This page will contain additional articles about circuit city, as they become available.Circuit CityCircuit City (NYSE: CC) is the 2nd largest electronics retailer in the United States. Based in Richmond, Virginia, its over 600 stores located throughout the country have departments like Audio and Video, Camcorders and Photo, Home and Office, Music and Movies, and Toys and Games. The chain of stores also has services such as Express In-Store Pickup (24-24 Pick-up Guarantee), and Price Match Plus Guarantee. On February 11, 2005, a hedge fund headquartered in Boston, Highfields Capital, offered to takeover Circuit City for $17 a share, arguing that existing management had failed to maximize shareholder value. On March 7, Circuit City's board rejected this offer, but doubled its own share buy back program. Circuit City owns The Source by Circuit City (formerly Radio Shack) chain in Canada. Circuit City started and owned the CarMax Group as a wholly owned subsidiary until fall 2002, when CarMax, Inc. was spun off as a separate corporation. DiversityCircuit City scored a 29% on the 2004 Corporate Equality Index by the Human Rights Campaign. Circuit City-Owned Brand Names
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TriviaSometime in the late 1970's, when the company that was to become Circuit City was seeking a new name for its stores, a marketing firm was hired to find suitable names. One of the firm's principals mentioned this to his nephew, a Pennsylvania electrical engineer, who quickly thought of the name Circuit City. The engineer signed a release form and was paid $50 for his suggestion. This page about circuit city includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about circuit city News stories about circuit city External links for circuit city Videos for circuit city Wikis about circuit city Discussion Groups about circuit city Blogs about circuit city Images of circuit city |
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The engineer signed a release form and was paid $50 for his suggestion. This is the core that all Mozilla-based browsers and applications are built from. One of the firm's principals mentioned this to his nephew, a Pennsylvania electrical engineer, who quickly thought of the name Circuit City. It consists most notably of the Gecko layout engine, but also the XUL user-interface toolkit, the Necko networking library, and other components. Sometime in the late 1970's, when the company that was to become Circuit City was seeking a new name for its stores, a marketing firm was hired to find suitable names. The term "Mozilla" is also used to refer to the Mozilla application framework, a cross-platform application framework for writing applications that can run on multiple operating systems. Circuit City scored a 29% on the 2004 Corporate Equality Index by the Human Rights Campaign. In some older Internet statistics programs, the term "Netscape 5.x" is incorrectly used to refer to these browsers because the user agent string starts with Mozilla/5.0. . For example, when it is said that a website is usable by Mozilla browsers, it means that it is usable by Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Camino, Netscape 6, etc. was spun off as a separate corporation. For simplicity, the word Mozilla is often used to refer to all Mozilla-based browsers. Circuit City started and owned the CarMax Group as a wholly owned subsidiary until fall 2002, when CarMax, Inc. The suite will be unofficially superseded by SeaMonkey, an Internet suite developed by the Mozilla community that is based on the source code of the Mozilla Suite. Circuit City owns The Source by Circuit City (formerly Radio Shack) chain in Canada. Mozilla Foundation will no longer release new versions of the suite, so that developers can focus on Firefox and Thunderbird. On March 7, Circuit City's board rejected this offer, but doubled its own share buy back program. The last official series of the suite is 1.7.x. On February 11, 2005, a hedge fund headquartered in Boston, Highfields Capital, offered to takeover Circuit City for $17 a share, arguing that existing management had failed to maximize shareholder value. To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is often marketed as "Mozilla Suite", or the more lengthy "Mozilla Application Suite". The chain of stores also has services such as Express In-Store Pickup (24-24 Pick-up Guarantee), and Price Match Plus Guarantee. The suite was well known as the open source base of the Netscape suite (versions 6 and 7), and its underlying code base (most notably the Gecko layout engine) became the base of many standalone applications, including the Mozilla Foundation's flagship products Firefox and Thunderbird. Based in Richmond, Virginia, its over 600 stores located throughout the country have departments like Audio and Video, Camcorders and Photo, Home and Office, Music and Movies, and Toys and Games. After a series of lengthy pre-1.0 cycles, Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5, 2002. Circuit City (NYSE: CC) is the 2nd largest electronics retailer in the United States. The name of the application developed from this was named as Mozilla, as it was used as the codename of the original Netscape Navigator. "Circuit City makes it Simple" (2005 Holiday Season). In March 1998, Netscape released most of the code base for its popular Netscape Communicator internet suite under an open source license. "Just What I Needed." (2004-Present). It will also oversee marketing and sponsorships of the products. "We're with You." (2001-2004). On August 3, 2005, Mozilla Foundation announced the creation of Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned taxable subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation, that will focus on delivering Firefox and Thunderbird to end users. "Imagine That." (2001). The foundation now creates and maintains the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application, among other products. "Price, Selection, and Service.". On July 15, 2003, the organization was formally registered as a not-for-profit organization, and became Mozilla Foundation. "Where Service is State of the Art." (1949-1992?). The Mozilla Organization was founded in 1998 to create the new suite. Verge. "Mozilla" is sometimes used to refer to the free software / open source software project that was founded in order to create the next-generation internet suite for Netscape. NexxTech. This format of user agent string has since been copied by other user agents, and persists today even though Explorer has come to dominate the browser market. Liquid Video. The earliest example of this is Internet Explorer's use of a user agent string beginning "Mozilla/<version> (compatible; MSIE <version>...", in order to receive content intended for Netscape, its main rival at the time of its development. ESA. Thus, competing browsers began to emulate (cloak or "spoof") this string in order to also work with those sites. Centrios. Because the Netscape browser initially implemented many features not available in other browsers and quickly came to dominate the market, a number of web sites were designed to only work, or work fully, when they detected an appropriate version of Mozilla in the user agent string. The Netscape web browser identified itself as "Mozilla/<version>" followed by some information about the operating system it was running on. It is known as "user agent string". When users visit a website (via a user agent like web browser), a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server. An image of Mozilla was placed on every page of the site, which remains the case today, despite Netscape's disbanding after its acquisition by AOL. When Netscape acquired the website directory NewHoo in 1998, they rebranded it the Open Directory Project with the nickname "dmoz" (Directory of Mozilla) due to its similarility to the Mozilla project. Mozilla continued to be used inside Netscape, though, often featured on T-shirts given to staff or on artwork adorning the walls of the Netscape campus in Mountain View. However, the need to project a more 'professional' image (especially towards corporate clients) led to it being removed. Mozilla featured prominently on Netscape's website in the company's early years. It was designed by Dave Titus in 1994. It takes the form of a cute green and purple cartoon lizard. Initially, the mascot took various forms, including that of a helmeted astronaut or "spaceman", but the eventual choice of a Godzilla-like lizard was no doubt thought to go well with the Godzilla-like name. It had a close relationship with the Mozilla codename. Mozilla was the mascot of the now disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation. It was a contraction of Mosaic killer, referring to the hope that the project would unseat Mosaic as the web's most popular browser, and a reference to the name of the fictional monster Godzilla. Mozilla is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation and historically had been used internally as a codename for the Netscape Navigator web browser from its beginning. . The various uses of Mozilla (all of which can be referred to by using just the term "Mozilla") are listed below in the order when they were first used:. Mozilla is a computer term that has had many different uses, though all of them have been related to Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software. |