Archive for December, 2004

Wolverine, Justice League, Man-Thing, Ant-Man: December 29th Comic Reel Wrap

Logan’s scriptwriter talks about the Canucklehead crossing blades with some of Elektra’s friends, while the League returns to the small screen next month, Marvel’s already-done horror film may see widespread release after all and the company’s also looking at making a “smaller” film.
comicbookresources.com

“Green Lantern: Rebirth” #1 Gets Fourth Printing

Official Press ReleaseThree weeks after arriving in stores on December 1, the GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH #1 Third Printing has sold out at DC Comics, with a new, fourth printing of the miniseries’ debut issue already on press. GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH #1 Fourth Printing SEP048399 is scheduled to arrive in stores on January 12. [...]

Thunderbird 1.0

Thunderbird is a feature-rich, fully customizable e-mail client with a very clean interface. Available as a free download, it’s worth a try if you use POP3 or IMAP4 for e-mail.
pcmag.com

Santy Worm Variants Spreading

As we reported last week, Google had been used by the "Santy.A” worm to infect websites using vulnerable versions of phpBB. Google has since disallowed such search attempts by the worm, by simply not listing vulnerable sites in their search results.
Variants are now attempting to exploit search engines offered by Yahoo and AOL, targeting sites [...]

AOL members report significantly less spam in 2004

America Online has declared 2004 a “banner year” in its fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, most commonly referred to as spam.
infoworld.com

Inspiration: Steam-Powered Supercar

Hepped up, hot rodding sister site Jalopnik reports that steam is hot—especially inside of cars, where a British Steam Car Challenge team plans to put the gaseous gas vapor. The ‘Inspiration’ is a 300 horsepower steam-fired car that might just hit 200mph with an turbine that will hit almost 12,000 rpm. The English engineers are [...]

PeopleSoft CEO Duffield Resigns

With Oracle due to take possession of his company in a few days, PeopleSoft CEO David Duffield quietly resigns from the company he founded in 1987.
eweek.com

Playing Net movies on your TV

New devices that bridge the online divide are widely available, but getting legal content is still a work in progress.
com.com

Sid Meier’s Pirates!

Fans of the original Pirates! game, which was originally released in 1987, have awaited the release with Sid Meier’s Pirates! with both excitement and trepidation. There is always danger invovled in messing with a classic title, that of changing the game too much. Oftentimes consistency beats change, hands-down.
This remake of Pirates!, without going any further, [...]

Changing Gamers

Kids have come to expect so much from video games these days that the very thought of going back to the classics is almost enough to send them into a coma. 1UP gives us the reactions of six kids who spent a little time playing a few older games. Some of their comments are truly [...]