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Best Buy to launch location-based retail experiment in 257 U.S. stores

Best Buy to launch location-based retail experiment in 257 U.S. stores

Posted by | Aug 16, 2010 | |

Best Buy (http://www.bby.com) plans to bring a location-based retail experiment, using the “shopkick” mobile application rewards system, to 257 U.S. stores by Oct. 1. The retail chain will examine the ways in-store shoppers value and redeem offers and rewards through their smart phones.

Under the current plans, the “shopkick” system will be functional by Aug. 17 in 187 Best Buy stores in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, New York City, Chicago markets, with an additional 70 stores in Dallas, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Miami markets launched by Oct. 1.

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Adobe fixes glitch in Photoshop Express for the iPad

Posted by | Aug 16, 2010 | |

Adobe received reports that some users were having difficulty launching the new, free Photoshop Express application on an iPad (in landscape orientation) with certain productivity and printing applications installed.  

While investigating the reports, Adobe provided a work-around for users, recommending they launch the application in a portrait orientation on the iPad. Adobe submitted a fix to Apple; it’s now approved and available in the Apple App Store.

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