Wal-Mart has announced that they will no longer be selling the Everex Linux-based gPC desktop system in their retail stores with spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien stating “this really wasn’t what our customers were looking for”. Wal-Mart began testing the notion of selling Linux-based systems in retail stores last October by introducing the $199 “Green gPC” in approximately 600 stores.
While the gPC was apparently sold out in retail stores, it wasn’t enough to prevent Wal-Mart from declaring that they would not restock their inventory. The company will instead focus on online sales of the Linux systems which now also include the Everex gPC2 and the Everex CloudBook. The gPC2 also sells for $199 without a monitor while the CloudBook goes for $399.
[Check it out via Daily Tech]
Technorati Tags: Wal-Mart, Everex, gPC, gPC2, CloudBook, Linux
Written by flung on March 13th, 2008 with comments disabled.
Read more articles on Computer Systems and Computers and Everex and Laptops and Wal-Mart and cloudbook and gPC and gPC2 and linux.
Looks like the Everex CloudBook desktop has finally started to ship and will go for about $500. It features an Intel T2130 dual-core 1.86GHz processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 120GB hard drive, a DVD writer, gigabit ethernet, a 4-in-1 memory card reader and graphics powered by Intel’s graphics media accelerator GMA950. Expect to see this baby in March, which is very soon. [TCmag]
Written by Gizmo Girl on February 27th, 2008 with no comments.
Read more articles on Computers and Everex and cloudbook and desktop.
Filed under: Cellphones
For whatever reason, phone-based contactless payment systems have been incredibly slow on the uptake stateside, while others — those on NTT DoCoMo’s well-received Osaifu-Keitai system, for example — have had no qualms about turning their handsets into wallets. Every so often we catch wind of a trial in the works, though, which gives us hope that we’ll eventually all be able to whip our cellies out of our pockets and clog our arteries in one deft motion. Case in point: Sprint has teamed up with Jack in the Box and San Francisco’s Bay Area Transit Authority to offer fare and food payments with a tap of a phone in a trial that runs from January through May of next year. Strangely, the pictured phone appears to be the somewhat ancient A920 clamshell, so we’re guessing Sprint is modifying the devices for the trial; Boost Mobile customers should be able to get on the action in some capacity as well. If you live in the area, ride BART at least once a week, and are willing to sacrifice that Touch for a trial phone, go sign yourself up — just take it easy with the bacon burgers, k?
[Thanks, Allan]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Written by Chris Ziegler on December 21st, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on Communications, Cellphones, Gadgets / Other, GPS/Naviga and cloudbook and iriver and mickey mouse.
Filed under: Announcements
We’re floored! Over a thousand people braved lines to join us at tonight’s Engadget reader meetup in San Francisco, our biggest ever event by far! We’re completely humbled, but you’re not out of the woods yet. Do us a favor and share your photos and video from tonight, would you? We’ll post ‘em up tomorrow for everyone to check out. Thanks again, SF!
Please add your pictures to the Engadget Flickr pool here.
And please add your videos to YouTube with the tag engadget2007sf.
We’d also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who really helped us make this whole thing happen!
Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Written by Ryan Block on October 11th, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on PCs and cloudbook and mickey mouse and software client and t.v..
Filed under: Announcements
Tonight’s the big night, SF bay area! Our FREE and ALL AGES reader meetup goes off at 7PM at UCSF Mission Bay, where we’ll have:
- Free food and drinks
- Product demos
- Audience Q&A with execs and Engadget editors
- … and will be giving away literally hundreds of devices — tens of thousands of dollars of gadgets.
Hit the read link for details — hope to see you there!
We’d also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who’ve been instrumental in getting this thing off the ground!
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Written by Ryan Block on October 10th, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on PCs and cloudbook and mickey mouse and software client and t.v..
Filed under: Announcements
Just a reminder to everyone in or visiting the SF bay area about our reader meetup that’s going on tomorrow night, 7PM at UCSF Mission Bay! We’ll have product demos, live executive interviews, audience Q&A, free food and drinks, and will be giving away literally hundreds of devices — tens of thousands of dollars of gadgets — on the spot. Hit the read link for details — hope to see you there!
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Written by Ryan Block on October 9th, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on PCs and cloudbook and mickey mouse and software client and t.v..
Filed under: Announcements
Last week in Tokyo was pretty amazing, but this Wednesday’s reader event in San Francisco promises to be possibly our most amazing yet. Here’s a bit about what you can expect:
- We’re giving away literally tens of thousands of dollars in gear, including…
- A free Sandisk Sansa Connect (4GB with WiFi) to the first 200 people!
- We’ll also have free food and drinks
- Live Q&A session with Engadget
- The event is ALL AGES and FREE ADMISSION
- As well as giveaways from: Drobo, Motorola, Nokia, OQO, Plantronics, Samsung, SanDisk, Sling, and others!
When: Wednesday, October 10th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Please note, however, that we have changed our event location! We are no longer holding the event at Mighty, the event is now at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF.
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
866.431.UCSF
Also, a note to the local hackers in the audience! We’d like to try out the “lightning talks” round here in the US — let us know if you have something interesting and electronic that you might want to show off! (Email event att engadget dawt com.)
We’d also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who’ve been instrumental in getting this thing off the ground!
Oh, and please leave us a comment if you’re thinking of attending so we can at least try to estimate how many to expect. See you there! (Map, directions, and full list of companies at the event after the break.)
Continue reading San Francisco reader meetup details, note: location has changed!
Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Written by Ryan Block on October 8th, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on PCs and cloudbook and mickey mouse and software client and t.v..
Filed under: Announcements
Tokyo, San Francisco! We’re coming to town to hang out, so please join us THIS WEEK in Tokyo as we host our first ever Japanese readup in Google / YouTube Japan’s offices. Next week in San Francisco we’ll be at Mighty. Directions and info below.
Both events are ALL AGES and FREE ADMISSION (as usual).
Tokyo - October 4th, ~6:30PM - 9:00PM, Cerulean Tower (7th floor) [map]
Please note we have limited capacity, but we will do our best to accommodate everyone that shows up!
San Francisco - October 10th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM, Mighty [map]
We’d also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, as well as our host in Tokyo, Google Japan!
Note: If you’re thinking of coming to the Tokyo event please let us know in comments! It helps when we’re figuring out catering and all that stuff. (Don’t worry about San Francisco, we’ll have more reminders on that one soon. And for everyone else who wants Engadget to come to your town, we’ll do our best next time!)
Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Written by Ryan Block on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
Read more articles on Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartph and PCs and Sony DSC-W120 and cloudbook and mickey mouse and software client and t.v..
« Older articles
No newer articles
Wal-Mart has announced that they will no longer be selling the Everex Linux-based gPC desktop system in their retail stores with spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien stating “this really wasn’t what our customers were looking for”. Wal-Mart began testing the notion of selling Linux-based systems in retail stores last October by introducing the $199 “Green gPC” in approximately 600 stores. 
