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The first Intel Experience Store will open its door to customers in New York's Nolita neighborhood on November 23. November 14, 2013 9:50 AM PST Intel is getting into the retail game right before the height of holiday shopping season. The company announced on Wednesday that it will open its first pop-up retail store in the Nolita neighborhood of New York on November 23. The store will house Intel-based products, allowing customers to check out devices and order them online from within the store. Intel also said it will let the community test drive certain products at home. Related stories Want to see Aereo survive? This senate bill does too Intel reportedly in talks to sell Web TV service to Liberty Global Intel stuffs its backpack with high-tech textbooks in Kno deal Dubbed the Intel Experience Store, the outlet will also offer customers some extra perks like free coffee, speakers from the neighborhood, and movie viewing every Friday. The pop-up store is the first of its kind from Intel. Two other Experience stores are slated for Chicago and Los Angeles. Intel's New York store opens its doors at 10 a.m. on November 23.

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The first Intel Experience Store will open its door to customers in New York's Nolita neighborhood on November 23.


Don Reisinger
November 14, 2013 9:50 AM PST



Intel is getting into the retail game right before the height of holiday shopping season.


The company announced on Wednesday that it will open its first pop-up retail store in the Nolita neighborhood of New York on November 23. The store will house Intel-based products, allowing customers to check out devices and order them online from within the store. Intel also said it will let the community test drive certain products at home.



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Dubbed the Intel Experience Store, the outlet will also offer customers some extra perks like free coffee, speakers from the neighborhood, and movie viewing every Friday.


The pop-up store is the first of its kind from Intel. Two other Experience stores are slated for Chicago and Los Angeles.


Intel's New York store opens its doors at 10 a.m. on November 23.



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  • ▼  2013 (548)
    • ▼  November (500)
      • A Korean publication says the next generation Gala...
      • Unexplained technical issues caused the rocket lau...
      • The tech giant and its court-appointed antitrust m...
      • Just in time for Black Friday, the low-cost siblin...
      • The e-commerce giant doesn't seem too worried abou...
      • Noticed an especially full photo feed on Thanksgiv...
      • The Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and Nexus 5 can be forc...
      • For just one week, Google is offering shoppers cre...
      • The Southeast Asian nation is serving up harsh pen...
      • The sun-grazing comet spent Thanksgiving visiting ...
      • Black Friday offers now abound across the world. E...
      • In an unusual twist that goes against its traditio...
      • In an unusual twist that goes against its traditio...
      • Somehow, the early beginning to Black Friday shopp...
      • For online shopping, smartphones are good for brow...
      • Dive into four new books that use Legos to depict ...
      • The chip giant has been working on "perceptual com...
      • A Google Glass developer with a clear vision of wh...
      • Four new books showcase some of the most important...
      • James Howells' digital currency worth hardly nothi...
      • Looking for the ultimate Black Friday deal? Pump u...
      • The deals are coming in hot and heavy, so check ba...
      • Web giant's practice of combining user data from i...
      • A Ukrainian startup launches an online service tha...
      • Judge Lucy Koh finds that plaintiffs failed to pro...
      • Another enchanting doodle from the Google factory ...
      • Towering over the Forth and Clyde canal, The Kelpi...
      • The tech giant doesn't object to the variant of th...
      • A Ukrainian startup launches an online service tha...
      • The Spanish company's new Firefox OS phone will in...
      • Indulge your inner Hobbit with the "Journey throug...
      • Google doesn't object to the variant of the open-s...
      • YouTube looks set to introduce an ad-free subscrip...
      • New reports suggest Ford's Alan Mulally and Micros...
      • What better appetizer for your Thanksgiving feast ...
      • New reports suggest Ford's Alan Mulally and Micros...
      • Why is CNET's Roger Cheng so grateful for Samsung'...
      • One of the major holiday challenges is what to giv...
      • With a shortened shopping season, many big-box ret...
      • Next spring, Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the lege...
      • The biggest shopping day of the year is gearing up...
      • Three hand-picked Android apps can help you scope ...
      • With a shortened shopping season, many big box ret...
      • One of the major holiday challenges is what to giv...
      • The 16-foot-long model is powered by four small tu...
      • Budweiser UK launches a publicity campaign around ...
      • A Seattle restaurant, the latest to ban Google Gla...
      • Spectators won't believe their eyes when you make ...
      • Many hard drives come preformatted with special ut...
      • NASA releases a short movie showing comet ISON's a...
      • Discarded holiday wrapping paper can get pretty in...
      • We took a MINI to the Col de Turini to recreate Pa...
      • An ESPN survey suggests that while women do more s...
      • The increasingly popular currency was worth about ...
      • A UK study sees a first-ever drop in sexual activi...
      • The company has created a patent-pending technolog...
      • The number of affected customers was exceedingly s...
      • Koss' budget-friendly on-ear headphone doesn't loo...
      • Batch-made plastic eyes could be much cheaper than...
      • Apple is reportedly interested in improving its ma...
      • The flash memory technology is inexpensive and ubi...
      • Several retailers have published deals exclusively...
      • The update to Nokia's popular budget smartphone ma...
      • Apple increased its orders of iPad Minis in Novemb...
      • Tablets, tablets, and more tablets, as stores slas...
      • Batch-made plastic eyes could be much cheaper than...
      • The targets' appetite for sexually explicit materi...
      • Apple has reportedly ramped up iPad Mini supply to...
      • Nokia says it's the "right tablet," touting the it...
      • An update to Nokia's popular budget smartphone mak...
      • Two new browsers have followed Firefox with suppor...
      • Muslim radicals' appetite for sexual explicit mate...
      • If Microsoft's outgoing chief executive had listen...
      • Edward Snowden's NSA leaks have caused Google, Yah...
      • Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman believes tablet-la...
      • Black versions of the Android compatible smartwatc...
      • This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy sp...
      • So what are the real deals this Black Friday? Chec...
      • Apple's tablet is, according to Microsoft, no good...
      • In-ear vs. on-ear, circumaural vs. supraaural, ope...
      • On Tuesday Google announced a new extension for Ch...
      • The NSA may have employed an old-school spy techni...
      • Fly the friendly skies with a hot-rod paper airpla...
      • The company's new C720P Chromebook, due out next m...
      • Xbox One is the loneliest number if you're trying ...
      • On today's show, we'll tell you about the battle b...
      • New Zealand design engineer Olaf Diegel has 3D-pri...
      • If you read the fine print on the Xbox One, nearly...
      • The new caching of preference settings in OS X Mav...
      • Whether you're running the kitchen on the big day ...
      • Keep your sanity in the kitchen this holiday seaso...
      • The Redmond, Wash., company's latest anti-Google a...
      • When you want to communicate a subtle sense of dre...
      • The platform is rolling out on Tuesday to those ru...
      • Boomf lets your feast on your artfully filtered In...
      • November 26, 2013 8:42 AM PST LG's Splendor is on...
      • The platform is rolling out on Tuesday to those ru...
      • San Antonio's BiblioTech, believed to be the first...
      • A leak on Twitter reveals what appears to be the t...
      • Lower prices are the main catalyst for the surge i...
      • Amazon is all decked out sell you discounted Teena...
      • The new YouTube comment system opened the door to ...
      • Which component in the new console costs the most?...
      • Developers can now purchase a Google Glass to get ...
      • CNET talks to Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside about h...
      • Not everybody likes Google's JavaScript competitor...
      • The company will offer discounted rates on some of...
      • Biel Crystal Manufactory -- which counts Apple, Sa...
      • Apple and Samsung will lead the charge but may fac...
      • When the open-source hardware makers at Adafruit b...
      • Cars are getting smarter, but they're also getting...
      • Korean electronics giant sought halt to proceeding...
      • Market researcher Forrester estimates that an all-...
      • China's official state news agency reports that th...
      • Apple partners with GN ReSound to create LiNX -- a...
      • Microsoft is responding to the "very small" subset...
      • Apple's Spotlight search offers some quick navigat...
      • The Anova Sous Vide Immersion Circulator is an eas...
      • In a new ad for the Nokia Lumia 2520, a man wonder...
      • 23andMe continues to sell its genetic sequencing t...
      • Chip giant planned a subscription service to deliv...
      • Word has it that the Chinese smartphone maker is p...
      • A team at the National University of Singapore has...
      • The TV anchor's move to Yahoo is part of a larger ...
      • The newcomer MVNO adds its most advanced phone yet...
      • As we move into Black Friday week, let us all keep...
      • UrtheCast is poised to offer free, near-real-time ...
      • A Microsoft official confirms the company is plann...
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