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Covers gone wild: Are Amazon, Apple and B&N selling soft

They have names like “Bent Over,” “Double Teamed,” “Bedded by the Boss,” and “Hot Daddy Cop.” They’re all part of a bawdier form of romance writing that’s generally referred as erotica or erotic romance, and they’re all in the Amazon Kindle catalog as well as Barnes & Noble’s Nook catalog. Needless to say, most of the books feature scantily clad …

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Insignia Connected TV review: TiVo

Is the time of TiVo behind us? It’s been 10 years since Sarah Jessica Parker gushed about the device on daytime TV. Best Buy’s Insignia Connected TV would like to suggest otherwise as it licenses the TiVo interface, if not the functionality. The Insignia Connected TV E859A11 offers a decent array of on-demand services, but picture quality takes a back …

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Poll: would you buy iPhone 5 sight unseen?

Germany’s Deutsche Telekom (DT) has started to take pre-orders for Apple’s unannounced iPhone 5, offering customers the opportunity to reserve a next-generation iPhone before knowing the name of the device or the hardware specifications included. The German telco isn’t advertising this opportunity to its customers, but it is handing out “premiere coupons” to customers who expressly ask for an iPhone …

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