Archive for January 2nd, 2004

Uma Thurman Action Figure from Kill Bill

NECA has updated their news page with a picture of the Bride, one of the action figures in their first series of Kill Bill figures. The Bride is played by Uma Thurman. The Kill Bill action figures are made to a seven-inch scale, and in addition to the Bride, the first series will include O-Ren [...]

Superman Turns 200 this Month

This month, the current volume of Superman hits issue #200. To celebrate, DC is putting in all-new creative teams on each of the Superman titles in February. Brian Azzarello and Jim Lee will write and pencil Superman. Greg Rucka, Matt Clark and Nelson DeCastro will be on Adventures of Superman, and Chuck Austen, Ivan Reis [...]

The Sopranos Return on March 7

Just as Sex and the City bids farewell February 22, the fifth season of The Sopranos will kick off March 7 with the first of 13 new episodes, says Variety.
Fans of HBO’s signature drama series are certainly champing at the bit in anticipation of what happens next to the New Jersey mob family. The last [...]

Welling talks “Superman”

While on his promotional tour promoting “Cheaper by the Dozen,” Tom Welling has admitted that he believes that people will see him as Clark Kent for years to come and it is, for that reason, he is open to playing Superman in the new “Superman” movie from Warner Bros.
While speaking on the Howard Stern Show, [...]

VoIP Advances And Trends For 2004

So everyone’s top-tech predictions for 2004 says it will be the year of VoIP. What does that really mean? This may narrow it down. Here’s Voxilla’s list of the top-10 advances and trends in the world of VoIP. On the list: VoIP and cellular converges, IP phones take over, Chinese and Mexican phone numbers come [...]

Browsers are no longer the #1 reason for the Internet

There is an article on the UK Yahoo that according to figures from Nielsen//NetRatings that Media players and instant-messaging applications are now by far the most popular internet applications. According to the article:
The most popular application in December was Windows Media Player, reaching 34 per cent of internet users; AOL Instant Messenger (20.27 per [...]

Your Next OS: Windows 2006?

The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, is still in the early stages of its journey to the retail corral, but our hands-on look at a preview reveals features we’d love to have now–while raising some intriguing questions.
In addition to the interface revisions, including the new Sidebar, that we saw in our first glimpse [...]