What is thought to be a hack into Best Buy’s computer system has left some customers unsure as to whether they should maintain their accounts through Best Buy’s website. A customer recently noticed that his billing and shipping information had been altered from his New York address to a random address in Houston, Texas. When he had contacted customer service, he was told that a glitch in the computer system simply jumbled up customer information and assigned different addresses to the wrong people.

Customers with registered accounts on Best Buy’s website are advised to log into their accounts and check their personal data, as well as change their passwords and delete any saved credit card information.

Though this is in violation of Best Buy’s customer privacy statement, the company has not yet released an official statement warning consumers.

This is not the first time in recent months that Best Buy has encountered technical issues. In April, hackers had managed to get into the accounts of several retailers, including New York & Company, Walgreens, Brookstone and Best Buy, as well as a few banks. All the affected companies are directly related to Epsilon, an organization that specializes in permission-based email marketing.

In an official statement released by Epsilon the following weekend, the company stated that only names and email addresses were revealed to the hackers, with the exception of Ritz-Carlton Rewards, which said the balances of customers’ rewards were also revealed.

Yet email addresses and names are all hackers need. All of the affected organizations, Epsilon included, are warning consumers to stay on the lookout for phishing scams. Because they have names as well, these “personalized” emails are more likely to make consumers send their account information via email.

It is advised to never send personal information via email regardless of how legitimate the email may seem.

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The HTC Flyer is $499.99 and has some amazing features.

Features:

• 7 inch display
• Android operating system
• 1.5 GHz single core
• 1 GB of RAM
• 16 GB of storage
• Two cameras 5mp on back and 1.3 on front

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Sprint has just made the Google Nexus S 4G version available to buy for $199.99 on a two year contract in the USA. The phone is also available at BestBuy if you want a bit of a bargain.

The phone itself has been made by Samsung and runs Android 2.3. Featuring a 4 inch AMOLED touchscreen, 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and 16 GB of storage.

Unlike the T-Mobile version Sprint has a WiMAX chip in the phone to allow even faster mobile data transfer.

Do you think Google will have any more success with this device?

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It seems as though Best Buy Mexico have announced that iWork 11 will be available to buy on the 19th of February. Apple is still yet to make an official announcement and Im sure they wont be very happy with this being leaked.

iWork competes with Microsoft’s Office suite and consists of Pages, Apple’s word processing application; Numbers, a spreadsheet app; and Keynote, a presentation tool akin to PowerPoint.

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Big labels bought into this idea after what had to be an amazing presentation, and to make it even more amazing was the fact that they convinced Walmart and Best Buy to carry the product. Quite honestly this idea may have been approved, but it’s dead before it’s even started. Pricing is not bad, with SD cards looking at a retail value of about $7-$10 apiece, but of course that’s before markup, and any other additions they plan on adding to the sale.

Just looking around my house I don’t know where I would put my MicroSD card, my phone maybe, but I don’t use it as a media player nor would I want to. I’d like to know what mind numbing, hypnotic method they used to get anyone on board with this idea. If you want a taste of this market, I suggest by early, because the MicroSD idea will almost certainly be dead by next year.

Can anyone say collector’s item?

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