22. April 2008 by admin.

Gran Turismo 5: Prologue — $40 demo??

Pickering Institute – Diploma Mill shut down by Google

Limewire still #1 P2P

ISPs pushing trolls/BS sites through unassigned domains and these sites are not secure

RIAA spent 2M on lobbying in 2007

Pullmylink.com MPAA sued and advertised

Homeless man sued by RIAA – after judge recs sanctions – RIAA drops case

Paypal to block old/unsecure browsers update or get out

Consoles and Games sales rose 57% last year 720K Wii 262K Xbox 257K PS3

Brawl 2.7M Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 752K

AMD 6^th quarterly loss in a row

Home.com delayed again – can the PS3 network deliver?

HD signal compression squeezes 3 HD channels onto 1 analog – the result WTF

Sci Fi, Animal Planet, the Discovery Channel, the Food Network and A&EBlu-Ray price hikes (netflix, and physical sales) thanks to everyone who helped squash the competitionSeagate sells 1B drives – started in 1979 with a 5MB drive for $1500NES in a CartGuitar Hero 4 to have a drum kit and MicMS office by subscriptionPETA offers 1M to anyone who can grow meat

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17. April 2008 by admin.

Fair use on campus — 3 publishers suing Georgia StatePluggedin serving HD music videosOregon saying that publishing their laws is a copyright violationFrance is considering jail time for pro-anorexia sitesBitTorrent use has risen dramaticallyHulu — on demand videoPsystar.com selling $555 Open Computer running OSX LeopardThe Sims hits the 100M units markTravelers will get see through clothing scans at airports in New York and LA — TSA purchasing 30 more millimeter waveWife takes her divorce to youtubeSeagate suing to keep solid state hard drives patentZero Day Threat–the villains are supposed pillars of communities: bankers, credit-bureau managers and computer makers who enable the burglars, and who could ameliorate the identify-theft crisis but, instead, look away in the name of larger corporate profit.  Google Earth 4.3 –time-lapse images 2000 fps water balloon exploding — you tubeFix your own NES for $1 http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/gamelife-the–1.html    

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10. April 2008 by admin.

Color blind gamers—8%–industry doesn’t care
GamerDoc – new gamer centered gaming store
Rebates for HDDVD player
Yahoo is using Google ads
MySpaceTV Shows Quarterlife, Roomates and Special Delivers will soon air on international TV
Google Earth maps refugees
Facebook IM
Japanese comp. testing scent downloads
Paramount video clips in There.com and vMTV—movies as language
Text messges going to PUSH tech. “Check your kids forlice”
Bill proposed to set minimum auto sound levels
SNES papercraft
IXP notes – re-usable post-its
Canon XL1H1-S , XLH1A

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27. March 2008 by admin.

Photoshop express
Turnitiin does not break copyright
Supreme court to hear a case of RIAA dropping a case and owing legal fees
SlySoft defeats Blu-ray
Printing LED
Blizzard sueing MMO glider
Paper airplane from space
2nd Annual YouTube awards
Benjamin Heckendorn

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20. March 2008 by admin.

Browser for pay service to make a kid-friendly Web KidZui  $$$$$ AD HEAVY
Intel’s Rural Connectivity Prog MOD 802.11 set your wireless router 100 km away 6.5 Mbps
Monthly subscription to iTunes??
Google intros “gadgets” into Google Docs to expand the capabilities
FCC sold off Block C of the Spectrum for  almost 20 B but blcok D is still on hold (this block came with the caveat that it had to allow public safetly to piggyback.
Micro Blogging with Twitter in the classroom
Comcast is saying the FCC has no jurisdiction over traffic-shping
Vista SP1
Quantum Communications – Sending data on photons Ajisai
iFrame injection attacks
REM streams their album free for the week prior to release
Windows 7 release in 2010??
Adobe’s mobile to combine with Windows mobile to fight the iPhone front
Mass lawmakers try to pass yet another unconstitutional law against video games
Firefox 3 supposed to be better – Give Firefox a 2nd chance
British inventor made a crowd-control device that repels youths but not adults
Dothetest.co.uk — sheep reaction time
Manhunt ruling in the UK causing a re-evaluation of the BBFC (ratings)
HTC Android Phone (google phone)
Take-Two Takover: The Game
Girls/Women in gaming Forbes
Guitar Hero III 5.7 M – Rock Band 2 M  — Gibson Suing  Guitar Hero 4.8M Halo 3
Data Mining with Phorm
Solid State Fan
Futurama Movie coming in June?
JuicyCampus.com have won their lawsuit

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6. March 2008 by admin.

IE 8 Beta
MPAA record box office for 2007
How Blackberry competes with iPhone
RIAA fighting a subpoena to MediaSentry the firm that tracks RIAA offenders
Trent Reznor makes 750K selling 2500 deluxe editions at $300 and giving away his album
Gary Gygax is dead
Copyright and property laws should they be one and the sames??
Windows on USB – software portability (licensed to person)
NFL crackdown on online reporting and blogging MLB to follow
Undocumented APIs in OSX – for MS this would be a legal issue
Memory cooled to -50 will stay non-volitile for 10 minutes (bypass encription)
Netscape support to end on March 1
Speilberg makes Boom Blox a puzzle game for Wii
Skype on PSP
Photosynth MS
Ziff Davis Media Bankrupt (PC mag, EGM)
3.3 B cell users to get social networking GeoSentric
History of Second Life: Notes from a New World (you fly because it was hard to program climbing)
Excel as a game engine? http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php
iPHone SDK and Steve Jobs “flash technology doesn’t meet Apple performance standards”
New custom police car (end of the crown Victoria)
VW Golf Hybrid 70 mpg
Buy your Girl Scout cookies on eBay
Powerbocks

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1. March 2008 by admin.

Google is making a Web creatinon tool — give me an edit button in my browser?
Mac Users are Snobs (Video TheStreet)
EA offering 2B to Take-Two urging to sell while they still could — Vivendi is pushing EA to get bigger as we see the gaming industry take a turn for the vertical (Activision/Blizzard — EA/Take-Two

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28. February 2008 by admin.

Phone co’s to be granted immunity for illegal spying—senate backs down from veto

MySpace setting up to start an online music service

Controlling Video Games with your mind—Emotiv Systems $299 EPOC neuroheadset

AOL ending all support for Netscape on March 1 RIP Netscape—end of an era

ZaOza Vivendi (1/4 of every media) rolling out unlimited mobile content and sharing

Judge dismisses malicious prosecution lawsuit against RIAA

XNA games coming to Zune, Xbox Live

EU and 21 other sponsors donated a total of 19M EU to develop “next-gen IPTV distro

Comcast being sued for throttling

PC Gaming Alliance – Can anyone save the industry from its own success?

FCC rejects NYPD Blues appeal of 1.4M$ for briefly showing a woman’s ass saying the ass is categorically defined as having sexual/excretory function

AACS and BD+  DRM cocktail for HD

EULAS under attack in England (plainer language please)

DoubleTwist makes drap and drop DRM stripping

HDDVD is dead is Blu-Ray is dinosaur in a era of digital content

Polaroid RIP – Talk to Susan Stang

Microsoft pushing for open standards and interoperability

Playing video games with your brain – emotive controller

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22. February 2008 by admin.

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