Sony Style Announces Green Glove Service

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Sony's online store has announced a new delivery and installation service called Green Glove service. The program is designed to reduce the amount of e-waste that makes it to landfills in the US. Green Glove offers buyers of new Sony TVs who chose the Bravia premier in-home delivery service when a TV larger than 32-inches is purchased to have their old sets hauled away for recycling.

The service includes delivering, unpacking, and setting up the new Bravia HDTV as well. In addition to picking up an old TV for disposal, the packaging will be removed and recycled that the new TV shipped in. The old TVs removed from customers homes will be recycled by Waste Management America. Read more

Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Circuit City offers Gifts to Love Sale

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Electronics Retailer Circuit City gets all creative today and launches the Gifts to Love Sale. The special sale starts today and lasts until Wednesday.

Deals and Savings on Circuit City include up to $450 savings on HDTVs, up to 15% savings on digital cameras, up to $100 savings on widescreen GPS, up to $125 on kitchen & home electronics, FREE character game case with any Nintendo DS system, FREE gift card up to $15 with select iPods, and save $600 when you choose a Sony HDTV/Blu-ray Disc player bundle. Read more

Posted on Sun, 2 Nov 2008 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Pantech IM-R300 Touchscreen Phone is for Lovers

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Pantech announces the IM-R300 touchscreen mobile phone in Korea.

Pantech aims this touchscreen phone at couples in love. You can draw little scribbles like hearts or little messages during a video conference directly on the screen and the "love graffiti" gets transmitted as well. Read more

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:29:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Get Smart, Love Guru compete for Laughs

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By Carl DiOrio

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Oh, we've got comedy.
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Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:35:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Love is the Drug on French first Lady's new Album

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By Tamora Vidaillet

PARIS (Reuters) - France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sings of 30 lovers and hard drugs on a new album that she insists was not inspired by her whirlwind romance and marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Online love is often blind, brief: study

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By James Grubel

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Matches made over the Internet often do not last because people end up choosing unsuitable partners and forming emotional bonds before meeting face-to-face, an Australian university researcher has found.
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Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:29:52 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Twist in Harry Potter Star's Search for Love

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Actor Daniel Radcliffe's search for a mystery Australian girl he met at an awards party has taken a twist worthy of his alter-ego Harry Potter.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:40:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG introduces LG-LH5000 3G Phone for Ice Cream Lovers

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LG Electronics updates its LG-LH5000 3G handset the company introduced in August of 2007 with new ice cream inspired colors.

The three new LG-LH5000 phones are named like your favorite ice cream varieties: vanilla, strawberry, and pistachio. Read more

Posted on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG LG-SH240 3G Phone and the lovely LG Girls

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LG Electronics announces the LG-SH240 3G phone available through SK Telecom in Korea.

LG starts to really compete with our Gadget Model Photos on their product photos. The arrangement of the two LG girls is quite nice. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:47:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

This year Oscar is in love -- with a Rat

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By Arthur Spiegelman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When the producers of "Ratatouille" started making their movie, they wondered who in their right mind would pay to see an animated tale about a rat cooking in a high-class French restaurant.
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Posted on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

How deep is your Love? Korean passion Phones know

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Valentines Day in South Korea means chocolates, romantic dinners and a high-tech mobile phone device that can secretly check the passion in the voice of a lover. Read more

Posted on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:25:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony F23 Camera used in Cloverfield

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The low-budget monster movie Cloverfield had a very successfull opening last weekend. Sony says that the makers of Cloverfield used the Sony F23 high-definition camera for the footage the character Hud shoots during the monster attack on New York.

"We needed the look of the movie to be very immediate, like ‘found footage,’ so a YouTube aesthetic was the look we were trying to achieve, Nick Theodorakis, digital imaging supervisor for Cloverfield, said. "The F23 provided latitude without sacrificing any color imagery, allowing us to stay as strict to reality as possible while generating that warm look of New York City’s streets with its sodium vapor lights." Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:27:35 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Monster Thriller ''Cloverfield'' crushes Box Office

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The low-budget monster movie "Cloverfield" destroyed the competition, including fellow rookie "27 Dresses," during its first day of release in North American theaters, according to preliminary sales estimates issued on Saturday. Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Gadget Lovers seek out 2008's hottest Products

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By Franklin Paul and Eric Auchard

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The world's premier consumer electronics show kicks off in Las Vegas next week, but economic headwinds may mute the glitz and glamour of a conference that defines what gadgets are in store for 2008. Read more

Posted on Fri, 4 Jan 2008 00:28:40 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Lovers turn to Text Message to say it's over

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LONDON (Reuters) - U R dumped -- one in seven say they have suffered the same fate as Britney Spears' ex-husband and been told it's all over via text message or email, a survey said on Friday. Read more

Posted on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:43:07 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

For College Students, if it's Facebook, it's Love

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By Joanne Kenen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the Facebook generation, love now comes with a drop-down menu. Read more

Posted on Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:20:56 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Jennifer Love Hewitt engaged to be married

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is engaged to be married to her boyfriend, Scottish actor Ross McCall, 32, Usmagazine.com reported on Wednesday. Read more

Posted on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:27:33 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Web serves up tasty Sites for Food Lovers

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By Reed Stevenson

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Finding fellow gourmands, good restaurants and exotic dishes is becoming easier on the Internet, as Web sites focused on eating well and discovering new flavors become must-have destinations for food lovers. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Goldmund Media Room for Wealthy Home Theater Lovers Only

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If you have a big enough home and enough cash to afford the $300,000 starting price, Goldmund will build you what they call the “Goldmund Media Room.” The room can be designed with up to 128 channels of sound.

One of the big features of the media room is PROTEUS, which is a software product that allows high-end home theater fans to build the room to their tastes in dimensions and décor. The software then tailors the sound exactly to the room so you can have form follow function. Read more

Posted on Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:37:41 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Capcom's We Love Golf! for the Nintendo Wii

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Capcom partners with Camelot Software to develop We Love Golf! for the Nintendo Wii.

Camelot Software's track record includes Hot Shots Golf and the Mario Golf series.
In We Love Golf! the Wii Remote becomes a virtual set of golf clubs, creating an immersive golfing experience available off the greens. Read more

Posted on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Iconic Pop Artist Max marks Summer of Love

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By Adam Tanner

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Peter Max, the artist whose psychedelic style embodied the wild spirit of the 1960s, still is amazed and bemused by the impact of his works. Read more

Posted on Sun, 2 Sep 2007 01:37:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr