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- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?
- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?Watts a Geek urn ?How much do they pay those Geek Squad guys and gals ?Are these 10 bucks an hour college kids with a lust for 'puters or real trained techs ?Re: Watts a Geek urn ?Although they are a high-powered arm of the...
- Tags: Geek Squad, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- (Photos: A detour to Geek Squad City)
- (Photos: A detour to Geek Squad City)I hate Geek FraudI've never heard *anything* positive about Geek Squad and have heard a number of nightmarish problems that people have had.They hire incompetent techs for the stores at least.I wonder how many poor people get duped by them . . .RE: (Photos:...
- Tags: Geek Squad City, detour, Geek Squad, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Best Buy plans to double Mac presence at its stores
- Best Buy plans to double Mac presence at its storesWhy does everyone thing Apple will be immune......to a slow down in the economy?This will be BB's third or fourth shot at this....And I can't help but wonder if it didn't come about due to the demise of CompUSA and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), economic slowdown, Apple Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., CompUSA Inc., Geek Squad, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Getting hooked: Phishing, pharming and online threats
- Sponsored: There's no shortage of malicious code on the Internet. Agent Peterson of the Geek Squad offers some tips on how to protect yourself from viruses and spyware. The content for this video was sponsored and provided by Geek Squad.
- Tags: Pharming, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Real Estate, Spyware, Corporate Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Marketing, Geek Squad, Adware & Malware
- Whiteboards 2007-11-15
- What's your going rate? IT work orders by state
- What's your going rate? IT work orders by state"You get what you pay for".Maybe that's why Best Buy and all these Indian companies are proving how accurate that phrase is?Not to mention Circuit City summarily firing long-term, high-paid workers but offering them to rehire them for the same jobs at...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, OnForce, Geek Squad, IT Work, UI benefit, job, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- Can Best Buy become your IT shop?
- Can Best Buy become your IT shop?Sounds like a deal to meI think I will call them up to have them load Deer Hunter 3D on my Tandy. They could load Windows Vista on there as well. I am sure I will have to buy a memory upgrade...
- Tags: Notebooks, Geek Squad, Best Buy Co. Inc., laptop computer, CompUSA Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Office Depot, Staples differ on computer service
- Office Depot, Staples differ on computer serviceAll are failuresStaples tried this with Tech Expo - was supposed to be 1 stop shopping for technology. Lasted all of a year.Circuit City used to do the same - failed and now has been reincarnated.Same with BB. They are all doomed...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Geek Squad, computer, VCR, marketing, Staples Inc., Office Depot Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-21
- Geek Squad Serves and Protects Nationwide With Sprint
- Geek Squad is a 24-Hour Computer Support Task Force focused solely on computer and network support. Best Buy called one company, Sprint, to arm Geek Squad Agents with the latest in wireless communications so they can tend to technical emergencies from wherever they may be. Sprint proved it had the...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Geek Squad, Real Estate, Team Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Business Operations, Management
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- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...
- Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...
- Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!
- Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!dre` typo, i think"...nothing I would lie better than to..."It's the cost, Adrianlook at the difference in price.if i paid that much for a "desktop" OS, you can bet that I'd convince myself it was faster ;)The other thing...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, workstation, Vista x64, Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, desktop, server, Vist-___
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Benchmark your PC, free
- Free application PC Wizard is a portable tool that analyzes and benchmarks your Windows PC. On the simple side, the 'Wiz gives you an in-depth look at your hardware and system specs. But for power users like those on ZDNet, PC Wizard's neat features -- such as...
- Tags: PC, Tool, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- MobileMe push is limited and subscribers get a 30-day extension
- Apple's MobileMe service has been advertised as "Exchange for the rest of us" with support for push email and data. However, if you have MobileMe/.Mac account then you may have received an email this morning detailing a rocky transition from .Mac to MobileMe that clarifies not everything is pushed. Joel...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Vizio VP422
- Vizio has taken aggressive pricing to a new level of low. The company's VP422, a 42-inch flat-panel plasma HDTV, can be had for the extremely low price of $799. While this set doesn't have the picture quality to qualify as the centerpiece of a home theater, it certainly could be...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, color temperature, Vizio, Vizio VP422
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- The Kübler-Ross of iPhone
- The Kübler-Ross of iPhoneI think Kubler-Ross missed oneActually, there is one that should be added: Apathy. I guess it would start at the same stage as Denial, but never progresses beyond the simple "who cares" level.I won't ever buy an iPhone...why not? Because I don't care about having...
- Tags: Web browsers, Apple iPhone, Web browser, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- The 5 Stages of iPhone Acceptance
- The Five Stages of the Kübler-Ross model The iPhone has become such a part of our collective consciousness that soon entire books are going to be written about the sociological impact of such a groundbreaking, Insanely Great device. Why, it's so dammed important,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Digital Music, Open Source, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- PreVa - Anime-Stylized Mecha Action (exe)
- In PreVa you play as the commander of alpha squad, it's up to you to stop the I.A.A.'s plans. You will have multiple V.A.s to choose from and your squad mates to aid you in this task. Fight on the surface of the moon, in the zero gravity of space,...
- Tags: ItBGames
- Software downloads 2008-07-14
- If you want SOA, fine... it's a 'SOA'
- The birth of a "SOA": Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder picked up on the theme of one of my recent posts to demonstrate how some companies take the pain and hard work out of the "birthing" process for service oriented architecture. Hmmm... Just take JBOWS and declare it to be...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-07-13
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 1)
- Here at ZDNet, we all get on most of the time and I'm lucky to be working with some absolutely lovely people. Behind the scenes, we have a discussion group, and I've been bitching about my lack of Internet the last week or so. My editor-in-chief, Larry, asked me a...
- Tags: House, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, British Telecommunications, Cable, Tiscali, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
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