This should provide all the capital the company needs to continue along its current transformation from a specialty retailer of new and used videogames to a more general seller of new and pre-owned electronic entertainment and media products.

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This was the pre-history of digitization, using electronic means to alter our previous notions of time and space and to provide new means of delivering news, information, and entertainment.

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Ninety percent of electronic waste currently ends up in disposal or shredding without any pre-treatment.

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This is why Singapore, which wants motorists to be aware of the social cost of their driving, has deliberately designed a device that lights up with the amount being deducted from the driver's pre-paid card each time the vehicle passes an electronic toll gantry.

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We asked in December if Vick is once again the face of the NFL. Sponsors are starting to reengage with Vick, with a Nissan dealership and sports gear company Unequal Technologies inking the star to deals (pre dog-fighting Vick had deals with Coca-Cola, Electronic Arts, Kraft and Nike).

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The speed with which electronic attacks could be launched gives little time for cool-headed reflection and favours early, even pre-emptive, attack.

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The process really started in 2006, when amendments to the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allowed electronic information, such as spreadsheet, emails, audio and video clips, to be covered by the pre-trial discovery process.

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Such manufacturability implies that repeated fabrication of artefacts is possible to produce electronic, optical, magnetic or other properties with a high and highly reproducible yield within a tight tolerance of a pre-specified performance.

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