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Given its large costumed cast -- and seeming interference with a pair of existing franchises -- Warner Bros.' planned Justice League of America feature is one of the more intriguing projects on 2008's production schedule. There's so much that could go wrong with this movie, it seems like the kind...
High-end features like spoken directions and school-zone and speed alerts make this inexpensive GPS a good deal.
XtremeNotebooks has announced the 17-inch Xtreme 917V Accelerator, the first US distributed laptop to feature a quad core processor.
The Xtreme 917V Accelerator gaming/workstation notebook features desktop-use Intel Core Quad Q6600 or Q6700 CPU, depending on customer’s choice. Both processors have 8MB of L2 cache and 1066MHz front side bus, and are clocked at 2.4GHz and [...]
According to Home Media Research, during the first half of 2007 a total of 1.6M movies were sold on the Blu-ray format. Rival HD DVD sold less than half during the same time period, with a total of 795,000 movies sold. Since the launch of the formats, Blu-ray has amassed sales of 2.2M movies compared to just 1.5M on HD DVD (which includes data collected through July).
Richard Burk, the Office of Management and Budget’s chief architect, is retiring after more than 35 years in government.
Burk has been OMB’s chief architect since 2005 and spent 29 years at the Housing and Urban Development Department. His last day will be Sept. 30, Burk said in an interview with Federal Computer Week.
“I’ve spent 35 years in government with a passion for good government, and I want to see if I can continue it outside the structure of government,” he said. “I fully intend to continue working in the federal information technology community.”
Burk said he has not been looking for a new job but figures he will land in the private sector.
In almost two years as OMB’s chief architect, Burk has been instrumental in getting agencies to make their enterprise architectures operational. He has led the development of many guides to help agencies make better use of the modernization blueprints, and he has been an evangelizer of bringing enterprise architecture out of the “IT ghetto” to show value to the agency’s mission.
Burk has led the development of the Federal Transition Framework (FTF), which helps agencies understand how governmentwide initiatives fit into their enterprise architectures...
Sure Microsoft has been flooded with a slew of Xbox 360s returned after blinking the dreaded Red Ring of Death, but not all of them were due to overheating.
When the console seizes up and dies, three of the "circle of light's" quadrants blink red, but when the video cable pops out four of the quadrants blink. Apparently, a large number of consoles returned to Microsoft with the dreaded Red Ring of Death were perfectly fine and just the victim of a bit of red ring hysteria.
Help Bibleman and friends fight crime and defeat Wacky Protester.
More quad posters from Paramount's secretive reboot.
Digidesign has issued a challenge: Can you tell the difference between digital and analog recording?
SAN FRANCISCO -- "Linux is the launching pad you need to stand on to be productive," said Nokia's open source director, Ari Jaaksi, at LinuxWorld Wednesday. "We have never managed to bring out a product in such a short time, with so few resources," he added,
Thank you, for more ladies, REVVER/waveees
Mobile phone shipments from top-tier handset vendors grew 15 to 22 percent year-over-year, to 301 million units, according to ABI. The figures put the market on pace for 1.8 billion units this year, or 13 percent growth, despite general economic "woes" in other markets.
Following up on this morning's full details about the October 30 Spider-Man 3 DVD releases, we now have the covers for the various versions coming out sans the "Spider-Man High Definition Trilogy" Blu-ray Disc cover.
Mangold's western gets one-sheeted all over again.
Apple has made available a series of WWDC 2007 session videos through the iTunes store. The videos are now available to all members of the Apple Developer Connection. They include "Designing Web Content for the iPhone." Apple describes the video "iPhone completely redefines browser-based web access on a mobile phone. Watch iPhone engineers provide ...
This is a 10x10 map designed for up to four players. It features weather effects, full AI support, and per-player mass scaling.
MojoPac Enterprise Suite gives mobile workers easy access to their personal apps and data.
A new photo file format introduced with Windows Vista is offered royalty free to the Joint Photographic Experts Group, better known as JPEG.
Josh has a Perry bad time.
Company's JBoss division will use donated technology to build out future SOA platforms.
ToThePoint Software released EasyMoney , a money management program for home and small businesses with support for any number of account books and unlimited expense and income accounts.
In a statement Itagaki released in early June, he announced that he would be leaving Tecmo on July 1st. However, today it came to light that Itagaki was actually fired from Tecmo on June 18th
Led by Sega's "Super Monkey Ball," seven of the top 10 paid applications from Apple's App Store are video games.
Aaron Krause gives us the latest details on Culdcept SAGA for the Xbox 360.
(InfoWorld) - India's third largest outsourcer, Wipro, Thursday reported growth in revenue and profit, although like other Indian outsourcers, it too was affected by the?appreciation of the Indian rupee?against the U.S. dollar.
The company posted total revenue of Indian rupees 41.83 billion ($1.03 billion) in the quarter ended June 30, up 34 percent over revenue in the same period last year. Net revenue was rupees 7.1 billion, up by 16 percent for the same period a year ago.
Wipro, of Bangalore, has both a domestic and export business. Its export-oriented outsourcing business, called Global IT Services and Products, posted revenue of rupees 29.4 billion, up by 20 percent over the same period last year. The company's operating margin for this business was however down from the same quarter last year because of the strong rupee.
The results are based on U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the company said.
The company's export business had 72,137 employees as of June 30, which included 53,073 employees in its IT services and products business, and 19,064 employees in the BPO (business process outsourcing) services business. The company added 4,319 staff during the quarter of which 2,719 employees were added in its IT services and products business and 1,600 employees in its BPO business.
During the quarter, some of the company's services lines like technology infrastructure services and software package implementation grew by over 50 percent year-on-year, while its BPO and testing services grew by over 40 percent year-on-year.
The company's export business accounted for 70 percent of total revenue and 91 percent of operating income for the quarter. Wipro does not report profits separately for this business, which added 39 new outsourcing clients in the quarter.
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The absence of the Xbox 360 and PC "psychological action thriller" Alan Wake from this year's E3 is a bad sign for a game that some believe may never see the light of day.
Paris Hilton was attempting to surf the other day and as you can see from these pictures she’s not very good. Posing on top of a surfboard does not constitute as actual surfing. One thing she is good at though is not being able to keep her clothes on. I guess that balances [...]
James Brady is not easily shocked, but in his recent Forbes column, he admitted to surprise about the subject of George Steinbrenner's alleged senility.
A friend tells me The New Yorker's recent Howard Rubenstein profile had alluded to the PR man's utterances on behalf of a fading Steinbrenner, but I must have missed the deeper significance. Steinbrenner's "dementia" truly came as a shocker.
There's a pretty obvious joke to be made here about Brady's own senility, but we're feeling semi-charitable this morning, so we'll skip it. Anyway, this
isn't exactly news. Finally, if you're scoring at home, the most significant name Jim drops in this column is Elaine Kaufman. Dude's slipping.
A Steinbrenner Dilemma [Forbes]
New video footage and shots of the Halo themed RTS in action.
Every new screenshot of Halo Wars makes us want the game a little bit more and this latest media burst is no exception.
Click here to read the full article
So many games, so little time, which games does, E3 consider the top five games to look out for...
Here you go here is the list:
Rock Band
Mass Effect
Little Big Planet
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Super Mario Galaxy
Click the link to find a brief summary to each game to why they chose that game...
Looks like the Owen Wilson era may be over for Kate Hudson. The ingenue was not only seen leaving Malibu hotspot Nobu hand-in-hand with shirtless Punk'd guy Dax Sheppard. But the couple was also...
Not as good or interesting as the first, but not bad
The way some people enjoy fine wine and good cigars, we are connoisseurs of the wonderful phenomenon of people breaking into outlandish dance routines upon learning the results of the paternity tests administered by the Maury Povich program. In this classic edition, a young lady goes from manic enthusiasm to tearful despair to furious anger in what seems like the blink of an eye.
(Source: MKS) Software is everywhere. For example, a cell phone contains 2 million lines of code and a vehicle, 35 million. This paper speaks to the challenges that software engineering teams face in trying to keep pace with the rapid cycle of innovation and why tools for requirements change management are essential for managing and responding to rapidly changing business requirements.
Date Added: Motivational poster 07/07/2008 21:51
One release worth mentioning. One. Frakkin. Release.
Game1 released an exclusive video to Stuntman: Ignation - which is scheduled for a Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 - release. The video is taken from the Xbox 360-version, and shows several gameplay-elements. Click the link below to take a look at the scene.
Here's the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, which is now almost finished. Although the bubbles in this gigantic Water Cube look like they are made of jelly fishes, they really use "two layers of a high-performance plastic film called ethylene tetrafluoroethylene or ETFE." Mmmmmm'kay. So really, what do the jelly fish do?
The computer-generated double-layer design leaves an empty space in the middle of each bubble, which is used to warm or cool the building with a very ingenious method: the compressors draw hot air out of the bubbles, warmed by the sun, to heat the interior of the building. When they need to cool it down, the system takes air from the ground floor and out of the building, through exhaust ports on the roof (insert Death Star joke here). This kind of structure is also more resistant to earthquakes, which is a plus in the seismic-rocking Beijing.
Gallery - Watercube [Wired]
Motion-controller fans who don't want to get into Wiimote modding now have a way of playing interactive internet games on their PCs with the Stix. No, not the '70s band...it's a new and very Wiimote-esque controller from GoLive2, touch sensitive and launched with a companion website that has hundreds of "free Web-based games," whatever they may be like. The Stix 200 works with these games, while the 400 version looks like it also works with normal PC games. Available in August, press release below.
GoLive2 Unveils Stix, a New Line of Wireless, Motion-Sensing Controllers Set to Redefine PC Gaming
Compatible with Thousands of Free Online Games, Stix Touch-Screen Controllers Bring Active, Motion-Sensing Gameplay to the PC
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. —(Business Wire)— Jul. 1, 2008 GoLive2, the independent gaming division of Playhut, Inc., today introduced Stix, a new line of wireless, motion-sensing gaming controllers for the PC and Internet. Redefining the PC and online gaming experience, Stix are wireless, touch-screen controllers that allow users to play thousands of free Web-based games as well as Games For Windows(R) titles with an active, motion-sensing play pattern. For the first time, players can abandon their mouse and keyboard to experience online and PC games in an entirely new way! Available at retailers nationwide in August, Stix are designed for players six years and older.
"Stix will completely change the way people experience online and PC gaming," said Brian Zheng, President, Playhut. "At purchase, Stix will be compatible with thousands of free online and retail games, and we're adding more games to that list daily. The fun is endless with Stix, and the wide-range of free, supported games makes this product perfect for every member of the family."
Introducing an unprecedented level of active gameplay to PC gaming, the motion-sensitive Stix are compatible with thousands of existing, free online games. GoLive2 will unveil two versions of the Stix available at launch: Stix 200 and Stix 400. Designed for casual gamers, Stix 200 adds active gameplay to 2D online gaming. Stix 400 is compatible with both 2D and 3D environments for the ultimate online and Games for Windows gaming experience.
As a compliment to the Stix product line, GoLive2 has also launched a free, online game portal called Sphere (http://Sphere.GoLive2.com) that provides hundreds of free games to play with Stix controllers. Sphere consists of both internally-developed games designed exclusively for the Stix as well as hosted games from online game developers that support Stix. Sphere also features a search engine that connects users to thousands of compatible, third-party free online games. In addition, users can configure their favorite PC games to preferred Stix settings. Finally, developers of all skill levels have the ability to create new games that harness the unique Stix gameplay pattern.
Stix will be available at retailers nationwide in August 2008, along with the Sphere companion site (http://Sphere.GoLive2.com).
For more information on the Stix line, visit http://www.GoLive2.com.
[Kotaku]
Beowulf
Film Focus has posted billboard ads for the upcoming Beowulf and I Am Legend films, which I found via Cinematical.
Speaking of Cinematical, I was disappointed to learn that the Watchmen teaser site, rorschachsjournal.com, is originating from a Lord of the Rings fansite. Too bad, as using Rorschach in a viral campaign seems like a [...]
Chrono Trigger DS - Official Website
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