Homeplus, the nation’s second largest discount chain, announced yesterday that it will open what it calls a “fourth generation retail store,” Homeplus Smart Virtual Store, at Seolleung subway station in southern Seoul today. It says it’s the first of its kind in the world. At a press conference yesterday before the official launch, Homeplus CEO [...]
Sometimes life really does imitate art. In the battle to compete with Apple’s iPad, Samsung has channeled the spirit of Stanley Kubrick, the director of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Apple, with its iPad, and Samsung, with its Galaxy tablet, have tangled in court in no fewer than nine countries, with Apple arguing that Samsung has [...]
(Newser) – PCs are losing their place at the forefront of personal computing, says a designer of the first IBM PC. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of that computer, the 5150, Mark Dean writes in a blog post that PCs are “going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records, CRT and incandescent light [...]
The hacker group known as Anonymous reportedly has a new target: Facebook. This announcement comes in the form of a YouTube video titled “Message from Anonymous: Operation Facebook, Nov 5 2011″ uploaded to the site on July 16th under the username “FacebookOps.” As of this writing, the user has no other videos under its account. [...]
New Yorkers often say that nothing surprises them. But we’re willing to bet that even the most hardened city dwellers were downright amazed by this impromptu performance by an MTA construction worker who’s a dead ringer for Frank Sinatra — all the way down to his crinkled blue eyes. “Forget all the noise, traffic and [...]