Maplin Drops Copying Devices
News Maplin Electronics, a retailer with 80 shops across the UK, has moved to discontinue the sale of three devices capable of circumventing Macrovision copy protection technology, the company said last week.
[February 9, 2004, 13:05]
Accelerated Decrepitude
Blog You know that something's gone wrong when you walk down Tottenham Court Road to pick up something ubernerdy from Maplin and end up blowing the budget in Muji instead. In my defence: Maplin didn't have the USB experimenter's kit I wanted, and the...
[November 25, 2007, 18:06]
Business Broadband Demos Hit The High Street
News BTopenworld has teamed up with electrical retailer Maplin to give small firms a taste of what broadband can do for them. The Internet service provider announced on Thursday that eleven Maplin stores across the UK have started offering broadband...
[October 10, 2002, 11:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 9/02/2004It's been great watching Maplin grow from a mail-order supplier of nerdy electronic bits to a nationwide chain of nerdy electronic bits and cheap gadgets, even if its shop assistants continue to delight and enthral with their...
[February 13, 2004, 16:50]
Apple Mac Mini: A First Look
Talkback You can get a PS/2 to USB Active Adaptor (basically you plug your PS/2 keyboard and your PS/2 mouse into the adapter, which you plug into only one of the USB ports) for £19.99 at Maplin.
[January 14, 2005, 10:08]
Maple To Go Retail Through Maplins Tie-in
News Maplin has about 45 stores in the UK including superstores trading under the Mondo name. However, the retail outlets won't carry stock; instead, users will be able to try out systems before buying and having the units delivered within a few days.
[January 8, 1998, 16:51]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Maplin sell them for £10 but even that seems excessive given that you can pick them up on eBay for less than a fiver. My personal worst example of this was from PC World, who wanted to charge me £15 for a VGA-DVI adaptor.
[December 6, 2007, 12:19]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Does that mean the Maplin set are somehow on a higher moral plain? So there have been a couple of comments on this blog entry - that have taken the supercilious “why didn’t you read the box” stance. Well, I didn’t and quite frankly I shouldn’t have...
[January 29, 2008, 9:19]
