Dell opening Retails Stores in Texas & New York

1 in 3 PC's sold in the US is manufactured by Dell. The company has no retail outlets yet but the scene is expected to change, soon.

Following the success of Apple Retails stores, Dell has also decided to explore retailing, a relatively uncharted territory. They are opening up new retail shops in Dallas and West Nyack, New York.

In the past few years, Dell did put up retail kiosks in US shopping malls and airports but it is for the first time that they are developing an exclusive full-sized Dell retail outlet.

But unlike the Apple Retails Stores, Dell is taking a cautious approach with retailing. The new Dell stores won't carry any Dell inventory, but it will allow customers to try out Dell's products and order them for delivery just like they do over the phone or internet. Dell has not decided if the outlets will offer product support.

Other than PC's, Dell retail stores will house almost all Dell products including Digital Cameras, LCD Screens, Television and Printers.

Source: Dell Testing Retail Store Concept | Star Telegram

How to Download Contacts from Facebook To Outlook Address Book

Facebook users are not too pleased with the "walled garden" approach of Facebook. The reason is simple - while you can easily import your Outlook address book and GMail contacts into Facebook, the reverse path is closed. There's no "official" way to export your Facebook friends email addresses or contact phone numbers out as a CSV file so that you can sync the contacts data with Outlook, GMail or your BlackBerry. Some third-party Facebook hacks like "Facebook Sync" (for Mac) and "Facebook Downloader" (for Windows) did allow you to download your Facebook friends' names, emails, mobile phone number and profile photo to the desktop but they were quickly removed for violation of Facebook Terms of Use. How to Download Contacts from Facebook There are still some options to take Friends data outside the walls of Facebook wall. Facebook offers the Takeout option allowing you to download all Facebook data locally to the disk (include

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PhishTank Detects Phishing Websites by Digg Style Voting

OpenDNS, a free service that helps anyone surf the Internet faster with a simple DNS tweak , will announce PhishTank today. PhishTank is a free public database of phishing URLs where anyone can submit their phishes via email or through the website. The submissions are verified by the other community members who then vote for the suspected site. This is such a neat idea as sites can be categorized just based on user feedback without even having to manually verify each and every submission. PhishTank employs the "feedback loop" mechanism where users will be kept updated with the status' of the phish they submit either via email alerts or a personal RSS feed . Naturally, once the PhishTank databases grows, other sites can harness the data using open APIs which will remain free. OpenDNS would also use this data to improve their existing phishing detection algorithms which are already very impressive and efficient. PhishTank | PhishTank Blog [Thanks Allison] Related: Google

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