Tag: Retail
EA to cap Star Wars: The Old Republic player numbers at launch
EA have revealed that they will be putting a player limit on their long-awaited Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG at launch. EA will be putting a tight limit on the number of copies of the game available at…
Nintendo 3DS just £115 at Tesco today
Wow; just little more than 4 months after Nintendo's "game-changing" 3DS console launched with its glasses-free 3D display, we're now seeing dramatic price cuts on the handheld at retail. Both the high-street stores and online retailers have gone into…
LG plan OLED TV onslaught in 2013
God, we love LG's OLED displays at Tech Digest. From IFA to CES, they've wowed us with their super-thin sizes and superb clarity of 3D imagery. Now it looks as though LG are planning to bring the tech mainstream, announcing…
Have Google bought Groupon?
Rumours are picking up pace that Google have bought the group buying site Groupon. A $2.5bn deal has reportedly been finalized after weeks of negotiations. It is believed that Google initially made a bid of around $2bn on November 19th….
Toshiba Folio 100 tablet on its last legs already??
It's been barely ten days since Toshiba launched their Folio 100 tablet in the UK, but already the new slate device's vital signs are beginning to flatline. Launched on November 4th in PC World stores up and down the land,…
Shopaholics at Westfield get Sky 3D TV demo next week
Traipsing through the cavernous Westfield shopping centre might not be as arduous a task as it sounds next week, thanks to a special 3D TV trial that Sky are running. Sky will be handing out 3D glasses to shopaholics visiting…
Woolworths could live on… online
Break out the cheap party poppers and raise a “Worth It” champagne glass to the news that Woolworths may resurrect itself online.
While its recent demise has seen the shop space sold off, the Shop Direct Group has taken on the company and could be about to turn it into an online retailer.
The old Woolworths already offered online purchasing, but the new scheme would see it more able to compete with the likes of Amazon which sells goods exclusively online…
"Pirates of the Amazon" gets sunk by Amazon
The art project/mass piracy enabler that was the ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ extension from Firefox has been hit by a broadside from Amazon, who boarded the boat with their lawyers and sent the group of students a take-down notice.
The students, for their part, say the extension was intended as an artistic parody. They study media design at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool in Holland, and claim “It was a practical experiment on interface design, information access, and currently debated issues in media culture”.
End of an era: grab a tech bargain at Woolworths this weekend
Even if you’ve been trying to ignore the bleak economic news of recent months, instead choosing to count the £10.54 worth of pennies you have hidden in a large jar under your bed, you’ll likely be aware that retail institution Woolworths is about to die.
To go out with a bang, the administrator has announced that Woolworths will begin an up-to-50% sale this weekend in all its UK stores.
The biggest discounts will be on toys and greetings cards, but apparently entertainment goods will also be discounted, so perhaps Woolies is the place to go if you’ve got any cash and want to buy a cheaper telly or games console…
Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy launching MEGAHOUSES to flog the UK electronics this year
The UK phone-shifter and the American technology super-chain will soon publish their plans for selling us lot in the UK cheap electronics.
Over 100 electronics warehouses will launch in the UK under the Best Buy brand, as the tech-seller pushes out of its homeland to crush the likes of Currys and Comet over here. The plan is thanks to Best Buy’s deal to buy half of Carphone Warehouse earlier this year to push its expansion in Europe…
