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April 22, 2008 Breaking News
A NYCC News Round-Up... of Sorts
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:59:48 PDT
When you hit up a comic book convention there are many things to see and do. You can spend all your time in line for free sketches at the company booths. You can browse the retailers looking for deals. You can sit in on a panel or two. Before we started doing our video coverage of the con, we used to engage in a combination of all of the above. But now that we spend pretty much our entire time compiling footage for the show, we don't get to do most of those things. Someone came up to us and ask
GTA IV ads being pulled in Chicago
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:01:42 PDT
April 22, 2008 at 10:06 AM Fox News is reporting that Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is planning to pull down the advertising campaign for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV. Andy Roesgen, anchor of Fox News Chicago, detailed that Chicago had experienced an especially violent weekend in which two dozen people were shot. He went on to note that despite this advertisements for the unaplogetically violent video game Grand Theft Auto adorned CTA buses and platforms. The Fox report p
All Headline News Announces Free RSS News Reader
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:01 PDT
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The All Headline News has launched an RSS news feed reader to allow users of its website to be automatically informed of the latest news. In order to...
Week in video-game news (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:10:06 PDT
News from the virtual world:
The Greenest Way to Die: Liquification!
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:13:28 PDT
Within a tank called a resomator, the body is immersed in a 1:21 solution of potash lye and water. Gas-powered steam generators build up pressure within the tank as the temperature rises up to around 170 degrees celcius. Thanks to the pressure (and despite what the general news media would have you think) there is no boiling, only ...
David Caruso - Khandi Alexander?
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:17:41 PDT
The news surprised everyone. Khandi Alexander is leaving CSI Miami! People are hinting that it was not a "sweet good-bye". The whole story is indeed a bit fishy......
News Corp. in Deal to Acquire Newsday From Tribune, WSJ Says (Bloomberg.com)
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:48:58 PDT
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. reached an agreement in principle to acquire Newsday from Tribune Co., the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the decision.
Dnacing trees of Yunnan
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:58:11 PDT
Dnacing trees of Yunnan Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, April 22, 2008 4:20 PM Graham Earnshaw was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Beijing from 1980 to 1984, and he's been looking through his clippings, which seem to prove both that China has changed completely and also that China has stayed exactly the same. This spring and summer, Danwei will be publishing a series of these reports from the past. This is today's resurrected item: “Dancing Tree” Has Yen For Good Music By Graham Earnshaw in
New Zealand sells out to China
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:31:10 PDT
It seems china is consuming at breakneck speeds and a new free trade agreement has been sealed. New Zealand is the first developed nation to do this, a trend which may expand to other nations as well. It seems that this would be highly beneficial for China in the long run. Chinas first western colony?
Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 by 2013
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:16:53 PDT
Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and social networking tools will garner the bulk of the money, according to a report by Forrester Research. The report, released on Monday and penned by Forrester analyst G. Oliver Young, shows a few notable trends that are worth diving into. Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb first detailed...
Dear comScore, Thanks for not believing in us -- Google
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:48:32 PDT
Google shares soared today after its first-quarter earnings report, and the company has comScore to thank for much of its good fortunes. That's because many analysts had lowered their revenue and profit estimates for the quarter after comScore's tracking data suggested paid-click growth was trending flat to down.
Acer Announces Aspire 5920 Laptop with Built-in WiMax Module
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:45:14 PDT
Acer this week demonstrated a new version of its Acer Aspire 5920 laptop with a built-in WiMax module, with the aim of selling the laptop for use with Sprint's Xohm network and similar WiMax services worldwide. There's some dispute, though, about how exactly it will be sold. "The notebook will be sold along with WiMax service in a manner similar to the way mobile phones are sold along with service packages, said Trisha Pan, a product marketing manager at Acer, on the sidelines of a WiMax ne
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Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:59:48 PDT
When you hit up a comic book convention there are many things to see and do. You can spend all your time in line for free sketches at the company booths. You can browse the retailers looking for deals. You can sit in on a panel or two. Before we started doing our video coverage of the con, we used to engage in a combination of all of the above. But now that we spend pretty much our entire time compiling footage for the show, we don't get to do most of those things. Someone came up to us and ask
GTA IV ads being pulled in Chicago
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:01:42 PDT
April 22, 2008 at 10:06 AM Fox News is reporting that Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is planning to pull down the advertising campaign for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV. Andy Roesgen, anchor of Fox News Chicago, detailed that Chicago had experienced an especially violent weekend in which two dozen people were shot. He went on to note that despite this advertisements for the unaplogetically violent video game Grand Theft Auto adorned CTA buses and platforms. The Fox report p
All Headline News Announces Free RSS News Reader
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:01 PDT
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The All Headline News has launched an RSS news feed reader to allow users of its website to be automatically informed of the latest news. In order to...
Week in video-game news (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:10:06 PDT
News from the virtual world:
The Greenest Way to Die: Liquification!
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:13:28 PDT
Within a tank called a resomator, the body is immersed in a 1:21 solution of potash lye and water. Gas-powered steam generators build up pressure within the tank as the temperature rises up to around 170 degrees celcius. Thanks to the pressure (and despite what the general news media would have you think) there is no boiling, only ...
David Caruso - Khandi Alexander?
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:17:41 PDT
The news surprised everyone. Khandi Alexander is leaving CSI Miami! People are hinting that it was not a "sweet good-bye". The whole story is indeed a bit fishy......
News Corp. in Deal to Acquire Newsday From Tribune, WSJ Says (Bloomberg.com)
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:48:58 PDT
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. reached an agreement in principle to acquire Newsday from Tribune Co., the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the decision.
Dnacing trees of Yunnan
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:58:11 PDT
Dnacing trees of Yunnan Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, April 22, 2008 4:20 PM Graham Earnshaw was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Beijing from 1980 to 1984, and he's been looking through his clippings, which seem to prove both that China has changed completely and also that China has stayed exactly the same. This spring and summer, Danwei will be publishing a series of these reports from the past. This is today's resurrected item: “Dancing Tree” Has Yen For Good Music By Graham Earnshaw in
New Zealand sells out to China
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:31:10 PDT
It seems china is consuming at breakneck speeds and a new free trade agreement has been sealed. New Zealand is the first developed nation to do this, a trend which may expand to other nations as well. It seems that this would be highly beneficial for China in the long run. Chinas first western colony?
Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 by 2013
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:16:53 PDT
Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and social networking tools will garner the bulk of the money, according to a report by Forrester Research. The report, released on Monday and penned by Forrester analyst G. Oliver Young, shows a few notable trends that are worth diving into. Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb first detailed...
Dear comScore, Thanks for not believing in us -- Google
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:48:32 PDT
Google shares soared today after its first-quarter earnings report, and the company has comScore to thank for much of its good fortunes. That's because many analysts had lowered their revenue and profit estimates for the quarter after comScore's tracking data suggested paid-click growth was trending flat to down.
Acer Announces Aspire 5920 Laptop with Built-in WiMax Module
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:45:14 PDT
Acer this week demonstrated a new version of its Acer Aspire 5920 laptop with a built-in WiMax module, with the aim of selling the laptop for use with Sprint's Xohm network and similar WiMax services worldwide. There's some dispute, though, about how exactly it will be sold. "The notebook will be sold along with WiMax service in a manner similar to the way mobile phones are sold along with service packages, said Trisha Pan, a product marketing manager at Acer, on the sidelines of a WiMax ne
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