“Apple Computer is expected next week to expand its online music service to Windows-based computers. The Mac maker has scheduled an event for next Thursday at San Francisco’s Moscone West convention hall. ‘The year’s biggest music story is about to get even bigger,’ Apple said in an invitation to journalists.” Tweet Lockergnome
Daily Archives: October 11, 2003
Directors Ask MPAA to Repeal Screener Ban
Spike Jonze, Martin Scorsese, Sofia and Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Redford are among the 142 directors urging Jack Valenti of the MPAA to repeal the recent screener ban, which gives the 5,600 Academy Awards voters no choice but to catch most movies in theaters. This unfairly disadvantages independent films that usually have a limited…
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Gets Another Developer
In the ever continuing saga of Valve’s Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, the game now has yet another developer working on it according to reports appearing all over the Internet this morning. The developer, Turtle Rock Studios, has taken over the reign with content after the current developer Ritual didn’t step up to the plate and produce…
Intel Chairman Says U.S. Is Losing Edge
One of the founding fathers of the nation’s high-technology industry warned in dire terms yesterday that U.S. dominance in key tech sectors is in jeopardy, threatening the country’s economic recovery and growth. Speaking via satellite to a global technology summit in Washington, Intel Corp. co-founder and chairman Andrew S. Grove said that the software and…
The Future Of RSS
Via Robin Good: “Users are getting wary of spam and promotions they are getting in their email inboxes. Many of them think that this is due to the fact that they have subscribed to newsletters that in turn have resold their emails to nasty advertisers. This makes people less willing to subscribe to newsletters on…
Star Wars Galaxies update
At a recent press event held by LucasArts, producer Haden Blackman disclosed new details on the current state of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, as well as new information about future additions to the game. As Blackman mentioned, players have already discovered how to unlock a “force-sensitive” character slot–a character that may eventually become…
Kill Bill: Volume 1
This movie is definitely worth a trip (or two) to the theater if you’re a fan of ridiculously bloody action, amazing fight sequences, or Quentin Tarantino films in general. If you’re looking for a dialogue heavy crime caper that comes across like Pulp Fiction part 2, or if the sight of limbs being hacked off…
