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Submission + - Apple Sapphire Glass Supplier GT Advanced Files For Bankruptcy 2

Submitted by mrspoonsi on Monday October 06, 2014 @10:49AM

mrspoonsi writes: GT Advanced Technologies is filing for bankruptcy. In an announcement on Monday, GT Advanced, which makes sapphire displays that many investors hoped would be in Apple's newest iPhone, said that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In early September, shares of GT Advanced got crushed after the company's sapphire displays were not in the latest version of Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. GT Advanced, however, signed a multi-year agreement with Apple last November to supply the company with sapphire material. That agreement included a $578 million prepayment, which GT Advanced is set to repay Apple over a five-year period starting in 2015.

Comment Re:True, but... (Score 2) 466

by dan133 on Friday November 25, 2011 @10:34PM (#38172024) Attached to: Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem

Stop whining about price. If you don't want to pay $60, then wait a few months or a year and buy it for $19.99.

An Easter (Egg) Holiday? 104

Posted by Cliff on Friday April 06, 2007 @02:22AM from the hippity-hoppity dept.

updog asks: "With Easter just around the corner, what better way for folks to celebrate than finding their own Easter Egg? While many people have seen the classic Excel Flight Simulator, there are over 10,000 other Easter Eggs found in DVD's, books, and music — for example, there are over 8 eggs on the Futurama DVD; and some hidden emoticons in Skype. What are some of your favorite Easter Eggs?"

Feed Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday April 06, 2007 @12:33AM

Just two weeks after the streaming media box hits store shelves, tweakers get it to run OS X. By Rob Beschizza.

Submission + - Can CDs Be Recycled?

Submitted by on Thursday April 05, 2007 @11:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: I was recently doing a closet-cleaning and came across literally hundreds of old software CDs that are no longer usable — both manufactured CDs and CD-Rs. Note that by "not usable", I mean that many of them simply couldn't be read anymore, possibly due to the fact that they'd been stored rather ineptly (no, I wasn't responsible for how they were stored). My question is: Is it possible to reclaim CDs for raw materials? It seems wrong to just throw them out, but are there other things that can be done with them that will allow their raw materials to be reused in some way?

Submission + - Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @10:27AM

eldavojohn writes: "Random House & HarperCollins have agreed to allow book browsing and searching on all their books. From the article, "Book publishers are to trying to update their businesses as more young readers consume media via the Web, a trend that already has affected the music, movie and newspaper industries." Although this is a good step forward, I still have no way of searching the thomes of Robert Jordan (Tor) or any of the many standards of Penguin Classics. I am definitely looking forward to more publishers following suit. It's not that far of a stretch to imagine a person searching for a book, finding something else and then buying both books."

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