Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the hit Xbox 360 game BioShock, has announced that a movie based on the game will be made by Universal Pictures and directed by “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski.
Christoph Hartmann, president of Take-Two’s 2k Games, said that “Gore [Verbinski] is an avid video gamer and true fan of ‘BioShock’. [...]
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Microsoft’s recently released SP3 for their Windows XP operating system seems to be creating some problems for some users trying to use their computer after installing it.
According to a post in Microsoft’s support forum, some users installing SP3 are finding themselves in an endless cycle of rebooting. Computers with this problem seem to have one [...]
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When the Apple iPhone was first released in the US it quickly sold out as Apple tried to keep up with demand. There were soon more than enough iPhones to meet demand and the handset became pretty easy to come by.
Looks like things have changed and the iPhone shortage that has started hitting other parts [...]
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Most Facebook’s nearly 70 million users worldwide will never, ever hit the cap of 5,000 friends that Facebook currently imposes, but for those that do it can be a real pain (no, I’m not one of them).
To help those that are running into the cap Facebook will apparently soon be lifting this limit but [...]
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Okay, this is getting as annoying as the Blu-ray drive coming then not coming to the Xbox 360 stories that hit every couple weeks or so.
iPhone users were given free Wi-Fi at AT&T hotspots.
AT&T switched off the free Wi-Fi hotspots access for iPhone users.
AT&T changed the description of their iPhone calling plans to include free [...]
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Volkswagen has announced a new two-seater vehicle that may be available as early as 2010 called the Aptera.
The Aptera will get around 235MPG from its 1-Liter engine. Sure, it’s not going to be fast (max speed will be about 75MPH) but it will get you from place to place efficiently.
The seats won’t be arranged like [...]
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After Verizon won the Block C portion in the recent 700MHz wireless spectrum auction by the FCC, Google noticed that Verizon seemed to be ignoring the open access rules with the spectrum and doing things a bit differently than Google believed they should, resulting in Google filing a complaint with the FCC.
Verizon has responded, saying [...]
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The upcoming Wind UMPC from MSI has finally gotten a price thanks to online retailer eXpansys who let the cat out of the bag.
The Wind will go for $609.95 with Windows XP or $559.95 with Linux.
While eXpansys is a UK company, they expert to the US via their www.expansys-usa.com website which is where those prices [...]
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Windows users that aren’t so fond of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 web browser might want to avoid installing SP3 for Windows XP.
Microsoft has warned that one you install SP3 you’ll be stuck at IE7 unless you uninstall SP3.
According to IE program manager Jane Maliouta, the inability to downgrade to IE6 was by design because the [...]
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