Archive for March 1st, 2004

New Hellboy Trailer Online this Week

Sony Pictures has alerted Superhero Hype! that the new trailer for writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy, starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt, Jeffrey Tambor and Karel Roden, will premiere online this week.
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7 percent of American adults blogging

The Pew Internet and American Life Project, in a study released Sunday, found that somewhere between 2% and 7% of adult Internet users in the United States keep their own blogs.
Of those, only about 10% update them daily, the majority doing so only once a week or less often.
Some bloggers indeed update their [...]

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Ad-aware vs Spybot S&D

Spybot S&D failed to detect were more than twice as many as Ad-aware’s. Ad-aware not only proved to be able to find more infected objects, but has superior usability. Ad-aware also has a very active support forum with over 41,000 members and more than 144,000 posts. Spybot S&D also has a support forum, though I [...]

More Employees Laid Off By Text Message

This isn’t the first time (and unlikely to be the last), but a group of striking workers in Korea have been laid off by text message by their employer. While the initial reaction to this is likely to be one of outrage over the method (as has been the case in similar stories in [...]

Caller ID for E-Mail Specs

Caller ID for E-Mail Technical Specification: The Next Step to Deterring Spam
“Caller ID for E-Mail: The Next Step to Deterring Spam” is Microsoft’s draft specification to address the widespread problem of domain spoofing. (Domain spoofing refers specifically to the use of someone else’s domain name when sending a message, and is part of the larger [...]

NICOLAS CAGE as IRON FIST?

With its Marvel Enterprises property “The Punisher” ready to hit theaters in the spring, Lions Gate Entertainment said Thursday that it has further pacted with Marvel for a “Punisher II” sequel and also is developing two more Marvel films, based on the characters of Iron Fist and Black Widow.
The first film in the planned [...]

2004 Oscar Award Winners

LOTR: Return of the King took home all of the 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated including best picture and best director (Peter Jackson) categories. Charlize Theron won best actress for her performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster, and Sean Penn was named best actor for his role as a [...]

Intel delays 3GHz Prescott

A report on today’s Digitimes wire said that Intel has put off the introduction of 90 nanometre 3GHz Prescotts until April, when it will switch it to the 775 Socket T packaging and not, as originally planned, a 478 pin arrangement.
If the report is true, it is very bad news for Intel. It introduced the [...]

Doom 3 Xbox details

While Microsoft announced way back at last year’s E3 that Doom 3 is Xbox-bound, we’ve had very little in the way of details on it. Although the fact that development didn’t start on the Xbox version of the game until last July - two months after it was first confirmed - may have something to [...]