having to stretch,” Vincent said.

The Armarac is available in custom sizes with the standard unit occupying less than 4.75 sq. ft./0.44 m2 of airspace above the floor and measures 28 in./71 cm wide by 68 in./172 cm high on the wall when fully opened.

Base units are priced at US$7,995 USD; fully equipped models with built-in LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse, KVM switch and temperature monitor are US$9,995 USD. All are available immediately.

Kordia activates first phase of RoamAD metro Wi-Fi in New Zealand

New Zealand network operator Kordia is launching its first two metro Wi-Fi networks in Auckland and Taupo, New Zealand.

The service, called Kordia Metro Wi-Fi, is now available in the Auckland suburbs of Parnell, Ponsonby, Remuera and Karangahape Road and will be available in the Taupo CBD later this month. Kordia’s roll-out strategy will see the service shortly expanding to nearly 20 cities throughout New Zealand.

The metro Wi-Fi network is unbundled and can operate multiple SSIDs. This allows Kordia to wholesale access to a number of ISPs to on-sell to their customers.

Kordia has selected RoamAD to supply the converged citywide Wi-Fi network.

“In partnership with forward-thinking ISPs like Orcon, Tomizone, FIVO, Bunker Media and KiwiWireless, Kordia will be pushing the metro Wi-Fi service out to New Zealand’s savviest end-users from today,” said Kordia™ CEO, Geoff Hunt.

As Kordia’s Metro Wi-Fi network is supported by RoamAD’s optimized wireless networking platform, it is optimized to support mobile broadband data as well as mobile VoIP/VoWiFi. The network can be easily accessed with any Wi-Fi enabled device such as a laptop, PDA or cell phone.

ISPs such as Orcon, Tomizone, FIVO, Bunker Media and KiwiWireless are supporting the initial offering from Kordia.

“Convergence means that New Zealanders want widespread, portable access to the Internet, their email, voice data and more. Kordia Metro Wi-Fi will deliver all that using a low-cost, high-value ‘user-pays’ business model that works,” added Hunt.

Kordia expects strong take-up over the next three years, with a vision for targeted Metro Wi-Fi coverage in every New Zealand city by 2010.

University students, Telecom and Vodafone participate in mobile recycling programme

Universities around New Zealand are joining in a pilot scheme to collect old mobile phones during “Clean Up New Zealand Week” with the help of mobile operators Telecom New Zealand and Vodafone New Zealand.

The week long pilot happens from 8 untill 16 September and includes Auckland, Waikato, Massey and Victoria universities and Otago Polytechnic. The univiersities take part in the pilot by encouraging staff and students to deposit their old handsets and accessories in secure collection bins.

The phones will be refurbished for reuse by people in other countries or international relief agencies, or will be recycled. The recycled plastics can be used to make things like traffic cones, bin liners or buckets and metals like copper, platinum and silver can be reused in jewellery, batteries, copper pipes, or even new mobiles.

Earlier this year, Telecom, Vodafone and the Ministry for the Environment said they would work together to increase the number of old mobiles collected for recycling to prevent them from going to landfill.

“We estimate there are around a million unused mobiles in New Zealand, probably sitting in people’s drawers or boxes at home,” says Vodafone spokesman Raphael Hilbron. “Collecting these unused phones is not just the right thing to do for the environment – someone else in another part of the world could be benefiting from the phones."

Mr Hilbron said Vodafone had collected approximately 150,000 phones over the past four or five years, saving the phones from landfill and in some cases reselling them to customers in other countries.

Telecom’s Environmental Manager Steve Kerr said the company encourages customers to hand in old mobiles and accessories at their local Telecom retail store where there are clearly marked recycling bins.

Telecom provides its mobile phone collection scheme in all Telecom, Orb, or Leading Edge retail stores where they have clearly marked recycling bins.

Vodafone provides collection bins in its retails stores as well as a freepost service: Vodafone Handset Recycling Programme, Private Bag 92222, Auckland Mail Centre.

Samsung 64GB Solid State Drives now shipping

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, is making the 2.5-inch SATA, 64 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive (SSD) available in Dell and Alienware consumer notebooks.

Alienware will provide a 128GB SSD configuration, by offering dual 64GB SSD drives in a RAID 0 array, as well as a single 64GB SSD combined with a large capacity 200GB 7200RPM drive, available on the Area-51 m9750 gaming notebook.

Dell is offering the SSD drive on its premium XPS M1330 ultra-portable notebook, and expects to make it available across additional XPS systems, as well as Latitude corporate notebooks and Dell Precision mobile workstations later this year.

“Dell combined with Alienware offer the most comprehensive set of notebooks available with SSD technology because customers are demanding more reliable and durable mobility solutions,” said Tom Pratt, storage technologist, Dell’s CTO Group. “Samsung’s new drive delivers additional capacity and performance that gives customers another reason to choose solid-state technology.”

The 64GB SSD provides increased performance and a higher degree of reliability, which exceed traditional rotating disk drives. Because there are no moving parts, SSDs are noise-free, produce very little heat and are less susceptible to shocks and vibrations that can be challenging to traditional disk drives.

“The greater reliability and higher performance of solid state drives makes them a highly viable alternative to hard drives in corporate and high-end consumer notebooks, said Jim Elliott, director, flash marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “We're delighted that Dell and Alienware have chosen the Samsung 64GB SSD for their latest generation of leading-edge notebooks.”

Zune hacked for Korean and Chinese language support

ZuneBoards has achieved the feat of getting the Zune to support Korean and Chinese languages, using a hack that could open the door for many new interesting hacks for the thoroughly uninteresting player. Apparently, the hackers managed to get access to the System Partition, which until now has been rather hard. Once in, all they had to do was add a new font package -- it all sounds a little dubious to us, but whatevs. By the time more hacks come around, we'll probably be playing with the Zune 2.