Daily Dose
Wednesday October 6, 2010 –
Quote To Live By:
“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.” – Gandalf the White from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Up Front:
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The Great And Powerful Raimi Goes To Oz
He may have given up his Spider-Man habit, but that doesn’t mean that Sam Raimi had abandoned a desire to make big blockbuster effects-driven movies: According to Deadline Hollywood, the Evil Dead and Darkman creator has signed up to direct Disney’s Oz: The Great And Powerful. Raimi has been circling the movie, which details how the …
WSJ Reports Verizon iPhone in 2011, Again
This is getting redundant and completely obnoxious.
The WSJ is yet again reporting that Apple and Verizon will release a CDMA version of the iPhone in early 2011 and that production will begin later this year. But this coming from the same reporter who wrote back in March that Verizon would be getting the iPhone this fall. Following …
Logitech Vid HD Coming to Google TV, Revue Pricing Announced
Following up on our earlier coverage of Logitech’s plans to bundle a HD video conferencing service into Google TV, we now have the official details.
During today’s press conference it was revealed that Logitech’s HD video service Logitech Vid HD would come preinstalled as an Android app (Android Market for Google TV will not …
Transformers 3 Extra Sues Paramount
Gabriela Cedillo, the extra injured on the set of Transformers 3 when a slab of metal sliced into her skull during a stunt gone wrong leaving her partially paralyzed and unable to speak as a result, is suing Paramount Pictures for negligence. Cedillo’s attorney, Todd A. Smith, told CBS 2 in Chicago that neither his client nor other …
Caprica Returns, Reboots And Disappoints
Am I the only one who thought that last night’s Caprica felt like a reboot of the series, and not necessarily for the better? It’s not just that certain characters were acting out-of-character (Would the normally anguished Joseph Adama really be the type who’d even bluff about forcing Daniel Greystone to kill his own mother to prove …
Breaking: Logitech To Announce Bundled Video Conferencing With Google TV Today
Details are scant at the moment but I just had a quick conversation with Logitech’s video business VP and GM, Eric Kintz about Cisco’s video teleconferencing announcement.
“We congratulate Cisco on bringing video calling to the living room – it’s a great day for consumers and the video communications industry. We’re …
Sites Finding Out That Libyan Government Controls Your .ly Domains
Who would have thunk that .ly was actually the top-level domain code for the Libyan government, just like .ca for Canada and .us for the United States? Probably not the creators of bit.ly, owl.ly, smel.ly and other .ly URL shorteners that are out there.
Now it’s causing problems: One URL shortening website is reporting that they’ve …
Facebook Announces Three Upcoming Changes Dealing With User Privacy
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced three major changes to Facebook, emphasing the fact that the website is a social platform that you can bring connections you make on other websites and systems to.
There have been some small changes to some of the features that have been rolled out over the summer, including improving hi-res …
Contest: Win Two Copies of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
For lots of people, the Final Fantasy series stands the cream of the crop of the RPG genre. The series has dozens of spinoffs and reboots from the time of the NES to the present-day, with the latest landing on the Nintendo DS. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light comes from Matrix, the studio responsible for the DS ports of FF III and FF …
Cisco Goes Consumer, Announces ūmi Video Conferencing
SAN JOSE, Calif, October 6, 2010 – Cisco today introduced Cisco ūmi telepresence, a first-of-its-kind consumer product that brings family and friends together in HD video, whether they are around the corner or across the country. Cisco ūmi connects to an existing HD television and a broadband internet connection to create a video …