BoberFett said:. Oct 30, 27, 78 Was funcoland the same company back in the early s or did they get absorbed a bit later? I remember at one point GameStop, Babbage's, software etc, and funcoland were the same company but I have no idea if they started from the same parent company or if they just slowly merged.
Never had them here in FL. We did have a Babbage's and a software etc in the same mall. Babbage's seemed more console focuses while software etc would sell stuff for PC platforms. Yes plural because they sold stuff for commodore 64, Amiga, and later dos and windows. Lil Frier Platinum Member. Oct 3, 2, 21 We had Babbage's here as well.
I remember when GS had their gift cards say they were good at, like, 5 store. I believe it was before they ate up EB Games. The GameStops were literally across the street from each other 1 in the mall, 1 out. That was probably since Wikipedia said the acquisition happened in , and I remember hearing about the purchase from a GS employee before the conversion , and it was just this summer that they FINALLY closed the GameStop in the mall, so now we only have the 2 a block from each other and 1 several miles away.
Why they went with 3 stores right on top of each other for 8 years, I'll never understand. Lil Frier said:. Same in my city. There was a Gamestop and an EB Games about yards from one another in the same shopping center.
When Gamestop bought EB, neither store closed and both are still open to this day, because they both rack in the money. Larnz Senior member. Dec 15, 1 Jun 2, 6, 29 Anarchist said:. KentState Diamond Member. Oct 19, 8, I just remember Babbages and Software Etc selling stuff like operating systems and productivity software.
They also had a very liberal return policy for games. I remember returning games that sucked and they would let you get something new in the box. Didn't matter if it was for the PC or a console. Now with Amazon, I don't even know why I walk through the Gamestop at the mall.
Not like I will see something new. MongGrel Lifer. Under the new plan, the waiting period will be scrapped altogether so people can be notified sooner. Two serious security vulnerabilities were recently found in AWS services, but because they were responsibly reported and the cloud biz responded quickly, no harm appears to have been done.
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It appears that today's victim of the Chocolate Factory axeman is legacy Google Voice for personal accounts. To be fair, and despite Google's apparent delight at killing off services , this one has been on the cards for a while, certainly since the company overhauled the user interface in with its "modern experience.
However, some users have stuck with the legacy web version of Voice despite warnings that bits of it would stop working in In July, the company said in a not-at-all-threatening manner:. Ukrainian police have arrested five people on suspicion of operating a ransomware gang, including a husband-and-wife team, following tipoffs from UK law enforcement. They claimed "more than 50" companies were targeted by the alleged gang, causing damage estimated at "more than one million US dollars.
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