The relaunch of the popular online game World of Warcraft in China, where it has already been offline for six weeks, still faces an indefinite delay as it awaits government approval for its content.
by Jason Snell, Editorial Director, Mac Publishing
Tuesday’s news that Apple had announced that Steve Jobs wouldn’t be appearing at Macworld Expo and that the company would stop exhibiting at the show after 2009 came as a shock. I’m stunned that Apple has taken a 25-year-old event that has been the single best meeting place for the entire community of users and vendors of Apple-related products and treated it like a piece of garbage stuck to the bottom of its shoe.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Over the last few days, folks noticed that the traditional announcement that Steve Jobs would kick off IDG’s Macworld Expo with a keynote speech hadn’t come yet, and began wondering if he might be a no-show–as unlikely as that seemed. Sometimes, the unlikely is nonetheless reality….
It turns out that the ideal vice-presidential candidate for Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is the same person as the ideal vice-presidential candidate for Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.), the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to a sophisticated online survey by Affinnova Inc.
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