Optus overhauls retail distribution strategy
Telco service provider, Optus, is refocusing its retail and distribution strategy to reflect the maturing mobile market and the changing needs of Australian consumers.
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Hundreds greet Apple's new store in Palo Alto
A queue of several hundred people, snaking around the block, greeted Apple's new store in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday morning.
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Apple to open Palo Alto store on Saturday
Apple plans to open a retail store in downtown Palo Alto, California, on Saturday. The new store, less than two blocks from Apple's existing location, appears set to share the all-glass front common on Apple retail outlets but was still covered in black sheeting on Friday morning.
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Officeworks drops Windows 8 prices further
Retailer Officeworks is sticking it to competitors by lowering its asking price for Windows 8 Pro to $48.72.
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UPDATED: Windows 8 is only available as an upgrade
Microsoft Australia has admitted that the Windows 8 available through major retailers will only be an upgrade for existing customers who have previous versions of the operating system running on their PCs.
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Barnes & Noble halts use of PIN pad devices after data breach
Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states.
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Google says mobile payments growing fast but won't catch on overnight
Mobile payments with Google Wallet are growing fast, but the road to wide acceptance of NFC in the US will be slow, the head of Google's payments unit said Friday.
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GoPro Hero 3 action camera gets smaller, shoots 4K video
Action camera stalwart GoPro has announced a new generation of its Hero video recorders, with three new models catering for amateur and professional videographers. The new Hero 3 action cameras are 30 per cent smaller and 25 per cent lighter than their GoPro HD Hero 2 ancestor.
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Online retailers turn to social networks for holiday profits
Buying things has always been social.
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Online sales channel on the up and up: GfK
Online sales channel on the up and up: GfK
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Walmart's Shopycat uses Facebook to recommend gifts
Walmart has launched its Shopycat application, that uses information on the interests of friends on Facebook to make recommendations on gifts for them from Walmart stores and other sites.
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Criminals sabotaging Cyber Monday, security experts warn
Security experts today warned consumers of a rapidly mutating spam campaign using bogus messages from United Parcel Service (UPS) claiming that a package could not be delivered.
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Apple's 'Black Friday' sale cuts Mac prices up to 10%
Apple today cut Mac prices up to 10% in a repeat of the last two years' stingy "Black Friday" deals, which authorized resellers again trumped.
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Outgoing HP channel boss: Outlook positive for 2012
"I’m very optimistic about the business in the channel,” says HP's Belinda Ross.
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QlikTech partners with Trillium for data management ease
Software vendors collaborate to provide together integration between their software suites
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