Posted in Games & Gadgets on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
After locking himself away in the studio for the past year, Phrase is back with a brand new single from his upcoming album Burn It Down.
Working with long-time collaborator/producer J-Skub (of Jackson Jackson fame), Phrase has created a stomping track that combines the elements of both rock and hip-hop to forge a new sound that [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Apple Inc.’s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones.
Dubbed Leopard, the upgrade went on sale at 6 p.m. local time Friday at stores around the world. It offers improvements to an operating system that [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.
Culminating weeks of negotiations, the investment announced Wednesday values Palo Alto-based Facebook at $15 billion _ a stunning figure for an online hangout started in a Harvard [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets, The Net on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Microsoft on Tuesday began US sales of a scaled-down Xbox 360 model billed by some analysts as a doomed bid to unseat Nintendo’s Wii console as ruler of the casual video game market.
“It is squarely targeted at the Wii,” Directions on Microsoft analyst Matt Rosoff told AFP.
Xbox 360 Arcade comes with five family-oriented video [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Police arrested the alleged operator of a file-sharing website, which specialized in distributing leaked albums on the Internet, a music industry group said Tuesday.
The 24-year-old British manager of OiNK was arrested following a two-year investigation by Dutch and British police, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said in a statement.
The site allows an estimated [...]
Posted in The Net on Oct 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Competition in China’s booming Internet sector has turned nasty ahead of the Beijing Olympics, with Sohu.com upsetting its rivals through a lucrative sponsorship deal that is now being challenged.
The Chinese portal paid a reported 30 million US dollars in 2005 for the rights to set up the Games website for the Beijing Olympics organising [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets on Oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
The Xbox 360 console will sell in Japan for 34,800 yen (US$304; euro213) from Nov. 1, down from 39,795 yen (US$348; euro244), the [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Skype is preparing to launch its own branded mobile phone in conjunction with the 3 mobile network as early as this month.
The phone is codenamed “white phone” and BusinessWeek reported it would launch in Australia, Britain, Italy and Hong Kong “by late October”.
A spokeswoman for 3 in Australia confirmed it was working with a [...]
Posted in Games & Gadgets on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Australia’s draconian classification regime for video games has taken yet another scalp, with local retailers banned from selling the upcoming shooter title Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back. The highly anticipated game, which was to be released on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, was refused classification by the Office of Film and Literature Classification [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday launched two new programs that allow people to place calls right from the Outlook e-mail program, but analysts say businesses won’t throw away their reliable office phone systems until the software maker’s tools are just as good.
The new programs build on server and desktop software Microsoft introduced in 2005 that [...]
