Circuit City chooses Linux for cash registers in 600 stores
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Circuit City this week bucked the trend of retailers opting for Windows-based point-of-sale systems by announcing plans to migrate to Linux-based IBM cash registers at its 600 stores.
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Circuit City Stores Inc.  on Wednesday said it would close 19 superstores, five regional offices and a distribution center by the end of the month, a day after the struggling electronics retailer received a &#36;3.25 billion takeover offer.
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Electronics retailer Circuit City  Stores Inc.  said on Thursday that its board approved a  plan to more than double its quarterly dividend and added &#36;400  million to its share repurchase authorization.
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Up to 600 free-to-use cash machines are to be sited in low income areas of the country, a committee of MPs says.
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Google has begun to build a new $600m data center in Iowa, which will house hundreds of thousands of servers that will run 24 hours a day.
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TechWeb - Chipmaker provides Linux tools to reach growing market there.
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MEDFORD -- Comcast and Circuit City Stores Inc. will officially throw open the doors to a retail experiment tomorrow, a consumer electronics boutique called Connect where customers can buy gadgets and schedule installation of cable TV and other services in a single shopping trip.
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Lenovo today announced that select Lenovo PCs are now available for  purchase in nearly 700 Circuit City stores across the U.S. and online at www.circuitcity.com.
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Circuit City Stores Inc , which  is working to turn around its business, has approved cash  awards designed to retain upper-level executives over the next  few years, the electronics retailer said in a federal filing on  Wednesday.
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TechWeb - The Linux and open source software movement has an ambitious retail store, and it is offering a low-cost, lightweight laptop that is devoid of Microsoft software.
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Circuit City Stores Inc. CC.N, the   No. 2 U.S. consumer electronics chain, on Wednesday reported   higher-than-expected quarterly profit helped by strong sales of   flat-panel televisions and laptop computers.
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The computer retailer plans to shutter 126 stores, and greedy geeks get ready to snag some bargains. In Gadget Lab.
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In the back of his 7-Eleven store near St. Louis, Walter Rust checks a computer several times a day to see what&#39;s selling and what&#39;s not and to place more orders.
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IBM&#39;s record-trouncing Blue Gene supercomputer will now be available with commercial configurations ranging from one-to-64 racks.
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By Scott Wuerz, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 10----   After 10 years as a Computer Renaissance franchisee, Toby Griggs has gone independent and changed the name of his store to Action Computer Co.
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In a private study conducted by IDC for Open Source Development Labs, Inc (OSDL), IDC predicted that the overall Linux marketplace revenues for server, PC hardware and packaged software on Linux is expected to reach $35.7 billion by 2008.
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Google Inc. is building a $600 million data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that will bring 200 jobs to the state.