Archive for: December, 2011

FX Teams with Russell Brand on Unscripted Late Night Series

FX has announced an currently untitled new late night television series that will hosted by Russell Brand. Debuting with six episodes in the spring of 2012, the show is said to feature, “Brand’s unvarnished, unfiltered take on current events, politics and pop culture.” The six installments will be shot in front of a live audience […]

Sony Updates Tablet S to Support PS3 Controller

Sony has given its Tablet S a software update in Japan that brings with it support for the PS3 game controller. One of the key product differentiators in the Sony tablet product line is that they are the only Android devices that are currently PlayStation-certified. Presently, only 32-bit titles from the days of the original […]

Cox Sells Its Airspace to Verizon for $315 Million

Cox on Friday joined other cable companies in selling spectrum to Verizon. The deal, worth $315 million, will give it licenses for 20MHz of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) space in areas that cover about 28 million Americans. The two will echo earlier deals in letting each sell the other’s home and business services, and Cox […]

Monster Digital Hints at First SSD for CES

Monster Digital, known for its memory cards, said Friday that it’s planning to enter the solid-state drive space. The LeMans series will use some of the faster memory controllers on tap, peaking at 550MB per second in read speeds and 515MB per second in writes. Most details have been left out until the unveiling, which […]

iPhone 4S Expands to Another 20 More Markets

The iPhone 4S is now available in over 20 more countries, checks show. A list includes Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. The expansion coincides with expansions of the iTunes Store and iTunes […]

RIP Star Wars Galaxies

In 2003, Lucasarts released a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMO) called Star Wars Galaxies … and last night, the MMO ended. Eight years ago, the MMO started out with good reviews and a fan base eager to craft characters from more than 32 professions. But SWG’s numbers dwindled when players balked at how difficult […]

Microsoft Lync Out for WP7 and Android – iOS in the Works

Microsoft has announced a mobile version of its Lync application for both its own Windows Phone 7 platform as well as Android. The free WP7 versionĀ  and the free Android version are now available for download, while a version for iOS has also been submitted for approval. Formerly known as Office Communicator, the app brings […]

GTA III 10th Anniversary Now Out for iOS, Android

Following an announcement last week, Rockstar Games has made the 10 Year Anniversary Edition of Grand Theft Auto 3 available for iOS and selected Android devices. Because of the complexity of the graphics, the game is limited to the iPad, iPhone 4 and later and 4th-generation iPod Touch for iOS, and a limited range of […]

Wynton Marsalis to Join CBS News

Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis will join U.S. television network CBS as a cultural correspondent to provide coverage of cultural and educational topics, CBS said on Thursday. Marsalis, 50, a nine-time Grammy award winner, will provide insight on a range of issues for CBS’ weekday morning news show and the network’s “Sunday Morning” segment. His first […]

Amazon May Put Instant Video on UltraViolet

Movie studios are trying to get Amazon Instant Video on to the new UltraViolet cross-platform movie rights system, insiders divulged Wednesday. At least Sony and Warner Bros. were said by Bloomberg sources to be negotiating a deal. In ideal circumstances, a viewer could buy a Blu-ray or a digital format movie and have rights to […]

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