CBS president Nina Tassler addressed Charlie Sheen’s ongoing troubles in a session with the press at the Television Critics Association on Friday. At first Tassler responded with a humor when asked about Sheen by joking that she “didn’t expect” a question about the ‘Two and a Half Men’ star. Then she switch to exec mode, […]
Ray Halbritter, Nation Representative and CEO of the Oneida Indian Nation, announced today that the just-launched Indian Country Today Media Network, the country’s first-ever website and media network for news and information about Native American and indigenous peoples, will introduce itself to the entertainment community with a poly-bag insert in Variety’s Friday Golden Globe issue. […]
The joint Apple and News Corp. iPad project The Daily has been pushed back just a week before it was due to go live. Sources claimed on Thursday night that the daily tablet news outlet had been set back to help Apple prepare its iTunes subscription plans. The AllThingsD tipsters said the app itself was […]
Nintendo today posted results showing a significant slump in console sales from year to year that are likely to have been affected by the iPod touch and iPhone. It shipped 2.5 million DS systems in December, according to NPD data, representing a steep 24 percent drop from the 3.31 million last year. The company claimed […]
The App Store is about to reach 10 billion iOS app downloads, Apple has announced. In the tradition of major iTunes milestones, the company is hosting a contest in which the 10 billionth app download will win someone an iTunes gift card worth $10,000 US. Despite the currency value, the contest is open to anyone […]
The nice people over at IK Multimedia’s sent us the AmpliTube iRig – an interface for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch that allows you to plug a guitar into it. then once you intall the AmpliTube app, the iRig turns your iPhone or iPad into a portable stompbox and/or amp with the ability to […]
Warner Brothers has signed Shane Black to direct “Death Note,” based on the Japanese manga series with Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Doug Davison and Brian Witten. Studio confirmed Black’s attachment Thursday along with Anthony Bagarozzi and Chuck Mondry signing to pen the adaptation. Black in late ’80s and early ’90s was high paid writter for […]
Mozilla senior director of platform engineering, Damon Sicore has announced that Firefox 4 is in the final stages of development. According to Sicore’s post on Mozilla’s developer mailing list, there remains around a 160 significant bugs left in the software, or what are referred to as “hard blockers”. A release candidate version will be made […]
Shazam, the music identification service, and Spotify, streaming and download music service, have announced a partnership that will let users quickly access any song they have heard and tagged in Shazam. Called Play in Spotify, the feature will launch Spotify from Shazam and not only return the tagged song but also other tracks from the […]
AT&T could see a large portion of its smartphone subscriber base jump ship for the Verizon iPhone next month, a study found on Thursday. Of those asked by ChangeWave, 15 percent of AT&T subscribers said in December they were likely to change carriers in the next three months. While not an indicator in itself, it […]
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