Textually is pointing out that a new study in South Korea shows that kids there are staying away from email, saying that it’s mainly for old people. They only use email when they want to communicate with their “elders.” When communicating with friends, they’d much rather use SMS, instant messaging or the web. [...]
If you’re finding the current iPod mini colors to be a little too festive, you might want to invest five bucks on black “carbon fiber” skin or seven bucks on this Matrix-inspired one (pictured above) that’ll convery your shiny happy iPod mini into something a little more somber. There’re actually a bunch of [...]
Browser is gaining in popularity, but not necessarily at the office.
The Firefox Web browser has been causing a commotion among users and snaring snippets of market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer since June–long before Version 1.0 of the open-source software was officially released earlier this month. But statistics suggest that corporate users aren’t the major [...]
Lucy Liu (”Kill Bill” films) has signed to guest star in at least two upcoming episodes of NBC’s Joey , reuniting her with “Charlie’s Angels” love interest Matt LeBlanc.
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Comic Book Biz: New Line, Marvel sign ‘Iron’ man — New Line Cinema and Marvel Studios have signed Nick Cassavetes to direct “Iron Man,” a feature based on the Marvel character. Although Cassavetes is currently shooting “Alpha Dog,” Marvel and New Line plan to begin casting immediately. The film is scheduled for a 2006 bow.
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Sony Pictures Imageworks announced refinements in its digital human R&D. During the same panel, Sony Pictures Imageworks president Tim Sarnoff reported that the company’s work in this area is “so far advanced beyond “Spider-Man 2,” which is now two-year-old technology.” He said that moviegoers will see far more complex digital actors in future superhero movies, [...]
Google’s effort, until now secret, is arguably the most ambitious of the three. According to sources familiar with the plan, the search giant is courting broadcasters and cable networks with a new technology that would do for television what it has already done for the Internet: sort through and reveal needles of video clips from [...]
IGN is reporting that Valve has won a court battle over the non authorised distribution of its games to cyber cafes by Vivendi.
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Greetings, fellow Heroes of Paragon City!
NCSoft has announced the coming of three ‘official’ European City of Heroes websites. They will be available in English, French, and German.
The English site went live on Monday, November 29th. Check it out!
The French and German sites are planned to go live in December.
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Most of the desktop computers in the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions were paralyzed for four days on Monday, when a failed upgrade took them offline. The outage, covering 75 percent to 80 percent of the DWP’s 80,000 PCs, is one of the largest in the UK government’s not entirely impressive IT history.
And possibly [...]
