Новости за 18.08.2011

Rest in peace, HP TouchPad. You had a short, miserable life. Some consumers liked you, but it wasn't enough -- so HP is giving up, granting you a swift death. The company announced Thursday it will discontinue its WebOS operations including the TouchPad and webOS phones -- and that means you, TouchPad. You came into the world with such promise, as the company held you before the tech world as the second coming: the answer to Apple's tablet. But you had just one great big problem: You weren't an Apple iPad. Читать дальше...

Mike Jeffries, Abercrombie's chairman and chief executive, said Wednesday the company was "having a lot of fun" with the proposed payoff, which analysts and MTV characterized as a publicity stunt -- even if a pretty good one for a slow day in August. In a news release with the title "Abercrombie & Fitch Proposes a Win-Win Situation," the company said Tuesday that it had become concerned after noticing that a cast member, Mike Sorrentino, known as "the Situation," had taken to wearing its clothes. Читать дальше...