A full trailer for the highly anticipated HEROES Season 3 has shown up over at NBC.com! While the full plot for season 3 hasn’t been revealed, we know that there will be more villains than one can shake a stick at. Tweet
Daily Archives: July 17, 2008
AMD CEO Steps Down
AMD announced today that Hector Ruiz is stepping down from his position as chief executive officer in favor of President and COO Dirk Meyer, who was elected by the board of directors to fill the newly opened position; in turn, will become executive chairman of AMD and chair of the board of directors. Ruiz, 62,…
Latest TiVo update brings YouTube with it
As a part of the v9.4 update to TiVo HD and Series 3 set-top boxes, support was added for YouTube H.264 videos — a feature TiVo was announced in the spring. Tweet
Wrath of the Lich King goes beta
On a Thursday night after all the E3 shenanigans (and during our party, no less), we have word that Blizzard has begun the Wrath of the Lich King beta. Sources have told WoW Insider that the alpha phase reportedly shut down a few days ago and that invites should be going out soon for the…
Study: Women Comprise 40 Percent of U.S. Gamers
Forty percent of gamers are women according to a new survey released today by the video game industry’s trade group, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). Tweet Source
Amazon’s Streaming Video on Demand Service Rolls Out Today in Beta, Works With Bravia Video Link [Video On Demand]
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Today Amazon is launching a beta of Amazon Video On Demand, which will stream TV and movies from all the major studios (save for Disney/ABC, which is still in bed with Apple) and take the place of Unbox. The service will instantly stream rentals or download purchases to your PC. But Amazon also has plans…
Gmail is the Spammers Choice
A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply. Spam has been pretty ridiculously high for the last few weeks, although there is not hard evidence that this is the actual source of it. Is gmail’s spam filters are declining these…
Firefox Update 3.0.1 and 2.0.0.16
Firefox updated to 3.0.1 and 2.0.0.16 to fix some minor updates and one major one – if you have Safari and Firefox installed. The “Carpet bomb” opened up the gateway in which a remote machine could take control of the computer. Safari released a fix back in June to plug this hole on their side.…
ExtremeTech’s Gaming Headset Roundup
ExtremeTech rounds up seven recent PC gaming headsets: Pulsar SX Headphones, Turtle Beach Ear Force X4, Astro A40 Audio System, Ideazon Banshee Headset, SteelSeries 5H v2, SteelSeries Siberia, Razer Piranha, E.D.G.E. Acoustics GX400. Tweet Source
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Act Two Online Now
The second chapter in Joss Whedon’s epic new online project Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is online and it still doesn’t come with sheet music. Tweet
