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  • Video game maker Atari seeks court approval for sale of assets

    (Reuters) - Video game maker Atari Inc is seeking court approval for the sale of all its assets as it works its way out of bankruptcy protection.The company said on Tuesday it tried looking for a buyer with the help of its investment banker Perella Weinberg Partners, but was unable to find a "stalking horse," or initial bidder, acceptable to it.Atari has set a minimum bid of $15 ...

  • Vodafone confirms no 4G until September as it waits for the iPhone 6

    Vodafone will not launch its 4G services until "late summer", but will not comment on whether that's down to an Apple iPhone release. Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao said that the firm won't rush to follow EE's lead, but instead will pursue a wait and see approach. This has prompted speculation that the firm is waiting until Apple releases an iPhone 6 or an iOS update that ...

  • HGST launches a 1.5TB hard drive for notebooks

    HGST has launched what it claims is the highest capacity hard disk drive (HDD) for notebooks, touted as the industry's first 9.5mm 2.5in HDD with 1.5TB capacity. Sounding like a budget airline flight you'd take on your holidays to Benidorm, HGST has named its new drive the "Travelstar 5K1500". The firm, which is part of Western Digital, said the HDD is notable for its ...

  • IBM gives customer service representatives access to Watson

    IBM has put its Watson technology to use by offering it as a service for call centres to provide additional insight to customer service representatives. IBM's Watson artificial learning technology hit the headlines after ...

  • Skys Acetrax movies website is shutting down

    Acetrax is closing its doors and advising users to back up any content that they might have paid for through it. The service is a Sky product and compares to Tesco's Blinkbox and Sky's own but newer Now ...


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The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element) [DVD]

The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element) [DVD]

Since his embrace of grainy, hand-held camerawork in 1996's "Breaking the Waves," Danish director Lars von Trier has gravitated more and toward a minimalist aesthetic. His 1998 film, "The Idiots" ("Idioterne"), was made under the strict tenets of the Dogme 95 collective, and his most recent, Palm D'Or-winning "Dancer in the Dark," while discarding some minimalism, still used digital video. Th ... ...

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  • Clearwire board approves higher Sprint offer

    Clearwire wants to accept a richer buyout offer made by Sprint this week and is recommending that shareholders vote in favor of it.Sprint upped its bid by 14 percent to $2.5 billion Tuesday for the wireless data network operator.Some shareholders have opposed the deal, including Crest Financial, which spurned the latest bid as well.Sprint Nextel Corp. is offering $3.40 per share for the half of ...

  • Thumbs down Why teenagers are leaving Facebook for Twitter

    James Vincent - 22 May 2013 A NEW report from the Pew Research Centre in America has shown that teenagers "have waning enthusiasm" ...

  • Gadgetwise Blog A Fitting Screen Protector for the iPhone 5

    While clear film phone screen protectors can be a good idea, applying them requires a lot of patience and some skill. Otherwise you end up with a bubble-filled membrane that is hard to type on and see ...

  • Asus launches worlds first dual-OS PC at Rs 87000

    AiO comes with a detachable display that can also be used as a standalone tablet around the home, the company said. "With the introduction of new product, we are creating a new segment or in other words all-in-one product. Our efforts are to grow this new segment by coming out with innovative products and which gel with the consumers' demand," ASUS (India) Country Head (Component ...

  • Tim Cooks testimony on Apples taxes The reviews are in

    AAPL ) taxes turned up two kinds of stories. Headlines reporting on the fact of the hearing tended to use metaphors of violence ("rip," "lambaste," "clash," "spar," "fend off") or of high-temperature torture ("grilled," "hot seat"). But the journalists who reported on the atmospherics -- and, dare I say, the substance -- of ...

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