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A look back at the first ever Apple Store and a report on Apple's plans for change.

Technology giant Apple Inc. has let down millions of Apple fans by not celebrating the 10th anniversary of its retail stores today.

Apple is just hours away from kicking off its 10th Anniversary celebration of opening its first retail store and quizzical look on the face of Apple fans are only fueling rumors as to what surprise Apple has up its sleeves.

Apple will kick off celebrations of 10th anniversary of its retail stores today and, according to Apple fans, the company could do so by executing a major retail makeover called Apple Store 2.0.

May 19 marks the 10th anniversary of Apple retail outlets and though a celebration is in the cards, what the company has planned is pretty much hush-hush.

Microsoft has promised to give a brand new Xbox 360 for free if the upcoming update makes new game discs incompatible with the player's console.

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Apple is said that they may be planning something big to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its retail stores this Thursday, according to a source cited by The Boy Genius Report.

When Austin Whitney, 22, walked across the stage to receive his degree from the University of California-Berkeley, thousands of students cheered and clapped because the steps he took were extraordinary - Whitney is a paraplegic student and the walk from his wheelchair to the was made possible with the help of a bionic exoskeleton engineered by a university professor and fellow graduate students.

Hard disk drive maker Seagate unveiled a new wireless storage device that wirelessly streams content to an iPad, iPod touch, iPhone or other Wi-Fi enabled device.

Apple has given more stuff to rumor mills to chew on. If tech enthusiasts are tired of reading up the latest rumored iPhone 5 feature, they can now ruminate over the possible ways in which the tech giant is going to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its retails store opening.

It has been 10 years since Apple opened its two retail stores on May 19, 2001. There are big expectations on how the world's most valuable brand will celebrate this coming weekend's bash, possibly introducing a new product or revamping the store displays including storefront design that showcases their iPad 2 and MacBook Airs. Planning for the event is top secret thus far, involving restricted electronic communication among staff, password encrypted data, and black curtains.

There is a full blown bed bug epidemic happening all across America and it just seems to get worse with each passing year. For cities such as New York and Philadelphia which are at the epicenter of the outbreak, bed bugs have become an important political issue.

Over the past decade, the number of middle class jobs has fallen by about ten percent. There is a reason for this. America is becoming poorer. The economic pie is shrinking. When we ship 40 to 50 billion dollars into the hands of foreigners every single month, that means that there is a lot less wealth for all of us to divide up.

Nordstrom, Inc. reelected its board of directors and also hired a new director for the board.

Sony has show signs of steady and even increases in sales despite the prolonged PlayStation Network outage for the month of April. The Sony brand has taken a hit from the cyber attack from hackers that compromised over 100 million user account information but the effect on sales has been minimal.

Total digital music sales in the UK have hit £1 billion barrier for the first time since the launch of legal online music service in 2004.

NDP Group report states that Sony Computer Entertainment America recorded a 13 percent increase in hardware sales for the month of April.

The Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) outage has angered and frustrated Sony fans into rushing to retail stores and trading in their PlayStation3 (PS3) consoles for rival Microsoft Xbox 360 systems. Reports from retail stores indicated that more customers have been trading in their entire PlayStation3 set including both console and games for the Xbox 360, mostly for Call of Duty online gamers.

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