{"id":897,"date":"2006-08-14T19:59:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T00:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/14\/circuit-citys-iqcrew-name-change\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T01:00:06","slug":"circuit-citys-iqcrew-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/14\/circuit-citys-iqcrew-name-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuit City&#8217;s PC Services Department Gets Official Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/firedogtech.jpg\" alt=\"FireDog Technology Solutions\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Circuit City employees who attended a company meeting in Las Vegas, this is the new name for the company&#39;s in-home and on-site PC services department.<\/p>\n<p>Although most of the public knew the company&#39;s PC service department as the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/iqcrew.com\/\" title=\"IQ Crew Home\">IQ Crew<\/a> &quot;, this was only a test name used in a limited market.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to employees, the name did poorly in numerous focus groups and marketing studies held by Circuit City.&nbsp; For most of the year, the PC services at your local store have simply been known as &quot;PC Services&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The Firedog name comes originally from Oklahoma company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firedogtech.com\/about.asp\">Firedog Technology Solutions<\/a> , which mentions that &quot;[t]he name we have used for more than 7 years was such a great name, that someone wanted to buy it.&quot;&nbsp; They&#39;ve now changed their company name to 3Nines Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Circuit City employees who attended a company meeting in Las Vegas, this is the new name for the company&#39;s in-home and on-site PC services department. Although most of the public knew the company&#39;s PC service department as the &quot;IQ Crew &quot;, this was only a test name used in a limited market.&nbsp; According &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/14\/circuit-citys-iqcrew-name-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Circuit City&#8217;s PC Services Department Gets Official Name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}