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  • Now an app that helps you confess your sins

    A Roman Catholic prelate has developed a smart-phone application that will help let his parishioners know when and where he is available to listen to their sins. Rev. Richard Heilman's My Confessor App allows faithful to keep up digitally with when their local priest is hearing confession, the New York Daily News reported. Heilman said that he wanted people to not feel uncomfortable asking ...

  • UPDATE 1-Third Point raises Sony stake presses for entertainment spin-off

    Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:04pm EDT TOKYO, June 18 (Reuters) - New York-based hedge fund company Third Point said it had raised its stake in Japan's Sony Corp and asked for an opportunity to present its proposal to Sony's board for a partial spin-off of the company's entertainment unit. The move comes after Third Point, a $13 billion hedge fund founded by billionaire investor Daniel Loeb, ...

  • Obama NSA spying doesnt mean abandoning freedom

    In an interview with Charlie Rose, the president maintains that the top-secret NSA spying programs were within the bounds of the law and were intended to protect U.S. ...

  • Sprint sues Dish Clearwire to prevent $6B takeover bid

    Sprint Nextel has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network and Clearwire seeking to prevent Dish's takeover of the wireless broadband provider. The No. 3 wireless carrier filed a lawsuit Monday against the two companies in Delaware Court of Chancery, alleging that Dish's tender offer violates the rights of Sprint and Clearwire's shareholders and the laws of the state of Delaware. ...

  • Netflix Cuts Original Programming Deal With Dreamworks

    LOS GATOS (CBS / AP) — Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company described as its biggest transaction ever for original first-run content. Though financial details were not disclosed, Netflix Inc. said the agreement includes more than 300 hours of new TV episodes in a multi-year deal. Analysts estimated the contract ...


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The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito)

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito)

I usually work very hard to avoid repeating myself when writing about certain auteurs whose films have so much in common stylistically, thematically, or otherwise, that it is virtually impossible not to do exactly that. But, sometimes you just have to give in, which is why I would ... ...

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  • UPDATE 1-Sprint sues Dish Clearwire to block tender offer

    * SoftBank, Dish seek to buy Sprint * Sprint, Dish seek control of Clearwire * Lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court, Sprint says June 17 (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp on Monday said it has sued Dish Network Corp to block its tender offer ...

  • Sprint files lawsuit against Dish and Clearwire

    (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network Corp and Clearwire Corp to prevent the completion of Dish's offer for Clearwire's shares.The lawsuit details how Dish has "repeatedly attempted to fool Clearwire's shareholders into believing its proposal was actionable in an effort to acquire Clearwire's spectrum and to obstruct Sprint's ...

  • Ex-HTC execs cant quit phone game create startup Kazam

    Two former HTC executives are hoping for a fresh start with their own company. Michael Coombes, former head of sales at HTC, and James Atkins, former U.K. marketing head for the company, said on Monday that they are launching smartphone manufacturer Kazam. The two executives are promising smartphones that are about "stunning design, robust hardware, and intuitive technology, underpinned ...

  • Apples Eddy Cue Steve Jobs was confused in his e-mails

    (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) NEW YORK -- An e-mail from late Apple CEO Steve Jobs about e-book deal terms is no smoking gun, just a confused draft of a message, a high-level Apple executive said Monday during the e-books antitrust trial. Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of software and services, testified that he never received an email from Jobs that said publishers would have to ...

  • School iris-scanned students without telling parents

    A Florida school admits that it made several mistakes when it allowed a security company to install iris scanners without telling parents -- and without even having a contract with the ...

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