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A New Zealand man was woken in the middle of the night when his cell phone battery exploded and burst into flames, the second exploding battery incident reported this week.
Norman Sievewright said he was asleep in bed about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday when he woke to a loud bang and found his cell phone battery in flames on the carpet. The phone had been charging while he was asleep.
"It was very scary ... especially the fumes and stuff. The back has been blown off the phone," he told New Zealand's TVONE television news channel.
The phone was made by Nokia, which asked Sievewright to turn over the battery and charger so it can investigate. Until it has done so, "it would be inappropriate to speculate," a Nokia spokeswoman said via email.
In August Nokia issued an advisory about faulty batteries in some of its phones. It said 46 million Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries were vulnerable to a short circuit that could cause them to overheat while recharging, and offered to replace them for customers who are concerned.
Nokia did not issue a recall and said incidents had occurred with only a tiny fraction of phones -- 100 out of the 46 million. The batteries were manufactured by Japan's Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. and sold in a wide range of Nokia devices.
Nokia said it didn't know yet what type of battery was inside the phone in New Zealand, and attempts to contact Sievewright Thursday were unsuccessful.
Also Wednesday, police in South Korea said a worker may have died because his cell phone battery exploded in his pocket, the Associated Press reported. The man was found dead at his workplace in a quarry with a melted cell phone battery in his shirt pocket, according to the report.
The doctor who examined the man said the pressure caused by the explosion may have "damaged his heart and lungs" and led to his death, according to the AP, which quoted a local news agency. That phone was made by LG Electronics, reports said.
With close to 300 million cell phones sold in the world last quarter, such battery explosions are considered extremely rare.
Among the special features are many deleted scenes, which the actors discussed at a red carpet party.
Apple today released Security Update 2006-007 to provide fixes for numerous holes throughout the operating system and included software. The update offers repairs for AirPort, Apple Type Services, CFNetwork, ClamAV, Finder, ftpd, gnuzip, Installer, OpenSSL, perl, PHP, PPP, Samba, Security Framework, VPN, and WebKit. The update is available via any ...
Tomonobu Itagaki gives a few insights into his design goals for Ninja Gaiden 2.
Ghost House Pictures has posted a new behind-the-scenes clip for 30 Days of Night which features co-producer Aubrey Henderson reporting from set as the crew embarks on five weeks of night-shoots. You can watch the clip here !
Watch Matt Dylan and Kate Hudson grapple with a clueless Owen Wilson in exclusive outtakes, plus clips from the comedy.
So much fun to watch people get hurt
An excellent story and fun battles make this a universe worth exploring.
It's so over the top, it could be good. Hitman hits theaters this Wednesday for the long Thanksgiving weekend.
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NBA 2K7 (PS3)
The best basketball game just got better.
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Jason Sahler writes "Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States' first plasma gasification plant. The plant will use super-hot 10,000 degree Fahrenheit plasma to effectively vaporize 1,500 tons of trash each day, which in turn spins turbines to generate 60MW of electricity — enough to power 50,000 homes!"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Microsoft will push a trio of performance and reliability updates to Windows Vista users tomorrow, using its Windows Update automated service.
Paris Hilton's Got Hooker Lipstick On Her Teeth (Dlisted)
Meagan Good Needs Attention (Egotastic!)
O.J. Simpson Has a Short Memory (IDLYITW)
Mary-Kate And Ashley Olsen At The Beach (Pink Is The New Blog)
Penelope Cruz’s Spa Splash (Just Jared)
Kate Hudson & Heath Ledger? (Popsugar)
OMG! Adriana Lima Is Super Hot (The [...]
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow:
- The Addams Family - Complete Series
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Season 4
- Captain N and the New Super Mario World - Complete Series
- DaVinci's Inquest - Season 2
- DuckTales - Vol. 3
- Gilmore Girls - Complete Series and Season 7
- Kenny vs. Spenny - Season 3
- Masters of Horror - Dream Cruise and Season 1,Vol. 3
- Melrose Place - Season 3
- Miami Vice - Complete Series
- Northern Exposure - Complete Series
- Perrry Mason - Season 2, Vol. 2
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? - Treasure Chest Gift Set
- South Park - Christmas Time
- SpongeBob SquarePants - Atlantis SquarePantis
- Tale Spin - Vol. 2
- The Young Ones - Extra Stoopid
- Zorro: Generation Z - Return to the Future
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Destroy your enemies, befriend the gods, and upgrade your abilities in Liquid Entertainment's upcoming action-RPG.
You would think that dwelling on the proliferation of mindlessness and the potential
for depravity that this suggestively titled tableaux presents, Dan Arps? Gestapo
Pussy Ranch would position itself knowingly just over the line and deep in the trenches ...
Defence Minister Phil Goff met with senior executives of L3 Spar Aerospace in Edmonton,
Canada, today and examined the progress being made in rebuilding the Royal New Zealand
Air Force's C-130 Hercules fleet.
Check out this gameplay clip from Final Fantasy Tactics A2.
This may or may not be something to lighten the mood today, but the Marzipan Taco podcast has a feature called LET'S CALL AN AGENT -- and this time they called the office of Tom Cruise's CAA team member Tori Metzger (why not Rick Nicita?) to pitch a writer-less silent biopic of Marcel Marceau with Cruise in white [...]
Eduardo Quezada Piano Sabor A Mi
A reader sends us saddening news: someone out there is even more dangerously obsessed with AC than we are. She's an enterprising Quebecoise named Robin, and she even has a blog devoted to the man she calls "Anderfox." So there probably wasn't a dry panty within miles of Degrassiland last night when the pumpkin she carved, which features an apparently limbless (but still like sooo hot!) Cooper, made it onto 360.
Hmm. Oh yes. Jack-o-lantern indeed.
Rambo doesnt want to hurt people anymore
Online retail sales in the United States jumped 23 percent, to US$28.4 billion, during the third quarter of this year compared with the same July-September period in 2006. The retail surge was led by sales of video games, consoles and accessories, which showed a year-to-year increase of 199 percent, according to the Internet analysis firm comScore of Reston, Va.
Killer babies and undead mommies!
Kestrel, the next version of the desktop browser, fixes bugs synchronizes bookmarks between a PC and a handheld.
WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2008 - Dirty Edition (Exclusive to Play.com)
Dirty Edition contents:
WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2008 Xbox 360 Game
Special Edition Slipcase
"I Fight Dirty" T-Shirt
1 Page Kelly Kelly Calender
8 Numbered Limited Edition "Fighting Styles" Postcards
"Create a Superstar" Mini Guide
Game features:
Superstar Fighting Styles - With 8 Superstar Fighting Styles to choose from, playing WWE: Smackdown VS Raw 2008 will never be the same. Each style has it's own unique strategy with exclusive moves, abilities and more. Take the fight into your own hands and feel the power of the
Superstars.
Struggle Submission System - The new Struggle Submission System gives players intuitive and natural control over their WWE Superstars using the analog sticks. Realism and strategy are at the forefront, as players can now control the amount of pressure they apply.
ECW Presence - The life of a WWE Superstar isn't always pretty. ECW invades WWE: SVR2008 with a variety of Superstars, arenas and weapons!
WWE 24/7 Mode - Combining the popular Season and General Manager Modes from previous versions of Smackdown VS Raw games, WWE 24/7 Mode embraces the intensity Superstar lifestyle. Multiple character development options, stat tracking and career goals will guide players toward the ultimate achievement of being a Legend!
Giving Fans what they Want - WWE: SVR2008 offers updates, including new rosters, more environmental hotspots, improved out-of-ring action, enhanced on-line community support and much more.
Go check it out.
Steve Jobs helped save a sinking music industry by courting struggling record labels to his iPod + iTunes ecosystem, but his bargaining position hasn't been as strong when it comes to video content. As a result, some music companies are now starting ...
A continuation of our Top 10 Game Ringtones from a few weeks back.
"TimeShift may not be Halo 3 or The Orange Box, but with its entertaining single player game and cleverly implemented multiplayer, it?s well worth a look. In fact, with a decent online community this could become one of the most interesting multiplayer shooters out there. Still have doubts? Chances are they?ll disappear around the time you sticky grenade an enemy twenty metres into the sky in slow motion, separating him from his weapon, which spins gracefully through the air into your waiting arms. Or perhaps it?ll be the first time you stop an opponent dead in his tracks with a perfectly thrown time stop bubble and unload clip after clip into his soon to be dead body. Good times". - IGN AU
The trailer for
Last Chance Harvey comes courtesy of
Apple.
Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) reunite in Last Chance Harvey, a hopeful romance that celebrates new beginnings—at any age. The film is directed and written by Joel Hopkins (Jump Tomorrow).
New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss (Richard Schiff) that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter’s (Liane Balaban) wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting—or else.
Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather (James Brolin) walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot.
Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother (Eileen Atkins), is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion.
The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one anotherÂ’s lives.
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Wireless
You've got to be kidding us. No, seriously -- this
has to be a joke. Just last month, we
witnessed in person a FlyWire unit beaming a 1080p Blu-ray signal wirelessly to an HDTV, and the results were nothing short of astonishing. For whatever reason, the
box -- which was officially
unveiled back at CES 2008 -- won't even be ready for next year's Vegas extravaganza. While we were told at CEDIA that the unit would begin shipping out in October (like, right now), Melody Chalaban, a marketing executive and spokeswoman for Belkin has informed
Electronic House that it "won't be able to make [its] anticipated deadline of the winter CES show." Unfortunately, she gave no indication of when it actually would ship, leaving us to wonder if the dawn of the wireless HD era is being
pushed back altogether.
Again.
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Verizon Wireless has announced the UM150 USB wireless modem, optimized for the company’s EV-DO Rev. A network and the BroadbandAccess service. This modem, which connects to laptop and desktop computers via a USB port, also features a microSD memory slot.
According to the press release, users of the UM150 USB modem in Verizon’s EV-DO Rev. A [...]
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• “Chinese Democracy” Premieres on Radio
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• New Ryan Adams Album Streaming on iLike
• News Ticker: Britney Spears, Jane’s Addiction
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• Rock Band 2 Announces 20 [...]
The hard part's over. You've finished every mission. You've collected every power up. You've beaten every boss. You've saved the world and probably a few princesses to boot. Now all you want is your reward - some long awaited, richly deserved resolution.
You won't find it here.
No, these seven games have that other kind of ending. The kind that mocks you, disappoints you, angers you and just plain baffles you all at once. The kind that answers nothing but adds a maddening amount of mystery to everything. The kind that leaves you staring at the screen, dumb founded, waiting for the real conclusion to begin. The kind that could only have been written in a bar, an executive boardroom or some developer's dream journal.
VideoTutorial Nº 9 del Curso de creación de Webs dinámicas conforme a estándares con Dreamweaver CS3. Diseño final Spry Menu Bar. Personalizar la Barra de Menú: Cambiar colores y fuentes; Modificar aspecto del Diseño. Cambios en el div y en Spry. 31 minutos
GamePro interviews Patrice Desilets, creative director on Assassin's Creed at Ubisoft's Montreal studio.
GamePro: And there are more than a few ways that Altair can screw himself up along the way. Can you talk a little bit about the various human obstacles he comes across?
Patrice Desilets: I wanted a game where you don't just kill a room full of guards, and then the doors open. I wanted a character that is human, and human beings try to find other ways to solve problems than be simply eliminating it. Sometimes you go around the problem. So in a crowd, say, and you have civilians, and the only way of interacting with them is by killing, then you're a mass-murderer, not an assassin.
Microsoft confirms Seth Green as one of the voice talents heading to the Xbox 360 exclusive...
Most first dates are complicated and awkward. This one is no different.
From engadget.com (http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/13/second-xbox-360-arcade-spotted-in-the-wild/ ):
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Although there's still no official word from Microsoft about the Xbox 360 Arcade, we've just received a second picture of a boxed unit sitting on the shelves of a retail store: this time in a Methuen, MA store, only miles away from the unit spotted in Haverhill. New details include a Harry Potter / Lego Star Wars back, along with details on included games -- we can make out Uno, Pac-Man, Luxor 2, and two other indistinguishable logos.
If our eyes don't deceive us, that blurry pricetag is showing off a $280 pricetag.
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Last week, when I explained to authors how to keep their editors from hating them, I got some interesting feedback. In case you are dense: in this context, 'interesting feedback' means 'flame-tipped poison arrows of hatred' the same way that, in a rejection letter, 'I read with interest' means 'I basically did not read, and that which I read I did not read with anything remotely resembling interest.' But because I know that many of these authors' complaints are totally valid, and also because I'm a better, fairer person than any of my detractors (especially the commenter who complained about the freshly minted, "probably female" English lit grads who are too stupid to understand his genius - fuck you, asshole!), I decided to use this week's column as a venue for some of these complainy authors to vent their grievances. So read on for some Dos and Don'ts for editors that I'm sure we can all learn from.
"DO remember to pay us. Many third-rate authors are not independently wealthy and, (shock!), depend on the money that you owe us in order to perform everyday life things such as eat and buy a Metrocard."
A tiny rebuttal for this one: since most publishing houses are owned by gigantic parent companies, there's usually an elaborate and slow-moving Accounts Payable department that's far more to blame for any check-delaying screw-up than your editor is. But she should still be requesting your check in a timely manner, and if it's clear that she hasn't, she should hear about it. But not from you, from your agent, okay?
"Yes, I realize that publishing is a business and that you can't afford pay me the equivalent of hourly minimum wage for my book. However, since that is the case, I hope that you know that the amount of time it is going to take me to write my book is going to increase proportionally relative how little you pay me. It's hard to write a book in a month when I am busy whoring myself at Townhouse every night for rent money. So be prepared to lower your crazy expectations."
Hmm. Not much to add here. Except to say that publishers' ability to make galleys, which enable them to secure review coverage for your book, is mostly contingent on your ability to make your deadlines, no matter how crazy they may seem. Also, I hear the tips are better at the Monster.
"DON'T act like you are doing me a huge favor by publishing my book. Yes, I am eternally grateful (even if I have to remind myself of it sometimes), but being a published author is really not as great a reward as everyone seems to think. It doesn't even get me laid."
Sorry to hear it!
"DON'T lie to me. DON'T lie to me. DON'T lie to me."
This author is right -- editors shouldn't lie to authors, but sometimes we're forced to. Sometimes we're just trying not to hurt their feelings. And sometimes we're being loyal to our higher-ups, whose decisions we are paid to carry out. We aren't independently wealthy either, okay?
"DON'T think that if you ignore a problem it will go away."
"DO know that an apology for a massive, my-career-ruining mistake on your part will go a long way. There are ways of offering an apology in which you don't necessarily admit your own culpability. (Boilerplate: "I'm really sorry this happened.") Even that would help a tiny bit. DON'T think that "I'm sorry you are upset" counts."
I have to heartily second this one - in fact, it applies to everyone, no matter what you do for a living.
Let's say it all together: I'm really sorry this happened. There, was that so hard?
Unsolicited is written by an editor who prefers to stay anonymous in the (probably misguided) hopes of remaining one.
First let me say this: Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov had many opportunities to deny my Friday posting that he'd articulated a new decree to three different producers that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead", that a male has to be the lead of every pic made, and that he doesn't even [...]
The "Citron" Zune, which looks like citrus yellow, has been found by deep diving into the Zune software released today. Since Microsoft hasn't actually announced the color yet, we're thinking this is either an unreleased surprise for some promotional event—they've done many special editions for promotions before—or an old color that was scrapped at the last minute because little kids will say it looks like pee pee to last year's poo poo brown Zune. What do we think? More colors is better than fewer colors, and traffic cops can always use it to direct cars while jammin' to their tunes. [istartedsomething]
