News from the virtual world: -- VANISHING ACT: The PlayStation 3 arrives in America this Friday -- but if last week's Japanese launch was any indicator, thousands of U.S. gamers will be going home empty-handed. At Tokyo's Bic Camera, throngs began assembling hours before the store opened at 7 a.m. Saturday, and things got so hectic that megaphone- wielding clerks had to warn the crowd that sales would be cut off if anyone got injured. With only 100,000 PS3s allotted to Japan, many stores reported they were sold out before they could even open. Ken Kutaragi, the head of Sony's game division, visited the crowd at Bic and said, "I am so happy so many people are waiting." He should cross the Pacific and visit Burbank, Calif., where some diehards began camping out at a Best Buy more than a w...
Thousands of artist's sketchbooks, including several from Maine, will travel to the SPACE Gallery in Portland on March 30 as they make their way across the country, exhibiting in galleries and museums. The Sketchbook Project, now in its third year, was founded by Art House Co-op, a Brooklyn-based gallery dedicated to creating massive international art projects. When [the Art House Co-op] first described this project to me, it seemed like a community experiment," said Nat May, executive director of SPACE Gallery. "They're doing this big open call, and we didn't know how many people would be participating. As it turned out, they had tons and tons of submissions. Expecting as much as 10,000 sketchbooks.
..."I'm using this cell phone camera just like a Bic pen in my pocket," said Weinberg. ...
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... it will sell a variety of computers at Bic Camera stores. Dell said Thursday it will sell XPS M1330,...
... select Japan retail outlets including Bic Camera and Yodobashi Camera and on dell.com in Japan on M...
RALEIGH, N.C. - Retailers around the world stayed open through the wee hours of Tuesday morning to sell the long-awaited Windows Vista operating system, even though most knew customers wouldn't be lining up out the door. At a CompUSA store in Raleigh, only about a dozen people braved temperatures in the upper 20s to be among the first consumers to get Vista.
... Tokyo, about 80 people lined up at the Bic Camera Department Store to become among the world's first...
WVU Hospitals workers OK five-year contract Union workers have approved a new five-year contract with West Virginia University Hospitals, the hospital said Friday.
... of people lined up for hours around Bic Camera, an electronics retailer in downtown Tokyo, to get...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mariah Carey turned some heads in Nashville while filming scenes for the upcoming movie "Tennessee." The R&B diva is playing an aspiring country signer who flees her controlling husband in New Mexico by moving to Nashville with two brothers. Last week, she sang at the downtown honky-tonk Second Fiddle. She co-wrote "Right To Dream" with Willie Nelson and performed it with Nelson's harmonica player, Mickey Raphael.
...The multistory Bic Camera in downtown Tokyo closed as usual at 10 p.m. and t...
TOKYO - Masaya Igarashi wants $200 headphones for his new iPod Touch, and he's torn between Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles. When he has saved up again, he plans to splurge on a digital camera or flat-screen TV. There's one conspicuous omission from the college student's shopping list: a new computer.
TOKYO Masaya Igarashi wants $200 headphones for his new iPod Touch, and he's torn between Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles. When he has saved up again, he plans to splurge on a digital camera or flat-screen TV. There's one conspicuous omission from the college student's shopping list: a new computer.
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