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  • iPhone 5 repairs arent cheap -- its the replacement parts

    (Credit: Bill Detwiler/CNET) It's happened to a lot of people -- their iPhone drops from their hands, falls off their lap, plunks into a toilet, or gets knocked off a table. Showing off a cracked iPhone screen is sometimes almost a point of pride. I have one friend who lovingly calls his damaged phone "The Hurt Locker," referring to the 2008 movie about a bomb disposal team ...

  • Jon Stewart accuses the Senate of all being Apple fanboys

    The "Daily Show" simply had to have an opinion on Tim Cook's appearance in front of the supposedly stern senators. His opinion of both the Senate and Apple wasn't exactly ...

  • DealBook Some in Congress Grow More Wary of Selling Sprint to SoftBank of Japan

    Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, Mr. Schumer, Democrat of New York, urged the two to carefully consider the SoftBank deal in the wake of widespread attacks by Chinese hackers. "The protection of our critical infrastructure is a topic of intense legislative scrutiny," the Democratic senator from New York wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by a reporter for the The ...

  • Judge evidence shows Apple colluded to fix e-book prices

    In a pretrial hearing for the antitrust lawsuit, the judge says she thinks the Justice Department will be able to show direct evidence that Apple "facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of ...

  • Oil Prices Slip on China Data Fed Concerns

    U.S. crude futures dropped to around $94 a barrel on Friday after disappointing China data and on lingering concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve would curb its stimulus program. ...

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The Day of the Locust [DVD]

The Day of the Locust [DVD]

The 1970s was a period of great artistic freedom in Hollywood, when the major studios, in dire financial straits after a string of big-budget flops in the late 1960s, turned over the reins to young auteurs and foreign directors. For the first time in Hollywoods history, major films were being produced by filmmakers who were not craftsmen who had worked their way up through the industry ala John F ... ...

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  • Google mapping Waze takeover says report

    Google is considering a bid for the mobile mapping and navigation company, Bloomberg reports. Could this be a play to keep Facebook out of its ...

  • Google like Facebook in talks to buy Waze for about $1 billion report

    (Reuters) - Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the ...

  • Six eye-catching things from CTIA 2013

    (Credit: CNET/Marguerite Reardon) LAS VEGAS -- When it comes to emerging tech, crazy accessories, and carrier news, you can always count on a mobile conference to deliver. CTIA 2013 was a much quieter show than in years past, with the biggest carriers and manufacturers largely opting out to focus on their own launch events. While this confab felt the brunt of companies' shifting ...

  • ATT adds 61-cent mobility fee to wireless bills

    AT&T's new "Mobility Administrative Fee" is raising wireless bills by 61 cents a month -- a move that could reportedly raise half a billion dollars for the ...

  • Hulu buyout heats up with four reported bidders

    (Credit: Hulu) Those companies looking to get a piece of the Hulu pie had until this week to put in their first round of bids for the video streaming service. And, it appears that so far four companies have gone in for a slice. Former News Corp president Peter Chernin, private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media (which is headed the former interim Yahoo CEO by Ross Levinsohn), satellite ...

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