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MLB to Track Homers with Holograms, Database
For years, bleacher bums could pretend that their home run ball was hit by Barry Bonds, rather than Duane Kuiper. No longer. Major League Baseball will now validate home runs with a special hologram, which fans can verify in an online database. In addition, through a partnership with IBM, a special portal will be made available ...
Who Wants to Play a Rock Star? You Do
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It turns out everyone just wants to be a rock star. Music-genre video games “Guitar Hero" and “Rock Band" are bona-fide smash hits, entering the rarefied air once reserved for only the elite first-person shooters, “Mario" games or sports titles. And success breeds imitation. Music games seemed to be everywhere at this ...
Streaming Music Site Last.FM Gets Major Facelift
Streaming music site Last.fm on Thursday launched new features and underwent a massive facelift. The new design is far more attractive and user-friendly than its original look, offering a more interactive platform to play, discover, and share free music. “Along with putting straight our clutter, we've cleaned house too. The user interface has been re-aligned to ...
Google, Lions Gate in Film Clips Deal
BEVERLY HILLS, California - In a move that signals a possible thawing of Google Inc's relations with Hollywood, its YouTube unit has reached a deal to feature film clips from Lions Gate Entertainment Inc on the video-sharing site. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt announced the deal at an Ad Age/William Morris Agency conference on Wednesday and ...
EU Cracks Down on Dodgy Ringtone Sites
BRUSSELS - The European Union's consumer chief on Thursday launched a crackdown on websites offering mobile phone services such as ringtones after a probe found most were ripping people off, notably teenagers. An initial investigation by EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva into 500 websites providing ringtones, wallpapers, news feeds or videogames worth hundreds of millions of ...
Tivo Launches Youtube Partnership Early
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Just what the television industry needs, increased competition from those wacky YouTube videos that 68 million people watch every month. Only now, it will be easier than ever to view them on television screens. Beginning Thursday, TiVo will offer thousands of its subscribers the ability to stream YouTube videos onto their ...
Google's 35 Percent Profit Jump Saddens Wall St.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17 (Reuters) - Google Inc reported a weaker-than-expected 35 percent rise in quarterly net profit due to lower interest income and higher expenses for foreign currency hedges, driving its shares down 7 percent on Thursday. While other Internet companies have been suffering from a weakening U.S. economy, Wall Street has come to count ...
Metallica: Buy Our Album, Play It on 'Guitar Hero'
Every song from Metallica's upcoming album “Death Magnetic" will be available for gamers to download and play on “Guitar Hero III" and its sequel “Guitar Hero World Tour" on the same as-yet-unannounced day it is released to retail, the band said on its Web site. Microsoft also mentioned the availability during the E3 gaming conference underway ...
Apple Climbs into Third Place in U.S. PC Market
Apple Computer again cracked the top three in U.S. PC sales for the third quarter, according to surveys released Wednesday by both Gartner and IDC. Worldwide, Apple didn't make the top five PC vendors, according to both firms. But within the U.S., IDC estimated that Apple finished in a virtual dead heat with Acer for third ...
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