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Astonishing X-MenMarc-Oliver Frisch follows up on his post about DC’s convention announcements with one on Marvel’s, where he covers the new Spider-Man creative teams, Millar & Hitch on Fantastic Four and the new Astonishing X-Men creative team:
Rather than putting all their eggs in one basket (see the competition’s Final Crisis), Marvel announced a whole bunch [...]

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(InfoWorld) - With the launch of its K770 Cyber-shot phone,?Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications hopes to narrow the quality gap?between dedicated digital cameras and mobile phones with integrated cameras.

The slim 14.5 millimeter phone, announced Wednesday, offers a range of features found in most quality digital cameras, including auto focus and 3x digital zoom.
A sliding cover protects the lens. Once in camera mode, the 1.9 inch screen becomes a viewfinder. Illuminated icons, which appear across the keypad, serve as one-click shortcuts to each of the camera's main functions, such as picture size and light.
The new Photo fix feature offers photo editing directly on the 3.2-megapixel phone, allowing users to correct photos taken under poor lighting conditions.
With a USB (Universal Serial Bus) cable, users can transfer photos to PCs, send them directly to a printers with the PictBridge application or upload them to the Internet. Pictures can be printed in A4 size.
The 256MB memory card can hold up to 200 high-quality photos.
The music features include wireless stereo headsets using short-range Bluetooth technology and a FM radio.
But the K770 is a phone, too.
The tri-band handset operates on the three frequencies used for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and 3G (third-generation) technologies: 900, 1800 and 1900.
The phone will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007. Pricing information was not immediately available.

The hip-hop festival mixed the old (A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde) with the new (Kidz in the Hall, Tyga) in San Bernardino.
A few key gameplay additions and enhancements make this year's Madden great despite some unseemly flaws.
TechIQ: "It's decision time again. The VAR Guy has a MacBook Pro at work and a Dell PC running Ubuntu Linux at home. He loves both systems. But now he needs another home computer for his family. Which platform will he choose...?"
How pissed off would you be!? :@
....He also claimed that Sony appears to have failed to recognize the need to widen the gamer demographic, saying that a combination of high-priced hardware and its in-house-developed games are failing to make the system adequately accessible. Nintendo's Wii console has not "changed thinking" at LucasArts despite its runaway popularity, according to Ward, although the company did make it a platform for development once the breadth of its success became clear.
Cyndi Lauper has launched a scathing attack on President George W. Bush - accusing the U.S. leader of being "anti-American" and homophobic. The Girls Just Want To Have Fun singer toured America last year (Jun07) on her annual True Colors trek - a gay rights touring revue to raise awareness of homophobia
30th anniversary black and white 30 photo set, Star Wars Fan Days, and 15% off all orders online!
Ripten.com asks gamers, marketing aside, which game delivers on it's next gen football promise?
"Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg and his childhood pals have made the move from a cramped apartment to a movie set with "Hot Rod."
While AT&T doesn't use tools to block wireless users from file sharing, it's clearly not condoning it.
In an attempt to speed delivery of development tools, Microsoft will ship a preview of the 'next' release after Visual Studio 2008.
Blizzard designer dismisses fan petition to return to series' muted color palette, saying "there's no going back now."
I was late to work this morning because I spent about half an hour staring at this
Rush Hour 3 Billboard in midtown, rubbing my eyes every couple minutes and looking at it again, finding something else to laugh at, and repeating this over and over about six more times. Check it out.
1 - Chris Tucker's face is 100% serious (110% if you count "intensity" as double percent serious). He is never this serious at any point in either of the two movies, even when killing people, rescuing children, or learning to appreciate Chinese food.
2 - Glass is breaking all around Tucker's fist for no discernable reason. Where is it coming from? And why is he punching through glass?
3 - Chris Tucker's fist is bigger than his frickin' head. Why is this poster so aggressive? And how did he punch through the glass left handed? And does he usually punch with really calculated, perfectly-formed boxing jabs?
4 - The Eiffel Tower (stamp?) is tossed into the photo to remind us that the film takes place in France and thus, there will be ample opportunity for people to not understand the words coming out of Chris Tucker's mouth.
5 - While this isn't funny on the billboard, the movie's website,
Rushhourmovie.com, looks like a
Geocities site left over from the first Rush Hour movie during the late 90s. The music on the homepage also repeats every seven seconds -- it's like its own really poorly made
YTMND.
Romance is tough among sandpeople.

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kripkenstein notes an analysis up on TechRepublic detailing how Microsoft beat Linux in China, and the consequences of that victory: "With the soon-to-be largest economy standardized on Windows desktops, desktop Linux does seem to have an uphill battle ahead of it." "Linux has turned out to be little more than a key bargaining chip in a high stakes game of commerce between the Chinese government and the world's largest software maker... The fact that... Linux failed to gain a major foothold in China is yet another blow to desktop Linux. After nearly eight years of being on the verge of a breakthrough, Linux seems more destined than ever to be a force in the server room but little more than a narrow niche and an anomaly on the desktop."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The CNN/YouTube Democratic Party candidate debate on Monday has sparked a wide variety of commentary. Much of it has been fairly positive despite a few moments during the event that bordered on ridiculous. The debate invited YouTube users across the country to record themselves asking the candidates questions and post the videos on the site.
Skip WilliamsonOne time underground cartoonist Skip Williamson, creator of Snappy Sammy Smoot, among other things, wants you to know he is currently in the midst of blogging his autobiography, which includes such juicy details of his time spent working for Playboy:
We ran into Bonnie at the bistro where we’d chosen to swill. Wearing a short [...]
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The Casual Connect Seattle conference last week established that there's plenty of interest in developing and monetizing the class, which appeals to a broad and lucrative audience. As with too many endeavors, however, the path to profit is still murky.

Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony - Titans of the videogame industry and sworn enemies on the console battlefield. But which of gaming's Big Three is winning the war in 2007 so far? Well, using the monthly US hardware sales figures released by market researchers NPD Group, we've tallied up the past six months worth of numbers (Jan-June) to find out how consoles and handhelds have fared in the States during the first half of 2007. Here are the results:
Total US hardware sales January-June 2007
DS: 2.7 million
Wii: 2.1million
Xbox 360: 1.3 million
PSP: 1.3 million
PS3: 763k

After dissing Clive Davis in Blender magazine—"I get you don't like my album. You're 80; you're not supposed to"—Kelly's now singing a different...
I have no idea on this one...
"The Dark Knight" took in a record box-office haul of $155.3 million, while "Mamma Mia!" debuted at #2 and "Hancock" landed at #3.
In the wake of a patent battle between Broadcom and Qualcomm, a Verizon deal with Broadcom enables it to continue to import certain devices work with its 3G EV-DO network.

Even though a lot of what's new is a bit rough around the edges, NCAA Football 08 is a great game with a lot to offer.

With a Mercury Prize nomination for their second full-length under their belts, Arctic Monkeys have added dates to their world tour, which now includes stops in the U.S. and Brazil in addition to a couple of Canadian festival dates.
The new dates begin in early September, but the Monkeys have quite a few shows before then in Europe, Australia, and Japan. Their next show is tonight (July 18) in Lisbon, Portugal. [MORE...]
Apple's iPhone may be the hottest gadget to fly off store shelves in recent history, but for the IT department at Duke University, the innovative mobile phones could be the reason for the wireless network disruptions plaguing the campus. The problem possibly lies in the phone's built-in 802.11b/g adapters.
So many prices, you wont believe your eyes!
Described as an action RPG, this game becomes the fourth entry in the "Compilation of Final Fantasy VII" project which includes Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII for mobile, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children for DVD and Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus for PS2. Three new shots show why you'll need this game come September.
This bi-chronical watch from Fossil has a hard time explaining exactly what it is it does to its parents thanks to its dual analog and digital face. The left side is analog, reading numbers in a vertical configuration, whereas the main chunk of the rest of the face has two hands and tells time in an analog fashion. Does this look cool? Definitely. Will you be totally confused if you accidentally change one time to be slightly off from the other? You bet. [Fossil via Fossil via Technabob]


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Ever want to be Darth Vader's secret apprentice and learn the intricacies of the Dark Side of the Force? If you can wait until an undetermined date sometime in 2008. Lucasarts gave us a sneak peek at
The story is set inbetween Episodes III (Revenge of the Sith) and IV (A New Hope), and your character is tasked with the dirty job of mopping up all of the remaining Jedi around the universe. Nothing rubs out those dirty Jedi stains like the Dark Side, now available in a convenient gel form.
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Billy Bob Thornton's Charlie Farmer chases his unbelievable space dreams in these DVD extras, including two exclusives.
Christian Svensson, Capcom's Sr. Director of Strategic Planning & Research has been providing Nintendo fans with tons of details about the company and possible upcoming details the past few weeks. Today was no exception, as Svensson once again divulged quite a bit of new information. First, some of you may remember Dead Phoenix, a game that Capcom showed off for the GameCube years ago. The game drew many comparisons to Kid Icarus, but eventually, the game slid under the radar and was canned. A good portion of the gaming community hoped for the revival of the game, perhaps by partially remolding the game as we knew it. Unfortunately, it looks like not even this is possible. Said Svensson, "As far as CEI resurrecting it, frankly, we have enough things on our plate at the moment and enough ideas in the pipeline that we don't need to be going back to that well."
Other info from the news post
- Monster Hunter 3 moved to Wii not only because of the high PS3 development costs that we heard about a few months ago
- Dead Rising remake won't be coming to the Wii, nor is there any new details on a new DR game
Full story at the link
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Typically when we hear the term ?unrated? applied to a DVD it?s an attempt from a horror movie to sneak a little bit of extra gore in. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn?t; usually it doesn?t ? after all, that deleted material being put back in was cut for a reason. Because I?m so cautious about that ?unrated? label, it catches me a little off guard when it?s applied to films outside of the horror genre, especially serious dramas.
Nisus Writer Pro is now available, after an extensive public beta test.

IGN have spent some time with the new Turok game. If you own an Xbox 360 or PS3, this is definitely one to look out for!
Taser International is teasing us, saying that next monday we will be able to incapacitate enemies, evil car salesmen and unfriendly mothers-in-law by shooting their new tiny eXtended Range Electronic Projectile from a 12-gauge shotgun. But what's this XREP coming out of that barrel above?

The XREP is a taser which only weights 2.4 grams and has a volume of 0.1 cubic inches. So basically, it's a bullet that won't kill but convert the target into a trembling mass of Jell-o. Blue Jell-o hopefully. Yummy.
However, don't get yourself neuro-muscularly excited yet: even while the technology seems to be ready for demos, it will only start to get field tests this fall to be released in 2008.

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