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February 16, 2007

iPoddocs offer hope for busted music players

  • Entrepreneurs have stepped in for those hoping to repair their iPods rather than buy new.
    • By TIM PARADIS
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Doctors are often lauded as miracle workers, but even the most skilled have patients they can't help. Demetrios Leontaris keeps a picture of one on his cell phone organizer.

    Tapping at his keypad, he smiles as he pulls up a picture of the ill-fated patient: an iPod Nano left badly bruised after being run over by a car. While it still played, attempting to repair the casing could have broken the device.


     
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