Nintendo’s gunning for retailers, expanding eShop offerings for Wii U, 3DS

Nintendo is going to sell its 3DS and Wii U games through the eShop as well as on the high street.

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Walmart’s website lets you Pay With Cash, strips away the ‘convenience’ of shopping online

Here’s an idea: order products online, and then pay using regular ‘ol dollar bills. Intrigued? That’s exactly what Walmart has begun offering on its website today with its new Pay With Cash service

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AmazonSupply launches, offers up lab and janitorial supplies in same convenient location

If you’re like us, there’s nothing you hate more than having to go to different sites to pick up your pneumatics and abrasives. Thankfully, Amazon , that aggregator of all things with a price tag, has launched AmazonSupply, a site serving a broad range of industrial and business categories, including such favorites as fasteners, power & hand tools, fleet & vehicle maintenance and cutting tools

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UK department store John Lewis launches broadband service, get in on the ground floor

If you live in the UK, and were thinking “If only I could get my broadband from the same place I get my crystal tumbler set” then maybe now you can. Department store John Lewis, a favorite for wedding lists, furniture and homeware is branching out into the British ISP game.

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BlackBerry flagship store coming to Dubai, hopes you’ll buy

While RIM’s current fortunes are making plenty of execs nervously tug at their ties, there’s still plenty of people cheerfully tapping away on BlackBerry keyboards — especially in the Middle East. It makes at least some sense, then, to launch a big ole’ flagship shop in Dubai. Teaming up with local carrier Axiom Telecom, the handset manufacturer is in the final negotiation stages for a 1,500 square-foot store.

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Refreshed Roku HD spotted in stores, drops the 2 but adds some purple flair

That purple-striped Roku HD seen skulking about the FCC last month has now been observed in the wild by our friend Dave Zatz. It’s apparently on shelves now, with all the features of the box recently introduced as the Roku 2 HD , but without the 2. As he muses, Roku may be taking a “new iPad” style naming approach to its hardware going forward, a theory supported by the support site listing where it’s already elbowed out the old Roku 2 HD

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Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping

Are folks still getting lost in the faux marble expanse of your airport or shopping mall, even after you’ve uploaded the floor plan to Google Maps? Then maybe it’s time you went the extra mile and improved indoor mapping using the official Floor Plan Marker app. It instructs you to walk around the “entire surface” of your place of interest, while gathering position data from GPS, public WiFi signals and cell towers.

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Canon 5D Mark III hits US retailers, available in stores today

Well, that didn’t take long at all. Hours after our Canon 5D Mark III review went live, we’ve received word that the camera is already available for purchase, and if you happen to live in New York City and can make it to B&H before 7PM, you could even take one home today! A call to the retailer confirmed that there are just three kits available, each with a 25-105mm f/4 L IS USM lens in the box for $4,299

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New iPad still coming to Apple Stores at 8AM on Friday, don’t worry

Getting a little bit antsy in your respective Apple Store queue? Don’t worry, Cupertino let it be known that its new iPad is on-track for an 8AM debut this Friday. The “resolutionary” (Apple’s fault, not ours) tablet will be reaching Apple Stores on March 16th at 8AM local time in ten countries: the US (including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands), Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and the UK

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Xperia U, HTC One X and One S coming to Orange UK

Orange, the only cellular network that’s also one of your five-a-day has announced that it’ll be releasing Sony’s Xperia U , HTC One X and One S to smartphone demanding Britons in the second quarter of the year. Depending on your point of view, it’s either fantastic or terrible that the network bagged the white edition of Sony’s handset as an exclusive, but it’s going to tempt some of you to the citrus-side of the force. There’s no word on pricing, but we’d expect them to cost something we’ve heard called “money.” While you wait for them to arrive, why not decide on which handset you’d rather purchase by reading our splendid hands-ons with each of the handsets?

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