Thursday, November 5, 2009
Activision Q3 Edges Guidance; No Change In Full Year View
Activision Blizzard this afternoon posted slightly better-than-expected Q3 results, and reiterated its previous guidance for the full year.
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Facebook “What People Are Up To,” MySpace “What People Are Into,” News Corp. Exec Says
News Corp.’s digital chief said Thursday that the company’s social-networking property MySpace is going in a different direction than rival Facebook, based on how its members socialize and share interests.
EMI Sues Site Over Beatles Songs
The Beatles catalog finally became available for paid digital downloading, but not the way the band’s record label, EMI Group Ltd., intended.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Be Careful What You Wish For
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Disney Plans Get a Cold Reception Online
Walt Disney won’t make Shanghai the happiest place in the world.
That’s the early reaction from a surprising number of netizens, or Chinese Internet users, to confirmation early Wednesday that plans for Shanghai Disneyland have the green light to proceed. Of the posts streaming into tianya.cn, a major portal, early Wednesday, the negative views were solidly outweighing positive views.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Big Expectations for the Next “Call of Duty”
Activision Blizzard’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” a first-person-shooter videogame, is coming out Nov. 10, and anticipation is mounting.
Specialty retailer GameStop has been taking pre-orders since last April, much earlier than most games.
A Tweet Unleashes Vitriol on a User in Britain
In the realm of Twitter insults, it was at the far end of mild.
Monday, November 2, 2009
App Watch: A Matchmaker in a Sea of Apps
One of the frequently heard complaints about iPhone applications is that with more than 85,000 options, finding good ones can be tricky and time-consuming. Could the answer be yet another app?
Envio Networks on Tuesday is launching Chorus, a free app that shows users the ones their friends are trying out and suggests ones that might interest them. The Andover, Mass.-based company, which has received funding from Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, specializes in social-networking technology and saw the Apple device as a good showcase for what it can do.
Will iPhone Lead the Growth in Portable Gaming?
At its media event in early September, Apple threw down the gauntlet to Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. Dedicated gaming gadgets like the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable “seemed so cool,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of marketing, but “they don’t stack up against the iPod touch.”
Friday, October 30, 2009
Reading the Tea Leaves at Nintendo
When Nintendo’s top brass gathered in Tokyo to speak to analysts Friday, they admitted they had been caught off-guard by the slowdown in Wii demand.
To the dismay of analysts and fans, they did not announce a new Wii console, as some had hoped, or a revolutionary new game.
Seth MacFarlane Is Too Much for Microsoft, but “South Park” and “Two and a Half Men” Are No Problem
When Microsoft made the decision this week to drop out as the sole sponsor of Fox’s upcoming special “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show,” the software giant said, “The content was not a fit with the Windows brand.”
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Esquire Flirts With Digital Reality
Hollywood stars are going virtual, in the latest effort to jazz up the printed word–and wake up consumers who have become inured to traditional ads.
Hearst Corp.’s Esquire magazine will pepper its December issue with markers that trigger interactive video segments featuring cover subject Robert Downey Jr. and other actors, as well as an ad for Lexus.
A Front-Row Seat for Media’s Meltdown
During a visit to Hollywood last week, I wanted to talk to people who knew a thing or two about the film industry’s burgeoning meltdown.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Astro Boy’s Retrofuturistic World Has Hints of Real-Life Tech
When Astro Boy debuted as a Japanese manga comic almost 50 years ago, people had an out-of-this world notion of what the future would look like.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Cult Musician Mojo Nixon Storms the Web
Cult musician Mojo Nixon hasn’t had a hit in years, but he’s moved over a million songs at Amazon.com so far this month.
The artist, who calls his revved-up rockabilly sound “psychobilly,” earlier this year cooked up a scheme to put almost his entire catalog up on Amazon.com, for free.
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