Archive for February 3rd, 2004
When There’s No More Room in Hell… The Dead Will Walk the Earth!
Where a group of four mismatched survivors take refuge from a zombie plague inside a shopping mall.
Get caught up on your flesh eating zombies with this official comics adaptation by Steve Niles and new art star Chee GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DAWN OF [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Comic Books | Comments Off
Following the recent announcement that hit animation studio Pixar will sever their ties with The Walt Disney Company following their next two releases, The Incredibles and Cars (see ‘PIXAR SEVER TIES WITH DISNEY‘), comes the news that the company has met with Marvel Studios with a view to a possible partnership.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Comic Books | Comments Off
Star Wars time again. The Rebel Scum fan website is reporting that in recent presentations at London’s Toy Fair event, Lucasfilm marketing partner TLC Marketing revealed once again that Lucasfilm plans to release Episodes 4, 5 and 6 on DVD format in October or November of 2004. This is just one more piece in a [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
What in the living hell is this? you might ask. A model kit? A new Alien bust from Palisades Toys? Oh, but wait, there’s CDs…or DVDs in its head. What could it be?
Chew on this: It’s the Japanese packaging for the Alien Quadrilogy! All the same exhaustive special features are there, the disc count is [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
After successfully relaunching the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a mini-series in December, Sci Fi Channel picked up the options last week on its top cast members, which include Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and Katee Sackhoff.
The Hollywood Reporter says the cable network is aiming to bow “Galactica” as a full-fledged series as early as fourth-quarter [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jaume, best known as a commercial director, will be directing the “House of Wax” horror remake for Dark Castle Production and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Production is set to begin in mid-April in Australia. The film will tell the story of a hot young female named Carly Foster who, along her friends, [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
Prescott’s here. Intel’s newest Pentium IV will initially ship in 2.8, 3.0, and 3.2 GHz flavors, with a 3.4 GHz model real soon now. The company also announced a 3.4 GHZ Pentium 4 Extreme Edition and a 3.4 GHz Northwood-based PIV. The Prescott will sport twice the L1 and L2 cache, dedicated integer multiplier, [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Hardware | Comments Off
First MSN launched a test version of its MSNBot Web crawler. Then it launched a beta of a new MSN toolbar. Finally, it’s delivered a beta of its new MSN Search engine.
Microsoft Watch
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Software | Comments Off
Google Inc. is opening a research and development (R&D) center in Zurich and is looking to recruit European engineers and computer scientists, the company announced on its Web site Tuesday.
Infoworld
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Technology | Comments Off
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it had yet to be affected by a Mydoom-B worm-induced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which anti-virus software companies predicted would be fairly easy for the software company to fend off. Unlike The SCO Group Inc.’s site, which has been assailed by a denial of service (DoS) attack from [...]
February 3rd, 2004 | Posted in Software | Comments Off