Rich Content Ranging From Sci-Fi Classic The Fifth Element to Comedy Hit Hitch to Visually Stunning House of Flying Daggers
BD Java Games, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and David Lean's Oscar-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai, both on 50 GB Dual Layer Discs, Also Set for Release
Experts Advocate Non-Microsoft Windows Patch
Security experts yesterday criticized Microsoft Corp. for waiting until next week to address a recently revealed flaw in the Windows operating system that they say is unusually dangerous. — The expe...
Electronics Show Moves Beyond Gadgets
The Technology Driving Hardware Will Get More Attention in Las Vegas — The International Consumer Electronics Show, which opens this week in Las Vegas, has always been about the gadgets. — The VCR...
Misbehavior in Second Life game punished by exile to "the corn field"
In the Second Life online game/world, misbehavior is suspended by banishing miscreants' characters to "the corn field," a vast star-lit field of corn cut off from communication with the rest of the wo...
No Google PC, Think Google Video
The speculation about Google announcing a Google Cube, which has been summarily dismissed by David Krane, Google's PR big cheese on his blog. So what will Larry Page talk about during his Friday keyn...
The case Heidi and Guenther K.
On a snowy Christmas morning I checked my email and discovered among the usual heap of spam, one message that caught my attention. Entitled "Markenrecht" (which translates as "branding rights") it ap...
Hidden Virtual-World Prison Revealed
tagged Culture Design Internet Law On the Screen Other Space Second Life Virtual Reality Watchdog — Nimrod Yaffle, a resident of the virtual world Second Life, has revealed details of a bizarre and ...
Feedback on Bigdaddy data center
About a month ago I alluded to a data center called "Bigdaddy" that people could check out as a preview. We're ready to collect feedback on the Bigdaddy data center now. Let's start with some Q&A. ...
Texting record for New Year's Eve
Checking your mobile phone for messages and wishing friends and family a happy new year via SMS has become as much a tradition as Big Ben's chimes. — A record 165m text messages were sent in the UK ...
Upcoming Live Webcast
Bill Gates Keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006 — For the tenth year in a row, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates returns to kick off CES with his vision of th...
Google Braille Logo
Google put up a very interesting colored Braille logo today, celebrating the birthday of Louis Braille on January 4th, 1809. This is one of the more brave logos for Google because it distorts the let...
Google Passes on PCs
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - message board) and Wal-Mart are both denying reports that the two are planning to market low-priced, Google PCs via Wal-Mart stores. — The LA Times reported Monday that Google...
What About EMI's Copy-Protected CDs?
It was thanks to the work of independent security researchers that the security risks in Sony-BMG's copy protected CDs were discovered. But what about the copy-protected CDs being sold by EMI labels ...
Paid Search to Grow 41% With Google Leading the Way
Paid search is expected to generate more than $14 billion globally in 2006, with Google leading in growth and market share, according to a new Piper Jaffray report. — The paid search industry, which...
Yahoo options in demand amid Microsoft speculation
CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many option investors are betting on more gains in the shares of Web media company Yahoo Inc. amid speculation of a tie-up with Microsoft Corp. and high hopes for conti...
Blog debate: is Apple making a game console?
What happens when Applespeculation and video game speculation meet: platform wars of biblical proportions! Under speculation here is whetheror not Apple has any interest in reentering the console gam...
Korea
With the kind permission of the editor of PC GAMER UK, Mark Donald, I am reproducing the text from my account of a trip to South Korea in April 2005. It's an in-depth look at the Korean gaming cultur...
Google denies Google PC reports
Google has denied reports that it is working on a low-price personal computer or a "Google Cube" that would link up a user's PC, TV, set-top box and cell phone. — "We have many PC partners who serve...
Netgear + Skype = Major Trouble for Cisco?
I am hearing that Netgear and Skype, the popular VoIP calling provider, are going to make a joint announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show tomorrow. Not sure what the deal is about; I expect, Ne...
TUAW on Mac Mini Console
Apparently another blogger thinks the Mac Mini could get it's game on in the living room, just like I've suggested. The Unofficial Apple Weblog picked up the idea and then proceeded to bash it: — I...
Windows XP Home: obsolete sooner than you expect
Microsoft set out to adopt a formal and rigid support lifecycle in 2002, back at a time when most analysts were expecting to see Windows Vista (then, "Longhorn") within a couple of years. My own poin...
Followup to Chinese thing, off to CES
Working in a big company is interesting cause there are lots of moving parts. Tracking them all down is difficult, especially when you have a full day of meetings and other things to do and when the ...
Karen Elliott House retires from The Wall Street Journal
Karen Elliott House is retiring as senior vice president and publisher's post at Dow Jones' Wall Street Journal. — House is a 32-year Dow Jones veteran and Pulitzer Prize winner. — Dow Jones also ...
City-wide wi-fi rolls out in UK
A UK company that has created wireless hotspots in stations, coffee shops and hotels around the UK is planning to launch city-wide wi-fi this spring. — The Cloud will bring wireless broadband to nin...
Google Awarded Patent To Make Data Move Faster to Wireless Phones and Devices
News from Alexadria, Virginia (home of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) today that Google has been awarded a new patent in the wireless arena. It's far from search related but we still thought i...
Broadcasting, Podcasting, Webcasting and Blogging at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2006 in Davos
The World Economic Forum announced ambitious plans today to share the proceedings of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2006 in Davos with as wide a public as possible.
The Cute Factor
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 - If the mere sight of Tai Shan, the roly-poly, goofily gamboling masked bandit of a panda cub now on view at the National Zoo isn't enough to make you melt, then maybe the crush of...
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When we started the 9rules Network we always envisioned a place where readers could come to find the best content from the independent web and that's why we consider ourselves a content network first ...
Growing on-demand content may mean blockbuster's end
Just before going to see King Kong, my family found the 1933 and the 1976 versions airing simultaneously on back-to-back TV channels. So we kept flicking from one to the other, laughing at the Gumby-...