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HP closes Palm webOS retail stores forever

In a not so surprising turn of events, HP has officially shut down operation of the Palm webOS retail stores. Back when HP officially supported Palm webOS and sold products running the operating system, the HP Palm webOS physical store locations were places in which interested customers could purchase devices instead of online. In any more »

200 additional Blockbuster stores will close

More bad news has struck Blockbuster. Dish Network, the chain’s new owner, will be closing 200 additional stores. According to The Wrap, the closures will leave close to 1,500 Blockbuster stores still standing.

Kobo purchasers won’t be affected by Borders closing

It was revealed yesterday that Borders will be closing soon. As soon as this Friday, many of its locations around the United States may begin liquidation sales. Though Borders failed to make a noticeable impression in the eBook market, it does own a minority stake in Kobo. Kobo wants its customers to know that despite Borders, their book purchases on Kobo devices aren’t in any danger.

Borders to close down by the end of September

The journey is over for Borders. The company failed to find a buyer and will cease to exist in about two month’s time. All of Borders’ 399 stores will close down. Waldenbooks locations are also expected to close. Liquidation for Borders stores could begin as early as Friday.

GrandCentral will be shutting down as of today

Here is fair warning to any GrandCentral users who have not switched their account over to Google Voice. For those unfamiliar GrandCentral is the service that Google purchased and rolled into the Google Voice that we know today. Anyway, for those that are still holding on to a GrandCentral account, pay attention because today is more »

All Circuit City locations will officially close March 8

It was only a matter of time, we all knew the final days for Circuit City were getting close, but the end is now upon us. They have just announced that March 8 will be their final day, which means that if you were holding out to that very last minute to try and score more »

Will Helio be the next MVNO to join the dead pool?

It is looking like Helio customers may soon be making their monthly payments to Virgin Mobile. Recent reports coming from a Helio “tipster” are claiming that we can expect to see some of their corporate stores and kiosks begin to close very soon. It has also been mentioned that Helio and Virgin were looking towards more »

Sprint retail locations to close for 2-hour webcast

Sprint is planning on closing all of their stores, to include licensed dealer locations from 9am to 11am PST today. During this time all partners, owners and employees will watch a webcast. While this is most likely just some employee training, we can always hope for something good, possibly some news of the rumored $60 more »

Palm’s airport retail locations to remain open

We recently learned that Palm was planning on closing all of their retail locations, that fact was even later confirmed by Palm, but it seems there may have been a little confusion. It turns out that those airport retail locations will indeed remain open, it seems they are not actually owned by Palm but by more »

Palm makes it official, retail locations will close

Palm has confirmed the latest rumor regarding the closing of their retail locations. Initially the news of the store closings made it seem like Palm had finally hit the dark tunnel at the end of the line, however their statement regarding the closings gives us a little more hope for the future. According to Palm more »