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Best Buy is trying out a rather clever marketing trick. The retailer announced a new line of consumer electronics products called Blue Label that it claims will be specially created based on customer feedback.

First up will be laptops, one each from HP and Toshiba.

Best Buy says it found customers want "longer battery life, a thin and lightweight design,… Read More

Best Buy isn't going to let Amazon hog all the attention when it comes to selling netbooks, which are increasing in popularity faster than Laney Boggs after she lost the glasses and pony tail.

In addition to its announcement that it would soon start selling the MSI Wind netbook, Best Buy told Laptop Mag that it plans to expand its netbook offerings. The company made its… Read More

the news that MSI's Wind would soon be stocked by "a major U.S. retailer". Today, Best Buy has made it official. The little netbook will be sold in its Windows XP Home incarnation, and sit on the shelves alongside Asus' Eee PC 900.

Best Buy hasn't yet revealed the price, nor has the Wind appeared on the website, but we can't imagine it will be far off the $500 Amazon is asking. The specs remaon the same: Black or white, a 120GB hard drive, a three cell battery (that's the one that lasts a couple of hours), a Gig of RAM and a 10" screen. Wi-Fi is b/g and the processor is that netbook standard, the Intel Atom 1.6GHz.
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Purported photos of Best Buy's inventory list suggest that the electronics store will soon be carrying some of the latest and hottest cell phones, including the Google Android-powered G1.

The Boy Genius Report came across these photos, indicating that a slew of hot new phones… Read More