Jason Jones, who pleaded guilty to participating in a copyright conspiracy by selling Xbox video game consoles modified to play pirated games, described his Hollywood video game store, which caters to celebrity clients.
"We're like the Heidi Fleiss of video games," Jones told Reuters, referring to the famed "Hollywood Madam."
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The new BlackBerry Tour, carried by Verizon and Sprint, arrives Sunday, even as RIM seems to be losing sales to exclusive devices like the iPhone and Pre.
roundup Google Chrome OS, due in 2010, underscores the Web giant's cloud-computing ambitions and opens new competition with Microsoft.
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