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A Best Buy sign is seen on a store in Alexandria, Virginia, September 15, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Best Buy plans movie download service with Sonic

Reuters - Tue Nov 3, 12:32 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc plans to start an online service that allows consumers to buy, rent and download movies and television shows, the electronics retailer said on Tuesday.

  • Posters promote Apple iPhones at a store in Beijing. The official launch of the high-tech handset in China has been disappointing at best for mobile operator China Unicom, with the grey market still booming and competitors offering worthy alternatives, experts say. Photo:Liu Jin/AFP
    iPhone disappoints in China launch: analysts AFP - 34 minutes ago

    SHANGHAI (AFP) - The official launch of Apple's iPhone in China has been disappointing at best for mobile operator China Unicom, with the grey market still booming and competitors offering worthy alternatives, experts say.

  • Customers are seen surfing the internet at an internet bar. Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice. Photo:Liu Jin/AFP
    Advertisers face resistance to on-line tracking AFP - 52 minutes ago

    MADRID (AFP) - Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice.

  • Visitors are seen trying out video games at a multi-media expo. 'Modern Warfare 2' strikes on Tuesday in a worldwide assault eagerly anticipated by lovers of the blockbuster role-playing battle videogame franchise. Photo:David Mcnew/AFP
    "Modern Warfare 2" strikes on Tuesday AFP - 1 hour, 0 minute ago

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - "Modern Warfare 2" strikes on Tuesday in a worldwide assault eagerly anticipated by lovers of the blockbuster role-playing battle videogame franchise.

  • Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, gives an interview to AFP in Havana in 2008. Secret police agents abducted and beat Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said Saturday. Photo:Adalberto Roque/AFP
    Award-winning Cuban blogger says she was beaten, detained AFP - Sat Nov 7, 5:15 PM

    HAVANA (AFP) - Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said Saturday.

  • Hacker illustration. Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said Sunday. Photo:/AFP
    Brazil blackouts result of cyber hacking: report AFP - Sat Nov 7, 12:46 PM

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said Sunday.


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