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Circuit City Website is Closed

Starting January 16th, 2009 Circuit City website is closed. The site no longer displays any products and accepts any online orders.

Circuit City is closing all of its 567 stores across the United States. Closing sales will start as early as Saturday January 17th, 2009.

Selections of F.A.Q. regarding Circuit City Closures:

  • Circuit City is shutting down operations in the United States. Circuit City will still operate in Canada through The Source.
  • Circuit City Gift Cards can be redeemed throughout the liquidation sales.
  • Circuit City’s extended warranties are backed by third party independent companies and are not affected by the closures.
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Recap: Steve Jobs, Circuit City, Songsmith, and Palm Pre

There are a lot of news items that I have not writte about yet for the past 7 days. It’s time for me to catch up with them.

Steve Jobs is going on a medical leave of absence.

January 14th, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:

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In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

Circuit City is going out of business after filing Chapter 11. Download the PDF’s below:

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Microsoft Songsmith, and the ad features MacBook Pro.

Songsmith is for Windows OS only, Mac users can cry in the corner; or will they?

Download Songsmith here.

It is so great that it produced music to accompany David Lee Roth.

Palm Pre, the would be savior of Palm.

Palm is back with a new OS and new SmartPhone in the form of Palm Pre. It looks promising so far, and some anti-Apple movement crowd are hoping that Palm Pre would be the iPhone killer.