Tag: Wal-Mart
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Valmort 1 year 10 months ago
The site is a real mess right now; It seems it has some BIG problems with Firefox.
Customers can now download videos onto their PCs from what it is calling a beta Web site. Buyers can choose from among 3,000 movie or television titles that can be quickly downloaded to a PC and viewed there or transferred to a laptop or portable media player device.
In a statement, Wal-Mart claimed to be the first large retailer to launch such a program with the backing of the major Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Co., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc....
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The Wal-Mart social network site is no longer up.
The retail giant attempted to enter into the youth culture via cyberspace by creating a social network similar to MySpace.
Unfortunately for Wal-Mart, many of the youth did not seem too impressed with the site, which may have to do with the actors half baked attempts at appearing cool.
It's a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to "express their individuality," yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to e-mail one another. Oh, and it calls users "hubsters" -- a twist on hipsters that proves just how painfully uncool it is to try to be cool.
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