Posted on March 13, 2008 by Dan
Last month video game industry giant Electronic Arts attempted to acquire Take-Two with an unsolicited all-cash offer worth $2 billion ($26 per share).
Take-Two, publisher of Grand Theft Auto and Bioshock (among others), wasn’t interested and turned the offer down, which apparently displeased the EA overlords.
EA is now attempting to purchase all outstanding shares of common [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Dan
Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for the Microsoft Xbox 360, said that “Xbox is not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association to integrate Blu-ray into the Xbox experience.”
Instead, he says that the console will continue to focus on online distribution and pointed out that they are “the only console offering digital distribution [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Dan
Apple today announced the dates for their annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The conference will be taking place in the west hall of the Moscone Centre and will run from June 9 - 13 and have three tracks available: iPhone, Mac, and IT.
No word yet on whether Steve Jobs will be delivering a keynote [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Dan
Today Sony has released an updated firmware for the Playstation 3, brining the version to 2.17.
What’s new?
All they’re saying is that its a minor technical update to improve the stability of some PS3 titles while playing online.
[Via Playstation.Blog]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Dan
When word that the upcoming iPhone firmware had been hacked before it was even released by Apple, people began asking/nagging for a video of the new firmware to see first hand what’s different.
What’s new?
So far they’ve confirmed:
Exchange support
AppStore
Parental controls
SDK support
More advanced calculator
CISCO VPN support
Mass mail deletion
There is no spotlight icon, so it looks like no [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Dan
According to the Nikkei, Toshiba is likely looking at a 100 billion yen (roughly $982 million) loss on HD DVD from just 2007 alone.
Toshiba has no comment on the story, saying “we did not announce this, and therefore we cannon comment,” but shareholders are taking it seriously with Toshiba shares opening down 2.3% after the [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Dan
Tired of Blu-ray stories yet? Now that HD DVD is gone the price of Blu-ray players has started creeping back up.
Tom’s Hardware has put together a table showing the price of five different Blu-ray players since January 1st and the Sony SBP-S300 player is a whopping $96 higher than it was just over three months [...]
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