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Tesco's blinkbox starts carrying Disney movies

(AP) -- British online movie service blinkbox will start carrying Disney movies, many of them for rent on the same day they are released for sale.

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whither Redbox? Hollywood studios are conflicted

(AP) -- Hollywood studios are split over Redbox, the $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk company: They could supply it with cheap wholesale discs and ride its massive growth, or starve it in the hopes of preserving ...

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created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2




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Hazy days: Berkeley lab tackles pollution in Mongolia

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are known for designing high-efficiency cookstoves for Darfur and Ethiopia. Now they are applying their expertise to the windswept ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Clean energy becomes a selling point

As somewhat bewildered Apple shoppers in San Francisco, New York and Toronto learned firsthand this month, Greenpeace has a new enemy: dirty data. To attract attention to its report, "How Clean Is My Cloud?" - which draws ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Beijing to get rid of 1,200 polluting enterprises

Authorities in Beijing said Wednesday they plan to get rid of 1,200 high-polluting enterprises by 2015 to improve air quality in the Chinese capital, one of the world's most polluted cities.

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

San Franciscans bring startup approach to homeless

(AP) -- On the foggy streets of San Francisco, tech superstars and the homeless can be hard to tell apart in their identical hoodies. But there's a key difference: smartphones and cash in some pockets, neither ...

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 10

1Q US home video spending up 2.5 percent

(AP) -- American spending on home videos rose 2.5 percent to $4.45 billion in the first quarter as the increasing popularity of subscription streaming plans and Blu-ray discs made up for falling DVD sales.

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created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Netflix's 1Q tops forecasts, stock still plummets (Update)

(AP) -- Netflix's comeback from a customer backlash accelerated during the first quarter, but the recovery wasn't impressive enough to ease more pressing concerns about the Internet video subscription service's ...

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created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UW introduces 'intelligent' kiosks for composting, recycling, garbage

Solar-powered. Wireless. Data-driven. You might not think of these terms when describing waste collection, but this traditionally low-tech field is about to become less dirty and more digital thanks to a new ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smithsonian welcomes Discovery to space collection

(AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery is preparing to move into its new home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex in northern Virginia.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flood of streaming-video options could confound TV watchers

Streaming video is about to hit its tipping point. Competing online video services have become so successful that about one-third of Americans have streamed a movie or TV show on Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Crackle or another Net-based ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HP has open-source vision for 'orphan' webOS

The future of webOS - the innovative mobile software that three successive CEOs at Hewlett-Packard have struggled to make into a profitable product - may lie somewhere in the windowless rooms of a Stanford Medical School ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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