Archive for November, 2005

The New Ma Bell Sure Does Like A La Carte TV

On Monday, we wrote about telco plans to offer TV over fiber — pointing out that the plans seemed too conservative. They were too much like what cable TV already offers, rather than leveraging the technology to offer something new. On Tuesday, the FCC suddenly announced that it had changed its mind and [...]

New WoW Reputation Rewards Revealed

Three PvP realms and one PvE realm open in North America.
The World of Warcraft website tells the tale of an updated Reputation Rewards page and four new realms for citizens scattered throughout North America. First and foremost, WoW subscribers who hold off on killing members of the Timbermaw Hold long enough to achieve Friendly, Honored, [...]

Skype 2.0 Offers Free Video Calling (AP)

AP - Skype is upgrading its popular Internet telephone service to add video calling and a toolbar for Microsoft Outlook to find and dial contacts with a click.
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‘Lost’ Takes Top Family-Friendly Honors (AP)

AP - ABC’s “Lost” and CBS’s “King of Queens” took top family-friendly honors Wednesday at the seventh annual Family Television Awards.
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City of Villains Lord Recluse file

TOP SECRET A REPORT TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF SUPERPOWERED AFFAIRS by AGENT INDIGO on LORD RECLUSE.
boomtown.net

Xbox 360s for $800? Not just on eBay.

In a surprising find, retailer JCPenney is apparently selling the premium version of the Xbox 360 for a whopping $800 online.
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Win an X-Men 3 Prize Pack

Win a A 4-day, 3-night trip for two to the ‘X3′ premiere location including airfare and hotel
Two tickets to the premiere of X3, the upcoming 2006 X-MEN flick and a chance to meet members of X3 cast.
comics2film.com

Yahoo drinks the RSS Koolaid in a big way!

Yahoo has fully integrated RSS into Yahoo Mail where you can now have your RSS feeds in you mailbox and they have also got it tied to Yahoo Alerts so that you can be notified when a RSS feed updates. Personally I think the alerts portion is a little over the top. But If you [...]

“Hills” Remake Too Intense For An ‘R’?

Wes Craven’s 1977 horror classic “The Hills Have Eyes”, in which a suburban family are terrorised in the desert by a family of inbred mutants, was considered too intense and disturbing at the time. Now according to Craven himself, the remake is even more shocking, intense and gory - enough that the American ratings board, [...]

Self-Healing Computers Still A Long Way Off

It’s been a few years now since IBM made a big announcement about plans for self-healing “autonomic” computing systems, and while there have been some advancements in the space, they’ve been slow. Business Week now has the latest report, which tries to sound up-beat, but it still seems like the advancements are still coming [...]