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iPhone Owners Spend More Money -- and Not Just on Apple Hardware

Mac users may be more individualistic than PC owners, but new data suggests users of another Apple gizmo--the iPhone--are, on average, much freer with their online spending than their peers. It must be an individualism thing.READ»

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Inside James Cameron's Head: Avatar, F-Bombs, and Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron, a biography of the director by former Time magazine Hollywood correspondent Rebecca Keegan, starts with the director's ancestors in Scotland and takes readers through ...READ»

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Inside the Vamp-artment of Twilight's Edward Cullen, Buy It for $3.3M!

Must every facet of Twilight's sparkly-skinned lead vampire Edward be irresistible? He may be a blood chugger, but his interior design sense doesn't suck. The character's (played by Robert Pattinson) digs are featured prominently in ...READ»

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Are Dystopian Movies More Popular When the Economy Blows? Nope

With the launch of disaster/apocalypse movie 2012 last weekend, a new question has popped up on the Net: Are dystopian movies more popular when the world is already gloomy from an economic depression? You'd think perhaps yes, wouldn't ...READ»

7-Eleven House Wine Taste Test: My Mom Takes a Spin Down Yosemite Road
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7-Eleven House Wine Taste Test: My Mom Takes a Spin Down Yosemite Road

I don't know about the chardonnay, but if Yosemite Road Cabernet, 7-Eleven's house brand, were a song, it'd be "Red, Red Wine." Not Neil Diamond's original. Or even Tony Tribe's excellent rocksteady version. It'd be the UB40 cover, ...READ»

BlueBeat’s Hank Risan: That’s Not the Beatles, It’s a ‘Virtual Cover Band’
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BlueBeat's Hank Risan: That's Not the Beatles, It's a "Virtual Cover Band"

If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it's an understandable error. The music sounded identical to songs by those artists. ...READ»

'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Specultion, Writes Cisco into Last Night's Episode

'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Speculation, Writes Cisco Into Last Night's Episode

Cisco got one hell of a pitch man in Jack Donaghy. Last night's 30 Rock wasn't just notable for the its usual cavalcade of shenanigans, or even the NBC in-house fun-poking (Brian Williams as a stand-up comic? Jack saying something ...READ»

Beatles Label EMI Slap former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner with Federal Lawsuit
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Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

For $30, the blue Weezer Snuggie--$50 for the "Snuggie Safari"--comes with a copy of the band's new album, "Raditude."READ»

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Best Buy Planning for DVD-Death With Movie Download Service From Sonic

Best Buy and Roxio CinemaNow announced a partnership today that will result in a whole new movie downloading service. It'll apparently be integrated into pretty much every Web-enabled device Best Buy sells too, which is a good way of ...READ»

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