Archive for June 5th, 2003

Blog noise is ‘life or death’ for Google

Sick of blog noise polluting the Google search results? We didn’t realize how popular this idea would be. Evidently, the quality of information is dear to the hearts of many readers.
It’s also dear to the hearts of Google engineers, who privately acknowledge the problem.
Blogs aren’t the only problem Google faces on the issue. [...]

ATI Denies The End Of “Built by ATI”

ATI Technologies informed us that the company will continue selling its own premier quality graphics cards sold under “Built by ATI” brand-name. The company said that our yesterday’s statement from over this news-story was not correct.
Markham, Ontario-based company said this morning that the company will continue to supply the whole range of its graphics cards, [...]

Behold the Nautilus!

Official LXG site offers tour of Nemo’s sub.
The official film site for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has been updated with a virtual tour of Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus.
The feature allows you to navigate through the interior of the sub, exploring its various compartments and gadgetry. You can visit the Map Room and the [...]

Resident Evil: Apocalyspe

New details surface on 2004’s movie sequel. Jill Valentine to costar!
June 05, 2003 - It was revealed in the latest issue of Wizard Magazine (Issue 142, July 2003) that the film formerly known as Resident Evil: Nemesis is now definitely in the production process. Renamed Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the feature film sequel will once again [...]

Sony picks up Marvel’s “Luke Cage”

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Columbia Pictures is picking up the rights to Marvel Comics’ “Luke Cage” for a possibly movie deal. Luke Cage is the comic book world’s most recognizable African-American superhero.
Columbia is moving forward on the project, tapping Ben Ramsey (”The Big Hit”) to write the script. Marvel’s Avi Arad will produce, along [...]

Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firebird?

A few years ago it was Netscape that wasn’t keeping up forcing tons of users to switch over to IE4 in the late 90’s. How hard will it be for Mozilla and Firebird to do the same thing and gain support on the browser war with IE bundled into Windows. For many, IE is all [...]

Winamp’s creator is fed up with AOL

Justin Frankel’s company, Nullsoft, was one of several gobbled up by AOL, but he’s apparently not happy about his company’s latest development, Waste, being pulled as soon as it was released. Now, as CNet reports, he has posted a note on his personal Web site saying: “The company controls the most effective means of [...]

Fast TCP Technology To Accelerate Downloads

California Institute of Technology computer scientists have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds.
The protocol is called FAST, standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The researchers have achieved a speed of 8,609 megabits per [...]

ATI To Stop Making Own Cards?

ATI may take a cue from Nvidia and cease in-house production of most of their cards. ATI would still produce All-in-Wonders in house, but would only make VPUs for the other cards and would leave it to them to create the cards.

Halo PC Details

The Halo FAQ on Bungie.net has a couple of new entries with details on beta and demo plans, saying a playable demo will be released shortly after the PC version (hopefully not the same shortly that the PC version is following the Xbox version) and that while they are definitely planning to beta test the [...]