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- Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
- Dell has cut the price of its budget Inspiron 530 by $140. The $300 configuration includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel GMA 3100 graphics, and Windows XP. The deal is part of a Dell tax rebate marketing gambit...
- Tags: Desktop, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rebate, Graphics, Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Intel versus the European Union
- The European Union’s investigation into Intel’s business practices may be coming to a head, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The Journal report (a link to which can be found here, although it requires a subscription to read) says that EU investigators have recommended that Neelie Kroes, EU antitrust commissioner,...
- Tags: Uncategorized, rebate, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Rebates to become more of a scam
- Ive never hidden the fact that I consider rebates to be nothing more than a legalized scam. The customer pays full price for a product and is then faced with all the fun of filling out paperwork and jumping through a series of hoops (a bit like completing a...
- Tags: rebate, breakage
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Dell revamps prices - is it enough?
- Today Dell outlined plans to simplify product pricing and reduce on the number of mail-in rebate offers for consumers and small businesses. A dramatic simplification. In a revamp that will take 18 months, Dell plans to Management is choosing to tackle the small problems and hoping that the...
- Tags: rebate, Dell Computer Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-13
- Rebate Pro (exe)
- RebatePro, packaged into one easy-to-use rebate management program. Managed user profiles allow you to manage rebates for your whole family in one program. Easy-to-use envelope printing helps ensure your rebate arrives at the right destination by eliminating sloppy handwriting. Print out dozens of envelopes in minutes. Detailed product entry that...
- Tags: Rebate, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Software downloads 2005-09-21
- Three reasons why Vonage-Linksys free router promo is a solid idea
- Updated 6/13/2005: This post contains some updated information about, and corrections to, information about the Vonage-Linksys free router promotion announced Monday.There's a lot of strategic insight behind today's announcement from Vonage and Linksys that they will be giving away Vonage-configured Linksys WRTP54G Wireless Broadband Router to new Vonage subscribers through...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-06-13
- 41% of consumers forget to send in rebates
- Half of consumers never even try to get the rebates. Many forget about them or lose some of the required material. Other times consumers send everything off and never receive a check. About a third of consumers said they had bought a technology product with a rebate in the last...
- Tags: rebate
- Blog posts 2005-02-02
- 41% of consumers forget to send in rebates
- Half of consumers never even try to get the rebates. Many forget about them or lose some of the required material. Other times consumers send everything off and never receive a check. About a third of consumers said they had bought a technology product with a rebate in the last...
- Tags: rebate
- Blog posts 2005-02-02
- 32% of electronics shoppers purchased a product with rebate
- During June-November 2004, 32% of consumers surveyed by NPD Group purchased a technology product that offered a rebate. A closer look at those consumers' responses shows more than 25% of computer hardware product purchases during the six-month period included a rebate and 8.5% of respondents used a rebate to buy...
- Tags: rebate
- Blog posts 2005-01-06
- 32% of electronics shoppers purchased a product with rebate
- During June-November 2004, 32% of consumers surveyed by NPD Group purchased a technology product that offered a rebate. A closer look at those consumers' responses shows more than 25% of computer hardware product purchases during the six-month period included a rebate and 8.5% of respondents used a rebate to buy...
- Tags: electronics, rebate
- Blog posts 2005-01-06
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- eMachines T5274
- The eMachines T5274 is eMachines' higher-end budget desktop for the back to school season. While it seems like a good deal for $400, the fact is that the low-end PC market has become increasingly competitive this year, which makes it hard for systems such as this one that straddle two...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, eMachines Inc., eMachines T5274
- Product reviews 2008-07-21
- A solar cooled air-conditioning system
- A solar cooled air-conditioning systemIt occurs to me...This is a great thing, if it can prove efficient enough and cheap enough (mass production, etc.). But I wonder how the power companies really feel about it. If we all use less power, they lose revenue. Is anyone questioning...
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Air-Conditioning
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- LG Chocolate 3 (Verizon Wireless)
- One could argue that as the Razr was to Motorola, the Chocolate was to LG. It was the first real iconic phone from LG, gaining plenty of hype because of its slender look and candy bar moniker. The Chocolate was also one of the first to really showcase Verizon's V...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, display, menu option, Verizon Wireless, LG Electronics Inc., Chocolate 3, phone, LG Chocolate, LG Chocolate 3, scroll wheel
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
- Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.Not that strangeFrom a complete novice point of view, Linux isn't hard at all. If you just want to use the provided applications and not fiddle around/tweak with the settings too much. You will be fine.You still need XP for computergames, that's the geeky angle...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Netbooks, Linux, netbook, Microsoft Windows XP, Foleo
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone security
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone securityApple doesn't really care.I believe that Apple puts security of its products at the bottom of the list, with cool design at the top. All this stuff just proves me right, that sure they have a neat casing and a touch screen, but underneath it...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, security, iPhone security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- LG Dare (Verizon Wireless)
- One of the most notable fallouts of the Apple iPhone launch last year is the ever growing trend of touch-screen phones. LG was one of the first manufacturers out the gate with phones such as the LG Voyager and the LG Vu dazzling us with features that we couldn't get...
- Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, display, Verizon Wireless, LG Dare, LG Electronics Inc., phone, touch-screen phone, touch screen
- Product reviews 2008-06-27
- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?
- Best Buy last week reported solid fiscal first quarter results, but did dish out enough detail to bring out a few worries. Home office gear is selling, but the consumer is winded. But the big takeaway is that Best Buy's services business--specifically Geek Squad--is posting twice the growth of the...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Retail, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- LG LX400
- LG is typically more known for its consumer-level handsets like the LG Voyager and the LG Chocolate. So it was a pleasant surprise to us when we found out LG was partnering with Sprint to come up with the LG LX400, one of the first phones to support QChat, a...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, LG LX400, LG Electronics Inc., phone
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- Gateway FX541XT
- Gateway's FX541XT occupies a strange gaming PC middle ground. At $3,500, it's not in the same price category as high-end PCs such as Dell's XPS 730 H2C, but it's also about $2,000 more than the emergent $1,500 gaming desktop we've seen this year, most recently in the Maingear Prelude....
- Tags: Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Network technology, Gateway FX541XT, Gateway Inc., PC
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- IRS rebate checks: more problems
- IRS rebate checks: more problemsDuplicate IRS refund checks - Word To The WiseIf you are one of those "lucky" ones to get more than [b]one[/b] stimulus payment; [b]don't make plans for it!![/b]I knew someone who had received his tax refund twice, cashed both checks; and spent [b]all of the money!!![/b]It...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
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