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Redbox To Acquire NCR's Blockbuster Express For $100 Million, Boast "More Locations Than McDonald's And Starbucks Combined"

Coinstar, the company behind DVD-kiosk service Redbox, today announced it would acquire NCR's entertainment business for as much as $100 million. NCR, once the central rival to Redbox through its Blockbuster Express brand, operates thousands of movie-rental kiosks which will now come under Redbox and Coinstar's control.READ»

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The ATMs of the Future

The boxy frame, the greasy touch screens, the seemingly endless series of bleeps and bloops required to produce your cash -- there's not much to love about the modern ATM. Sure, it's better than the original, which dispensed only money, and only to people with accounts at its host bank. But ATM makers have sought to improve their product, in part because U.S. usage fell 20% in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, to 11.8 billion transactions.READ»

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The Check-out of the Future: Fewer Humans, More Phones [video]

National Cash Register is one of those grand old American companies that, come the digital revolution, might have gone the way of the rotary phone. Instead, with a trimmed down name (now NCR), and a ramped up R&D operation, the ...READ»

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Palm Brushes-Off Apple's iPhone Patent, Says it Can Defend Itself

The Apple versus Palm debate is beginning to develop some heat. After Apple was awarded the so-called "iPhone patent" yesterday, in which multitouch and many other aspects of the iPhone's design were detailed, Palm has responded with ...READ»