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360 Wireless Clashing With Wal-Mart Tech

Posted by Zonk on from the cluttered-airwaves dept.

vladcole writes "Xbox 360 kiosks are getting shut down by some Wal-Mart employees sick of having their handheld inventory devices and printers malfunction, according to this compilation of Joystiq reader reports." From the article: "There's no reason to get worried about the Xbox 360 launch date (there, we recognized the elephant in the room), but the breadth and frequency of these reports point to a compatibility issue between the Xbox 360 and Wal-Mart, at least." Next Generation confirms that Wal-Mart is having issues with the 360 pods.

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  1. Re:Wal-Mart's Tech Skills by thesandtiger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wal-Mart has some of the best tech in retail, actually. Just because they *sell* cheap crap doesn't mean they *use* cheap crap.

    If you want to know what other retailers will be doing in 5 years, take a look at Wal-Mart's tech. There's a reason people are willing to work in their tech group for the low wages - it's because they learn a LOT.

    All other valid slams on Wal-Mart aside, their tech is most definitely good stuff.

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    Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
  2. Re:Wal-Mart's Tech Skills by karnal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No kidding.

    I work for a rather large company, and when Wal-Mart came in and said "YOU WILL USE THIS RFID, TO OUR SPECS" our fearless leaders said "Anything you want."

    Now, for our overall industry of the company I work for, Wal-Mart could take a flying nose dive. But, for our division? It would be suicide to not have our product out there.

    So we installed their system. To their specifications.

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    Karnal
  3. Eh? Telzon problems? by Crescens · · Score: 3, Interesting
    These are the Symbol units, right? When I was working at Best Buy years ago we had the same problem with 2.4GHz cordless phones. Our previous phone stopped working and when we replaced it the phone pretty much made the Telxon units useless anywhere around the phone. Ended up just replacing the new one with yet another 900MHz phone.

    I wouldn't be surprised if it's the exact same thing.

  4. Re:Wireless networks? by tklive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    nice job.

    so MS used this not only for promotion but for some last minute testing too, to get a feel for what real life customers would face. That is kinda neat .

    besides atleast in this case you really dont know if the issue could be with the freq used by wallmart scanners, they are known to cut corners wherever possible and *might* be using non std devices. This could be the case with the consumers too and i guess MS have factored that in now...