To be more precise, this doesn’t seem so much as a venerable company “reintroduc[ing] itself” as predatory grifters wearing the identity of a company with residual goodwill and nostalgic value as a skin-suit to lend legitimacy to the scams they’re peddling.
The big question is: will they still honour my battery card? I still have two holes un-punched.
At first glance, what would be more noteworthy about the scams or at least pseudo-scams is that they are sufficiently profitable to outbid Chinese companies looking to trade off the goodwill of the former entity. You could do a good estimate of the value of buying the name to a Chinese electronics company. I would assume many tens of millions.
But, the website indicates they may be doing both the crypto and selling Chinese stuff. And it appears to be run by a company that specializes in buying trademarks out of bankruptcy.:
https://www.radioshack.com/blogs/blog/waiting-for-the-crypto-comeback
Here’s the newest trademark application:Trademark Status & Document Retrieval
Here are the oldest active registrations (there being many active intervening):
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73370621&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73789995&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73018501&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73101699&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
What should they say: “Greetings, carbon-based lifeforms”? But then I suppose Siri and Alexa would complain.
How do you spell ‘independence’? Turns out 1 in 3 Americans have no idea!
Publishes poll about how Americans can’t spell.
Can’t spell “its”.
When I took the bar, one of the bar review instructors addressed a topic on which there was some disagreement. He said something like: “If on any question more than half the applicants give the what the test writers regarded as the “wrong” answer, it becomes the right answer. I am teaching this subject to about two thirds of the people taking the bar. So if you get a question asking about this just give the answer I told you.”
The world is starting to operate that way. Most of the time iOS’s speech-to-text incorrectly adds the apostrophe. Perhaps it is AI-driven…
I was taught if you would otherwise say, “It is,” you put in the apostrophe; otherwise it is left out. In the above example, “it is” does not fit the sentence.
That ought to drop the price as the market floods.
That’s not a case against democracy. It’s a case against the Gen Zers.
Yet another reason why I don’t fear AI and why Klaus Schwab will be crying in his corn flakes when his forth industrial revolution is put on hold due to a software update.
I’m using my wildcard to post this tame headline for a crazy story.